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Acer’s new computer line up – all things great and small

By Doug Groves | Published: July 28, 2010
Acer, a company that’s grown from relative obscurity outside the DIY computer building community to the world’s number 2 computer maker in just a few short years, has announced three new desktop line ups for Canada, covering the spectrum from the small form factor X3 series to the monstrous Predator gaming rig.  Playing the mama [...]
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Harmony Universal Remote Roundup

By Doug Groves | Published: November 26, 2009
Before the Canadian company Intrigue Technologies (makers of the original Harmony remotes) was bought out by Logitech, obliterating the remote clutter in one’s living room or den was largely an exercise in frustration, either dealing with incomplete solutions or spending hours ‘training’ your universal remote to do exactly what you wanted to. If you were one [...]
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ASRock ION 330 as Media Center

By Doug Groves | Published: August 13, 2009
Intel’s low-powered & low cost Atom processor has been all the rage in the computer industry for quite some time now, and nobody has embraced it more than just about every Taiwanese hardware manufacturer whose name starts with an ‘A’. ASUS thrust the netbook form factor into the minds of the masses, but it was Acer [...]
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Nvidia ION Platform Windows Certified – See It On Video

By Doug Groves | Published: February 11, 2009
Reference design image from trustedreviews.com Nvidia’s small form factor (SFF) computing platform has received Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its drivers. What makes this noteworthy is the new platform is both tiny, as illustrated above, and dirt cheap (starting at about $300 US when shipping) and a not insignificant amount of horsepower under [...]
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