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PC64 aims directly at the nostalgia crowd

By Doug Groves | Published: September 3, 2010
One of the more oddball computer announcements in the past week or so was Commodore USA would be coming out with the PC64, and all in one computer that will be a 1:1 replica of one of the most successful computers of all time – the Commodore 64.  The basic concept is that they’re going [...]
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Gateway launches new ID Series Notebook

By Doug Groves | Published: July 30, 2010
Gateway has just announced the ID Series of notebooks, with silver shells and a funky blue touchpad that glows when touched.  The silver casing actually appears to be quite understated in the provided photos.  The 3 models all sport Ultrabright LED-backlit displays, and vary in size from 14 to 17.3 inches. The smaller ID49 (14 [...]
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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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Toshiba 3D laptop hands on

By Doug Groves | Published: June 22, 2010
If there’s one thing that’s almost inescapable in consumer electronics these days, it’s 3D in just about everything.  We had a chance to give Toshiba’s new Satellite A660-042 3D laptop a run for it’s money at the Toshiba-sponsored Primer Party, as part of NXNEi, ahead of it’s public release.  It’s the first major release of [...]
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Kin: Microsoft aims at mobile sociability

By Doug Groves | Published: April 21, 2010
After Microsoft unveiled its Project Pink as Kin there was a lot of speculation as to what it really meant, given the major noise Microsoft has been making about its other phone strategy, Windows Phone 7.  The Kin phones and service are clearly targeted at a teen demographic, in the same way that Gossip Girl [...]
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Metro 2033 using DirectX 11, looks awesome

By Doug Groves | Published: February 18, 2010
It’s not very often that the technical quality of a video game’s screen shots make it worth discussing, but these shots of THQ and 4AG’s Metro 2033 warrants it.  THQ recently put out some new screens of the game rendered using Nvidia video cards with DirectX 11 support, and the results are stunning. The sci-fi shooter [...]
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Flash 10.1 pre-release available

By Doug Groves | Published: November 17, 2009
The long awaited version of Adobe’s Flash with support for video card (GPU) acceleration is now available for the PC in pre-release form.  The new version offloads much of the video processing to the GPU, allowing for what is said to be much better playback performance. This is especially good news for those looking to add [...]
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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 Tegra in the Zune HD?

By Doug Groves | Published: June 4, 2009
The news finally broke last week about Microsoft’s upgrade to the Zune line, with the Zune HD. The device as a number of interesting specs, including a 480×272 multitouch OLED screen for excellent contrast and colour, and will output HD video with an HDMI dock, as well as a web browser. Think of [...]
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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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rgb Filter Episode 004 – Ryanitis – Show Notes

By Doug Groves | Published: July 9, 2008
Episode 004 of rgb Filter is in the can, and available at your friendly neighbourhood series of tubes. In this show, Ryan joins us as a brand new co-host. We also talk Canadian smartphone data rate updates, and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta coming July 15th. http://my.opera.com/operamobile/blog/2008/07/07/leave-no-platform-behind ATI’s new cards force NVidia to lower prices, while [...]
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NVIDIA: GTX 280 News, Pics. Plus: Gelato GPU Render Software Freely Available

By Doug Groves | Published: June 6, 2008
It seems every day, more information about NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series cards is coming out. And pics… The cards will be manufactured using a 65 nm process, with a die size of 576 mm2, which is almost double the current G92 series (9800GTX et al), which have a die size of 330 mm2. The GeForce [...]
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