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Samsung SH-S182D
In the last years, every time somebody asked my advice regarding a DVD writer, I leaned towards recommending Samsung or LG drives. Why? Unfortunately, Yamaha doesn’t manufacture optical drives anymore, Plextors are usually too expensive, and they use parts that can be found in much cheaper drives, in most cases, Teac also seems to [...]
NVIDIA Goes Down
We all know the "hardware wars" currently happening all over the world, and all over the Internet, because I am sure you have seen at least once a topic like "Intel versus AMD" or "ATI versus NVIDIA" on some forum that ended up being closed by moderators because people went all the way over the [...]
Best ATI Radeon HD 4870
The Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 cards are changing history as we speak. Stocks are depleted as soon as the merchants are refreshing them, and producers that were only using NVIDIA GPUs for their cars are considering the ATI solutions now, too. In this new situation, NVIDIA overclocked the 9800 GTX and called it [...]
AMD vs. Intel Centrino
We all know that Intel Atom , the last CPU for ULCPCs from the Centrino series is a hit, and there were even concerns that Intel won’t be able to keep up with the demand, soon after its release. Obviously, AMD couldn’t simply sit back and watch Intel get all the cake, so another round [...]
AMD Shrike
AMD Fusion is not something new, but it has been around only in theory, so far. Fortunately, this doesn’t seem to be one of those technologies that remains stuck in the rumor stage, but I can’t bet on that until I see it. Anyway, the good part is that, according to the latest official reports, [...]