Hardware Geeks

Antec has posted 10 tips on how to keep your PC cool in the summer, and I thought I would share these tips with you all since I recently had a bad experience with my PC overheating in these summer months.

Just a note to all of you, don’t try liquid cooling if you are in a humid city like I am. Pipes sweat.

So what’s the difference between a regular cell phone and a smartphone? You can do more with a smartphone.  It can synchronize with your computer and will hold your appointments, and also a larger amount of contacts.

With that in mind more and more people (not just business professionals) are using Smartphones.  Smartphone’s tend to cost double than a traditional cell phone and that is where the Palm Centro differs.

Today Intel will publish a paper revealing detail’s on their new chip architecture codenamed Larrabee which is a chipset that will available primarily to general consumers, the paper will be available here at 7 am pacific daylight time.

In the paper Intel will address what future graphic processors need, how they plan for Larrabee to meet those needs, how well Larrabee can handle DirectX and OpenGL and what apps can support Larrabee.

It felt like my birthday today.  I woke up to the FedEx guy dropping off three packages before 10 am.  The biggest one of course was the one I was the most eager to see—mainly because the box was huge, heavy and bright yellow.  I couldn’t resist, it was like an enlarged Starburst.  I received it this morning but had to go to work, and ran around all day until I got home at about 2 am.  I then unboxed it.

I got home so late because I was desk hunting specifically for this PC, but unfortunately had no luck.  The desk I wanted was out of stock, so you’ll have to deal w/ it being on one of my nightstands – sorry.  I couldn’t wait til tomorrow, so its now about 3 am in the morning and I’m not sure what time I’ll be going to sleep because this thing is the bomb.  I was fortunate enough to have my bestfriend at my apartment, so she took plenty of pics to show you all…

Back in 2002 (I may be off by a year) there was a buzz going around about how this great new product was going to revolutionize the world. In a very apple like way the company who developed this new product kept it a secret and rumors ran wild, then it turned out to be a scooter ok ok not just any scooter a Segway and well they didn’t take off as expected. With the exception of some police departments, the postal service and I belive Disney there really aren’t many Segway buyers out there.

Now Toyota wants in on the personal transport market, and today showed off their “Toyota Partner Robot” or “Winglet” my Japanese to English translator isn’t that great so I am unsure of the exact name but it’s one of those two. 

Today Fujifilm announced the chic FinePix Z200fd part of their Z series the Z200fd is a compact, sleek and stylish 10 mega pixel digital camera with 5x zoom, that comes in four colors. (Black, Pink, Red and Silver)

The camera will be available in September and will retail for $299.95 at major retail stores such as Best Buy and Circuit City. 

Toshiba is known for fantastic notebooks that are well built and last a long time.  In fact, those who have had a Toshiba notebook always love it, regardless if it’s a top of the line model or not.  In my opinion that’s because Toshiba notebooks are quality built regardless if it’s a budget machine or not, you can’t say that for every OEM.

The Satellite Pro L300D is one of the sweetest basic no frills notebooks around, it gets the job done and it’s powerful.

I am almost embarrassed to admit this, but before I met Mike and before yesterday I had never ever heard of AMD.

I went to their showcase event yesterday and thought, “what the freak? What rock have I been living under?” These dudes are everywhere – except they’re in the INSIDE. That’s why I never knew who they were.

I was in a room surrounded by gaming machines, cute laptops, sexier ones connected to TVs and a freaking Wii. AMD – I apologize for being so naive. Ya’ll are cool in my book. Now when I see a little “AMD” sticker on anything, I know I’ll be getting a bang for my buck.

Dubbed the Green PC, Dell today launched it’s Studio Hybrid Desktop. It isn’t called Hybrid because it uses both electricity and gas to power it but because you can stand it up Vertically or lay it down diagonally, which makes them great for an apartment with little room or even a Dorm Room.

The Studio Hybrid desktops are also pretty sleek looking and it probably has the smallest form factor of any desktop available from any of the Major OEMs (Original Equipment Manufactures).