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I spent most of the video wondering why they didn't tell us which CPU they used (other than "hex core" that "supports overclocking"). It turns out, you can actually see it in the video: "Intel Confidential" The S-Spec code corresponds to an 8700K, which would make sense, but for some reason...

Not that 48% Apple isn't impressive, but I would point out two things: The 48% Apple may also include Mac laptops, which don't run iOS Some of the other categories don't seem to be included in your "Android" figure. For example, I would bet that the bulk of the SamsungE and MurataMa (Samsung)...

Per mile/km, US drivers are safer than drivers in much of Europe and reasonably similar to Germany, which is the country that I often hear cited as having "much better drivers" than the US. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

The 2013 Leaf has a lock that prevents the plug from being disconnected. You can have it locked, unlocked, or leave it on "Auto" (which unlocks when charging is complete). The Leaf will also email or text you if you are disconnected, as will many charging stations (anything on the ChargePoint...

The obvious competition for the PBO Alpine would be the Logitech Revue with Google TV, which is easy to get for under $100 now and also runs Android (Honeycomb now). The Revue has a bunch of advantages: - Official Netflix support - Android market - Faster CPU / better browser with Flash...

The numbers in this article are wrong. They put an HD-DVR at 50W when in reality my Motorola box is around 28W. So in reality my HD-DVR only uses about 60% of the power of my (Energy Star) refrigerator. It's still stupid that these boxes require so much power. My DVR never spins down the HDD...

The 160SP model should have no problem at least matching the HD 3000 and it should crush the HD 2000. Even the 80SP Zacate is about as fast as the HD 2000, and it only has single-channel memory.

The problems are power and memory bandwidths. Remember that the CPU base clock on the Sandy Bridge quad-core systems is only around 2GHz, and the GPU base clock is only around 650MHz. Push them both at the same time and you end up with a 2GHz CPU and a 650MHz GPU because there's no TDP budget...

I generally detest proprietary interconnects (Thunderbolt is Intel proprietary, and as far as I know they haven't licensed the protocol to anyone so the only controllers are made by Intel). I also don't see the immediate need for Thunderbolt for most users, who would be reasonably served with...

One word: Redbox Redbox has more or less replaced Blockbuster for me. It's more convenient because there are more machines and because they work 24/7. Redbox has a good selection of DVDs, a decent selection of Blu-ray movies (mostly new titles), and the cost is much cheaper than...

Keep in mind that Zacate is going to be way lower power than a K8/HD3200 based system and that the graphics performance is going to be way better. Zacate has fewer transistors too, so it should be cheaper to manufacture. MSI has thrown higher-end features on their board like USB3, but I would...

No AV is perfect. You can't catch 100% of malware 100% of the time with 0% false positives. The best you can hope for is to catch what's known and update quickly. MSE has the same scanning as Microsoft's other AV products like Forefront Endpoint Protection. In the studies I have seen it...

Well, I have spent a lot of time in Michigan and I certainly respect the desire to support US automakers. I'm not one of those people who believes that GM or Ford makes poor products (my first and second cars were both Ford Tauruses, and my family always drove Fords when I was growing up)...

PvP and PvE already vary quite a bit in WoW, thanks to resilience, DR, mana regen, and a number of other factors. The era of people doing well in PvP with PvE gear is over, and there never really was an era of people doing well in PvE with PvP gear. Arenas will put balance under a microscope...

This sounds a LOT like WoW arenas. PvP trinket anyone? Blink/shadow step/warlock teleport/etc.... I played WoW arenas, I liked WoW arenas, but Blizzard has to know that arenas put balance issues under a microscope. Unfortunately the lead designer on WoW (Greg Street, AKA...

Under around 200W (DC), the X-560 should be silent. Based on what I saw in your PC, it should absolutely be under 200W most of the time. Even my GTX 460 / Core i3 box only runs around 200W DC with FurMark and Prime95 (which just makes my X-650 that much more overkill).

There's absolutely no way your GTX 480 box meets my definition of "quiet". To be fair, you did leave quotes around "quiet", and it is a relative, subjective term. 2x GTX 480s, a GTX 260, plus an overclocked i7-980X probably runs around 700W DC while gaming (and maybe as much as 900W during...

I have built many, many PCs over the years for myself, friends, and others. Most of the time everything works fine. Some of the time, of course, you get bad hardware and experience weird problems. Throughout my years I have had a pretty simple slogan when bad hardware strikes: "It's not...

The explaination for the chart is simple: it represents year on year growth, and notebook sales rebounded dramaically in late 2009 compared with the economic crisis of late 2008 when we had a credit crunch and consumer confidence was in the tank. In 2010 growth is slower (compared with 2009)...

The only places where binary prefixes make sense are in byte-addressed devices like NOR flash, CPU caches, and DRAM. These have neat (integer) capacities (primarily because of design advantages) when stated with binary prefixes (1 gibibyte for example) and very messy capacities with decimal...

One of my friends has the Mamba, and he loves it. That said, it is exceptionally picky about which mouse pad you use. He had to go through about 5 different pads before he found one where it wouldn't drift. Evidently, this is a common problem. I have never experienced similar problems with...

Interestingly, the MythBusters episode that aired two weeks ago actually focused on exactly this. Obviously it could be a coincidence, but it's also possible that we have a stupid criminal who watched MythBusters and decided to replicate the explosion themselves. What I really want to know is...

This is one of the big reasons I didn't buy a 15" MacBook Pro. Obviously the dual-core i5 in the base 15" I was considering isn't nearly as bad, but I've heard multiple reports that even the 15" is uncomfortable if you use it on your lap. My ThinkPad T400 (Core 2 Duo P8700) on the other hand is...

Most people already have a globally unique IPv4 address at home, although it's usually shared (using NAT) among multiple computers in a household. Whether or not the IP address identifies your specific computer or just your connection is (most of the time) unimportant. Note that Windows...

The fact that Gawker (Gizmodo) paid $5000 for the prototype indicates that they believed it was real. And if it's real, it's obviously Apple's (Apple corporate) property. That means that Gawker is knowingly buying stolen property. Gawker is trying to weasel out of this by claiming that they...

My guess? Not well. Now if I got a genuine Apple keyboard...

Crappycam is kind of part of the effect. Either that, or I'm too cheap to invest in a decent camera (this was recorded on my Canon SD1000).

My X25-M is the best hardware purchase I've ever made.

Tired of seeing all of those Mac vs. PC boot time wars? Usually they use some POS Pentium 4 PC from five years ago and compare with a brand new Mac. I decided to turn the tables: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74TajW_Wbdc (In case anyone doesn't get it, this is a joke)

I hate it when people bring up criticism of the original iPod as some sort of evidence that the critics were wrong before. The critics were DEAD ON. People forget that the original iPod was NOT a huge seller. Critics panned the original iPhone for not allowing third-party apps, for being too...

On one hand, the GMA950 (and apparently the new Pine Trail GPU) is absolute garbage. It's slow, it's power hungry (at least the GMA950 is, and it doesn't support outputs like HDMI, which is kind of irrelevant since it doesn't do H.264/VC-1 decoding anyway. But, that said, there is a certain...

A lot of people are trashing Intel GMA, but I think you miss the point. The design objectives behind GMA are, in this order: 1. Low cost 2. Low power 3. Acceptable performance I have a GMA X4500MHD laptop, and it's absolute crap for any modern (after about 2005) game. But that isn't...

The major issue with a scheme like this is tracking down the person who downloaded the file. Simply snooping on traffic only gives you the IP address, along with (possibly) some rudimentary information. You need to go to the ISP to get a name. Here in the US, ISPs have usually required court...

NVIDIA has good technology and good products, but they keep building these huge monster GPUs, which are late, power-hungry, and expensive. Fermi (according to my friend who works at NVIDIA, it's not called GT300 internally) may be a great GPU, but it doesn't mean a damn if they can't get it...

Assuming $0.12/kWh (my rate, yours may be higher or lower), leaving your PC on 24/7, an HD5870 will cost about $4 less per month than an HD4890, and about $8.90 less per month than an HD4870 X2. If you have an HD4870 X2, upgrading to an HD5870 will save you $106/yr at my rates (or more...

The 'S' in MSRP stands for suggested. No retailer, Newegg included, is obligated to sell at MSRP. It is in fact illegal for manufacturers to demand this. It is perfectly acceptable for Newegg to charge whatever they want for the X25-m. Do I think that the $499 pricing is a mistake...

I'm not sure why everyone is so shocked by this. Newegg has done this many, many times before. Once supply stabilizes, Newegg's prices will fall. Price gouging is an imprecise term, but generally I only apply it to excessive pricing of essential goods during an emergency. No one needs an...

Why do people always bring this up? Overclocking PCs with liquid nitrogen is hardly practical, but it's certainly cool. But people who do it don't feel some need to justify the practicality of their hobby. I live in a state where the infrastructure basically never goes down (Colorado). We...

Honestly IE on Vista is one of the safest browsers you can use. IE on Vista runs in "protected mode", which means that even if you find a vulnerability in the browser, you only have access to a very low-rights user account that can't really do anything at all. Most operations that write to the...

The stupid thing is that ATI used to be known for this kind of crap. Remember the Radeon 9200? The x800 series was the worst. There were like 42 different versions, including the hilariously-named "X800XT-PE". Not to mention the various "Pro" versions, "SE" versions, and all that crap. Now...