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I don't recall there ever being much of a profit margin on tablets to begin with, save for Apple products. The business model was always 'make your money off of licensing and software sales'. Also, having observed Apple as a company for 20-aught years, the only time they cared about being...

I've been laughing at the guy since last year when he declared there was nothing wrong with RIM's business model: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3135514/rim-ceo-thorsten-heins-says-nothing-wrong-with-company

Hi there, First, your reasoning is quite sound, in that a gaming system will handle Photoshop with no problems. However, that is probably my first concern: Since you are dealing with Photoshop, how color accurate does your monitor need to be? If it needs to be rather accurate, the monitor...

Agreed. In my area, you have a choice of Comcast or Verizon for internet. That's it, and you pay through the nose for both of them. If the city moved to provide reliable, municipally-delivered internet, nobody would want Comcast or Verizon. Paying my taxes would feel that much better if I knew I...

Nope. That's wasn't even an official line... at least not one that I was ever given. That was a BS line that came from some FUD-spewing website (probably DigiTimes) or a know-nothing forum crackpot. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: They are having honest-to-goodness problems with...

So I got yelled at for not mentioning back in January that I knew Ivy Bridge was going to be delayed. (Then again, I get yelled at a lot by the enthusiast community for many things.) This is going down for the record since I was asked to investigate a near-compete absence of 3rd gen Core i5...

I think this is/was supposed to be contextual, absurdist humor, and that you would like it because you know 'that guy' and like technology. It was also allegedly trotted out for nostalgic purposes. Instead, an awkward moment was shared by all. Not the funny kind of awkward. The bad kind of...

To add fuel to the fire, here's an interesting bit from BSN. If even remotely true, this gives the impression that Nvidia is going the 'proof of concept' route with Kepler. The GTX 680 proved a high-end single GPU doesn't require a dedicated nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The GTX...

I think it would be difficult to call these benchmarks definitive or BS. Look again at the fleet of games they test: They're mostly older games. The ranking of the cards' positions rarely changes (e.g.: The few games that don't really like CF and the Radeon HD 6990 fails to work properly)...

I'm going to explain what I read in a seemingly-pretentious fashion, followed by a translation for people who think I'm being pretentious. First, anyone who's of the mind that the author is an idiot is exhibiting a natural psychological reaction. You're insulating your beliefs as part of a...

Here's exactly what I did over the last 20 minutes: *Reads article* "Um, okay, I should probably read the actual bill proposal." *Reads bill proposal* "...Wait, what?" *Reads article, again* "I have no f%$#ing clue where they got that conclusion from." The author misread the...

This pretty much sums up my sentiments. Companies dicking around with my money, food, communications, energy, housing, health, the economy, and society on the whole, rank much higher on my list of things to be concerned about than even the most unethical gaming company.

Same here, which is part of the reason why I find this study believable. What a lot of people need to understand is simple context: Most parents can control computer access and games, attach rules or stipulations for access, or they're the sole owners of the computer (e.g.: a work provided...

...Also delayed. Sorry.

I stand by my original statement from 2/16. Again, anyone who thinks this is still a 'mobile only' delay is delusional (and grossly misreading any article they think supports their wishful thinking) since both mobile and desktop Ivy Bridge CPUs come from the same processing node.

To get personal sentiment out of the way: I never really cared for Bleach in either its print or animated form. That aside, I think the larger point is American studios don't really know how to properly treat Japanese serialized entertainment. I'm glad WB finally shelved the Akira film...

"We try to go as fast as we can and we try to pick the things that we think are going to be most valuable to our customers and if there's some magic way we can get more work done in a day then we'd love to hear about it." I know of a magical way to get more work done in a day: Hire more...

I wonder how many people stopped to consider the actual science and physics behind smart phone use? If I understand the folks in the physics department at the university where I work, even with several bands of wavelengths to operate within, there's a finite number of frequencies that can be...

That should be read as: "Anybody who agrees to abide by these principles is effectively entering into an implied contract with users [the American public], and those who violate the contract are subject to legal action." Seems pretty straight-forward to me. Not sure how I feel about the...

According to an engineer from a Tier 1 US manufacturer I spoke with in January, the problem isn't because of anything mentioned in the DigiTimes article. In fact, the article is mostly BS. Intel is having honest-to-goodness manufacturing/validating/QA problems with Ivy Bridge. Anyone who thinks...

I suspect most manufacturers are focusing on shipping tablets, tablet PCs, and thin-n-light (née ultrabooks) with Windows 8 with full Metro integration, whereas desktops will ship with the option to turn Metro on or off (kind of like when you had to choose Windows XP or Vista preloaded from the...

From an interview I saw with MSI during CES, USB 3.0 will be native to Z77. If that's true, I'm willing to bet that means you'll probably be able to boot from a USB 3.0 device. You obviously can't do it now when you consider the inconsistency of the current crop of 3rd party USB 3.0 controllers...

I use Facebook to keep up with friends who are in remote parts of the world. Timeline is more graphical than previous iterations of FB, otherwise it is pretty much the same as it always was. I really don't know what everyone is complaining about. Then again, people are complaining about a...

So, wait... you're problem is you can find yourself in search results... because you are logged into G+/Gmail in a web browser... as if you couldn't possibly find some other way of being logged into either through some non-browser based application... which would avoid the problem entirely...

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me - especially after watching a 7 minute long monologue from the new CEO - that RIM made one of those 'HP' decisions. Before he got his new position, Thorston Heins was a COO of Product Engineering at RIM... read: He was part of the failure to...

This statement is missing several pieces of data. First, the big three consoles are on average six years old, and everybody is rumoring about a new generation being on the horizon. Whether the latter is true or not, that, combined with the former, will easily kill any enthusiasm for console...

In related news: Thermaltake continues to make fugly cases, and Gigabyte continues it's plans to ruin their perfectly serviceable motherboard designs with gun-themed heatsinks in an attempt to appeal to the immature twelve-year-old in you.

Mind you, the power consumption of the 3820 was measured as being only slightly higher than a 2600k and only has 4 cores versus the 6 cores of the 3930k and 3960x. The end of Anand's 3820 article effectively reads as: If you need memory bandwidth, memory capacity, or you need PCIe Gen 3, this...

I would imagine carriers want to know what the data is being used for, for starters. Is Netflix pulling down our network capacity in rural Kansas? Why are so many people polling this particular tower in center city Philadelphia on Saturday at 1 PM? Do we need to expand coverage or density to...

It's looking like a definite 'maybe'. I had a poke around the ATI/AMD site, and it looks like your graphics card does support HD3D (their label for stereoscopic 3D imaging). However, I don't see any support for your display. It could be that its not on the list yet, or they aren't actively...

I see this as more of a proof-of-concept that game engines can be used for more than entertainment. First thing that comes to mind is the education market. A elementary classroom could 'visit' the Titanic rather than just reading about it. Obviously, other environments could be recreated for...

Um, about that 200mm rad you wanted... well, I hate to break this to you, but unless it fits onto the preinstalled 200mm fan, you're out of luck. There's no other pre-drilled holes at the top for anything but the Antec Big Boy fan. HardwareCanucks already did a video review. They weren't...

Wait, hang on: You're assuming a 'roundhouse' punch to the jaw = lights out? I've been hit in the jaw many times in full-contact sparring, and I managed to remain standing... as have other pro fighters, both male and female. And you're assuming size = direct correlation to power? (Hint: Manny...

First: When was the last time you saw a well-trained martial artist fight 4 moderately-skilled-but-very-determined foes? In real life? On the street? I'll wait... Second: Since she's trained in shotokan and tae kwon do, it wouldn't surprise me if she thought a hand spring to get a kick to the...

After reading the results of Kyle's hard work and looking at the apples-to-apples benchmarks of other websites, I can only come to one conclusion about SB-E: Why was this processor not called a Xeon? It's as good at gaming as a $300 Core i7, no better or worse. It's great at workstation...

I'll bet those subscribers are in the middle of our country where they're lucky to have phone lines and cell phone reception. Not everyone has access to DSL, cable, or fiber. Heck, 300,000 in Nebraska alone don't have internet access at all. Small towns with a population of a few thousand don't...

Try this: 1. Lets make sure we can earn money back on big budget games by nixing the need for a box and a disc and all the costs that go along with it (shipping, printing, disc pressing, etc.). A download will also likely be the latest version of the game, instead of bringing a disc home to...

Not really, unless you didn't own that previous console. The PS3 has been around for, what, five years now? I still own a PS2. So do many of my friends, especially the ones who didn't buy a PS3 until it dropped below $300 halfway through it's life cycle. Not everyone chucked their old console...

I played with a Wii for about 10 minutes at a store when it first came out and only a handful of times afterward in the homes of friends. It's a novelty, just like 3D, and it seems that novelty has worn off. Kinect has more promise since it doesn't require the player to actually hold a...

Perhaps by 'dual chip' EchoMatrix means 'dual modem chip' (one for GSM, the other for CDMA)? There are other items inside the phone other than the ARM based CPU/GPU... For anyone who got hyped over what Apple was about to release, and the people who complain about their 'underpowered'...