Gadget Deals Of The Day
There are some great laptop and monitor deals today. With all the extra cash, you can get a new Timbuk2 bag to carry all your gadgets.
There are some great laptop and monitor deals today. With all the extra cash, you can get a new Timbuk2 bag to carry all your gadgets.
It not's surprising right after its 40th birthday, AMD's trying to recall the better days: The Athlon II X2 makes an official sequel out of the Athlon name for its cheap 45nm chip, starting at $87.
Maximum PC tests and answers the three biggest questions you have about RAM: How much better is DDR3 than DDR2? Is high-speed RAM worth it? How much RAM do you really need?
Dell's Inspiron towers are what cheap computers should be—uh, cheap, customizable and colorful. They start at $300, but are oddly stopping over in China first before coming to the US "this spring."
The Gadget: Rimless goggles with a locking lens plate for switching up the glass for sunny or cloudy days. A follow up to their I/O googles, but with improved foam sealing and shape.
Extreme with an "X" huh? You know these new CyberPower desktops are bad ass. And by "bad ass" I mean yet another overpriced rig with a gimmicky case and some 3D glasses.
What have we here? A 32" Sharp Aquos for $600 shipped, a Shure I2C-M headset for $36 and IHOP Pankcakes for nothing? Oh my!
Ars reviews AMD's latest quad-core, the Phenom II, against a barrage of Intel chips and finds that while it "puts AMD back on the map" against today's chips, AMD's got a "long-term problem." [Ars Technica]
I don't care how big of a Dick Tracey you look like using the Phenom SpecialOPS cellphone watch; its adolescent awesomeness goes unspoken.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet tested pre-beta Windows 7 release 6956 against Vista RTM and Vista SP1. Win 7's snappy boot time and dominance in other tests suggest that a good OS is on the way.