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CompUSA: It Lives!

After it died, CompUSA was bought by Tigerdirect, and here are some of the first pictures of the freshly awakened PC retailer. Even better, the zombified store is reported by reader Martin B. to be better than its pre-undead version:
It's a much better store than it used to be, full of components, motherboards, and lots of actually _helpful_ people who know computers.


9:36 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Brian Lam
8,953 views, 40 comments

Latest by bbfreak: Huh, I'd go check 'em out, but thats all the way over by the Arlington Expressway, and that's 22 miles away. Ya know, it really sucks to live in the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States more »

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CompUSA "Grand Re-Opens" in Florida, Hopefully With Less Suck

After purchasing out-of-business CompUSA a couple months ago, TigerDirect is reanimating the red, white and blue corpse with "Grand Re-Openings" of fifteen stores in Florida, along with one brand new one. They're promising "Lower prices... New wider selection... And amazing new deals." We hope so, their prices were ridiculous even when they were actively trying to dump everything. [CompUSA via Consumerist]

3:30 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By matt buchanan
4,682 views, 25 comments

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ControlThink's Vista SideShow and Z-Wave Home Theater/Automation Remote

The Vista feature you pretty much forgot about is back: ControlThink's got a new remote control platform for Windows Media Center and other devices called ThinkRemote that leverages Vista's oft-touted-but-rarely used SideShow. That's right, you can get SideShow information and gadgets anywhere in your house since the platform uses the Z-Wave flavor of wireless for communication for home automation tricks like turning lightbulbs on and off. Logitech's big remote was supposed to do this last year, but it failed to, um, work as promised. So is this the first? Maybe. More »

1:30 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,280 views, 7 comments

Latest by apeguero: Now that's a mans remote, baby! Yeah! Bring it on! more »

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Reports of Mac mini's Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Steve Jobs said the Mac mini is not dead yet, telling the assembled gathering at today's event he's extending the life of the tiniest 'Tosh. When asked the question, "How is the Mac mini doing? And are you updating it?" he responded, "We are refreshing the Mac mini and making it even faster. It's already in the online store." The upgrade is basically a speed bump. More »

2:35 PM on Tue Aug 7 2007
By Charlie White
26,995 views, 24 comments