Filed under: Desktops digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_XPS_720_specs_begin_to_trickle_out’; It looks like a Dell employee going by the name of “Dell-Bill B” has taken it upon himself to tease members of the Dell community forum with details of the company’s upcoming XPS 720 system, which is set to succeed the pricey XPS 710 series. While he’s saving […]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
We caught the nifty YBox last year when it was still just a proof-of-concept, and now the folks at Uncommon Projects are ready to unleash their televised-widgets-in-an-Altoids-tin wonder on the world — for free. There’s a catch, though: you have to show up at the upcoming Maker Faire in San Mateo, […]
Filed under: Peripherals, Storage
Not that there’s some dearth of external RAID devices on the market or anything, but few and far between are those that have FireWire 800 and 400 ports, as well as USB 2.0. NewerTech’s Guardian MAXimus — which appears to be a rebadged Mercury Elite-AL Pro — comes in with up to […]
Filed under: AnnouncementsYesterday Engadget posted an incorrect story about an iPhone delay, and I wanted to go into greater detail about how this happened.At 9:09am CDT yesterday a number of Apple employees received an email that appeared to be from Apple corporate reporting that the iPhone and the next version of OS X had been […]
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsCalm down, first-gen Core Duo owners — the rumors aren’t true. Microsoft made some waves earlier today when Bill Laing, one of the general managers of the Windows Server division, was quoted at WinHEC saying that “Windows Server 2008 is the last 32-bit operating system (for desktops and servers) that we’ll produce.” […]
Filed under: Gaming
Console hackers: beware! Microsoft has officially taken the hard line on hacked consoles connecting to Xbox Live. According to the Xbox’s Gamerscore blog, henceforth when a modded console is detected on the Live network, users can expect to have their account auto-banned, and their console permanently disabled from the system. Damn. (We just […]
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Storage
Vista’s ReadyBoost feature, which theoretically improves performance by placing part of Vista’s memory swapfile onto a highspeed flash drive, is one of the slickest OS tricks we’ve heard about in a long time. Unfortunately, it isn’t as sweet in practice, according to PC World. They tested three USB flash drives by […]
Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, StorageAlright folks, the merry-go-round on this one is apparently grinding to a halt, as recent reports are finally clarifying a statement made way back in January of last year by Peter Moore in regard to Blu-ray making nice with the Xbox 360. Mr. Moore’s insinuation that Microsoft’s latest console […]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless
Sure, you can score any number of network media streamers for about $100, but none of those will teach you anything — except maybe that there’s too many other Wi-Fi networks in your building for it to work. On the other hand, England’s Rob Hardwick says you can build a wireless […]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/microsoft/Custom_Zune_colors_arrive’; Got $74 to blow on a Zune that isn’t watermelon, brown, blue, pink, etc.? Well c’mon in, the fine proprietors of Colorware are now processing new colors for Zunes, and will redo-ify your current player for $74, or send you a new one all done […]
