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Engadget's recession antidote: win an HP TouchSmart IQ527! {Engadget}
Jul 30th 2009 6:09PM Making our senators and congressmen use social security would be a great start to fixing our system.
LaCie hurdles the 10TB barrier, upgrades its 2big and 5big RAID drives {Engadget}
May 11th 2009 5:19PM Those prices are for the minimum configuration.
The 4TB configuration is 659.99.
Windows 7 RC coming May 5 for public consumption, out now for MSDN / TechNet subscribers? {Engadget}
Apr 18th 2009 3:06PM Windows NT 3.51
Windows 4 / 2000
Windows 5 / XP
Windows 6 / Vista
Windows 7
The windows 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 95osr2, 98, ME family are not part of this numbering scheme since they are a different family of OS.
BeamBox Evolution R-1 pico available for pre-order, shipping April 1 {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2009 5:23PM They shipped some even before April 1. I got a black one last week and to answer the questions above:
Yes it has AV input and comes with the cable to do normal SD video which is basically 640x480.
Yes it does music, video, photo slideshow.
I haven't ran out of battery yet.
You can use an external TV tuner if you really want to. I'm glad they didn't try and put in a non-digital tuner since that wouldn't be useful for very long anyway.
The only problem I have with mine is that there isn't any way to adjust the contrast and mine is kind of dark so I have an e-mail into BeamBox to help me figure out how to make the colors in some photos show up a little better.
MSI officially launches the touchscreen Wind Top AE1900 {Engadget}
Mar 31st 2009 5:51PM Seems like this would be a good home automation interface computer. Just install in a wall or in a nook in a hallway to control heating, lighting, audio, security, etc.
Otherwise touchscreen on a desktop seems pretty useless.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Paradigm Cinema 70 CT surround system! {Engadget}
Mar 23rd 2009 12:45PM A couple of million for me directly from Uncle Sam would free me up to help homeless people.
Exploding iPod touch sets kid's pants on fire, melts his underwear, causes untold emotional pain {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2009 10:37PM I know this is a little late and probably won't be read by most, but look how late in the day they started adding in the Friday the 13th photo edits. Sheesh..
Engadget's recession antidote: win a MOTONAV GPS navigation system! {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2009 2:54PM Me too please!
OCZ reveals Core Series SATA II 2.5 SSDs: 128GB for $479 {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 2:56PM That's a good theory about the system being taxed more because the processor was in use more. Too bad it is an untested shot in the dark that doesn't hold up against the existing data at hand.
If you actually read the TH article they "measure" the usage of the drives and show how much each one is using in idle and when active.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955-14.html
You can see from their chart that several of the SSD's have higher power consumption than a normal drive. They note that since the SSD's don't have any levels of power usage between "idle" and "active" they tend to use more power for the same amount of user activities.
Fanswag: Win 1600 MS point codes and Assault Heroes 2 {Joystiq Xbox}
Jun 19th 2008 1:44PM I would pick up the Penny Arcade game.
