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AMD GAME! got game {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 7:58AM I Lost!
AMD GAME! got game {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 7:57AM You should go to Best Buy, where the sales people are non-commission, and thus less sleazy/cheesy, and more likely to point you to the machine that will suit your needs, regardless of the silly marketing sticker on the box.
I'll have to add this to the list of "technologies" that bother me. Centrino (commonly mistaken for Celeron, which makes me laugh), viiv, and now Game!
Sony creates micro-sized fuel cell system {Engadget}
May 4th 2008 11:28PM Hydrogen fuel cells can be designed to convert water into hydrogen themselves, thus becoming "recharged" which would, of course, take energy from an outlet to do. You wouldn't need to actually purchase hydrogen to charge your phone or laptop. You might have to top it off with water on occasion, which is handily available at your faucet.
These biofuel solutions, as you state, are at best, carbon-neutral. This is, obviously, better than fossil fuel burning, but its not really feasible at all to clear cut enough forest on the planet to power our needs. You'd be destroying a huge chunk of biodiversity.
With hydrogen fuel cells, presently they would not be carbon neutral, since most places are powered by some form of fossil fuels, however the technology, to me, seems a bit more advanced, less crude, and has the ability, with the development of more clean energy sources, to have no carbon footprint at all.
I watched an interesting article on wind power a week or two ago, and from what I saw, it would be a much more feasible option than biofuels as a fix for the oil addiction.
Sony creates micro-sized fuel cell system {Engadget}
May 4th 2008 7:30PM So stupid! This is a step backwards as far as I'm concerned, and converting more farmland away from food production, and more towards energy production is not going to help food costs. And how the heck would you charge the stupid thing? You'd have to buy fuel for it, which seems far less convenient than simply plugging it into a wall. I think that hydrogen fuel cells are much more advantageous in this respect: They don't use biofuels, they can simply be plugged in to be recharged, and they're clean energy assuming that the power supplied through your wall outlet is clean energy. No nasty byproducts either like battery acid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, please!
iPhone finally coming to Canada {Engadget}
Apr 29th 2008 5:33PM I pay an extra $7 per month and get unlimited data on my Virgin Mobile phone, and yes, thats in Canada. Only downside is that they don't have smart phones, thus probably why their data is so cheap.
Samsung builds a better, smaller 4GB DIMM {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 9:20AM Ooook, you people are all listing half-truths. A 32 bit OS can address UP TO 4 gigabytes of memory (RAM). However there are other things that take up this addressing space, such as various add in cards, onboard devices, and most of all, video cards.
This is why so many people have varying numbers as to how much of their 4 gigs they actually see. Different configurations yield different amounts of RAM. As an example, in an extreme case, if someone were running a crossfire or SLi setup with two 1gb video cards, they would see less than 2 gigs of ram available for use on their system. The video cards would be chewing up 2 gigs of that 4 gig address space, and there'd be other devices on their mobos (sound cards, lan, etc) chewing up a bit more.
MSI outs official Wind specs, mum on price and dates {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2008 10:59AM There's the AMD Geode, which is a small, low powered variant of the older socket A architecture. Doesn't seem to be very popular though, for whatever reason...
Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students {Engadget}
Apr 18th 2008 6:04PM you're describing a tablet PC...
The OLPC XO gets overclocked, loses its innocence {Engadget}
Mar 27th 2008 8:32AM It'll have to be the AMD 3870X2, the Geode is an amd processor after all
