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NVIDIA ION LE hack adds DirectX 10 support, raises interesting questions {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 2:53PM Also, it has been knows for years that when nvidia makes a chip, the ones that are slightly malformed or that do not perform perfectly are clocked at a lower rate and have some features disabled.
So for the 8800 series of chips, the perfect ones are clocked the fastest and put in the 8800 GTX, and the ones that performed slightly less well are clocked slower and put in the 8800 GTS with a few pipelines disabled.
This just seems like an extension of that nvidia policy with some Microsoft restrictions tossed in.
Engadget's back to school giveaway part 2: win an Xbox 360 prize pack! {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2009 5:56PM PLease?
Sonic Blaster is defeated by fashionable noise-canceling 'head shield' {Engadget}
Aug 28th 2009 2:16PM I realize you were probably joking, but the way most noise canceling headphones work is they broadcast white noise that your ears ignore to cover the other sounds in the environment. So you would probably go deaf twice as fast.
New Sony lithium ion batteries promise 4x the capacity, 99% recharge in 30 minutes {Engadget}
Aug 11th 2009 3:53PM You don't consider a 2 TB hard drive a super large capacity?
Psh... Kids these days...
Major labels show eagerness to fail with new CMX digital audio format {Engadget}
Aug 11th 2009 10:24AM @Chris D.
FLAC files are huge for a reason, they are a lossless format. With mp3's and other compressed audio formats a computer algorithm trims out data it assumes the listener will not notice, such as high frequency sounds and some other data.
I am not an audiophile and over a regular set of computer speakers I am a bit hard pressed to notice much of a difference. However, I recently bought a decent set of speakers for my room and now I can notice the difference between FLAC and mp3's.
Is it enough of a difference to justify the 10x size of the tracks? For most of the music I listen to, no. But there are a few albums that just sound amazing with FLAC.
Square iPhone Payment System turns your phone into credit card reader {Engadget}
Aug 4th 2009 12:57PM Actually, 2.5% is fairly standard for a small business processing credit cards. My parents run a small woodworking business and are constantly complaining about how big of a ripoff credit card fees are.
If your volume of transactions go up significantly, the % will drop, but if you are a small business the transaction fee is ridiculous.
Switched On: iPhone 3GS is fine, young, but not a cannibal {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2009 1:26PM I agree, this article seems to be a blatant advertisement for the iPhone. Other smartphones have had these same features for years and just now, after the release of the iPhone 3GS you decide to run an article dedicated how the iPhone is just so awesome it might cause major camera and GPS manufacturers to go out of business.
At the very least you could have made it a generic smartphone article.
Oh well, I don't run the blog, I just read it and while Engadget does seem to have a serious preference for Apple products their other articles remain at the high quality we have all come to expect and I can just skim over the numerous, repetitive articles praising the Cult of Jobs.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a pair of Aperion Audio Intimus 5B Bookshelf speakers! {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2009 12:43PM please?
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Razer Mamba, Carcharias and case! {Engadget}
Apr 8th 2009 12:58PM Please?
Xandros' instant-on Presto Linux distro now available for download-o {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2009 7:58PM I am seconding Sheep. I have several older computers sitting around my place. One is almost 5 years old, and with Xubuntu, it runs pretty much fine, but with normal Ubuntu or Kubuntu the performance drops off sharply. Boot times are very long and I notice a definite drop in performance over more lightweight linux distros.
That said, its a 5 year old machine, I dont expect the latest versions of operating systems to run perfectly on it.
