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Samsung now shipping Touch of Color LCD monitors {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 1:45PM Benq V2400 and G2400WD both use a fast response S-IPS and can be had for $450 / $400. S-IPS are seen as "premium" so most manufacturers mark them up.
Super Talent makes MasterDrive MX SSDs slightly faster {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 3:02PM SuperTalent is one of my favorite brands for exactly this reason: they are never the best name in a market, but they are always very competitive on features/performance and the leader on price & value. The 8GB SuperTalent DH USB flash drive is good example; stellar performance and rediculously cheap price, as per Xbitlabs USB thumb-drive round-up: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/4gb-usbflash-roundup_9.html
Thanks for posting the prices! Thats very helpful, and I wish the article authors had taken not only the time & care to retrieve prices, but also to compare them against old prices. It really shows what the SSD buzz is all about, seeing such a dramatic shift!
Intel's Atom gets used in... servers? {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 5:08PM Its funny because the chipset takes 12x more power than the CPU.
Legion Hardware offers advice for building the best Crossfire rig {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 3:41PM a) the article is about the gain going from 1x to 2x video cards
b) the 5% gain is for differences amongst motherboard chipsets; it is separate from the gain from the sli itself.
try reading the article before you comment on whatever picture engadget opts to put to an article.
Samsung gets official with 14.7MP TL34HD point-and-shoot {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 12:08PM "The TL34HD is also DLNA Compatible™ allowing users to maximize the way they view and share their digital content over their wireless home network."
It has wireless built in?
EVE Evolved: Mining, the forgotten profession {Massively}
Jul 9th 2008 3:03PM You've already mentioned some reasons. The drone regions are another: they're easy to sit and farm. The price of ore seems to be in continual decline. Very few people mine in 0.0, and the numbers seem to be in continual decline. Corp/SpecOps mining ops happen less and less. The couple reds I see mining are clearly amateurs, mining in cruisers or other similarly pitiful efforts.
But the biggest reason mining isnt done is because its logistically a hastle. Yes, a Hulk can fark 50m/hr without much difficulty, but he needs a dedicated hauler character to move the ore. If you scale up, you start to need gang bosses and scouts. Mining is not a one man activity, its a huge group chore.
CCP's talked up multiple proposals for mining. One was to make mining more like exploration, where you probe for fields, and different finds have different characteristics. This links to what I think would be the smartest, seeding new "high value" ores. The amount of minerals worth mining in 0.0 is very small, seeding higher value ores in nullsec might bring people back and give a reason to do something other than import from the hubs.
Yamaha intros YSP-3050 Digital Sound Projector {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 6:09PM These tend to work quite a bit better than most "surround enhancers," by virtue of them having a large number of independent channels. The main problem is that you have to be "on-axis" with the sound bar for it to work: directly in front of it. If you are off the the side it can sound very strange.
Netgear's WGR614L Wireless-G router openly plays nice with Tomato / DD-WRT {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 6:07PM down mod please, i am wrong, i just cant find the navigation to the page any more. the page still exists, its at:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/10066/WGR614L-Hardware-Specifications
Netgear's WGR614L Wireless-G router openly plays nice with Tomato / DD-WRT {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 6:01PM For an open source router, theres certainly an absolute dearth of information on the actual hardware inside the router.
I mentioned this on the absolutely laughable "Hardware Specification" page on the myopenrouter site (it had gems like "firewall"... yes very hardware) and now the page is gone altogether.
Yamaha intros YSP-3050 Digital Sound Projector {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 4:49PM I modded mine for "brown note" support!! Denver police, if you're short on equipment, I'll hook you up for a great price!
