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Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player coming November for $250, gives HD-DVD the final cold shoulder {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2009 12:02AM SPE's aren't proper CPU cores, they're glorified floating point pipelines.
So, no, it's not an 8 core CPU, that would be like saying every rendering pipeline in a video card was a seperate GPU.
That, and the GPU in the PS3 is a rebadged Geforce 7900. I wish people would actually find these things out rather than quoting Sony PR.
Windows 7 review {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2009 7:29PM David, on the command prompt issue try running Powershell. It's cmd on steroids.
Microsoft's new ad shows how people shop for computers in the real America {Engadget}
Mar 31st 2009 7:14AM I quite like the ad and what it suggests, and I'm writing this on a Macbook Pro.
Then again, I'm not the target market for that HP. For people looking for something that fits their budget and requirements, you can't deny you're going to get a better deal finding and buying a Windows PC. Especially when you get to things like screen size, and until relatively recently, a goddamn DVD-Burner as standard.
Pretty much anyone who's seen my Macbook has loved it. But once you tell them how much it cost, you get a few less interested parties. Like it or not, Apple computers are more expensive for a given set of specifications. The joke here is that until the switch to Intel, the fanboys hated talking about specifications, because pretty much everyone knew the Power architecture (especially in laptops) was a complete joke. Now all I see here are people trying to base a comparison on specs that the vast majority of consumers don't give two shits about. The shoe's on the other foot, and it doesn't fit as well as some would like, apparently.
Magnetic 4-port USB hub: for brazen daredevils only {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2008 4:43AM Magnets don't have any effect on flash storage.
In fact, they don't have any effect on normal magnetic platter hard drives either, if they did the rare-earth magnet you'll find inside would wipe the data as you wrote it.
More Meizu M8 images released, device itself still unreleased {Engadget}
Aug 6th 2008 8:22AM This has got to be the single worst bunch of comment's I've ever seen on this site.
For the love of god, start vetting your users, Engadget. It's turning into a cesspool over here.
iPhone 3G and firmware 2.0: one week later {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 12:59AM My biggest issue has been the clunkiness with the contacts list - it takes (relatively) ages before you can actually interact with it, and even then it's still slow for a bit.
Meanwhile a Nokia will flat-out refuse you access to the contact list until it's completely loaded, which I think is a better solution from a usability perspective.
Otherwise, MobileMe and everything else have been running fine since purchase. It's still a great phone.
Apple quietly settles MacBook 6-bit LCD screen lawsuit {Engadget}
Mar 26th 2008 7:05PM @clak: So, first off, Microsoft is ripping off Apple, but in actual contractual reality they were quite within their rights and it was only because of Apple's delays with the Macintosh interface that Windows ever managed to exist?
Whatever, I guess. This is all history now.
What I really don't get is this burning desire to constantly defend and sometimes even aggravate on behalf of a faceless multinational corporation that in the end only really wants your money for shiny things. In the entire world of gadgets and electronics there is no more cultish and downright bizzare devotion to a company, and more often than not it comes off as a sort of smug "I'm of the chosen, I bought this computer instead of your lowly one" mentality that's fucking annoying.
I've known and argued with many mac users, and almost to an individual when you get down to it they actually honestly think they're better than you because of their choice of computer. I actually really like Apple's hardware design but when you see otherwise grown men and women acting like privileged assholes over a purchasing decision it makes you wonder whether you want to buy into an otherwise excellent design philosophy and OS environment.
Go read some Apple message boards. Without a doubt you'll see a constant low-level bashing of Microsoft, Windows and most importantly Windows users (ie the other 90-odd percent of people) that reeks of an over-inflated sense of self-importance. Remind them that Vista is actually not bad given a halfway recent PC and that they were all doing the same thing around the time XP came out and you'll get told to go back to your 'Windoze' and play with your 'Zune' because 'nobody else owns one'.
Yet when people make reasonable and consistent arguments against elements of Apple's policies or design decisions, WE'RE the haters? What gives?
Intel's 6-core Dunnington CPU coming this year, Nehalem gets official {Engadget}
Mar 18th 2008 7:22AM They're replacing it with something analogous with Hyperthreading on AMD's.
Can't remember what it's called, but it's essentially the same thing. A really ,really fast bus for everything.
Intel's 6-core Dunnington CPU coming this year, Nehalem gets official {Engadget}
Mar 18th 2008 7:21AM Oh shit, hyperthreaded multicore processors?
And I was all about to buy a Core2Quad.
Logitech CEO shrugs off Microsoft takeover rumors, causing more rumors {Engadget}
Mar 10th 2008 7:10AM As long as a takeover stipulated someone actually fixing Logitech's perpetually broken software, I'm all for it.
Although, to be fair, I couldn't really care either way. Face it, you were always going to buy a keyboard or mouse from one of the two anyway.
