Archive for the 'Products' Category
Un-be-liev-able
May 10th, 2006Tom’s Hardware just put up the most incredible article about a CPU I have ever read: A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130 – Can it be True?. Believe it or not, a budget Intel processor, the Pentium D 805, which comes clocked at 2.66 GHz can be overclocked by an unheard-of 54%, to 4.10 [...]
NVIDIA DualTV
May 9th, 2006NVIDIA has released a new TV tuner called DualTV MCE. It’s designed for Windows XP Media Center Edition and has two analog tuners, making it possible to record one show while watching another. Unfortunately, it only supports NTSC (regular TV), not ATSC (high definition TV), but it would still be my choice were I building [...]
Acer Aspire 5650
January 30th, 2006This blog entry is an attempt to remedy the void of coverage on one of Acer’s new Intel Duo notebooks, the Aspire 5650.
The Duo has just arrived on the seen as Intel’s replacement for the highly successful Centrino (“Pentium M”) series of processors. Each of the Duo’s twin cores operate similar clock speeds to the [...]
The Remedy
September 7th, 2005I found a mechanical pencil at the Carnegie Mellon bookstore that I highly recommend. It’s called the Remedy, by Staedtler. Here’s a review I made up for Amazon.com:
Automatic pencils are great. They provide consitent, quality output and require no sharpening. Unfortunately, most automatic pencils have crummy erasers. They’re small, they wear out rapidly, and retailers [...]