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Area-51 750i: Alienware Starting at $1050

Just a few years ago, most of us would have laughed at the prospect of a $1,000 Alienware system. But such is the reality now that the company is owned by Dell. Their newly announced Area-51 750i starts at a palatable $1,049 and features a 3GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9800 … Continued

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Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Starts at $549

The Dell Inspiron Mini 12, Dell’s upcoming 12-inch netbook, has been priced for the US. The 1.33GHz Atom version with 1GB RAM, 40GB storage, and Vista Home will start at $549. The 1.6GHz version with 60GB storage and 6-cell battery will debut at $599 (or $654 after promo). And if you’re interested in the high … Continued

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The Linux Boot Sequence, Visualized

Most of us don’t appreciate all the processes involved with our OS’s boot sequence; we’re far more interested in watching that status bar fill. In this visualization of the Linux boot sequence, each function is a node, and each line connecting the nodes represents a call, direct branch, or indirect branch. The image itself was … Continued

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Belkin Switch-to-Mac Cable: How Hodgman Becomes Long

Switching to a new computer can be difficult, and the process is only exacerbated cross-platform when you need to migrate your data from XP or Vista to OS X. Belkin has responded to the hassle with their Switch-to-Mac Cable, a USB to USB dongle that comes with software tools to automate the transition. After plugging … Continued

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Cray XT Jaguar: The New World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Pumping out a sustained 1.64 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second (1.64 petaflops) after a recent technological overhaul, the Cray XT Jaguar is now the world’s latest fastest supercomputer (huge disclaimer coming) for non-classified research. And once you see what’s under the hood, you’ll know why.The system is powered by 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors that … Continued

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MacBook Air Might Go Carbon Fiber to Shed Weight

The MacBook Air weighs a little over three pounds. Airy, but there’s lighter. Not surprisingly, Apple wants to weigh that little—under three pounds. The easiest way to cut the fat is to use a material less heavy than aluminum that won’t compromise the body’s integrity. Enter carbon fiber, which AppleInsider says might replace the Air’s … Continued

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Tritton AX Pro Puts Eight Speakers In Your Gaming Headset

The Tritton AX Pro is not a bad looking wired surround sound headset that happens to be compatible with PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 audio and chatting. It features full Dolby Digital 5.1 hardware decoding, along with inline adjustments to independent front, center, rear and subwoofer channels—comprised of eight speakers in all.The catch is, of … Continued

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Allio HDTV Integrates Media PC with Built-In Blu-ray

Allio has gone and done what we wish every HDTV manufacturer would attempt already. They’ve shoved a full-blown media PC into a 1080p LCD TV. Coming in sizes up to 42 inches, buyers can customize a set that features a Vista-powered PC with a Core2Duo, 4GB of RAM, Wi-Fi, 1TB of storage and a Blu-ray … Continued

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Dell Black Friday Ad Now Available For Your Deal-Devouring Eyes

As the economy slips deeper and deeper into oblivion, we can take some solace in these wonderful Black Friday ads that will inevitably trickle out up until the day after Thanksgiving. Today, we bring you the Dell Black Friday ad, complete with deals on their computers, media devices, monitors, peripherals—pretty much you name it, it … Continued

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What To Do With Thermite On a Friday

So the thought police are on their way to your underground control chamber, and you need to erase your hard drives fast. They can break the crypto on your secret docs, and even if you overwrite them with a bunch of junk data, they’ve got forensic techniques that could pull an erased file out of … Continued

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Question of the Day: Which One of You Has the Fastest Internet Connection?

Much like the typing speed question I asked over the summer, this question is designed to pit you head-to-head against one another to see who has the biggest e-wang (so to speak). All you need to do is follow this link to test your internet connection speed. The poll after the break is broken down … Continued

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Dell XPS One 24 Updates Graphics Card, Enlarges Screen, Fights AIDS

Dell has come out with an update to its XPS One computer system, making it generally bigger and more powerful than the previous iteration. The XPS One 24 now comes with a 24-inch 1080p display, JBL speakers and subwoofer, an Intel Core 2 quad core processor, and an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card. A … Continued

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HP Mini 1000 is a Sleek, Svelte 10.2-inch Netbook With a Custom OS

HP’s Mini 1000 is a 10.2-inch netbook that comes in at under 2.5 pounds and packs a 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 16 GB SSD and up to 2 GB RAM under its highly portable shell. For now, it also comes complete with Windows XP, Bluetooth, VGA webcam, a removable USB drive molded into the fit … Continued

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Dealzmodo: Holiday Shopping Is Looking Cheaper By the Minute

We know you didn’t have enough with our previous Road to Black Friday deals, so here’s another round up with a lot more offers. 22 offers including an LG ME770 for $99 (previously $299), a load of other unlocked cellphones, a Panasonic 40GB Hard Drive camcorder for $250, and headphones, TVs, digital cameras, laptops, and … Continued

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Electromagnetic Scanners Can Detect What You’re Typing Right Now

It’s obvious to assume that your henpecking on a wireless keyboard could be intercepted by a RF-snooping ne’er-do-well, but what about your wired or laptop keyboard—that should be safe, right? Nope. Researchers at Lausanne, Switzerland’s Security and Cryptography Laboratory (part of the EPFL school) have demonstrated here that 12 different keyboards, bought from 2001 until … Continued

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Black Friday Technology Deals Start Now

If you can’t wait until Black Friday to hunt for deals for the holidays, or you just need to upgrade your gear now in these times of economic uncertainty-why save if everything is going to hell? Spend!-here’s a round up with the lastest deals we have found on the Web, from an unlocked Nokia N82 … Continued

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Fujitsu Releases New Lifebook A6220 Laptop With Blu-ray, UWB, Swappable Color Shells

Fujitsu this week announced their new Lifebook A6220 notebook which comes equipped with a Blu-ray drive, HDMI-out, ultra wideband wireless data transfer and Snap Cap swappable shells, which can be used to change the design/color of your laptop in one fell swoop. The 15.4-inch laptop runs on the Centrino 2 platform, with a p8400 Core … Continued

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How To Sync Your iPhone to Mutiple Computers

The iPhone syncs great with one computer, but what if you use two? Say you listen to music and watch movies on a home computer while managing all of your important business contacts on your work computer? If you’re willing to get your hands dirty with a hex editor and a few lines of simple … Continued

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Acer Releases AX3200 Blu-Ray Desktop PC and P244W 1080p LCD Display

WIth their Blu-ray-playing AX3200 desktop PC and accompanying 24-inch, 1080p monitor, Acer just released two affordable, HD-friendly products at a combined price that sits just over $1000. With the compact dimensions of around 10″x4″x14″, the AX3200 desktop has 2.1 GHZ AMD Phenom X3 8450 processor, HDMI-out, Dolby Home Theater 5.1 sound and nine USB ports. … Continued

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Computers Screw Stock Market Even More Than It’s Already Screwed

As if we didn’t have enough with the stock market going down in flames on its own, computers have decided to screw them a little bit more and make everyone go “WTF” for a few minutes this morning. After dropping around two hundred gazillion points yesterday, today the Dow Jones industrials saw another drop of … Continued