Filed under: Desktops
Oh ASUS, you bring us such joy. When this company isn’t busy diluting its Eee brand, it loves to pick fights with noted rivals, and this latest spat with Gigabyte (who isn’t at all innocent in this war) is wonderfully trivial. Apparently ASRock, ASUS’s budget motherboard wing, has taken it upon itself to inform hardware review websites like HEXUS of Gigabyte’s wasteful implementation of copper. The email ponders: “While the demand for copper keeps increasing and with that the price of this natural resource, why would manufacturers choose to use more copper without any valid reason?” And it gets better: “I [unidentified] am not talking about unnecessary heatpipes that most people do not need, but about Gigabyte’s ’2 oz Copper PCB’. Gigabyte is adding more copper to the PCB to reduce the heat that is produced by their motherboard, and to spread it across the motherboard so that the heat will dissipate more quickly.” Naturally ASRock’s own P45 motherboard falls into none such pitfalls, offering better cooling with less copper, and they even provided a handy chart up above in case you don’t believe them, you idiot. Say no to waste!
[Thanks, Jordan]
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The cream of the industry gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel to see this year’s winners
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals
This is it, soldiers. The day you’ve been anticipating has finally arrived. Okay, so maybe that’s a build up not deserved by the lowly Metal Gear Solid 4 Bluetooth headset, but seriously, we’ve been waiting ages for this thing to ship. Like, so long that the whole MGS4 aura has already come and gone. Those still firmly planted in Snake’s posse can choose to prove their fanhood by snagging this thing now for $39.98; if all goes well, it should be headed your way in a matter of business days. Over and out.
[Via LogicBuy]
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Filed under: Laptops, Storage
We’re glad to see that Raon Digital isn’t just ditching its Everun Note entirely after having to recall the thing, and better still, we’re stoked to hear that it’ll soon be doling out speedier iterations with built-in SSDs. UMPC Portal has it that two new Everun Notes will be landing shortly, both of which will boast SSDs within. The first newcomer (S16S) will come loaded with Ubuntu Mobile, a 1.2GHz Sempron CPU and a 12GB MLC SSD; the higher-end sibling (D24S) will offer up Windows XP, a dual-core Turion processor and 24GB worth of delicious solid state storage. Look for both to land by mid-November for $659 / $950, respectively.
[Via Pocketables]
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October 12 2008 by
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US space tourist Richard Garriott follows in the footsteps of his astronaut father as he blasts off into space.
