Recent content by tuskers

[H] never made any claims of being professionals. They have always been a "community" site. Which makes it more OK, because being offended and talking colloquially map very closely to their community. Heck, they participate actively in their own forums. You don't go there if you want a...

I think the Nano is actually targeted at a bigger niche than people assume. But that niche isn't gamers, although it will be available to those with mini-ITX or low-power needs. The only people who care about performance per watt are compute-centric workstations and servers. They can't sell...

SU3500 is slower than dual-core atoms. It is the slowest non-atom chip you can buy from intel right now. WoW actually can spawn many more than 2 threads, it just reaches its peak performance in the 2-3 core area (the overhead of multi-threading negates more performance advantage). Think...

In order to argue the morality of the original point, let's examine it a little more closely. What moral justification is there for breaking the letter of the law, even if you don't think it's breaking the spirit of the law? How, morally, is two days of personal entertainment greater than...

Two things: If you go to most "average" theaters, the contrast ratios on the projectors are pretty terrible. Blacks aren't close to black, they're barely dark gray in some theaters. Plasmas and LED-backlit LCD TVs reproduce very accurate blacks-- if a light is on in the room and the TV signal...

Keep in mind that the SSDs from that article are several generations older and significantly out of date. It's true that you're not dealing with a lot of power consumption anyway with most modern HDDs, so any theoretical gains are simply that, theoretical. You'll do a lot better by...