It has been a long time coming, almost one and a half months since my last post! Wow! I have been busy at home with work in my Garage, i have a new central heating and cooling system installed, brand new 200amp electrical panel, and i was outside raking my lawn. Who would of thought me getting a house with Severine would be so...fun!
I do not want to dock Apple. I like Apple stuff, infact I have owned many iPods with no problems and no issues. There is just the scary matter of the stories I hear of Apple covering up their support issues.
Toms Hardware has posted a great review of the new ATI Radeon HD 5450 card. It is a videocard that is not targeted to the Gamer, but for the main stream market where internet and office applications are the main focus. There is also now a bonus feature - Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD Master Audio is available on all of AMD's ATI 5000-series videocards. Read More
World, meet the most anticipated hardware from Mac. Rumors of this pad have been around for almost ten years. There are even jokes and comics about the rumors all over the net. My colleague that has a website about DSLRs and all things cameras even has a post. I have to do a post about it as well! How is it related to HTPCs? Well, it is not, but it is the first in a wave of new products and copy cats that will be created. There is a lot of potential in a product like this. It can be used as a big remote for your Home Theatre room, the possibilties are endless, it has many features of the iPhone and iPod Touch and runs a modified version of the iPhone's operating system. Just like the iPod before it, book stores hope that the iPad will revolutionize the Print industry. Read More
Annoucned during Intel's Keynote during CES 2010 is the new WiDi technology, which enables from a computer with a Intel Core i3 or i5 and a Intel HD Graphic card to send streaming video 720p and audio signal to your HDTV wirelessly. Read More
Windows 7 is coming officially on October 22, 2009 - it was only a matter of time before a new videocard will be released that can support Directx11. Welcome the new ATI 5800 series, or specifically the 5870 and the 5850 videocards. Both are paired with at least 1gb of GDDR5 memory, but I am sure the card manufactuerers will raise RAM as they always do. Read More
I often have people asking me why I never suggest products from Bose. It is hard to answer, and yes, my answer is entirely my oppinion. Do they make good products, sure, do they sound good, depends who you ask. An argument should need justification. Don't get me wrong, Bose is a profitable company, but then again, so is Monster Cable. What company that over prices all of their products and lie to consumers for their money isn't profitable? Read on to see what I and manyaudiophiles think about Bose. Read More
Benchmark reviews have released a review on the Asus Xonar slim sound card with HDMI ports on it. Media Center owners rejoice, we can now have HD audio, at a better price and it will fit in small HTPC cases!
This is sort of a follow up to Asus' other sound card, the Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe (announced here on EngadgetHD.com). I did not get that card because of it's ridiculous price tag of 300$+ CAD. It also came with other ports that i do not need, but at the same time, i use 1/8" jacks for headphones and desktop PC speakers. Read More
Intel has announced today their 2nd Generation SSD drives. Announced on Anandtech's website, Intel's new drives are available as of today (July 21, 2009). They will keep with the names of the current models X25-M and X18 -M but will have new and interesting features. Not 100% sure if the picture is what they will look like, but they look 'cooler' in my oppinion! Read More
