Category Archives: Hardware

The beginning of my home theatre setup

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 [...]

Apple has skeletons in their closet

I do not want to dock Apple.  I like Apple iPhone 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.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 – HD video and Audio for 50$!

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 [...]

Meet the Apple iPad

World, meet the most anticipated hardware from Mac.  Rumors of this ipad 2 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 [...]

Intel announced Wireless HD streaming called “WiDi”, supports 720p

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. 

ATI Launches first Directx 11 videocards, the 5800 series

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 [...]

Why does Bose blow? Suck? hated by audiophiles?

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 [...]

O How The Mighty Have Fallen – Toshiba Blu-ray players coming soon

Engadget has posted some interesting news, and there is a direct link to the Toshiba press release here.  I won’t re-hash what everyone is posting, but here is the press release directly.

ASUS Xonar HDAV 1.3 Slim Sound Card – Review

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 [...]

Intel’s 2nd generation X25-M and X18-M SSDs drives

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, [...]

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