XBOX 360 HD-DVD Player price cut - 5 free movies
Okay, so Microsoft didn’t cut the price of the XBOX 360, but yesterday they did something close - starting on August 1, the HD-DVD Player addon will be available for $179, instead of $199.
In addition to that, they are offering 5 free movies, in a promotion similar to the Blu-Ray one (and identical to [...]
Microsoft “7″ in Three Years?
I’m not sure Microsoft realizes this but Vista was just released…um…this year because I’m sure if they did, they wouldn’t be telling us they’d be releasing a new operating system in three years. From what I’ve gathered in the last few days, the new OS is codenamed “7″ (changed from “Vienna”) is apparently in [...]
Nvidia G92 GeForce 9800 GPU - Rumored Specs
Consider this info as 100% unverified rumor-fodder, but for the curious, here are the purported specs of Nvidia’s next GPU:
65nm process technology at TSMC.
Over one billion transistors.
Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
Double precision support (FP64).
GPGPU native.
Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
Fully Scalar design.
512-bit memory interface.
1024MB [...]
Video game sales for June: Nintendo still rules
Last month, Nintendo ruled the gaming world (in the US at least), with the DS Lite and Wii selling for a combined 761K units in the US. Games for those systems took up four of the top five places in games sales as well.
NPD numbers are in for June, and well, things are good [...]
6th Gen iPod Interface?
When the iPhone was announced, most folks said that the ideal design for the next iPod would probably be the iPhone without all the, well, phone parts to it. A video surface yesterday with what looks like the new iPod interface and while it does look cool, it looks like it will maintain the [...]
Quality Control in Tech Today
If you haven’t seen it around the blogosphere and news websites copying around, Jorge Brouwer is filing a class action lawsuit for 5 million dollars against Microsoft for negligent hardware design in the Xbox 360. His copies of Madden and Gears of War were scratched from normal use in his Xbox.
Not only is [...]
How to reset a locked up iPod Nano
You’ll never hear me saying things like “I love my Nano”. Unlike most Apple fanboys, I don’t follow the brand like a cult. If they make a product I don’t like - like overpriced laptops with one mouse button - then I’ll avoid it. But if they make one that looks great, I’ll pick [...]
