Valve’s ‘The Orange Box’ - What I’m looking forward to most
The Orange Box is finally set to release early October this year. Sure, it mostly just has Half-Life 2 games and expansions, which are great if you are a hardcore HL fan — but even then you probably already downloaded and bought them on Steam. The game that’s interesting in this box [...]
Why would you buy a new iMac? Corrections.
I don’t want to shy away from my mistakes in my previous article. I relied on a poor source which informed me of notebook drives in the new iMac, which I hope you will accept my apologies. I am very happy this is not the case, as I have become well aware [...]
Intel Penryn coming November 11th; Full lineup prices
Here’s some nice juicy leaked information this evening from Intel; a list of their entire launch lineup of the 45nm Penryn chipset (details here; benchmarks here) that will occur on November 11th. Be sure to come back on that day for a full review! (if the rumored date is true; we cannot confirm that here).
X5460 [...]
Microsoft gives OK to HDD-only XBOX 360 games
If you were stupid enough to buy a Core Edition XBOX 360, your poor decision is going to look even worse in the next year or so. At Gamesfest, Microsoft has announced that, after immense pressure from MMO developers, they would allow games to use a large ‘Master Storage File’ which would be too [...]
XBOX 360 Elite 120GB + HD-DVD Player + 7 movies = $600
Amazon has a sweet bundle deal going on now for the recently-reduced XBOX 360 Elite Edition. Sure, we called the Elite the new Retard Edition, but at this price it’s too good a deal to pass up. Included in the bundle are:
XBOX 360 Elite Edition console with 120GB hard drive and HDMI output
Microsoft XBOX [...]
Why would you buy a new iMac?
Here is the Macintosh lineup today excluding the worthless new iMac, they all start (with the exception of a slightly slower mini, and the upgraded Mac Pro) at around 2Ghz Core2 Duos:
MacBook: The notebook of course, $1000USD 13inch entry
Macbook Pro: A notebook with a graphics card that won’t make you want [...]
Blu-Ray dominating the format war so far
A good indication of how the format war is going is to look at the sales figures for the huge blockbuster titles. 300 happens to be such a title, and the figures are in for its debut last week. First of all, 300 is the fastest and best selling High Definition disc ever released, [...]
