By Carl Nelson on January 28, 2008
Ars Technica has a good record when it comes to Sony rumors, so its with more than a bit of salt that we take their “mole’s” report that Sony is indeed dropping the 80GB/Motorstorm SKU and replacing it with a new model with either a 120 or 160GB drive and a DualShock 3 controller.
If [...]
Posted in Video Game Hardware | Tagged New Products, Playstation 3, Rumors, Sony
By Carl Nelson on November 19, 2007
If you were planning on getting a PS3 for Christmas, you might want to tell Santa to hold off, and wait until the 24th yourself. Apparently a Wal-Mart employee is spilling the beans early of a “Secret Sale” they are planning to have for two days on December 24-25.
With this deal, when you buy [...]
Posted in Hot Deals | Tagged Blu-Ray, HDTV, Hot Deals, Playstation 3, Rumors
By Carl Nelson on October 1, 2007
More forum-rumors for you this fine day. According to this thread at the official XBOX forum, some (not all) of the Halo 3 Edition XBOX 360’s are actually shipping with cooler-running (and hopefully more reliable) 65nm Falcon processors. The first post tells you how to check if you have a 65nm processor in your [...]
Posted in Video Game Hardware | Tagged h4x, Microsoft, Rumors, XBOX 360
By Carl Nelson on September 19, 2007
According to an ‘anonymous source inside Microsoft‘, the Zune 2 and Zune Flash portable audio players will be hitting stores on October 16. Also according to this source, the Zune 2 will come in a capacity of 80GB, and the flash version will be either 4GB or 8GB. This puts all Zune products an entire [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics | Tagged Microsoft, MP3 Players, Rumors
By Carl Nelson on September 10, 2007
Today’s rumor once again involves the PS3. Most of the previous PS3 rumors we posted ended up being true, which makes this one particularly interesting. This one comes from Ars, which suggests that this holiday season (once the $499 60GB version is sold out), the 80GB will receive a $100 price cut, taking over [...]
Posted in Video Game Hardware | Tagged Playstation 3, Rumors, Sony
By Robert Park on August 24, 2007
GMail, GMaps, and Search are still the only three Google apps that I really use every day. Everything else they’ve made is pretty cool, but not really that useful for me. Anything tech needs to be both cool and useful if you want to use it, no? Except for toys, but you [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics | Tagged Google, Mobile Phones, Rumors
By Carl Nelson on August 14, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in PC Hardware | Tagged Intel, Penryn, Processors, Rumors
By Ed Lau on July 26, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in PC Software | Tagged Microsoft, Rumors
By Carl Nelson on July 25, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in PC Hardware | Tagged nvidia, Rumors
By Ed Lau on July 22, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics | Tagged Apple, iPod, MP3 Players, Rumors
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