If you are not quite convinced that you want an Intel Viiv PC in your living room, then here is another option: AMD promises similar functionality and "real world solutions" with beefed up entertainment center PCs. "Live!" PCs will act behind the scenes, rather than physically invading the family room, and act as the digital nerve center of a home. Extra: AMD Live! and Intel Viiv image gallery Read more
Blizzard announced today that 11.5 million players currently subscribe to the World of Warcraft MMORPG. Ouch. Read more
ABI Research believes that a bundling of wireless broadband with traditional telephone, television and Internet services are about to arrive in the US. Dubbed in the telecommunications industry as the "quadruple play" or "grand-slam," companies are trying to reduce costs by unifying their networks and handing their customers a single bill for their Internet, voice and mobile services. Read more
Today, AOL is launching its Music Now service, which incorporates the streaming infrastructure it acquired last November from Circuit City, plus the core of music licenses it acquired from Spinner.com back in 1999. It's being billed as something new, but you don't have to peel back too many layers to see that Music Now already has a deep and tumultuous history. Read more
Hard drive capacities have increased in large increments over the last few years, while trends indicate reduced spindle speeds of 5,400 RPM instead of 7,200. We looked at three generations of Samsung hard drives to analyze the performance ramifications. Read more
This month, ATI's new Radeon HD 4770 is missing in action, since online stores are not only unable to keep it in stock, but also de-listing it completely. With violent movements in pricing, though, it'd have been taken off the recommended list anyway. Read more
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had some teething pains right out of the gate. Chris Angelini revisits those issues and uses Ion as a real HTPC. Read more
Do you want a quick Core i7 system, but don’t feel confident sticking to Intel's spec and using the DDR3-1066 memory supported by the processor? We benchmark the most relevant memory speed and timing combinations to check the benefit of going faster. Read more
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