iPad Components Cost $259
If you bought an iPad earlier this week, you should probably avoid reading this article unless you want a bad case of buyer's remorse. Everyone else...feel free to laugh. The lowest-priced iPad, which includes 16 GB of memory, constitute 52% of its $499 retail price, on par with other Apple products including the iPhone 3GS. A midpriced 32 GB version of the iPad that sells for $599 contains $289.10 worth of materials. A high-end 64 GB version, which retails for $699, contains components that cost $348.10, according to iSuppli. Comments
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The 8 Most Irritating Types of Gadget Owners
This list of the 8 most irritating types of gadget owners is pretty funnyÂ…because it is true. The spoiled chick: You know, the one who happens to own all the cool gadgets you could ever want, but seems content to put Hello Kitty rhinestones on them and use them for things like hanging clothes. Yeah, that chick. Comments
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Nintendo, Google to Release Wii 'Web Search' Game
Let me get this straight, Nintendo and Google teamed up to make a game where gamers generate the most search results. What?!? How does that sound fun? Japanese video game maker Nintendo said Wednesday it had jointly developed a Wii game with US Internet giant Google in which players compete to generate the most search engine results. Comments
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Remove DVD & CD Scratches with Vaseline
Apparently you can use Vaseline and tissues to remove scratches from CDs and DVDs. Whew, after all these years, I finally have a legitimate excuse to have that stuff on my desk. Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly) can be used for chapped lips, dry skin, and for getting rid of head lice; but how about making CDs and DVDs readable again? Well, it does that too. There are also other ways to do this on the Instructables website, but I will show you the one that I believe works best. Comments
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The Toe Mouse
As a tool to help people with disabilities, the toe mouse would be great. For everyone / everything elseÂ…not so much. Thanks to hERCuLES for the link. Comments
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AOL Says Bebo Not Worth Saving
AOL says that Bebo, the social networking site they bought for $850 million just two years ago, isn't worth saving. Good luck trying to sell it now after a statement like this: As we evaluate our portfolio of brands against our strategy, it is clear that social networking is a space with heavy competition, and where scale defines success. Bebo, unfortunately, is a business that has been declining and, as a result, would require significant investment in order to compete in the competitive social networking space. AOL is not in a position at this time to further fund and support Bebo in pursuing a turnaround in social networking. Comments
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AMD Extends Leadership To Professional Graphics
AMD announced today the launch of the first of a new family of ATI FirePro™ professional graphics solutions with ATI Eyefinity technology,1 delivering clear performance advances and productivity leadership. The ATI FirePro V8800—the industry's most powerful professional graphics card ever created2 and the only professional graphics solution in the world supporting ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and Microsoft® DirectX® 11 technology—is available for order today from AMD and its technology partners. Comments
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GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Review
GIGABYTE's latest AMD based board uses the AMD 890GX chipset in order to deliver a feature rich solution packing a lot of promise. Is this the board that will usher in a new performance era for AMD?
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Metro 2033 Image Quality Followup
For those of you that haven't done so already, make sure you read our Metro 2033 image quality follow-up article we posted earlier today. After being alerted to a problem with the game's "very high" quality setting, we took another look at the game to get to the bottom of the issue. Hit the link above to see the side by side comparison screenshots and to find out what is actually behind the diminished visual quality in Metro 2033. We proceeded to attempt to verify the problem on our equipment, and we were successful. It certainly appears that there is a problem on the GTX 480/470 that causes diminished visual quality in Metro 2033 in certain rendering modes. Ongoing Discussion
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Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB HDD Review Round-Up
There are a handful of reviews of the Western Digital 600GB VelociRaptor SATA 6Gbps hard drive floating around the internet today. We rounded up a few for your convenience. I'll add more as I find them: PC Perspective Legit Reviews Hardware Secrets As the only 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive on the market today, and a favorite amongst enthusiast and enterprise groups, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive now comes packed with twice the capacity and up to 15% performance increase over the previous generation.
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Gears of War Movie Grinding to a Halt?
It looks like the big screen adaptation of Gears of War is in serious trouble. With the budget being cut way back, story getting chopped down and so on, I can't see how this can be considered anything but bad news. But the studio has now cut the budget, going from a film that would have cost more than $100 million to one that will cost a good chunk less than that. It's also reined in the story, turning it into a more simple, straight-ahead invasion story instead of a sprawling epic. Producers are looking for a new writer to handle all this, but haven't found one yet. And Wiseman, while technically still attached, will likely not be a part of it when all is said and done. In regards to movies like this that have big time directors like Wiseman attached to them (Halo had Peter Jackson / Neill Blomkamp) and the potential to be hugeÂ…you have to wonder why companies like Microsoft don't bankroll these movies themselves. Comments
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China Denies Canadian Hacker Claims
Chinese officials have denied claims they hacked Indian government computersÂ…and threatened to hack anyone that says otherwise. The denial came after Canadian researchers claimed that a China-based online spying network leveraged popular Web services such as Twitter, Google Groups and Yahoo! Mail to steal information from the New Delhi government and other Indian networks. Comments
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WD® Launches Newest WD VelociRaptor®
WD® announced today that it is now shipping WD VelociRaptor® 450 GB and 600 GB hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives. The new WD VelociRaptor hard drive is designed for blade servers, high-performance PCs, Mac® computers, professional workstations, as well as 1U and 2U rack servers that require a balance of high performance and capacity. As the only 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive on the market today, and a favorite amongst enthusiast and enterprise groups, the WD VelociRaptor hard drive now comes packed with twice the capacity and up to 15% performance increase over the previous generation. Comments
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Comcast Offers Payday Loans and Hookers?
Some guy is complaining about being sent to a Comcast office that had hookers outside and did payday loans. And he's complaining? I'll tell you what bill would be paid on time, every time, if they had those services here! The Comcast rep (that I had kept on the phone, in part, for my safety) talked to the cashier herself (I handed the phone through the teller hole in the bulletproof glass) and finally decided that this office couldn't handle enrollments after all and that I should really try a different office. On the way back to may car, I was propositioned by a prostitute. Comments
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Metro 2033 Image Quality Followup
Is there a problem with NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 480/480 video cards in Metro 2033? We investigated the potential issue and contacted NVIDIA for their insight, and you may be surprised by what we found out.
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Metro 2033 DirectX 11 Gameplay Performance and IQ
Metro 2033 is proving to be a graphically demanding DX11 game. It offers a unique array of graphical features including Tessellation. We compare the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 to the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. We also have detailed apples-to-apples testing and image quality screenshots.
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