Friday night topic: hair reconfigurations
I've never been a beard guy. Had the clean look nearly all of my adult life, with a brief exception of a goatee experiment that didn't work out. Part of the problem is my lack of, er, follicluar density, and some is the combination of blonde, red, and white hair in my beard that blends into a convincing flesh tone. I can't grow a good beard quickly, if at all.
However, long ago I promised myself to make a change whenever my hairline's backward march went too far. I would at least attempt to shift my hair's center ...
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Enter here to win an MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming mobo and a Corsair Vengeance 2000 headset
Yep. Our summer o' giveaways is still in full swing. This time, we've got fresh loot from the nice folks at MSI and Corsair—and all of it will go to one lucky winner.
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Deal of the week: Graphics, power, and games
We've got a couple of hardware bargains for you all this week—and, of course, some links to the latest Steam sale.
Need a new graphics card? EVGA's GeForce GTX 660 is down to just $169.99 at Newegg. The list price is $199.99, but you can take 5% off by entering ...
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Thief will be an AMD Gaming Evolved title
AMD has been stepping up its developer relations efforts for a while now, collaborating with the development teams behind many recent PC blockbusters. This week, AMD released a list of some of the latest games that have become part of its Gaming Evolved program. The list includes Eidos Montreal's Thief.
Thief is due out in 2014, and it's a reboot of the classic first-person sneaking and exploration series by the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios. Many details about the game have yet to ...
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Nvidia is still hopeful about Surface RT, Windows RT
It's been a rough week for Windows RT. Microsoft slashed the Surface RT's price and wrote off $900 million because of "inventory adjustments" related to the device. Lenovo, meanwhile, stopped selling its WinRT-powered Yoga 11 convertible online. Both systems are powered by Nvidia's Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip, so what does Nvidia think of all this?
The company hasn't lost hope, judging by what Rene Haas, Nvidia's VP of Computing Products, told ComputerWorld in a ...
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Microsoft takes $900 million charge to write off Surface tablets
It's financial reporting week this week, and you know what that means—lots of numbers, dollar signs, and quotations from Wall Street analysts.
The latest round of figures comes from Microsoft, which has reported results for the fourth quarter of its 2013 fiscal year. (That quarter ended on June 30.) Microsoft says both its revenue and profits grew sequentially and year-over-year. That sounds ...
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AMD posts Q2 loss, still forecasts profitable second half
Yesterday, Intel posted its second-quarter financial results. Today, it's AMD's turn.
AMD's revenue grew compared to the previous quarter, and the company suffered smaller losses, as well. According to Reuters, the company also beat Wall ...
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Kansas City gerbils, it's time for a TR meetup
It's been far too long since our last TR meetup here in my hometown of Lee's Summit, Missouri.
If you live in the Kansas City metro area, you can help us right that ...
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Report: Upcoming Dell Precision laptop has 3200x1800 screen
The Retina display on Apple's top-of-the-line MacBook Pro is a sight to behold, with 2880x1800 pixels crammed into a 15.4" panel. Dell may have something even more impressive up its sleeve, though. According to Dutch site Tweakers.net, a 15.4" Dell Precision mobile workstation due late this year will have an eye-popping 3200x1800 display resolution.
Dubbed the Precision M3800, the system will reportedly have "matte black surfaces and aluminum edge[s]." Under those will lurk a quad-core Haswell processor (the Core i7-4702MQ), Nvidia Quadro graphics, up to 16 gigs of RAM, and a ...
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We're gearing up for TR BBQ X on August 17
Another reminder for those who missed it: we return to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan for the tenth annual TR BBQ event on Saturday, August 17. If you're anywhere in the contiguous 48 states, you have no excuse. This is the year to attend.
You can get a sense of the flavor of the event in this post ...
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Thursday Shortbread
The Pick 6
- DigiTimes: Intel to get rid of Atom brand name
- Reuters: Dell postpones meeting on buyout as more votes needed
- Reuters: Samsung bets on storage devices as smartphone sales growth wanes
- iPhone 5S hardware specs leak
- DigiTimes Research: Global notebook shipment decline to ease in 2H13
- FanlessTech: Intel fixes the NUC
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Are you deftly navigating the Steam Summer Sale?
I've been watching the Steam Summer Sale
pretty closely, checking in at least a couple of times each day. My
experience of the sale isn't quite as hysterically amazing as it used to
be, simply because I usually have most of the games, either as press
copies or because I bought them when they came out. Still, I friggin'
love these sales, even if I'm buying games I may not try for six months.
(Heh, with 150 games on my Steam list, six months may be optimisic.)So far this year, I've grabbed Mark of the Ninja , which Geoff enjoyed, and Gunpoint . I also picked up a Steam key for Sacred 2 Gold ...
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GeForce 326.19 betas boost performance, add SLI profiles
A new set of beta GeForce drivers has become available. This release, numbered 326.19, includes some performance optimizations and adds SLI profiles for a couple of unreleased games.
According to Nvidia, the 326.19 betas improve performance by as much as 19% across all GeForces from the 400 series on up. As an example, the company says the GeForce GTX 770 can see ...
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Clever caching fuels Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Samsung just announced its 840 EVO solid-state drive.
The initial press release covered the basics, but it was a little
short on the nerdy details we tend to obsess over here at TR. We've
since learned much more about the drive, and we'll have a full review
soon. In the meantime, we can share a few interesting tidbits about the
EVO and its unique approach to caching.Improved write performance is one of the EVO's defining characteristics. The boost in write speeds is made possible by a feature called TurboWrite technology, which is essentially a high-speed write cache built into the NAND. Most of the EVO's flash memory is ...
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