A little over a year ago, I purchased a new LCD monitor from Acer. Upon arrival, I noticed a very bright stuck pixel and immediately sent the monitor back to Newegg. My replacement also suffered the same fate, causing me to purchase an LG monitor instead. Last week, Acer found out about my dissatisfaction with [...]
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Category Archives: Hardware
Vista’s Not Always to Blame
Last night, I attended a LAN party hosted by my friend David. Since I have been an exclusive Mac user for the past year and half, I had to get my old PC up and running for the event. Buying the hype from Microsoft, I figured I would give my copy of Vista a spin. [...]
Logitech’s MX Revolution
This past week I decided to join great bloggers like Paul Stamatiou, Derek Punsalan, Alex King, Glenn Wosley, Matt Brett, and James Mathias and purchased myself Logitech’s MX Revolution. I was planning on giving this mouse a thorough review, but judging from the number of bloggers who own this device, I think that’s been covered. [...]
Apple TV Hacked
My dreams are coming true. Within the last forty-eight hours, the Apple TV has been unboxed, opened, upgraded, and enhanced. The last two items are of most interest to me. After cracking open the case and gaining access to the hard drive, installing a larger hard drive with more media codecs is a fairly easy [...]
802.11n Inches One Step Closer to Ratification
In the seemingly never ending process, the IEEE Working Group has approved Draft 2 of 802.11n. Draft 2 adds two frequencies, 20MHz and 40MHz, both used for compatibility with legacy devices. The changes should be easy to implement on existing Draft N devices such as Apple’s recently released AirPort Extreme. While the approval of the [...]