My copy of Tiger finally arrived; one faultless “Archive and install” later and I’m swimming in it’s goodness. Early highlights for me are a couple of the biggies: Dashboard, which I knew was gonna be fun, and Spotlight which is just so damn useful. There are plenty of other sites/blogs going into detail about all … Read this review…
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It’s not often I consider changing my system icons because I really like the standard Aqua style, but these drive icons are quite a nice alternative – different but still similar enough to fit in without me having to change the rest to match. The set is called “iDrives” and they were made by the … Read this review…
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I don’t minds adverts in a newspaper. I don’t mind adverts between TV programmes. I even don’t mind adverts on a website. I do, however, mind adverts when they appear slap-bang in the middle of work I’m trying to do. I opened iPhoto yesterday only to be confronted with: If it was an update to … Read this review…
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I learned something new about taking screen shots of the desktop in OS X the other day. I already knew that pressing Shift+Command+3 gave you a shot of the entire screen and that pressing Shift+Command+4 gave you a cross-hair mouse cursor so you could drag a rectangle around the area you wanted to grab. What … Read this review…
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Introduction The state of graphics hardware is often predictable. A new generation of chipset is made, it’s faster, it subsequently is improved, and more variation comes out of it. Older hardware is pushed aside, sometimes unnecessarily, but gains appeal through price drops. Saying that the last year or so of developments hasn’t been entertaining is … Read this review…
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Introduction With every single one of the tests I put our many Radeon HD 4870s through, I was impressed. That didn’t mean that I had reservations; I wondered right away why there wasn’t a 1GB model. It seemed like in every benchmark, once the resolution started climbing, once anti-aliasing was turned up, the card seemed … Read this review…
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Introduction You would expect the most expensive gaming video card to also be the most powerful. Because you’re not retarded and this is very much the case. And while it’s an excellent pursuit, getting the best gaming hardware, this card surprised me. ZOTAC made the card in question, a GTX 295. Although it’s not factory-overclocked … Read this review…
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Introduction In the midst of all the rebranding and fine-tuning, NVIDIA managed to make again, the most powerful single-GPU video card. Well, they also made the most powerful dual-GPU video card but that’s not what I’m reviewing, is it. I’m reviewing the GTX 285, the die-shrunk, power-boosted bastard of the GTX 280. It’s really, really … Read this review…
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Introduction Sometimes a video card needs to be just that. A card for video. Many high-end workstation motherboards don’t have integrated video, but what good is a computer without a display? The Intel i7 is just the perfect example. A lot of people have the need for quad cores of number-crunching power, but they’re not … Read this review…
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Introduction I was a little noncommittal in recommending the 4670 and I suspect that I’m pretty much in the same boat with regards to the 4650. On the one hand, these are inexpensive cards with impressive performance for the price, but on the other hand, for very little extra, much more capable cards can be … Read this review…
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