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Ubuntu 8.04 One reader's frustrating journey with Linux ends happily with Ubuntu - Details HERE.

Paint.Net Image Editing Software Another free image editing tool and a great complement to Photoscape - Details HERE.

Addonics Snap-In ExDrive25 Portable enclosure with easy drive changing - Details HERE.

The Ninety Nine Cent Barcelona Super Deal Insane prices, even crazier execution.

Find the Fab That delayed Intel fab is causing additional delays and shortages.

Another Lackluster Generation No relief from AMD's new but still too slow 45nm chips.

Ubuntu 8.04 Much ado about not much? With one notable exception. My take on it HERE.

Vantec NexStar SATA Drive Dock Just like a toaster - Details HERE.

Eagle Consus I-Series External Dual SATA Enclosure Reader's respond with "killer features" for an external enclosure HERE.

Intel Shortages 45nm chips are scarce. Here's why they're going to stay that way for a while.

S&B Hmmm, looks like some promised Phenoms are REALLY vaporware.

Money Matters We show how strongly AMD's technology decisions are money-driven.

ASUS C90S Overclocking Laptop A detailed look at what this laptop can deliver - Details HERE.

Portable Apps for Flash Drives The ultimate travel PC? My take on it HERE.

Photoscape Image Editor One of the best FREE image editors I have seen - Details HERE.

Free Love AMD doesn't need free love, it needs cold cash.

Is Overclocking Doomed? Someone asks if overclocking will die with the desktops. We say, "Nah."

AMD Disearnings Bottom line, this company is going to have to be bailed out.

Corsair Survivor 32 GB USB Drive Fast access time, huge capacity and rugged - overall a good package - Details HERE.

Eagle Consus I-Series External Dual SATA Enclosure A look at a two-drive enclosure and a CONTEST - Details HERE.

NewerTechnology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter An essential tool for those of us with lots of spare hard drives - Details HERE.

Dell Vostro 200 Slim Tower On sale again for $379 with a 19" analog monitor HERE for the next two days. This little budget box will support Intel CPUs from the E2000 series to E8000, FSBs from 800 to 1333 MHz. My review HERE showed it to be an excellent budget overclocker using pad-modded CPUs. Best bet is to use 800 FSB CPUs and pad mod to 1333 MHz - the E2160 will make the jump almost always to 3 GHz with stock cooling.

Homo Mobilis Mobility is killing the old PC star.

Selling Lawsuits This is turning into AMD's most important business.

Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop The problem with AMD's financial warning isn't that it happened, but that's it's going to keep happening.

cRADIA flexLapper Notebook Cooler Large, quiet fan - the rest needs work - Details HERE.

Intel Dual Core Processor Specs - Finding the "Gold" Looking for the best bang for the buck - Details HERE.

Kingwin Elite SATA 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure A sturdy, attractive package with easy one-button data backup - Details HERE.

Comparing Apples To Apples We have a different view on the Apple-New York City logo controversy.

The AMD Bomb Forget about a handful of AMD chips found in Iraqi roadside bombs. If AMD tries a fab spinoff with UAE money, they're going to set off a political timebomb.

Digital Policy/Chronological Divide Look at the U.S. presidential candidates and their stands on digital issues, and the real divide is whether they're old or not.

Applying Thermal Grease Anything but the "razor blade" works well - Details HERE.

Intel Corporation's Multicore Architecture Briefing A revealing look ahead at a new CPU series - Details HERE.

A Creative Finger Creative tells somebody with the nerve to cobble together real Vista drivers for their products, "If we don't feel like doing the right thing, neither can you."

Show Me The Money New York state is hot to trot on an AMD fab. AMD says, "I love you, but let's not do it yet." This is a case of financial flaccidity.

Phenom B3 It won't let AMD "break free" from Intel price domination.

Intel LGA775 Pad Modding A primer on how it works and what's possible - Details HERE.

PC Add-A-Fan An erector set for case modders - Details HERE.

Dell Vostro 200 Part III - Making the jump to 3.0 GHz - Details HERE.

64-Core Desktops in 2012? Some research group predicts this. What do we think? Yes, but not really.

Hector and Hillary Both have the same fundamental problem, and both have adopted the same strategy to try to deal with it.

AMD Layoffs Why now? Here's one reason you probably haven't considered.

ASUS C90 Overclocking Laptop First look at features and physical layout HERE.

Games of the Year! (2007) Kyle's take on what's worth playing HERE.

XFX 680i LT Motherboard Review Kyle's in-depth look - Details HERE.

Propus What it will be, and why you might want to buy one in late 2009.

Shameless We look a bit at Hector's pay stubs.

Poor, Poor Hector The Associated Press reports that Mr. Ruiz only made 7.4 million dollars last year.

We definitely will talk about this tomorrow. :)

Xigmatek HDT-D1264 Heat-pipe Direct Touch Universal CPU Cooler Rebate Only $27.99 after $15 Rebate from Xigmatek at the The Heatsink Factory. Offer vaild for the entire month of March. Click Here for Rebate Form

A Little Slip Some delays are worse than others.

Pico-Projectors Do you know what they are? Would you like to know?

Dell Vostro 200 Part II - A trip to the auto parts store and the CPU gets 33% faster - Details HERE.

Dell Vostro 200 How does this budget box stack up? An in-depth look HERE.

Rosewill SATA/IDE USB 2.0 Drive Adapter Essential tool for the drive-abundant among us - Details HERE.

Site Maintenance We are doing some back office stuff and have to hold off on posting until Monday. However, I'm working on two system reviews - Dell's Vostro 200 Mini-Tower and ASUS's C90 DIY Overclocking Laptop. Please email Joe with any questions you have or would like to see covered in these reviews.

Intel CPU Q6600 GO Stepping Giveaway The OC Folding Team is giving this away - how to win one? Details HERE.

Rely On ATI? We answer a few emailed questions about AMD.

No 45nm Salvation AMD has low expectations from its 45nm chips.

Logitech VX Revolution Mouse Very nice laptop mouse - My take on it HERE.

Cooling The Atom Overclocking such a tiny processor is going to require the emergence of tinycooling.

Laptop Cooler Mod Simple mod can lower CPU/GPU temps - Details HERE.

Rosewill RCX-Z4 Heatpipe Heatsink Mid-level performance at acceptable noise - Test Results HERE.

Dell Laptop Deal In the interest of balance, there is a Dell Laptop for $419 that might be on interest to our readers HERE. The $379 Vostro 200 Desktop deal has expired. Thanks to Chris for the heads-up.

Another Vapor Stat Let's be less excited and more skeptical about vaporous claims in 2008.

Dell Vostro 200 with 19" LCD Monitor for $379 This is a ONE DAY SALE ending tomorrow - you must be a small business to get this and right now YOU CAN NOT GET THIS ON-LINE. I received an email on this, clicked through to buy and found this system at $779. I called Dell this AM and it appears that they were confused on this deal; finally, after some back and forth, I was able to get this price but only by calling. So if you're looking and are eligible, not a bad deal!

And Then There Was One That's not necessarily good news.

Playing Chicken Doing some paperwork and clearing some trees is not quite crossing the Rubicon when it comes to building a fab.

Where Now? One reader's response was, I think, right on - Details HERE.

Car GPS - The Ultimate Guy Gadget? My impressions after using it for a while HERE.

Rosewill Micro-ATX Slim Case A very nice Micro-ATX case with good coolng - Details HERE.

Vantec NexStar 3 NTS-360SU Jordan's take on this HD enclosure HERE.

Pest Control? Isn't there something a little dehumanizing about this new form of young person repellant?

Where Now? Share your views on this question HERE. A prize will be rewarded at random to those who respond.

The Stunting Continues If you want to judge how healthy/unhealthy AMD really is, don't look at their quad production, look at K10/10.5 dual-core production.

Bring It To Barack? nVidia G8 cards have been having problems with some fairly popular games for over a year now. If technical companies don't do the right thing when things don't work right, eventually, inevitably, government will make them.

Keeping the Green Man Down Some More Intel plans to do just that just when AMD will start seriously making Phenoms with just a few tactical price cuts.

Heatsink Mounting Pressure vs Performance Some observations on this critical factor HERE.

Want a Little Pizazz? Add an LED Power and Reset Button Robert's How-To HERE.

Show Or Go? Penryn quads are likely to be FSB-limited.

The Dell De-emphasis Our thoughts on this.

Notes From A Computer Show Why I'm in a funk HERE.

Virtualization With VirtualBox An easy way to explore the virtualization world - my experiences to date HERE.

Please note: You can use VirtualBox for ANY combinations of OS's - If you want to run XP and Ubuntu in Windows Vista, you can - not a bad way to avoid trashing legacy hardware if you upgrade to Vista.

Two AMD Items More B3 delays and marginal Phenom cores.

Here We Go Again Despite attempts to persuade you otherwise, we still know practically nothing important about AMD's 45nm chips.

Tuniq Miniplant 950 Watt PSU Review Kyle's take on a power supply that could power two PCs - Details HERE.

Painting a Case - Are You Nuts? Part II Robert's How-To finished - Details HERE.

Oh No! Another Useless War With MS buying Yahoo, do we have to have a Google-MS fanwar?

How To Get A Faster Tortoise Why is Vista slow? MS suggests it's mostly your fault.

SSDs Coming of Age Yet another fault of SSDs, speed, will soon be resolved.

What Sites Do You Like? Reader responses HERE.

Painting a Case - Are You Nuts? Robert's How-to HERE.

Mini LED Flash Fan Something truly new - a fan which you can program to display your own messages - Details HERE.

Interesting Articles I was trolling around the web and thought these might be of interest - How To: Switch From Windows to Linux is a nice Ubuntu primer on PC World and New Experimental Website Converts Photos Into 3D Models on Science Daily lets you upload a photo to try this program out.

Goliath Vs. Goliath What would happen if some deep-pocketed white knight did show up to buy AMD and declare jihad against Intel? It wouldn't be the same old AMD-Intel fight, but better.

Big Blue Buying Green? Yes, it would be great for Green. Yes, you might easily think it would very good for you. But why would it be good for Big Blue?

A Page Worth Saving Here's a webpage that I bet will end more than a few forum arguments.

Uniblue ProcessLibrary.com A helpful free utility - Details HERE.

What Sites Do You Like? Contest time again - Details HERE.

Capping the Future We have a different angle on the increasing tendency to cap Internet usage: Today's abuse is tomorrow's use.

ASPs We explain why an increase in CPU average selling price may not necessarily be a good thing in the year ahead.

AMD Last Quarter Better, but still not good.

Kingwin RVT-12025 Very good performance, interesting profile - Test Results HERE.

Cooler Master 810 Case Review Robert changes out his six year old case for a new one - Details HERE.

Kingwin RVT-12025 Very good performance - Test Results HERE.

Turning Inward With Silverthorne-based products due shortly, the innovative action is going to shift to small. We wonder if O/Cing will follow.

Low Speed and Lawsuits Is this a winning combination for AMD?

No Better Than B3 AMD says that for 65nm, the B3 stepping will be the end of the line.

Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 3 and RegistryBooster 2 Sluggish PC? Possible fixes HERE.

Evercool Royal Laptop Cooler Attractive unit, performance? Details HERE.

In Case You Did Not Know If you think the eventual solution for AMD is for somebody with money to take them over, you need to read this.

A Few Reminders Intel's product introductions give us a chance to provide a few reminders.

"OLPC Comes From Venus, Intel Comes From Mars" We ask, "What does OLPC want to be, a charity or a computer company?"

My Best Gift Reader responses HERE. I did highlight one gift that you might want to consider.

Car GPS - The Ultimate Guy Gadget? I'm sold! Some thoughts HERE.

My Best Gift A contest HERE.

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