December 2010
4 posts
I have no words for this. →
Some things to note about this:
-Starcraft 2 is not “game of the year material”, yet Black Ops, Goldeneye Wii, and Halo: Reach are. Not once is Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood or Red Dead Redemption mentioned. The former three are horrible games compared to the latter two.
-The 3KB team doesn’t have a gaming PC to even judge against the current consoles, so that’s...
Microsoft making ARM-compatible Windows →
This is a sad attempt to compete with the iPad. I’ve used Windows 7 on a tablet (I owned an HP Touchsmart TM2), and it’s downright horrible.
To compete with the iPad, MS needs not to try to fit Windows on to a tablet, nor do they need to graft a UI overlay for Windows 7 to work for a tablet form factor. They need to do like they did with WP7, and build an OS from the ground up for the...
Engadget: Wireless carriers openly considering... →
This whole notion is kind of bunk—While I could predict a gigantic backlash against “carriers” if they were to implement this tech, I couldn’t see it happening.
As much as I like Nilay Patel’s reporting, there are some errors in this: “Carriers” being used in the place of AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone (which, in and of itself, is pretty much Verizon),...
Hardware Inventory 12/2010
I figure it’s time to do this again, since so much as changed in the last year, and this is also the hardware that I will likely go into the next year with.
The sit-at-home, powerhouse computer that can do anything: Ein
(That’s a Cowboy Bebop reference, mind you)
3.9GHz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (Yes, it’s overclocked from 3.1GHz)
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H...