April 29, 2007 by Brad.

Motorola has changed the designation-preparing for a series of Qs?

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April 29, 2007 by Brad.

The company reported a net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion, which is more than 20% below the guidance the company expected at the end of Q4 2006. The loss includes charges related to the ATI acquisition in the amount of $113 million, but is mainly a result of the increasing competition with Intel in the microprocessor market.

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April 29, 2007 by Brad.

What is open source hardware? In this article MAKE magazine divides up electronic hardware into layers, each of which has different document types and licensing concerns: Hardware (mechanical) diagrams, schematics & circuit diagrams, layout diagrams, core/firmware, software/API - each layer has an example provided and links to many projects.

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April 29, 2007 by Brad.

Renault-Nissan is planning on building a car for under $3000. The price could be as low as $2500, which is 40% less and that the least expensive sub-compact car available today.

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April 29, 2007 by Brad.

1TB is a lot. And if you’ve got $399 to blow, it can be all yours, with Hitachi saying Deskstar 7K1000 shipments have reached “critical mass” this month, after starting out scarce in March. We’re guessing if you need one terabyte of data, in a 3.5-inch enclosure, spinning at 7,200 RPM and hooked up to your computer, you know who you are!

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April 29, 2007 by Brad.

AuctionAds, a eBay powered advertising widget, shows there rack and talks a little about there.

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April 5, 2007 by Brad.

The new series of SATA 3.0Gbps drives feature a 7,200rpm spin, 8MB buffer, and manage to damp the noise level down to a mere 24/27.5 decibels at idle/seek. That’s damn quiet.

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April 5, 2007 by Brad.

InnoDisk looks to have come up with a solution for those looking for a little ReadyBoost action in Vista but not willing to give up a USB port for the pleasure, announcing a drive that bypasses the popular port and goes straight to the motherboard. Apparently available in 2GB and 4GB versions (with the former running only $15).

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April 3, 2007 by Brad.

Believe it or not, it’s possible to get great gaming performance from a system that doesn’t necessarily break the bank. Our goal is to talk about building the best possible system you can for around $1500. With some careful component selection, a little bit of knowledge, patience, and some tweaking, you can build a rock-solid gaming box.

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April 3, 2007 by Brad.

Now every PC I build is optimized for performance and low noise from the very beginning. Anyone can build a high-powered rig that sounds like a jet taking off. Building a high-powered rig that’s so quiet your wife can’t tell when it’s turned on or off– now that’s an accomplishment! It’s a bona-fide engineering challenge

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