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If you wouldn’t mind looking up from that avatar creation screen for a second — yes, we’re aware of how much that t-shirt selection means about you as a person — you might notice that your Xbox 360 is dead. At least, a few hapless souls on the Xbox forums seem to think NXE is [...]

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Not much to say here, just an Atom N270 1.6Ghz processor, 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 LCD, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD and a dash of Windows XP, doing what they always do. There’s a nice complement of completely standard interfaces, like three USB 2.0 plugs, 802.11b/g WiFi, Ethernet, mini VGA out and a multicard reader, [...]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Remember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its “Vista Capable” stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista’s graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) [...]

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Looking for signs that netbooks are catching on? And even morphing into notebooks? Here’s a few.
Netbooks were the big end-user gadget on display at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that ended Friday.
And all the Netbooks at a Microsoft booth were running Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation operating …
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Activision has made the announcement that Vigilante 8 is returning to consoles…today. Vigilante 8: Arcade is available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace at the cost of 800 Microsoft points. The game features five newly designed arenas along with eight upgradeable 70’s style vehicles. The game also has:-Local multiplayer for four players and online play [...]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

We’re expecting a ton of new laptops to support hybrid graphics thanks to chipsets like NVIDIA’s soon-to-be-ubiquitous GeForce 9400M, but Microsoft isn’t as enamored with hybrid graphics as most everyone else seems to be — it says it won’t be natively supporting them in Windows 7. In a just-released document titled Guidelines [...]

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Filed under: Gaming

You’ve already been given the skinny on Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience — you know, that stupendous, sure-to-be-life-altering dashboard update that’ll hit 360 owners on November 19th — but one aspect that still hasn’t been adequately addressed is the difference in load times between the DVD and HDD. If you’re staring blankly ahead with [...]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Microsoft’s newest Zunes (along with the 3.0 software) have been out for well over a month now, which means you’ve had ample opportunity to really test one out and form some educated opinions. Now, it’s time to open up and let loose. Are you still down with the design? Do [...]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

The Apple / Microsoft ad war keeps escalating — while Apple continues to insist that John Hodgman is the human representation of all PCs, Microsoft is taking its populist approach to the streets. Very specific streets, actually — it’s placing “I’m a PC” recording booths outside of Apple stores, like the [...]

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Finally, the promise of the 0 Eee PC is, uh, promised again. Jerry Shen, apparently in a meeting with analysts, said that ASUS will launch an Eee PC priced at US0 in 2009. He also said that 7- and 8.9-inch Eee PCs will be phased out of the market to be replaced by 10-inch models. [...]

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