Archive for May 22nd, 2008

Corsair Dominator memory sets new DDR3 speed record

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Desktops In the world of high-end gaming rigs, it isn't size of your megahertz that equates to higher performance, but the multiplier on your bus -- if you catch our drift. Regardless, for most gamers bigger numbers will always be better, and when it comes to fast memory Corsair ...

Survey: 74% of US Americans say NO to in-flight calling, YES to data

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesIn a Harris Interactive survey of 2,030 US adults of whom, 1,778 have actually flown in an airplane, a full three quarters say that cellphone usage on airplanes should be restricted to "non-talking features." In other words, email, texting, and surfing the Web. That's a pretty significant majority ...

Enermax laptop cooling station beats the heat with an 8-inch fan

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Laptops There are laptop cooling pads and there are laptop cooling pads, and we've got to hand it to Enermax for building the biggest and silliest one we've ever seen. The Aeolus cooling pad features just a single fan, but it's an 8.66-inch diameter monster, capable of ...

Apple to add BLU LED displays to all MacBooks in 2009 says paper

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Displays, Laptops Word on the street -- and by "street" we mean "the internet" -- is that Apple will begin exclusive use of BLU LED displays in all of its MacBooks come 2009. According to the Chinese-language paper Economic Daily News, the computer-maker's Taiwanese supplier of LED backlight units, ...

AT&T offering free WiFi to Laptop Connect and smartphone users?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless According to the Boy Genius, it's not just iPhone users that will be getting / not getting the telco's WiFi on the house -- the company has plans to offer use of its hotspots for free to Laptop Connect and smartphone users. An internal memo from the ...