5/23/2006
Mac Mini fans have been waiting for a built-in TV tuner for a while now, even as Apple sends mixed signals on the possibility. In the meantime, the only way to turn your Mini into a TiVo-like recorder is to hook up an external USB TV tuner.
Miglia, which makes all kinds of A/V interfaces for Macs, has a new stand-alone TV tuner for the Mac Mini, ...
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5/23/2006
If you were thinking about building a new AMD-based desktop, you might want to hold off a minute. Today AMD announced its new Socket AM2 motherboard chipset that will become the standard for all of its desktop processors. The key features of Socket AM2 are its support for DDR2 SDRAM and more efficient power consumption. The bad news is that you'll ...
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5/18/2006
It might be more than six months away, but now you can plan for upgrades or configure a new PC with Windows Vista in mind. Microsoft officially released the system requirements on its Web site. They break down as follows:
A Windows Vista-capable PC includes at least:
* A modern processor (at least 800MHz)
* 512MB of system memory
* A ...
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5/16/2006
At last night's Sony VAIO 10th anniversary party in New York, we got a chance to hobnob with some of our fellow tech journalists and check out VAIOs past and present. At the West Chelsea lounge Guest House, we saw several classic systems, like the 1998 ultraslim 505 notebook, in museum-like glass display cases.
Sony used the event to unveil two n...
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