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After the failure of my 27 months old XFX 8800 Ultra, I bought an ATI 5970 VGA card, which is impressive hardware on paper, yet served by very imature drivers. This card performs great on 3D games but is miserable on “simple” 2D desktop applications, namely for video – and I am a very intense video [...]

Minutes ago, on 2010–01–27, Apple’s Steve Jobs presented the IPAD – a tablet PC. As a write, the presentation still goes on, no price quote as been given, and very few people actually used the device, which it looks to me like Compaq’s Tablet TC1000, nearly 8 years later… The IPAD’s screen is smaller (9.7 inches [...]

1. Introdução e descrição O Marantz NR1501 é um “AV Receiver” compacto. Neste caso isto significa que é um amplificador áudio de 7.1 canais, com fichas para a ligação de equipamentos de vídeo, e um sintonizador de rádio AM/FM integrado, tudo num corpo com 9.5 cm de altura e 35 cm de fundo. Estes números [...]

1. Introdução e descrição O Creative Gigaworks T3 é um sistema de som 2.1, orientado aos utilizadores de computadores, que pretendam um som de qualidade superior à possível com as pequenas colunas activas comuns, sem entrarem na complexidade e na despesa que um sistema de alta-fidelidade clássico representa, com o seu amplificador dedicado e as [...]

I still use Windows XP, not Windows MCE or the awful VISTA. It happens that XP needs some tweaking to recognize the infrared receiver/sender (or blaster, if your prefer), that comes with most Hauppauge TV boards. By default, XP won’t recognize the device. After searching for this issue on the Internet, using the string “USB\VID_0609&PID_0334\PA070813125743D”, [...]

With the recent slump in memory and cpu prices, I decided to spend some money on new gear for my personal computer.My options were: the Intel Q9650 (4 cores, 12MB shared cache, 3 GHz, CORE2 QUAD technology) and 8 GB of DDR2 PC2–8000 RAM, in the form of 4x 2GB sticks, from GSKILL. In less [...]