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Vinyl Is Back: Record Sales Exploded in 2008

computerworld.com — Teens and young adults are responsible for a doubling of record sales this past year, while CD sales plummeted.More… (Hardware)

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Shouting at Hard Disks Increases Latency?!

youtube.com — Impressive demonstration that shows the concrete effect even a little disk vibration has on latency!More… (Hardware)

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You Need AMD In 2009

fool.com — AMD's stepped-up layoffs may be bad news for employees, but they’re a good sign for investors. This shows that management has the intestinal fortitude to make tough moves when needed, as well as the opportunistic eye to ferret out cost savings in new places.More… (Hardware)

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How Children's Toys Find Their Way Onto Combat Fields

fora.tv — Ralph Osterhout describes the "perverse symbiotic relationship" between the children's toy industry and military innovation.More… (Hardware)

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Overclocking Intel's New Core i7, Getting Maximum ROI

hothardware.com — The Core i7 920 delivers excellent performance at a respectable price range of about $250 - $300. Even at stock speeds, it's a pretty good value, but when you throw overclocking into the mix, the 920 becomes a much more attractive option. Suddenly, with a little work, you can get substantially higher clock speeds compared to what Intel has on ...More… (Hardware)

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2009: Netbook or notebook?

news.cnet.com — Will the Netbook eventually kill the pricey ultraportable?More… (Hardware)

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Thanks for the memory: the story of storage

techradar.com — In an age when RAM is measured in gigabytes and disk space is measured in terabytes, it's hard to imagine a time when storage had to be built by hand and every bit was sacred. But the history of computers is also the story of our ability to store data in myriad forms...More… (Hardware)

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How laptop screens will steal the show at CES

blogs.computerworld.com — Laptop screens are normally pretty boring. But a host of new announcements will next month will change all that. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month promises weird and wonderful new technologies and products that will make laptop displays actually exciting. More… (Hardware)

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eSATA In A Thumb Drive Offers Blazing Speed

computerworld.com — eSATA-enabled flash drives may be the next big thing in portable storage because it's so much faster than USB.More… (Hardware)

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Sunlight illuminates notebook LCD

tgdaily.com — Is it just me or is that a fantastic idea? Sunlight powering the notebook LCD, cuts power consumption by 75%. There may be another reason, why your office should not be in the Midwest, but somewhere on a beach of a Caribbean island. More… (Hardware)

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Secrets of the extreme overclockers

techradar.com — We're all overclockers now. See how the pros manage 8GHz and beyond.More… (Hardware)

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Lenovo's New ThinkPad has 2 LCD Screens

hothardware.com — We've all done it — had two tabs or screens open, wishing we could have two screens on our laptop so we didn't have to keep switching back and forth between windows. Enter Lenovo Group Ltd. The company's next ThinkPad laptop is more of a "desktop replacement" than ever. ThinkPad W700ds More… (Hardware)

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Molecule-size Car Wins Top Science Award

computerworld.com — A working car slightly wider than a strand of DNA took the top prize in nanotechnologies this week.More… (Hardware)

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Toshiba Builds 512GB SSDs

computerworld.com — Toshiba's 512GB solid state drive is the highest storage capacity announced yet that is intended for consumer devices like laptopsMore… (Hardware)

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How to Build a Kick-ass $800 Gaming PC

maximumpc.com — We had to make some careful choices to keep this machine within our constrained budget, but in the end we were surprised by this little PC’s kick ass performance. Want to learn how to build it yourself? We’ll walk you through our meticulous build process, explain why we chose each component, and give you our final thoughts on the benchmark results More… (Hardware)

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