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Perhaps more than any other Apple product, the iPod shuffle is the perfect example of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field in action. When...

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As you might have already seen, I recently had the chance to play with Asus' new Eee PC 1000HE. In my journey to further...

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I'm sure I'm not the only person looking forward to AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors wending their way into notebooks everywhere. I'm currently...

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I've already written at length about my (generally positive) appraisal of Windows Vista, yet I'm still eagerly looking forward to Windows 7. While I find...

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I'll come right out and say from the get-go that I'm typically a big fan of HP's laptops. I'm currently on my seventh laptop in...

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Why are MP3 players so hard to get right? A few months ago, my year-and-a-half-old and largely babied iPod 5.5G gave up the ghost....

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As I'm sure you've noticed from the Christmas lights going up and the endless repetition of "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Santa Baby," the holiday season...

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Not too long ago, I got in on the netbook revolution and picked up an Eee PC 1000HA. It's a great little system, particularly...

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As an early adopter, I'm a bit used to being burned by my purchases. Formats die, product availability and support are usually low, and the...

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Netbooks have come a long way in a very short period of time. A year...

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 I was out at the store yesterday and saw this puppy.  Bought one on the spot.  It's...

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I've been giddily experimenting with high-dynamic-range photography over the past few days. Unfortunately, I don't own any professional photography equipment, and my best camera...

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Earlier this week we contacted Creative with the hope of getting to the bottom of the bizarre frequency response behavior we observed with RightMark...

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In our last couple of sound card reviews, we've noticed some odd behavior from products based on Creative's X-Fi audio processor in RightMark Audio Analyzer's...

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Recently, I built a storage server for my LAN and migrated all of my important documents over to it.  Even more recently, I built myself...

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