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Poll: How much storage in your primary PC? by Geoff Gasior — 3:04 PM on August 18, 2010 Although hard drive capacities aren't growing at the rate they once were, the drives themselves are getting cheaper and cheaper. That's made it easy... Poll Question: • How much storage capacity is in your primary PC? Type: News story Tags: Storage	89
Poll: Your network-attached storage solution by Geoff Gasior — 11:48 AM on August 4, 2010 In this week's podcast, we field a question about home storage servers. Scott and I both have network-attached storage rigs cobbled together from... Poll Question: • Do you have network-attached storage in your home? Type: News story Tags: Storage	59
Poll: Does your primary portable have an optical drive? by Geoff Gasior — 1:48 PM on June 30, 2010 This week's poll comes to us courtesy of TR reader Ben, who wonders just how many folks have an optical drive in their primary portable... Poll Question: • Does your primary portable have an optical drive? Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	44
Poll: Are you running an SSD in your primary desktop? by Geoff Gasior — 5:07 PM on June 18, 2010 You'll have to excuse me if I have SSDs on the brain, because I've spent the last couple of months testing a stack of pure... Poll Question: • Are you running an SSD in your primary desktop? Type: News story Tags: Storage	115
Poll: Processor voltage madness by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:43 PM on April 9, 2010 Today's processors, especially Intel chips with Turbo Boost, do a reasonably nice job of keeping power consumption down when they're idle and maximizing performance when... Poll Question: • The processor in my primary system is: Type: News story Tags: CPUs	103
Poll: Gigabytes vs. gibibytes by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:20 AM on December 11, 2009 You may not know it, but the world of technology is split into two camps right now. For one camp, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes are... Poll Question: • Would you say a PC has: Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory	135
Poll: The dominant removable storage medium in 2014 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:55 PM on September 1, 2009 Floppy drives took years to disappear from pre-built PCs. These days, optical drives are starting to fade from many machines, especially laptops of the ultraportable... Poll Question: • What will be the dominant removable storage medium in five years? Type: News story Tags: Storage	127
Poll: What are you most looking forward to? by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:38 PM on July 29, 2009 Looking at the latest roadmaps, both official and not, it's hard to be indifferent about the wave of shiny new products coming this year. We... Poll Question: • What are you most looking forward to? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Windows	99
Poll: Does Intel's Atom provide a good user experience? by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:53 PM on April 21, 2009 Intel's Atom processor took the world of low-cost PCs by storm last year, and it's accelerated the decline of traditional systems with more expensive,... Poll Question: • What do you think of the user experience on Atom-based systems? Type: News story Tags: CPUs	79
Poll: If you were building a PC now, what socket would you choose? by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:10 PM on March 27, 2009 In both our latest system guide and our processor value comparo, we pointed out that AMD's Socket AM2+ and AM3 platforms actually have... Poll Question: • If you were building yourself a PC now, what socket would you choose? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards	99
Poll: How will the Phenom II do against the competition? by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:22 PM on December 2, 2008 Now that we've taken a look at the performance of AMD's 45nm Opterons, we can better guess how upcoming Phenom II processors will do... Poll Question: • AMD's Phenom II processor will: Type: News story Tags: CPUs	113
Poll: At what clock speed does your main PC's CPU run? by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:54 AM on October 29, 2008 Our PCs all have different processors with different numbers of cores, different cache sizes, and different architectures. Right now, however, one factor can determine everyday... Poll Question: • At what clock speed does your main PC's CPU run? Type: News story Tags: CPUs	127
Poll: What type of storage will your next laptop have? by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:15 PM on July 15, 2008 You've probably read the news by now. Solid-state drive prices are going down, capacities are going up, and an increasing number of notebook... Poll Question: • My next laptop will have: Type: News story Tags: Storage	34
Poll: How many CPU cores will your next PC have? by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:39 PM on June 12, 2008 With quad-core processors available for less than $200 and six- and eight-core CPUs on the way next year, the core race is well in progress.... Poll Question: • How many CPU cores will your next PC have? Type: News story Tags: CPUs	92
Poll: How often do you browse the Web on your phone? by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:02 PM on March 26, 2008 Only a few years ago, browsing the Web on a cell phone might have seemed like an entirely futile endeavor. Displays were too small and... Poll Question: • How often do you browse the Web on your phone? Type: News story Tags: Internet Personal tech	65
Poll: Will you get a Blu-ray player now? by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:10 PM on March 18, 2008 So, it's over. The HD DVD camp has admitted defeat, and Blu-ray has emerged as the victorious high-definition disc format, promising to take us... Poll Question: • Now that HD DVD has lost, will you get a Blu-ray player? Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Storage	144
Poll: Your primary e-mail retrieval method? by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:34 PM on February 28, 2008 Most of us probably use e-mail one way or another at work. However, with cell phones, text messaging, and instant messaging having grown in popularity... Poll Question: • I usually fetch my personal e-mail using: Type: News story Tags: Internet	63
The TR Hardware Survey: What's in your main PC? by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:10 AM on February 15, 2008 We're unveiling a new feature today, the TR Hardware Survey. As its name suggests, this feature's goal is to give both us and you, the... Poll Questions: • Processor • Graphics processor • How much did your graphics card cost at the time of purchase? • Chipset • Motherboard brand • Memory size • Total internal hard drive storage capacity • Primary optical drive type • Sound card • Number of displays • Main display type • Main display size • Main display aspect ratio • Main display resolution • Primary operating system Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Multimedia Storage Displays Memory Operating systems	238

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CampinCarl

I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there's MORE than enough demand for 24" 2560x1600 screens.

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danny e.

Based on the content of the presentation, it almost feels like gaming is taking... +40

Xenolith

No Start menu, so the Xbox One is dead to me. +38

superjawes

I am thinking PC. +28

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