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Manufacturers routinely ask us what we think of their current products and what we'd like to see from future ones. Sometimes, I get the...

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I've been into building PCs for many years now, but before that, I was never a particularly handy or mechanically inclined type of guy. ...

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Boy, Tuesday was a rough day. Walked into my office in the morning expecting to get some testing done, only to discover that my...

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Like many TR readers, I often find myself called upon to aid friends and family members with their technical problems. I'm usually happy to oblige....

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Our current contest challenges readers to relate their first PC upgrade experiences for a chance to win a copy...

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A couple of years ago, I set out to find a 24" display with a non-TN panel, great image quality, and a reasonable price tag....

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By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read...

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So, yeah. I've been living with Mac OS X 10.6—aka Snow Leopard—for a week now. The short review is this: If you're not reviewing (or...

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Last Saturday, I decided to head down to my local Apple reseller and grab a copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The new...

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I've been partial to AMD for a long time. The first PC I built for myself had an Athlon Thunderbird running at a blistering 1.4GHz,...

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USB thumb drives are everywhere. Heck, they've been everywhere for years. Never before have I see a new class of product become...

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If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came...

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Since we're an enthusiast site, little explanation of overclocking is needed here.  We tend to focus on the intricacies of hardware and how it performs,...

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Late last month, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a free Windows XP virtualization solution to users of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate. In a...

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Since its initial release in 1991, the Python programming language has steadily grown in popularity. Designed by Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum (a.k.a....

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I'm constantly amazed by the pace at which technology improves. Take what's happened in, oh, the last six years, for example. We've gone...

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It seems like every year, someone thinks that Linux is on the verge of making real inroads on the desktop. And every year, the...

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With word that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 may be coming in the next few days, enthusiasts are once again...

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