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Going over my receipts for the last year in preparation for doing my taxes I realized I haven't upgraded my computer in a couple of years.  My current machine is almost 4 years old, but since I first bought it I have upgraded the CPU and video card.  The CPU is a AMD 4400+ and can't really be upgraded again since AMD changed the ...

I bought GT5: Prologue last week, what a disappointment.   There has been a lot of cries on the interwebs that it was just a demo an not worth purchasing, usually citing the limited number of tracks (6)and cars (60+). Which are in fact smaller numbers of cars and tracks from other GT games, but that didn't bother me to much, the demo ...

My no Sony products stance has had one minor hiccup as I purchased a 80G PS3 the other day.   So far I have played MotorStorm (ok) watched Pixar shorts (Blu-ray), Resident Evil: Extinction (Blu-ray), and The Namesake (DVD).    I bought it primarily for playing Blu-ray disks as I was tired of seeing things released on ...

Console number,  3637 7703 3861 9144 send me a note with yours and our Miis can mingle. The parade thing really should just grab random Miis that have been flagged as available for travel, but you need to be connected to others.  Games so far SSX Blur Very Very hard,  I really liked the other versions of it.  don't know ...

A few months ago my Xbox got the red ring of death issue.  Microsoft quickly replaced the console and at the time I was very happy with the result.  One thing I asked them about but didn't verify is that would all my games purchased on Xbox arcade continue to function correctly with the new console, they assured me they would.  ...

To get it into my case I had to cut most of the fins off of the heatsink on the northbridge and cut a new wider hole in the hard drive cage for the power cable.  As it is I almost couldn't get the cover back on because there in not much clearance between the case and the floppy drive cage. It is fast,  HL2 runs at 1920x1200 with ...

A little late but yesterday was the first time I have actually seen a 360 on sale since they launched last November.  It is pretty cool I probably spent an hour playing around with just the interface downloading some trailers getting the UI set to 1080i and the sound set to digital playing a little Hexic. I liked that I was able to sign into ...

One of the hosts from the BBC series Top Gear took out a real NSX on Laguna Seca to see if he could match his Grand Turismo time in a real car.

One of the few new things in the new Grand Turismo 4 game is B-Spec mode.  In B-Spec mode instead of driving your car you instead give the computer driver instructions. The instructions are consist of 5 speed or aggressiveness settings whether or not to pass other cars and to tell the driver to make a pit stop.  You can either watch the ...

I added some screen shots taken with my laptop to the wow page. They where taken at 1920x1280 so they are rather large.  Here are two samples.