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On upgrading a 3.51 M33 PSP.
After almost a year of getting no love from us, we picked up our aging white PSP and decided to upgrade its firmware so it was useable with the latest games. An upcoming trip convinced us that this might be a good idea, else we might die of boredom on Southwest’s display-free seating environment. Unfortunately, [...]
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Conceptualizing an Apple sub-notebook: the Apple Annex.
When we commented on the Macbook Air, we were not pleased with the unit’s price, particularly as it reflected the unit’s function. In brief, we would have rather seen a compact, portable machine designed around internet use. This is where sub-notebook computers like the Eee PC are finding their niche, as most consumers don’t need [...]
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Legacy copy protection better than the new stuff.
Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]
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Gaming companies now foolish to ignore the Mac crowd?
When a Mac user walked into a room of gamers and started talking games, he was laughed at, beaten, bloodied, and dragged to the nearest ditch to die.
Well, he was laughed at, anyway.
But times have changed. Not because Apple has really strengthened their Mac lineup to support games (despite Apple’s random announcements over the years [...]
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Green computers an oxymoron?
We’re not sure how many dead kittens it takes to manufacture a computer, but we happen to think it’s at least a few, at least if the computer can crank out more than a few cycles each second. That is to say, computer innards aren’t exactly grown on trees, so it’s a bit silly [...]
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