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"The most fabulous thing about this 7 in 1 card reader is that it needs a 2.5" Hard Drive. "What?" you ask. Well, with a hard drive in this card reader, you download your pictures to the Best Store. The number of pictures is only limited by the size of the hard drive you install. Imagine just using one or two media cards for your digital camera. For a modest amount of money to outfit this. You'd probably spend that already in two media cards. Instead, you can download all of your media cards, then hook it up via USB, and grab them all at once. Does it get any better than that?"

Trusted Reviews.com are covering new stuff from LG, Samsung, BenQ, Creative, Panasonic, Archos and more from this years CES show. Check out the new Media Player from Creative which is a really cool gadget !!

Anandtech has some nifty info on this new DVD Video Player & PC Gaming Console. Apperently it features VIA's latest 0.13-micron C3 core running at 1.4GHz and a DeltaChrome S8 graphics core. Further this prototype features 64MB of on-board DDR memory acording to anandtech.

Just spotted this bit of info over at AnandTech!

While we're off in Vegas a very good friend of ours got us some pictures and information about the successor to Intel's Prescott - codenamed Tejas and Intel's new LGA-775 socket.

Ace's Hardware has some interesting speculation on Intel's upcoming Prescott core performance:

Now that the Prescott launch is getting closer and we have a pretty good idea what the architectural improvements are, we can make some decent predictions. To refresh your memory let me reiterate a post that I published in September 2003. Prescott is basically a Northwood Pentium 4 with the following improvements:

The World First 2-User Motherboard The MiniQ 765Twin MagicTwin barebone system is the world?s first multi-user enabled SFF solution available in the market. The special designed 2-user-system allows two users to share the computing power of a single PC system. With integrated circuitry onboard, the MagicTwin® barebone comes with innovative software, the MagicTwin, allowing 2 users to be connected to it and runs up to two (2) stations directly from it. The unique and copyright-protected technology, allows each of the 2 users to feel like having himself his own Windows-XP computer. Each user needs to have himself his own keyboard, mouse, sound device, and monitor. All remaining PC hardware will be shared, even the IP. Read More

Today one of the newest members to the DiscGamer team Jesse has reviewed the Everglide FuZe mousepad and ran it up against his RatPadz GS.

"The FuZe by Everglide is LARGER then the Ratpadz GS and even if it's just by a hair, you need all you can get. The pad is also not very deep which will help everyone with carpel tunnel syndrome problems (me). The pad itself is incredibly smooth and flat. The one thing everyone seems to notice when swapping to the FuZe (especially from a 2nd gen Ratpadz) is how you feel like your in more control of the mouse."

We go for silent! The average AMD setup still sounds like a jet taking off. Swiftech, Thermalright and other heatsink manufacturers are trying their best to provide us with a silent solution to cool these hot potatoes. Do they succeed? And which one does it best? Read it here

Facts and rumors surround the state of Xbox 2, PS3, and Nintendo's N5. What will the future bring? GaySpy's editorial staff summarize the currently available details and provide analysis.

Thanks to my bro Creamhackered over at Neowin.net for this exclusive:

According to a story on The Register this evening, Microsoft is about to "deep-six" Windows Media Center. This simply isn't true. Infact this couldn't be further from the truth. Look for some interesting new developments in Windows Media Center to be announced and ones that I'm sure many Xbox fans will welcome.

Apple engineers squeezed all the best features of iPod into a case weighing just 3.6 ounces and smaller than any cell phone. iPod mini features an anodized aluminium case that resists stains and scratches. The case weighs practically nothing, but protects iPod mini in your pocket, purse or backpack. Recessed in the case to keep its surface pristine wherever you lay it, the 1.67 inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song names and more.. Available on Mac and Windows for just $249.

Sony today introduced their high capacity minidisc audio format, known to all as Hi-MD. This new media holds 1GB, storing 7 hours and 55 minutes of SP mode audio on a single disk.

The Sony MZ-NH1, MZ-NH600D, MZ-NH900 and MZ-NHF800 are a few Hi-MD recorders which are soon to be released.

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Seems that Kyle Bennett over at [H]ardOCP has scoop himself a world exclusive with the news that VIA will be showing off a brand new gaming console.

Here is just about as much scoop as you are going to get before this thing is officially unveiled at CES this week. It seems that VIA is carving out their own segment of the emerging console market under the APEX brand name with the new "ApeXtreme Personal Gaming Console and DVD Player", or PGC.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at The Inquirer.net

Petr Loc says that he's discovered software allowing some AMD chips to be unlocked. Apparently AMD forgot to lock the L5 bridges.

Tom's Hardware have thrown up a new article which looks at liquid nitrogen cooling for your Intel P4 CPU!

Just how much cooling can the P4 withstand for maximum overclocking? We cranked the CPU down to -196°C with liquid nitrogen and, with compression cooling for the chipset, we managed to clock the processor at 5.25 GHz. For those of you with any doubts, it's all on the 11th THG video.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Rage 3D

PROHARDVER has posted a few pictures of an ATI prototype board. There's also pics of a Nvidia board. The picture shows a picture of the Viper chip using GDDR3.

Hardware Pacers are hosting a giveaway on the Coolmax Silent Cooling Fan Switching Power Supply (CX-450B). Giveaway Date: January 2, 9:00 PM US Eastern Time / 6:00PM Pacific (Friday)

Just got word from Anton Nilsson over at Nordic Hardware that their 12 board videocard roundup is out! Here's a snip.

It is time for this year?s last graphic card roundup. NordicHardware have been busy over the past year reviewing more retail boards than pretty much any publication out there. With this last roundup of the year we'll take a look at a few of the later boards that were released during 2003, twelve of them to be specific. Eight ATi based and four from nVidia (most often, the ratio is turned the other way so I thought I would redress the balance with this review).

Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this article over at HardOCP called Prescott and Upgrading! Here's a snip.

There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about whether or not the upcoming Intel Prescott CPUs will work with current Intel 848/865/875 chipset based boards. After compiling information from a variety of sources, including the web and some of our insider contacts, we think we have finally gained some real insight into this question that is on a lot of enthusiasts? minds. Let?s just say there is some good news, some bad news, and some news that will make you wonder just what in the world Intel is doing.

Bi-Tech have snagged the first photo's for ATi's Radeon 9600 showing of the new PCI-Express bus!

Whilst at an ATI shindig in old London Town last night, we managed to sneak off to the wazzeria? for 5 minutes with a pre-release PCI Express board that the Canadian chaps were showing off. With no NDAs in sight (although the same couldn't be said for drunken ATI execs), we thought you might like a peek at what we saw!!