gizmodo.com - 6/29/2009
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Desktop PCs have been in decline for a decade, and countless people have said their piece about it. But new evidence suggests the desktop tower's death spiral is underway—and we're not too broken up about it. I say this as a guy who was baptized into the tech world with a desktop; who ...
presscentre.sony.eu - 6/30/2009
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presscentre.sony.eu —
Looking for a stylish music system that’s more
than a dock for an iPod®? Unveiled today from...
Sony is a new line of multi-functional compact audio system: the NAS-Z200iR and CMT-Z100iR . While minimalist in style, they are packed with superlatives. ...
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Sony Europe Press Centre
casemodblog.com - 6/26/2009
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casemodblog.com —
I picked up my jaw after noticing the
latest addition to MillionDollarPC.Com. This is the “Edelweiss” PC...
by Pius Giger. Everything in Edelweiss is meticulously detailed. The wires, cables and watercool tubing are routed inside of the main ...
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million-dollar-pc.com: Edelweiss by Pius Giger
techon.nikkeibp.co.jp - 7/1/2009
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techon.nikkeibp.co.jp —
Latest Nikkei Electronics Asia -- July 2009 USB
3.0 PCs Coming Soon as First Host Controllers Appear...
A number of people in the industry agree that the first models of USB 3.0 personal computers (PC) will probably ship from Taiwanese PC manufacturers ...
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USB 3.0 PCs Coming Soon as First Host Controllers Appear ...
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Is The Desktop PC Dead? [Ask The Readers]
Lifehacker —
[image] Desktop sales fell by 23 percent last year across the computer industry. In the U.S., 80 percent of sales went to notebooks. Gizmodo declares the desktop dead , but we're wondering if you see a future for non-mobile systems. Photo by ...
Tales of PC gaming's death have been greatly exaggerated
Crave: The gadget blog —
... We're really having this discussion again? Should we just refresh this article every year to correct for the misguided interpretation of NPD's U.S. retail sales figures?
The "death of PC gaming" has become reliable column and blog fodder for tech journalists. Perhaps it stems from lingering bitterness over time wasted editing Warcraft batch files in DOS 6.0. Regardless, you shouldn't take the idea seriously.
To prove it, we won't even lean on that most tempting pillar of PC gaming, the 12 million-strong World of Warcraft monthly ...
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