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GameDaily is running an opinion piece on why Sony won’t lose the next-gen console war. More specifically why they think Sony will win the next-gen console war. Unfortunately, I have to disagree based on the very same points they present.

Microsoft recommends 1GB of memory for Windows Vista to run comfortably. Dell on the other hand, recommends at least 2GB. Somehow this doesn’t sound all that surprising, considering that Windows XP recommended 128MB, and ran slow if you had anything less than 256MB RAM (and even then it was pushing it unless you ran the [...]

Sony continues their PS3 ad campaign with 2 more ads. Both ads focus on the hardware, the first being on the Cell processor, and the second one on the Blu-Ray disc format.

The Mozilla Foundation has now released version 2 of their popular Firefox web browsing software. It has several changes from 1.5.

After several months of Merom being available, Apple has finally launched a notebook line using the processor. The Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro comes in 3 default configurations:

15″ 1440×960 display, 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD, 6x Dual-Layer SuperDrive, 128MB ATi Mobility Radeon X1600 - $1,999.00
15″ 1440×960 display, 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB [...]

Sony claims that the Xbox 360 is more expensive than the PlayStation 3 because a lot of what comes with the PS3 is optional on the Xbox 360. The basis for this claim is basically that the Xbox 360 doesn’t come with HD-DVD support, a wireless controller, or online gaming, and that with all these [...]

It looks like the PlayStation 3 will get a custom version of Yellow Dog Linux. Like most Linux distributions, it will include your standard fare of open source applications, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, and of course, the typical array of development tools. This could be very useful for not only for game developers but [...]

Linux users can now rejoice. Adobe finally got around to releasing a Linux beta of Flash 9. From what I’ve used of it, this beta is more stable than the final release of Flash 7 (which, to be completely honest, isn’t saying much, Flash 7 for Linux is a horribly buggy piece of code). We [...]

A recently conducted Stanford University School of Medicine study suggests that Internet addiction has high incidence in the US. According to the study, 1 in 8 people is an Internet addict.

According to this commericial, the wait is finally over. Unfortunately, the commercial does not seem to in any way convey what the wait was for. I mean, I know the wait was for the PS3, because the end of the commerical said so, but take out that little ending and take the actual content of [...]