Darius Chang | Nov 27, 2009

As capacities start hitting multiple terabytes, the USB 2.0 is showing its age with a maximum transfer speed of 480Mbps. Though the eSATA standard was supposed to be the answer, the fact is that other than mid- to high-end laptops, the majority out there do not come bundled with this port.
The new USB 3.0 standard, on the other hand, not only allows for a much faster 4Gbps transfer, it is also backward-compatible with older USB standards. One of the first peripherals supporting this new port is the Buffalo
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 DriveStation HD-HXU3 external harddisk. Available in 1TB (US$199), 1.5TB (US$249) and 2TB (US$399) capacities, US-based
Microcenter store will be selling this product from December 7. If your PC does not come with this port, Buffalo will be coming out with a PCI-E USB 3.0 connectors for desktops and we can expect ExpressCard versions for laptops as well. We can expect the USB 3.0 drive to hit Asia Pacific next year.
Eric Franklin | Nov 26, 2009

Seriously, a plant pot in your monitor. I bet you'll never question the "greeness" of this monitor now!
(Credit: Josh P. Miller/CNET)
LED monitors were the new hotness at CES last January, but it wasn't until the Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 debuted that we really started to believe in them.
That was the first monitor that really seemed to live up to what LED monitor manufacturers' have promised.
That was the first monitor that really seemed to live up to what has been promised by LED monitor manufacturers'.
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Darius Chang | Nov 25, 2009
Curved screens are not new as they have been around for industrial applications such as flight simulators. However, these screens have been prohibitively expensive, till now.
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Matt Hickey | Nov 25, 2009
(Image credit: SmartFish Technologies)
I switched from mice to trackpads and trackballs years ago after my wrist started getting all janky on me after a few hours a day of work. That's because see-saw mouses like
SmartFish Technologies' ErgoMotion laser mouse didn't exist back then.
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Darius Chang | Nov 24, 2009

Here's one for the books. We've all encountered cases where the vendor would refuse to honor the warranty by claiming wear-and-tear or water damage. But this is the first time we've heard of the coverage being void because a PC was exposed to second-hand smoke.
Two Apple users, one from Iowa and the other from Oklahoma, sent their machines in for repairs, only to be told that since their computers had been exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke, the components were contaminated with nicotine tar.
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