Computers-Plus

I swear this is the longest it’s taken for an Intel architecture to penetrate the market. We first met Nehalem on November 3rd, 2008. It came to us as a high end quad-core processor and took a full year to make it to more affordable motherboards in the form of Lynnfield. Even with P55 motherboard prices down at the magical $99 marker, Intel relinquished control of the $100 – $200 CPU market without a Nehalem to compete down there. Instead we were left with a choice between Penryn, the update to Intel’s 2006 Conroe architecture, or Phenom II, AMD’s low-cost Nehalem competitor. The choice was simple.

From $100 to $200, your best bet has been AMD. Eithe

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As enthusiasts, we’re always interested in the latest monster video cards: the expensive, high-end products that blast through benchmarks fand play all your games with buttery-smooth frame rates at the highest resolutions with all the settings maxed out- and sucking a not inconsiderable amount of electricity while doing so! But these products represent only a tiny fraction of the number of video cards sold; the low-to-mid-end cards comprise the bulk of the market. Besides, a GTX285 or Radeon 5870 isn’t the ideal solution for every situation: considerations from a limited budget to building a small, quiet system come into play. Read more…

It’s a sad time for Ubuntu users. Canonical has announced that it is removing the GNU Image Manipulation Program, aka GIMP, from the default Ubuntu installation routine.

Canonical hosted its biannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) last week in Dallas, Texas. I was one of many open source software developers who attended the event and participated in the collaborative process of planning Ubuntu 10.04, the next version of the popular Linux distribution. An important part of the 10.04 roadmap that emerged during UDS is a tentative plan to remove the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Tool, from the default Ubuntu installation. Although this decision is viewed by some as controversial, the reasoning behind it is valid.

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It’s now come to the last day of 2009, we’re here to wish you a very Happy New Year 2010. And we’d also like to thank TechChee’s readers for your great support in 2009. We have here the 10 most popular posts of 2009, which you can have a quick look back after the jump.

10 Most Popular Posts of TechChee in 2009

1. USB Phantom Keystroker messes up your keyboard and mouse

2. RealTouch : a USB pleasuring device for men, designed by former NASA engineer (NSFW)

3. GPush – Push GMail for the iPhone

4. Personal Anti Lost Alarm

5. Avoiding

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