Technical Survey: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

GIGABYTE M68MT nForce 6 Barebones Kit - GIGABYTE M68MT Mobo, AMD Phenom II X3 710 CPU, CPU Fan, Corsair 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 RAM, Seagate 1.5TB HDD, LG 24x DVDRW, Thermaltake V2 Case Tower, 450-Watt PSU @ $250

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=693834&sku=B69-0388&SRCCODE=WEM2713BY&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM2713-_-tigeremail2713

• 8 GB of memory (max memory for motherboard)
• 3 core CPU
• HyperTransport 3
• no OS
• adding window home junk adds $155, does that make any sense at all?
• I can buy windows Pro for $140
• GB ethernet
• nVIDIA GeForce 7025 on board
• RAID support

Yea, I think I could use this system.  However, it looks like I might want to get my own mother-board that supports more memory.

Fantom GD2000EU GreenDrive External Hard Drive - eSATA, USB 2.0, 2TB, 32MB Cache @ $90

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=5384379&sku=M261-8234&SRCCODE=WEM2713BY&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM2713-_-tigeremail2713

• Wonder what shipping is?
• $8
• $102
• $51 per TB

D-Link DIR 601 Wireless-N 150 Home Router - IEEE 802.11n, 4x 10/100 LAN Ports, 10/100 WAN Port, External Antenna @ $30

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=5650958&sku=D700-5052&SRCCODE=WEM2713BY&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM2713-_-tigeremail2713

• Instruction are misleading
• don't to connect to internet first
• Two people complained of signal strength
• Has been as low as $20

ZyXEL NBG416N IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wireless Router @ $17

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833181151&nm_mc=EMC-GD061511&cm_mmc=EMC-GD061511-_-index-_-Item-_-33-181-151

•  Only one user comment

Technical Survey: Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Cyberus 10.1" Android 2.2 Tablet, eReader, Media Player - ID1010WTA @ $150

http://www.buy.com/prod/10-1in-sungale-android-2-2-systtablet-pc-720hz-cpu-128mb-dramm/q/loc/101/221894773.html

• Android 2.2 (Froyo)
• Screen: 1024x600
• Camera:  0.3 Mega Pexels (VGA)
• Not resistive touch panel
• 1 GHz CPU
• battery life?

Dell Mini Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz 1GB 250BG 10.1" Win 7 Netbook (Refurbished) @ $200

http://shop.retrevo.com/m/dailydeal?prodid=rd-s15.RVO-20110614-2&cmpid=EmailJun14

Expansion Series 3TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive @ $130

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355670&utm_source=ACT_NON_BYO&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E1072+eNews+20110614

• Seagate
• $43 per TB before shipping

Motorola H270 Bluetooth Wireless Headset - Talk Hands-Free @ $13

http://shop.retrevo.com/m/dailydeal?prodid=rd-s21.RVO-20110613-13&cmpid=EmailJun13

• Noise reduction

Technology Survey: Thursday, June 8, 2011

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.668119

Quad-Core, 4GB Memory (16 GB Max), etc for $390.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131702&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS060411&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS060411-_-EMC-060411-Index-_-index-_-13131702

ASUS, Intel CPU, 32 GB memory, $220

Walmart has a large selection of tablet PCs.