More News Out Showcasing Mac Security Issues
We took a lot of flack over a post back in January that questioned the security of Apple’s Mac OS X. TechConsumers left various comments ranging frRead More…
Month: August 2016
The $100 PS3 Game: Gran Turismo 5
When Sony announced that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue would be available for $40 in April, I couldn’t help but have a knee-jerk reaction. How could Sony Read More…
Paul’s Soapbox: Vista Gadgets, Mario Kart, and Kevin Rose
Paul’s Soapbox is a regular feature of TechConsumer where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is juRead More…
Amazon’s Attempt at Helping Its HD DVD Customers
Earlier this week Best Buy announced that it would offer $50 gift cards to its customers that purchased HD DVD players before February 23. Not only thRead More…
Sony Charges $50 Extra to Sell You Laptop with No Crapware
Sony and crapware have a special relationship, so much so that it takes over two minutes for its laptops to boot into Windows (compare that with 30 seRead More…
Choosing the Right HDTV: Plasma or LCD?
I’ve always been into computers, gadgets, and the like, but it wasn’t until I spent a summer selling TVs at Circuit City that I developed an appetRead More…
Best Buy Giving $10 Million in Gift Cards to HD DVD Buyers
Best Buy is giving $50 to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from Best Buy before February 23. The company said that customers “won’t have to do aRead More…
A Tale of Two Betas: Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8
I am going on record that, unless Mozilla changes the direction they are heading, Internet Explorer will push Firefox back to single digit market sharRead More…
Blu-ray in the News: High Prices & No Microsoft Love
Since Blu-ray became the next generation movie disc format of choice, the consumer supposedly has been better off. But Tom’s Hardware claims that prRead More…
Blu-ray in the News: High Prices & No Microsoft Love
Since Blu-ray became the next generation movie disc format of choice, the consumer supposedly has been better off. But Tom’s Hardware claims that prRead More…