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gizmos
Objects of fetish and function from around the Net
THIS WEEK: Larger screens, smaller investments - Looking to upgrade from your old CRT display? Today's large-size LCD monitors are more affordable than ever. Sony set to unveil multi-format DVD drive - New drive will simplify the standards battle by supporting two competing recordable DVD formats. Buyers' guide to graphics boards - Budget cards let you play most games at moderate resolutions, but die-hard gamers should opt for more power. AudioTron links MP3s to your home stereo - Several months back, I decided to convert a good portion of my CD collection to MP3 format so I could tote around my tunes on one of my portable MP3 players. But it didn't solve my real dilemma -- how to play all that digitally stored music through my stereo system. Now I have my answer: AudioTron. Buyers' guide to hard drives - If you work mostly in standard office programs, nearly any drive will do. But speed counts for multimedia authoring. Creative launches Nomad MuVo - Tiny gadget plays digital music files, and doubles as a handy storage device. New Linux supercomputer coming to Livermore national lab - To increase its capacity for scientific research, a powerful Linux supercomputer is coming to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Top 15 office PCs - A new Systemax PC carrying AMD's 1.6-GHz Athlo dn 1900+ CPU muscles its way onto the power side of the chart. Future IBM workstation to get 2.6GHz Xeons - IBM plans to bolster its workstation lineup later this year with a speedy 2.6GHz chip from Intel, according to a product road map obtained by IDG News Service.
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