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Filed under: Gaming

There’s nerd and then there’s Commodore 64 nerd. Bring them together in a Commodore 64 LAN party and you’ve got a nerdstorm of mythical proportions. The world’s first Commordore 64 LAN party was held in nerdistan Cincinnati last weekend. It consisted of eight C64s with Ethernet cartridges playing NetRacer off a central, Java-based server. So Geeksta it hurts.

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Filed under: Laptops

You know it’s getting bad when even Amazon can’t tell all the flavors of the Eee PC apart — a listing for an “Eee PC 900″ with 16GB of flash and an Atom processor just went live on the etailer’s site with a pre-order price of $399. Those are actually the specs and tasty price of the long-awaited Eee 901, so we’re going to say that ASUS’s endless stream of minor new Eee models has everyone confused, and that the 901 looks like it’s ready to drop — is this the Eee that’ll finally make you take the plunge?

Update: NewEgg just went live with the 12GB XP-based 901 for $599.999999. Shipping today. Also, Amazon is now listing XP and Linux-based 901s for the same price although still as pre-orders. Our advice: stay away from the so-called Atom-based Eee PC 900 until Amazon claifies the configuration.

[Via I4U, thanks Carl]

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Filed under: Laptops

You know it’s getting bad when even Amazon can’t tell all the flavors of the Eee PC apart — a listing for an “Eee PC 900″ with 16GB of flash and an Atom processor just went live on the etailer’s site with a pre-order price of $399. Those are actually the specs and tasty price of the long-awaited Eee 901, so we’re going to say that ASUS’s endless stream of minor new Eee models has everyone confused, and that the 901 looks like it’s ready to drop — is the is the Eee that’ll finally make you take the plunge?

[Thanks, Carl]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

Blu-ray recorders have been on the scene for a while now, but now that the format war’s over, it looks like more companies are starting to commit to BD-R devices — like Pioneer, which announced today that it’ll have a Blu-ray recorder out in Japan by the end of the year. The company didn’t say what model it would be or what price point it was aiming for, but the tech is being jointly developed with Sharp, so hopefully it’s have a family resemblance to units like the 1TB AQUOS BD-HDW20 in everything but the $2,611 pricetag.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

We haven’t heard much from Hasselblad lately, but whenever the high-end cameramaker does make a peep, it’s usually pretty impressive — like the new 50 megapixel H3DII-50 back it just announced. Building on the H3DII-39 back, the 50 features a 36 X 48mm Kodak sensor twice the size of other full-frame DSLR sensors that generates 300MB files at 1FPS. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but don’t expect this bad boy to come in under the $37K pricetag of the 39 when it launches in October — especially since Hasselblad says anyone who buys a 39 now can trade up to the 50 later for the difference in price and instructions on how to properly sleep on beds made of money.

[Thanks, Douglas]

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Filed under: Desktops

Averatec’s been trying to bring a little pop to its products lately, and the new All-In-One PC (seriously, that’s what it’s called) is the company’s sleekest effort to date, copping a little style from both the iMac and the Gateway One. Your $1249 won’t buy you anything spectacular behind that 22-inch display, but it’s not too bad either: 2.4GHz E4600 Core 2 Duo with GeForce 8400 graphics, 2GB RAM, a 320GB disk, and Vista Home Premium. That’s not a particularly astounding deal compared to the name-brand all-in-ones, but the specs are slightly better, so if you’re spending nights ripping the labels off your jeans, it looks like you’ve got the perfect machine to start working on that followup to Plastic Surgery Disasters.

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Filed under: Cellphones

If the old saying that you can’t believe everything you read holds true, then it must be doubly so for images you see on the internet. Such is possibly the case in the latest batch of leaked pictures doing the rounds on the old information superhighway. Lately (i.e. today) shots of RIM’s new touchscreen phone — the Thunder — have surfaced showing off what’s supposed to be a new version of the BlackBerry OS (4.7) running its media player. Now we’re not saying these pics aren’t really real, but what we are saying is that these shots look an awful lot like renders to us, and since no one can verify them beyond an “anonymous source,” we’re just going to recommend a healthy dose of you-know-what, okay?

[Via MobileSyrup]

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Filed under: Laptops

As if it wasn’t already clear enough that Sony had a bundle of new VAIO laptops in the pipeline, this latest leak of some seemingly official German spec sheets should clear up most of the remaining mystery, with them breaking each of ‘em down to the very last detail. That includes details on two different 13.3-inch VAIO SR models, the VGN-SR19XN and the VAIO VGN-SR19VN, the former of which boasts the usual integrated graphics, while the latter bumps things up to a Radeon HD3470, along with a boost to a full 4GB of RAM and a 200GB, 7,200 rpm hard drive — both pack a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 processor. On the decidedly larger end of the scale is the 16.4-inch VAIO FW, which looks to be available in a whole host of configurations, with options including ATI 3650 or 3470 graphics, a Blu-ray drive, and the same Core 2 Duo P8400 processor used in the SR. Of course, none of this is quite set in stone until we get the official word straight from Sony, but we wouldn’t bank on any surprises with these.

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Filed under: Laptops

As if it wasn’t already clear enough that Sony had a bundle of new VAIO laptops in the pipeline, this latest leak of some seemingly official German spec sheets should clear up most of the remaining mystery, with them breaking each of ‘em down to the very last detail. That includes details on two different 13.3-inch VAIO SR models, the VGN-SR19XN and the VAIO VGN-SR19VN, the former of which boasts the usual integrated graphics, while the latter bumps things up to a Radeon HD3470, along with a boost to a full 4GB of RAM and a 200GB, 7,200 rpm hard drive — both pack a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 processor. On the decidedly larger end of the scale is the 16.4-inch VAIO FW, which looks to be available in a whole host of configurations, with options including ATI 3650 or 3470 graphics, a Blu-ray drive, and the same Core 2 Duo P8400 processor used in the SR. Of course, none of this is quite set in stone until we get the official word straight from Sony, but we wouldn’t bank on any surprises with these.

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Filed under: Laptops

Alright, it’s finally here — Voodoo’s configuration page for the Envy 133 just went live with pricing information, and we’re being told that orders are being accepted over the phone. Depending on options and paint jobs, you’re going to put a dent in your wallet anywhere from $2100 to $3400, but it’s still not clear exactly when units will be shipping out. Anyone taking the plunge?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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