Wii U: Teardown

In a new addition of Iwata Asks a pictoral hardware tear down is conducted and discussed. I found the discussion concerning power consumption, performance and design to be very interesting. I purchased a Wii after it’s launch but due to hardware shortages it took several weeks of searching. In this environment of increaing numbers of […]

Valve to test Steam on Linux next week

According to the Valve Blog, Steam for Linux will be released next week… kinda. On the negative side it is planned to be an internal beta but here is hoping for a leak. For those not familiar with Steam, it is a games marketplace application for Windows, Macintosh, PS3 (kinda) and soon Linux. The marketplace manages customers […]

Netbook or Ultraportable?

Here is a quick peek at my new Lenovo Thinkpad x120e. It has an 11.6″ screen, full sized keyboard dual core AMD e350 1.6 GHZ APU with a Radeon HD 6310 on the chip. The thing is a beautifully simple matte black all around which helps me to avoid annoying finger prints. Some other features […]