We’ve been fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with an Eyefinity setup before, but up until now, it’s been somewhat of a hassle to get a fully functional six-screen setup into a consumer’s home. Today, AMD is taking the legwork out of the equation with the introduction of the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, a standalone GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and innate support for pushing a half-dozen panels at once. Outside of that, it’s essentially the same card that we saw last September, and based on the cadre of reviews that we rounded up, the doubled memory bank doesn’t do much to boost frame rates. What it does do, however, is enable six-screen gaming. Unfortunately (though understandably), this type of gaming scenario is only meant for a select segment of users, and many critics found the novelty wearing off exceptionally quick. In fact, it wasn’t long before NeoSeeker became fed up with the bezels ruining the experience, and just about everyone agreed that you needed to sit a good half-mile away to really enjoy it. Either way, we’d encourage you to hit up Hot Hardware’s collection of videos before biting the bullet, buying up an extra five LCDs and then regretting it for the rest of your Earthly life.

Read – Hot Hardware
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Read – PC Perspective
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Read – Tom’s Hardware
Read – PC MagATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition review roundup: novel, but not for everyone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  AMD  | Email this | Comments

We’ve seen plenty of the headline 1080p / 30fps video mode on the Rebel T2i, but what’s been missing till now are the equally comprehensive reviews of this new 18 megapixel shooter‘s other talents. Starting off with image quality — still the bread and butter of any DSLR — Camera Labs informs us that “the EOS 550D / T2i delivered images which were essentially the same as those from the EOS 7D,” describing them as highly detailed and exhibiting no greater noise than can be found on Nikon’s 12 megapixel competitors. An impressive feat, you will agree. Further appreciation is meted out for the newly improved LCD screen on the back, whose 3:2 ratio matches the sensor’s dimensions, but there’s also warning that the 7D retains a significant advantage in terms of ergonomics, weatherproofing, continuous burst mode, and autofocus. Even so, both reviews were happy to pin their “highly recommended” badges on the T2i, and you can discover the more nuanced reasons for doing so at the source links below.Canon Rebel T2i / 550D receives plaudit-heavy reviews originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  Camera Labs, Photography Blog  | Email this | Comments

Bernstein Analyst Sees 300k to 400k iPads Shipped in First Two Days / Elan Microelectronics Petitions ITC to Stop Apple from Selling Multi-touch Devices / iPad SDK Goes Golden Master / Apple Outs iTunes Update Well Ahead of iPad / Morgan Keegan Analyst Does Not See Verizon iPhone Soon / Credit Suisse Does Not See Verizon iPhone Soon / UBS Deso Not See Verizon iPhone Soon (Though it Does Talk New iPhones) / WSJ Did Not Indicate iPhone on Verizon Wireless Soon Either / Daring Fireball Lists Things WSJ Did Not Without Saying Exactly Why / Apple Wins Patents Related to Accelerometers and Podcasts / Apple Wins Patent for Steel Bezel on iPhone / Munster Sees Apple Search Engine in Next 5 Years / iPod Co-inventor Fadell Ends Association with Apple / Valve Software Looks for Steam for Mac beta Testers at store.steampowered.com/macbeta / Dateline Scoopertino – Fake News Site Grows Up Around Cupertino Company

by Ken Ray
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If you read a book that tries to change you for the better and it fails or doesn’t resonate, then it’s a self-help book.If you read a book that actually succeeds in changing you for the better, then the label changes from self-help book to great book.We don’t like books that fail, because they waste our time, they offend us, they speak a different language or they make us feel out of sorts. Self-help books are a bane.On the other hand, a book that resonates with us, whether it’s Catcher in the Rye, The War of Art or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance earns a place of trust and we revere it and tell others.A store clerk who tries to sell you something and fails is a high-pressure salesperson.If she succeeds in selling you something, she’s helpful.The difference between the two categories isn’t one of intent. They’re all ultimately trying for the same thing. The difference is in success. So, go ahead and denigrate self-help books and salespeople and the rest. Just be clear with yourself that what you’re unhappy with are the ones that fail.By the way, the only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

by Seth Godin
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Consumer products marketers—including food, beverage, liquor, quick-service restaurant brands, household products, personal care, pet and apparel brands—have thrown their hats into the mobile app ring. For many marketers, apps are becoming a constituent part of an existing mobile marketing and media strategy.

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Real world friends are hard to find and hard to change.But virtual friends?If your online friends aren’t egging you on…If your online friends don’t spread the word about the work you’re doing…If your online friends aren’t respectfully challenging your deeply held beliefs…If your online friends don’t demand the best from you…Then perhaps you need new online friends.

by Seth Godin
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The Large Hadron Collider is about to turn useful, people. Having recently jacked up its particle acceleration power to create 3.5 TeV (trillion electron volts) collisions, the researchers are today pressing ahead with plans to go to a full 7 TeV, which — you won’t be surprised to hear — has never been done before. Provided the requisite 3.5 TeV per beam is reached, sustained and properly channeled into creating useful collisions, CERN will finally have the data it needs to start its long-awaited physics program based off the findings provided by the LHC. Best of all? The latest world record attempt is being broadcast live over the web right now so why not hit up that link below to witness some history in the making?

Update: The momentous first protonic collisions at 7 TeV have just taken place, at just past 1PM CET. Now the time comes for researchers to parse all the incoming raw data, pore over it, analyze it, etc. We’ll leave that to them, it’s not like you can expect the God Particle to be discovered instantly. To fill the time, we invite you to come past the break for our blow-by-blow updating adventure from this morning plus video of the big moment.Continue reading Large Hadron Collider to search for God Particle using 7 TeV proton collisions, via live webcast (update: first collisions, video!)Large Hadron Collider to search for God Particle using 7 TeV proton collisions, via live webcast (update: first collisions, video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  CERN (Live webcast), (Press release)  | Email this | Comments