Well, I finally did it. I jumped into the world of LCD panels. I did the research, played with them at Costco, and read tons of reviews. The verdict? I ordered two (2) Sceptre x22wg-Gamer 22" widescreen displays. I run dual-head both at home and at the office, which I blame Klink for introducing me to. I couldn't stand the thought of having one LCD and one CRT.

Here's the link to the displays on Newegg: SCEPTRE x22wg-Gamer Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen HDMI LCD Monitor

I've personally been looking forward to these keyboards. If you're unfamiliar with OLEDs, you can find more about it on WikiPedia's OLED article. Basically, they're very tiny LEDs that can provide red, green, and blue color. Mixed together, you can generate any color as an RGB triplet.

What's so cool about these new keyboards is that each key will have an OLED array inside, allowing the user to change the actual look of every key on the keyboard.

Rick Bergman, senior vice president, marketing and general manager, desktop, ATI Technologies Inc.: "The RADEON 9000 products feature technology innovations first introduced in the highest-end segment of the market less than 12 months ago combined with the best performance of any mainstream graphics product," he continued. It is the only choice for mainstream gamers this year."

It appears Microsoft is now acknowledging a design flaw in the Intellimouse Optical series of mice. And is willing to replace them for free.
June 21, 2002
Microsoft Optical Mouse Owner:
Microsoft has received reports that a small percentage of IntelliMouse® Explorer, IntelliMouse Optical and Wheel Mouse Optical mouse products have stopped working or have begun to work intermittently after a period of normal use...

So, with the first round of reviews of the much awaited Matrox Parhelia, dubbed the GeForce 4 killer... And, well... umm... "Houston, we have a problem"

Inquirer article

chip.de review

hardinfo.dk review

BTW, I now have 4 First Edition 2k's. Man I love Ebay.

An independent site, dualcpu.jp, posted a mini-review of Epox's highly-anticipated M762A dual-Athlon motherboard. There isn't a lot of meat in the review, but it's still worth checking out. Here's a passage from the review:We can set FSB 100MHz to 132MHz by 1MHz step from 100MHz boot setting. Also we can set FSB 133MHz to 166MHz by 1MHz step from 133MHz boot setting. I could boot this mother boaed at 150MHz setting.

3DnHardware has a review on this nice device that lets you move some of your ports to the front of your case via one of your 5 1/4 drive bays and unlike some of the other products that came before this one,this puppy is upgradable.