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    News 7 best Coen brothers movies, ranked

    This is a complete joke - the movie "Raising Arizona" must appear among the top four Coen movies of all time! It shows the website like Tom's hardware knows nothing at all about movie reviews!
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    The 5 things I'm glad I knew before buying a mini PC

    Minisforum is like the Dell Computer of mini PCs - I recommen them! I own a fake celeron (n-series is really an atom processor which is like a pathetic e-core) and if you are doing any interactive work, get a real minipc from minisforum they use ryzen and true pentium processors, not failed crap...
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    News This is the most surprising OLED TV I tested in 2023 — and it got a perfect score

    I have seen the S95B in stores and it looks just amazing, the high-color gamut plus amazing black levels really impressed me, the S95C is a small improvement on that! However, there are downsides if you aren't watching a movie - text does not fare very well on the triangular pixel layout of the...
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    I test TVs for a living — and these are my top 3 picks for 2023

    8k TVs are Huge energy wasters they require too much cpu processing power (300w) you might as well just return that tesla to the dealer and get a humvee (5mpg) the EU is likely to ban them soon i think you have to sit 40 inches or closer to need the 8k pixels ... Boycott 8k. About as smart as...
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    Project Fi Showdown: Splurge on the Pixel 2 or Save on the Moto X4?

    I think you mixed up the photo viewer as the x4 side looks better and brighter all around.
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    Gaming Laptop Under $600 CAD That Can Run League

    It depends on your FPS target, and tolerance for hassle factor. My son runs chrubuntu (dual boot) on a Chromebook (Acer c720p touch, refurbished direct from acer, $260 on ebay) at 25-40 fps. He is not happy with framerate but the Celeron 2955u is playable. The toshiba chromebook 2 (Celeron...
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    Best chromebook under £250?

    I think the Acer c720 probably accounts for 30% of all Chromebooks sold, i.e. its the #1 seller. It is very compact, has a great set of ports, and the fastest CPU of any Chromebook (Celeron 2955U and i3-4005, both are the fastest in their class). On amazon the c720 is the #4 selling laptop...
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    IBM T42 Hard Drive Upgrade- What am I doing wrong?

    It's well known that you can only write a bootable drive for an IBM laptop, if the target drive is installed in slot #0 INSIDE (I.E. the target drive must be installed INSIDE the laptop in the destination location). Apparently when the drive is formatted, IBM uses 240 "virtual cylinder heads"...