HSN is selling Vipre’s protection for life for a mere $99.90. Plus $6.95 shipping and handling, of course. You can even cover the tab in three equal installments of $33.30.

Click Here to purchase now.

Source [Sunbelt Blog]

ATI keeps it coming. Not only do they currently have the most powerful GPU on the market today, now they are putting 2 of those GPUs on a single card.  Introducing the ATI Radeon HD 5870 x2 and the HD 5850 x2.  Images of these huge graphics cards have been leaked through Hardware Canucks.

Sources [Hardware Canucks, CrunchGear]

Yesterday, Gizmodo released details about the Microsoft Courier tablet.  It is reported to be dual 7″ multi-touch screens with a hinge to make it resemble a book.

Video by: Gizmodo

Ina Fried with cnet says:

“My sources say it’s legit, but I’m hearing that it’s just one of several prototypes that has been cooked up as part of a skunkworks project being led by executive J. Allard and a small team of ‘Softies.”

EDIT: Added following video

Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Sources [Gizmodo, CNet]

ATI has introduced two new players to the GPU market.  Powered by the latest Radeon 5800 Series GPU: the Radeon 5850 and Radeon 5870.  Compared to the Radeon HD 4890, it has twice the number of stream processors, twice the transistors, twice the texture and pixel blending power and is worth twice as much. The 5870 is very competitive at a price of $379 and being as fast as the GeForce GTX 295 with 2 GPUs.

ATI Claims:

ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors are the most technologically advanced and feature rich GPUs AMD has ever created.

Sources [Ubergizmo, Engadget, HardOCP, ]

I don’t see this technology being much help in your everyday desktop.  However, in a laptop/netbook hybrid… The Hybrid P45-ION-T2A2 motherboard can actually house a complete Atom / Ion-based system on one side, while handling a traditional Socket 775 CPU system on the other.  So with this you can run a power-hungry game machine or an energy sipping net-top.   With a price tag at $399, I doubt this will be on high-demand.

Sources [Engadget, Neoseeker, TweekTown]

Seagate has announced their new contribution to the latest data speed hardware.  The new Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT has a massive 64MB cache and 4×500GB platters spinning at 7200RPM.  This is the first hard-drive to use the latest SATA 3.0 6Gbps connection which was officially released on May 27, 2009.  Releasing some time this week, the drive will be priced at $299 USD.

Sources [Engadget, Gizmodo, TG Daily, Seagate]

Windows 7 for $119.99 $29.99!

For a limited time, eligible college students can get the sweetest deal on Windows 7 – for only $29.99 USD. That’s less than most of your textbooks! Hurry — offer ends January 3, 2010 at 12:00 am CST.

Also mentioned is Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $59.95

Source [Microsoft]

I think this is one of the most detailed mods that I’ve ever seen.  This project took 18 days from this Russian guy to accomplish. A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place.

Check out the pictures from the many steps taken to complete this impressive piece of work.

Maximum PC witnessed XPlane 9 and Far Cry 2 running at full resolution on Eyefinity at 12-20 frames per second. HotHardware notes that an upcoming DX11 racing game, Dirt 2, was played at 7680 x 3200 with “perfectly acceptable frame rates” (although 12 fps is not what many would consider “acceptable”).

The feature is called Eyefinity and it allows multiple monitors to be used as a single display.  Currently, when multiple monitors are connected to a single PC, those monitors are seen as separate displays that can be configured as an extended desktop or mirroring.  With Eyefinity, the displays are arranged in 1 or more groups and the OS sees the groups as single displays.

No word yet on a release date, but Engadget reports that  Acer, Dell, HP, MSI and Toshiba already have Eyefinity notebooks in the works.

Read – AMD introduces a graphics chip that can power six computer displays at once
Read – AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action

Sources [Gizmodo, Engadget, Maximum PC, HotHardware]

FINALLY! Cable Labs allows DIY Builders to legally use CableCARD tuners to their full potential.  Engadget has revealed that Microsoft announced the change at MCE event at CEDIA.
Source [Engadget]