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Links to the very best hardware and industry news and reviews sites on the internet.
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Ace's Hardware - Technical information for all
Anand's Home Page - Excellent hardware reviews. Undoubtedly one of the quality sites.
ExtremeTech - In depth cutting and bleeding edge reports are found here.
IT Week :-
- VNU Research library Find at the latest news and white papers.
TechNick - If you need DETAILED cable info etc, this is THE place!
The Register - definately a place to visit - regular
The Inquirer - Another definitive IT news site
Toms Hardware Page - Excellent hardware reviews. Undoubtedly one of the quality sites.
ZDNet News - Latests news bytes - revised daily.
ZDNet News Weekly for more industry updates
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Experts Exchange - THE essential place for IT Answers
 - "We are a search engine for IT e-Newsletters dedicated to creating the largest collaboration of high quality IT newsletters published in the Industry."
CMP :Techweb
EEVL: the Exceptional guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing resources on the web
"EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is an award-winning free service, created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK.
EEVL's target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education, as well as anyone else working, studying or looking for information in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing."
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3D Newsnet
Looks OK with a some cutting edge newsbytes
Active Hardware
In several languages. Good for resellers.
Ars Technica
"The PC enthusiast's resource
Bjorn 3D
Another good site with some excellent articles and reviews.
Deviant PC
Some excellent articles here
Digiconcepts
Endian.net
Grantsdale mean anything to you? Tejas? Maybe you've heard of it, but Intels 10Ghz Nehamel or even the Gilo mobile processor - that replaces the (future) Merom.
You get the idea. Most, but by all means not all of this I am aware of but I have never seen it all packaged in one site!
The daft thing is I was aware of Endian but I haven't got round to visiting the past few years. My loss, but now, with this link one you can enjoy...
Explosive Labs
File Extrensions
The File Extensions for Windows / OS2 / Apple / UNIX
.txt is a no-brainer, but .zad? (.zad = ZFax digitized voice file)
Apparently this is one of the biggest collections of file extensions in the net with more 10,000 entries, and it updated daily
Geek
Excellent site with up to the minute news
IP Konfig
They like bleeding edge here 
MS PC Design guide
Gone forever: MS "PC-98" build spec. MS "PC-99" build spec.
Should have saved the pages for posterity!
Lost Circuits
The adverts, especially the popups ones are annoying but's there's lots of news and info here, both for beginners and old hands
Nordic Hardware
Have to include this given my AKA is Nordic! I've no relation to them for that mind, but it gets my thumbs up for being a well rounded site with excellent reviews.
Apparently they are also one of Sweden's largest test center for computer hardware
NV News
No surprise, it's especially good for graphics card news, notable Nvidia.
Okey Dokey Computers
The PC Help page is a nice touch
PC Hardware
Bit basic, but OK for all that
PC Stats
Good site, especially for memory info.
Processor Emporium
Brilliant if you are looking for chip info
Sharky Extreme
Definately one of the better hardware sites. Worth visiting at least one a month
Sysopt
If you are looking for anything to do with chipsets, this may be a safe bet
Lots of links and info on chipset manufacturers and specific chipsets
Technical Advice
Some nice articles. Very useful
Tech Online
TechOnLine is a series of related websites catering to the electronics engineering community
Technical Tales
Been there, done that...
If you haven't had the joyful task of supporting end users then you can read the sort of stress you lot put us through.
If you are or have been in support it's good for laugh. Maybe you'll add your own tales
Tweaktown
- Some very good articles. Kept current too.
XBit Labs
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Sadly, The Museum of Dead, Gone & Obsolete Computers is closed down
"The first computer I can remember using was an Apple ][e. Of course, that was at school, so I didn't really have the opportunity to use it extensively. When the Commodore Vic20 came along, my grandfather hooked it up to an old black & white television and let me fool around with it. Are we going to look back upon 1999 and wonder how we ever manipulated the computer with a keyboard? Look at where we've been by visiting this virtual museum. Will the Pentium III be an antique?"
A GnomeFAVORITE
HAPPILY though, The web site has merged and can be found at www.old-computers.com
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The following are to be considered for "IT Trade only" and are generally password protected.
Computer Trade Only
Needs password -
Personal Computer Association
Organisation for UK vendors and consultants, resellers and box shifters!
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Networks Today - used to have a good 101 on networking, with the emphasis on connecting to Internet. Still a decent forum site.
Anchordesk -
ZDNet run IT news site.
Computer Geeks -
US storefront - decent range of device drivers
Computer Information Centre -
It's a bit of a portal for news info on pretty much anything in the IT industry.
Broken down into product specific links, it's a THE place to start if you're stuck.
Tech Web -
The Business Technology Network
CMP publications compressed into a massive, searchable resource
Drivers HeadQuarters -
Complete a-z of manufacturers and sources for new and ancient drivers.
Firing Squad -
Pre-release Katmai review by Kenn Hwang
FreshMeat.net
Hard OCP -
Excellent resource, especially for cutting edge
Hardware Central -
Definately worth a look over. Free email newsletters too
Hardware Review .net
IBM's Almaden Research Center -
Cutting edge? Bleeding edge? The future starts here!
MR BIOS -
Painters Hardware page - A "must visit" site - once! Sigh!
PC World News
PC Mechanic -
Certain worth the time to browse
I also have it shown at: PC Mechanic
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