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Avatar 3D – The Hardware Behind The Movie

January 21, 2010
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Most of you are probably aware of James Cameron’s latest creation, Avatar, and some of you might also have watched it in 3D. If you haven’t, go do it before it’s too late, it’s really a great movie, despite the story not being the most original.
The company behind the graphics in Avatar is Weta Digital [...]

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Survey: 33% Of All Laptops Break Within 3 Years

November 21, 2009
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A survey made by an American electronics insurance company, SquareTrade, reports that 33% of all laptops break within just three years. Hardware issues makes up for 66% of those cases.
Cheap netbooks (small notebooks) are even more likely to break, in fact the failure rate is 20% higher and the chance of hardware failure is 40% [...]

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