HP's cool new Media Center PC

HP has been putting a a lot more emphasis on design lately, as evidenced by its soon-to-launch Vista showcase PC.

Among other features, it sports integrated FM and HDTV tuners, built-in camera and a touch-screen interface with this at-a-glance calendar and info center. It looks like it'll cost about $1,800.

Very cool. Expensive, but cool.

Engadget has the scoop.

A Brief History of Game Console Warfare

From BusinessWeek. Interesting graphic, though a bit inaccurate in places -- "Microsoft's Xbox marked the software company's debut in producing hardware of any kind." Really, BusinessWeek? Are you sure about that?

I have a really cool book, Digital Retro, that talks about the history of personal computers and mentions several of the game consoles. Naturally, it goes into a bit more depth than BusinessWeek could with its graphic and features lots of nice, big pictures. I would love to see the author tackle the game console business in a follow-up volume.

Link

Gears Of War trailer

Here's that game I wrote about earlier.