Neowin News Feed for: Quiet

Halo designer says MGS character is disgusting, not sexy

Christopher White — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:11:56 +0000

After seeing the character design for Quiet, the female sniper in Metal Gear Solid V, Halo designer David Ellis said the industry is disgusting, "full of man babies," and that this feels "icky." Read more...

Blind People Say Quiet Hybrid Cars Pose Safety Risk

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:15:11 +0000

Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind. Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely... Read more...

Samsung Launches Quiet SpinPoint Hard Drives

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:57:10 +0000

Samsung has announced 80GB and 160GB flavours of its new 3.5" SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra silent and high-speed hard disk drives. The S166 Series has a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, provides an 8MB buffer,... Read more...

AMD Shows Motherboard Design for Small, Quiet PCs

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:50:41 +0000

AMD is pushing a new motherboard format called DTX, which it says will allow system assemblers to build smaller PCs that are quieter and more energy efficient. The DTX spec is intended to bolster the... Read more...

September looks quiet with three Microsoft patches

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:46:23 +0000

After handling 19 sets of patches in July and August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows... Read more...

Another quiet Apple release: iPod U2 is "Back for an Encore"

Simon Andrews — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:13:53 +0000

Thanks -tom for pointing this out on the forum! In yet another silent release by Apple, the U2 iPod has been rereleased. It silently appeared on Apple's site today, with the slogan "Back for... Read more...

New Cool, Quiet Laptop Hard Drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:11:02 +0000

Mobile hard drives--partly because of their smaller, 2.5-inch size and their need to conserve notebook PC power--have always lagged behind 3.5-inch desktop models in performance and capacity. But a new generation of higher-performance, power-thrifty models... Read more...

Intel gets quiet about the competition

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:23:22 +0000

Intel's release this week of a 64-bit Xeon server processor made one thing clear - AMD has its rival in a real tizzy. As an Intel spinmeister was describing the new Nocona processor, we couldn't... Read more...

Lindows keeps quiet as SCO battle rages

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 May 2003 15:15:32 +0000

Unlike Novell and Linuxtag, Lindows - the consumer Linux maker - says it is neither for nor against SCO's legal battle against IBM and Linux. Lindows.com on Thursday sought to distance itself from the legal... Read more...

Gainward to launch ultra quiet FX Ultra

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:53:28 +0000

The answer to our prayers? THE GAINWARD COMPANY , known to make very fast nVidia based cards, is going to surprise us again. We expect this PowerPack card will be faster than many... Read more...

All quiet on the eastern digital front

Tue, 28 May 2002 13:21:22 +0000

Yesterday at approx 10:30am disaster rocked a small house in nothern New Brunswick. When I awoke I made my way over to my computer as I habitualy do every morning, pressed the power button, ... Read more...