Last year I wrote a review about Intel’s new range of Penryn processors and the good people at Intel gave me my very own Core 2 Quad 3ghz Extreme processor by accident. It’s pretty much as rad as processors get right now, and it has the word ‘confidential’ stamped on the chip, because they gave it to me before it came out. This makes me happy. But I didn’t have a motherboard to run it on because they’re rare and expensive.

Thankfully local IT distribution powerhouse Mustek has it’s very own in-house messiah in the form of their CTO, Dimitri Tserpis. Dimitri wrangled up an Intel Extreme Series DX38BT board, otherwise known as the ‘Bonetrail’ and gave it to me gratis.

They say good journalists can’t be bought, but this is bollocks. Both Intel and Mustek are now on my List of Legends and other Rad People and Organisations who Rock. They have earned my bias. Buy their stuff.

So if you come ’round my base in Team Fortress 2 looking for aksie, I will hand you your ass with the help of my new arsenal. And my level 70 druid in World of Warcraft will murderise you in any battleground, even though my account was cancelled six months ago and my computer may be off at the time. You have been warned.

Now all I need is one of them new-fangled water-cooled Nvidia cards to make everything look the part. And some DDR3 RAM. It’s a sunny day in geekville.

Apple has announced its launch of the world’s thinnest laptop during the 2008 Macworld keynote presentation by company CEO Steve Jobs.

The Macbook Air is about half a centimeter thick at its thinnest point and achieves its remarkable form-factor due to Intel secretly developing the smallest Core 2 Duo processor to date for Apple’s new product. (more…)