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You’ve been hearing a lot of stuff about the New Xbox Experience over the last few months. How it’ll change the 360, how it’ll add a whole bunch of new features to the console, how it’ll alter the very fabric of space and time around you. Well, provided you’re not already playing around with it, the time for hearing about the NXE is almost over. The update is due to go live at 2:00am Pacific Time, November 19 (ie very, very soon) and provided everything goes according to plan, millions of blades and gamerpics around the world will cry out in terror, before being suddenly silenced. Then summarily replaced with something slicker, brighter and easier to use.

If you’re up (or are staying up) for it, and don’t live on the West Coast of the USA, here’s a chart showing just when 2am Pacific Time is for you. If that time is very late/very early for you, and your significant other asks why you’re up, whatever you do, don’t tell them it’s for a major firmware update for a home video game console.

Can you even imagine forking out nearly 20,000 dollars for a computer with 64K RAM? I can’t imagine what the people during that era of computer buying must have gone through. Jesus Christ! The price tags on these computers that you are about to see were beyond outrageous. In the 80s computers that weighed 55 pounds were called portable computers and now we whine if they are over 5 pounds. We sure as hell are spoiled cause personally I wouldn’t fork out more than 1000 dollars for a nice rig. Check out these images, although they were the roots for modern day computers, they were ugly as hell and the price no matter what anybody says didn’t justify whatsoever.

Presenting the ugliest computers from the past that came with outrageous price tags. Enjoy!

Radio Shack TRS - 80 Model II (1979)
Price : $3,450 (32K RAM)
$3,899 (64 K Ram)

Osborne 1 - Considered to be the first portable computer (1981)
Price : $1,795 (32K RAM)

Otrona Attache (1982)
Price : $3,995 (64K RAM)

Apple Lisa (1983)
Price : $9,995 (1MB)

Apple III (1981)
Price : $3,495 (128K RAM)
$3,815 (w/ monitor)

Compaq Portable III (1987)
Price : $4,999 (20MB HD)
$5,799 (40MB HD)

Dynabyte (1981)
Price : $2,375 (64K RAM)

IBM 5120 (1980)
Price : $9,340 (w/ printer)

IBM Portable PC 5155 (1984)
Price : $4,225 (256 - 640K RAM)

IBM Portable PC (1975)
Price : $19,975 (64K RAM)

Big retro gamer? Emulators no fun? The wife upset because you have 8 consoles hooked up to the family TV? Well then the Super Genintari is just right for you. The Super Genintari combines 4 classic arcade systems into one unit. An Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis are rolled into one package.

You can have all 4 system cartridges plugged in at once and it only requires a single AV cable, which makes switching between Sonic and Super Mario Brothers a breeze.

The whole box measures about 14″x10″x5″ and is made entirely of transparent bronze acrylic, formed and shaped on a homemade strip heater. All of the openings for the buttons, cartridges and controller ports were carefully cut with a cordless Dremel. The face buttons are clear acrylic domes with each system’s logo epoxy glued in place and back-lit with orange LEDs when pressed. The entire system is incredibly easy to hook up, consisting of only one standard power cord and one A/V cable. It’s a little on the large size considering the room needed for all the boards, cartridge connectors and built-in transformer, and there’s also the fact that I refused to use clone systems since I wanted 100% compatibility and faithful reproduction. (No Yobos, Super Joys, etc.)

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The claim to have created the world’s smallest PC has
frequently been touted by companies small and sundry. But this little
device really takes the cake, and it at least seems worthy of its
claim. CompuLab has introduced a tiny fanless PC dubbed the Fit-PC
Slim.

This tiny PC measures 4.3×3.9×1.2-inches and weighs just 380 grams.
It uses 4-6 Watts of power and is equipped with a 500MHz AMD Geode
LX800 processor, an Ethernet port, 3 USB ports, a VGA output, WiFi, and
a 2.5-inch hard drive option. It is also capable of running both
Windows XP and Linux.

We want one.

Features and Specifications:

Processor — 500MHz AMD Geode LX800

Memory — 256MB or 512MB of soldered-on RAM

Display — VGA output

Storage — Accepts 2.5-inch hard drive internally; factory offers pre-installed 60GB version

Networking:

LAN — 10/100 Ethernet with RJ45 connector

WLAN — 802.11b/g (optional)

Other I/O:

3 x USB 2.0 (2 front-panel, 1 rear)

1 x serial (with proprietary connector)

Dimensions — 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches (110 x 100 x 30mm)

Weight — 13 ounces (380g)

The Fit-PC Slim with basic 256MB configuration without WiFi is
priced at $220, while the one with 512MB and WiFi but no hard drive is
priced at $245. Meanwhile, the one equipped with a 60MB hard drive
(yes, you read that right — a bizzare capacity, for sure), 512MB of
RAM, and offering an option to choose either Linux or Windows XP Home
would cost $295 and $335, respectively.

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Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii. The best part? You don’t have to crack open your Wii or disturb your hardware in any way to install it. Let’s take a detailed look at how to softmod your Wii with the Twilight hack to run homebrew apps. Then I’ll show you how to install the Wii port of the open source media player, mplayer, to turn your Wii into a DVD (or should I say WiiVD?) player.

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