{"id":120,"date":"2003-07-03T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2003-07-03T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T21:24:14","slug":"toms-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/interesting-web-sites\/toms-hardware","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed today that <a href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/us\/en\/sm\/WF06a\/12454-64287-89301-321860-f9-337529.html\"> HP is offering a choice of Windows XP or Mandrake  Linux 9.1<\/a> on some of its business systems. There are some options for configuration and the various models come with a Celeron or Pentium processor.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know more about the features or workings of the Pentium chip and Googled &#8220;advanced transfer cache.&#8221; The first result was a page at the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www17.tomshardware.com\/\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware Guide<\/a>. Reviews of hardware are the featured content. The reviews focus on the technical aspects and often include illustrations, photographs, and charts.  The site claims the reviews are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www17.tomshardware.com\/site\/media\/about_us.html\">independent editorial reviews of cutting-edge computer hardware<\/a>.&#8221; The site also features annotated press releases in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www17.tomshardware.com\/technews\/index.html\">Tom&#8217;s Hard News<\/a>&#8220;, a weekly newsletter &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www17.tomshardware.com\/newsletter\/user\/subscribe.html\">Tom&#8217;s Hard News<\/a>&#8220;, and a bulletin board titled, very appropriately IMO, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.community.tomshardware.com\/forum\/categories.m\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware Guide Community<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site has been around since 1996 and I wonder why I&#8217;ve never come across it before. I was originally attracted by the content. That&#8217;s why I decided to write about it, but I&#8217;m also impressed with the site&#8217;s structure and purpose.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed today that HP is offering a choice of Windows XP or Mandrake Linux 9.1 on some of its business systems. There are some options for configuration and the various models come with a Celeron or Pentium processor. I wanted to know more about the features or workings of the Pentium chip and Googled [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}