And to continue with our hardware-themed day here at Insomnia today we have Canadian retail/online store NCIX, which maintains a wonderful YouTube review channel:
http://ncix.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/NCIXcom
I really hate YouTube reviews, and especially of videogames (I have yet to manage to skim more than a couple of minutes of a game review video before clicking away from it), so when I say this is good you know I am not kidding. Featuring Linus Sebastian, the world's most charming and enthusiastic hardware commentator, who also really knows his hardware stuff and can rattle off acronyms at hip-hop speed levels without tripping himself up or confusing anyone (as long as you already know what he's talking about, of course).
I really like this sort well-meaning enthusiastic videogame nerd. They make the best kind of gaming partners: neither an aspie (not enough of a "good player" for that) nor a fag (fags hate hardware), as can be seen plainly in his videos, but somewhere in-between, and as close to the middle as possible -- exactly where I am, in fact. Only this sort of person has any chance of properly enjoying videogames, which is to say art.
Of course, to get back to our topic, a video review cannot touch a written one in terms of depth and breadth of analysis, so it's not as if this channel is a substitute for proper tech sites, but seeing the hardware being fitted and operated can sometimes be extremely helpful, as seen in the triple-projector video I linked earlier today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMBS_bfkFk
I don't care how many words you use or how good of a writer you are, you simply cannot get across how this thing feels without a video, and when it comes to its 3D aspect you simply cannot get it across period.
So yeah, good channel to keep an eye on, this one.