Check out the gallery below of the finely tuned C6.BlackforceOne. The design team LOMA-Performance, based in Germany were inspired by the military Boeing Air Force One which carries the President of the USA. The BlackforceOne is a limited edition (25-unit production) Chevrolet Corvette C6 which boasts a twin-turbocharged V8 engine generating an unbelievable 783hp. This atypical supercar will get you from 0-60mph in just 3.4-seconds with a top speed of 205mph. Pricing-wise, the C6.BlackforceOne will cost €190,000. Continue reading »
Just the video of the entire casemod process already deserves a mention on this blog. Will Urbina, a modder has created an “OS Xbox Pro” using the original Xbox dev kit, in addition he has put into his new PC some of the best bits of hardware resembling that of Mac Pros. It is absolutely ballistic! The OS Xbox Pro has a 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s, an NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card, 8GB of RAM, an 16GB solid state drive, and four traditional hard drives.
As you will see in the video, it boots to Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Ubuntu. Unfortunately for Xbox fans, no, it doesn’t play Xbox games anymore, its just the case that he wanted! All this was within a budget price of $1500, that’s incredible.
Found this very useful quick clip recently. If you’re like me, you could only afford a 200GB hard drive when you first bought your laptop and one year later, you’ve already run out of space, this do it yourself tutorial could help you and save you from hiring someone else to do it for you. Tom Merritt from CNET shows you how to backup, create a bootable image of your Windows PC or Mac using some easily downloadable software. He then teaches you how to take out your existing hard drive and the things you need to watch out for.
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