Core i7 Giveaway Winner, AT on Kindle, Site Redesign Preview and More
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 13, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
We have a winner to our Core i7 giveaway from last week: Gregory Peng from California (user name Possum). Congratulations Gregory! I've just sent you an email to confirm your details, drop me a response and I'll get this out to you.
Below are the specs of the iBuypower system that Gregory won:
| iBuypower Core i7 System | |
| Case | Chimera Inferno |
| CPU | Intel Core i7 870 |
| CPU Cooler | Asetek Liquid Cooler |
| Motherboard | ASUS P7P55D-LE |
| Memory | 4GB DDR3-1600 |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB |
| HDD | Intel 80GB SSD, 1TB |
| Optical | LG Blu-ray Reader |
| PSU | NZXT 800W |
| Media | 12-in-1 Card Reader |
| OS | Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit |
| KB & Mouse | iBuypower Keyboard & Mouse |
| Monitor | ASUS 23.6" Widescreen LCD Monitor |
We're already working on gathering hardware for the next giveaway, so this won't be your only opportunity to win. Thanks again to Intel and iBuypower for sending in the hardware for this giveaway and thanks to all of you for entering.
Next on the Agenda: AnandTech is now Available on Amazon Kindle Devices
I'm a Kindle 2 owner and I have to admit, it's sort of exciting seeing AnandTech on the device. Our 10 most recent articles are available for reading (subscription required) on the Kindle through Amazon's Kindle Store. If you've got a Kindle, check it out.
The AnandTech Redesign
I mentioned this a while ago, but we're finally at a point where we can give you guys an idea of what's coming. Have a look at the new AnandTech and be sure to leave your feedback in the comments section. We haven't implemented it in HTML so there's still room to tweak.
Not all of the ad placements are in (something I want to get your input on shortly) and there's going to be a ton of customization options offered as well. So keep those two in mind. The main carousel up top with three big article images will actually automatically rotate through a set number of articles so you'll be able to get a good idea of the past several articles on the main site without any scrolling.
Our main goal here was to make the site look and feel a lot more modern, as well as bring its functionality where it should be for 2010. There's a lot of cool stuff coming with more giveaways, more content and more categories of Bench next year. Here it is, constructive criticism is always appreciated :)
Coming Soon: A Call for Writers
It's a bit premature but I just wanted to give you all a heads up that we'll be looking for some new writers in the near future. If you've ever wanted the chance to get into the industry, it may be time to start polishing off your writing skills. Get those writing samples ready folks!
More details soon...
Anand Goes to India?
From 12/1 - 12/15 I will be traveling to India for the first time in 10 years. If you're an AnandTech reader in/around Mumbai, Delhi or Jaipur let me know. If we can get enough folks together we might do a reader meetup :)
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fxfighter - Friday, November 13, 2009 - link
I agree, the fixed width thing on lots of websites annoys me a lot too. I don't get what is so hard about designing sites so they dynamically fit to the resolution of the users screen, it isn't a huge amount of extra effort and just requires using some percentages for various parts.teko - Monday, November 16, 2009 - link
Reading a long paragraph of text on full wide screen is actually annoying. It's harder for the eyes to follow a very long line of text.This is why newspapers and magazines are designed with columns, to make it easier to read.
freezervv - Monday, November 16, 2009 - link
Fair enough.And to be generous to the original code, fixed width a la the current site does do some nice things. E.g., when shrinking a window the "padding" disappears, but the content remains as long as possible.
kmmatney - Monday, November 16, 2009 - link
fixed width is also better when viewing the site on a mobile device (iPhone, Droid, etc,..).faxon - Saturday, November 14, 2009 - link
im also all for more width in the article space. right now im using exactly half of the total width of my monitor for one article, and while thats all well and good if i want to run two articles side by side, having the site automatically resize the articles to the width of your screen would make it a lot easier for me to read through long articles quickly since it makes speed reading a lot easier. also, please make sure that the new site doesnt use any flash for the primary content if at all possible. i browse anandtech from work on my iphone all the time and having flash content would utterly kill it for mefaxon - Saturday, November 14, 2009 - link
ooh one thing i forgot. the comments system for these articles is a real pain and it doesnt work very well. some of the sites i go to have a system where there is actually a subsection of the forums that is dedicated to discussion of the articles posted. if the forum were expanded to include a section like this it would clean up the comments system as a whole in one go without any need for additional development beyond adding the related sections and a means of automatically generating threads in the appropriate forumWilliam Gaatjes - Saturday, November 14, 2009 - link
I am for that. Although the new forum is still under development, i see way to many buttons with the same function.RaistlinZ - Friday, November 13, 2009 - link
Looks decent enough. It'll take some time to get used to, although I am very interested in the customization features. Will the new design be any slower to load though? I'm on primitive dial-up internet here and I'd hate for all the new features and eye-candy to slow things down.Thanks
7Enigma - Monday, November 16, 2009 - link
Yikes! If you're a firefox user you want to definitely get some of the low-bandwidth plug-in's available.Devo2007 - Friday, November 13, 2009 - link
I like the new layout (and I'm one who tends to be fairly resistant to change overall when it comes to my news sites) :)Just curious what screen resolution you're designing the new layout in (while I do have a 24" LCD, I tend to keep the browser window around 1024 pixels wide so that I can keep other windows visible).