{"id":8468,"date":"2005-04-19T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2005-04-19T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T17:34:27","slug":"beware-the-dark-side-of-the-mobo-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8468","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Dark Side of the MoBo, Luke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/starwars.jpg\">Think of it as &#8217;70s van art, only on your PC case. Alienware has the first-ever license to create official Star Wars PCs. Gee, I wonder why nobody else has shelled out the likely-significant bread to make such branded boxes? Until they come out with one in the shape of the Deathstar, which can vaporize anyone who sits at my desk without Lord Branwyn&#8217;s permission, spraypaint me uninterested. FWIW, here are the tech specs: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> AMD Athlon\u2122 64 3200+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology<br \/> Alienware\u00ae PCI Express Motherboard<br \/> 1024 MB Dual-Channel DDR PC-3200 at 400 MHz<br \/> 80 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive 8 MB Cache<br \/> Dual NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u2122 6600 GT PCI Express 128 MB DDR3<br \/> 16X DVD\u00b1R\/W Recorder Drive<br \/> AlienIce\u2122 Video Cooling System <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Alienware is running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alienware.com\/contest_pages\/contest_starwars.aspx\" target=\"new\">contest<\/a> to give systems away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as &#8217;70s van art, only on your PC case. Alienware has the first-ever license to create official Star Wars PCs. Gee, I wonder why nobody else has shelled out the likely-significant bread to make such branded boxes? Until they come out with one in the shape of the Deathstar, which can vaporize &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware the Dark Side of the MoBo, Luke!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}