Falcon Northwest Mach V: Gaming PC with Intel's Core i7 CPU

For any techie, a new PC is the ultimate gift--but you had better make it a speedster. If you can afford to sink $7395 into the deal, you can pick up the , which packs an array of the latest technologies available: a (overclocked to 3.8 GHz), a whopping 12GB of DDR3-1600 RAM, and two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics boards. The system prevailed over the competition in almost every graphics test we threw at it, capturing the Best Buy in our gaming PCs category. Nevertheless, both the and the matched the Mach V's record WorldBench 6 score of 163.

Revolution for DS

The hard-to-find Revolution for DS (aka R4) is an used for hacking the Nintendo DS handheld game machine. But the R4 isn't just a hot key to pirate booty. The homebrew community has latched onto this elusive, illicit device, too. Independent game designers are using it to craft their own DS software and are then sharing their work freely with the world. Sudoku puzzles, adventure titles, and even arcade-worthy shooting games have emerged. Heck, folks have created Web browsers, photo viewers, , and e-book readers with the Revolution for DS, too.

So is the R4 a legitimate tool or a violation of Nintendo's EULA? In late July 2008, Nintendo and 54 other companies sued the cartridge's maker, demanding that production cease in Japan, on grounds that it violated that country's Unfair Competition Prevention Law. Tom Buscaglia, a lawyer who specializes in video game issues, believes that the R4 will likely end up being blocked in the United States. But the genie is out of the bottle: R4 clones have already begun to appear.