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Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
One of the secret rules of journalism is that if you see three references to something in a short enough period of time, it's officially a trend. So, quickly following in the footsteps of yoga and AO-rated video games comes the next must-have accessory: the 1-terabyte external FireWire drive.
Sure, they're still around $1,000, but prices should come tumbling down now that we've seen two of these megadrives pimped on mainstream tech sites in the last week. Both the Mercury Elite-AL Pro and the G-Tech G-Raid are modeled after the brushed-steel look of a Mac G5, but I'd hook them up to my Media Center PC any day, especially since my current obsession with digitizing my DVD collection has quickly filled up 450GB of space.
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