Toshiba has officially put HD DVD to the sword, saying it will stop shipments by the end of March. Blu-ray's backers will now turn their attention to the format's next competitive threat: high-def downloads.Read More...
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Toshiba has officially put HD DVD to the sword, saying it will stop shipments by the end of March. Blu-ray's backers will now turn their attention to the format's next competitive threat: high-def downloads.Read More...
Read more »"Recently we tested the Scythe Ninja and Ninja Mini heatsinks for performance, design, and installation. We present to you our results may surprise you. Scythe has taken an unusual approach to heatsink design and combined outside the cube thinking with traditional design to come up with a heatsink that performs well but has issues. Read our review to find out more."
Read more »"The SilverStone CW03 HTPC Case has an all aluminum body with nickel-coated steel structural support and is available in a back and silver color so it should match most audio/video setups. The first thing you will notice at the front left is the very impressive 7” widescreen LCD with integrated touch screen. This small display supports full HD 1080p with resolutions ranging from 640x480 to 1920x1200, so it offers extremely sharp picture quality. It's also compatible with 64-bit & 32-bit Windows XP/MCE/Vista operating systems. This is THE HTPC case!
Read more »How many times have you misplaced your thumb drive and all you could think about was what information was saved on it. Was it personal? Was it sensitive to your job? Well Kingston has sent us one of their DataTraveler series thumb drives that is designed to help protect that data and not cost a bundle in the process. Today we look at the DataTraveler 400, read on to see if its a good fit for you.
Read more »Intel is announcing the brand names for its ultra low power x86 Silverthorne based processors and platforms. Read on for the specifics.
Read more »Are you looking for an iPhone-compatible headset designed to provide premium quality and style with a great price? Maximo Products recently released the iMetal iP-HS1 & iP-HS2 stereo headsets for the Apple iPhone and they have been designed with high-fidelity in mind. Would you rather have a 15mm neodymium driver or the 9mm neodymium driver? Read on as we look at both headsets and help you figure out which headset is right for you.
Read more »Bits and pieces of what we learned about virtualization at VMworld Europe 2008, which took place in Cannes around the end of February.
Read more »You may ask with current motherboards carry a minimum of six to eight SATA ports, what is the need for SATA expansion cards? Well, it is true that for most users, the onboard SATA ports will be more than enough for the lifetime of the motherboard. However, in the corporate environment, these onboard SATA ports can be used up quite fast. Imagine that the eSATA will take up one port and with any RAID setup which consumes a minimum of two ports for RAID 0 or 1 and four ports for RAID 10 or 01, sooner or later, the need for extra SATA ports is inevitable.
Read more »Intel revealed some more information on the Atom processor and its 2009/2010 successor, Moorestown.
Read more »Speaking of temperatures, the Zalman GPU after-market cooler on the 8800GT TurboForce is a godsend and certainly keeps the temperatures in the lowest range we've again seen on any stock 8800 series card. It averages 10 degrees Celsius cooler than any other card we've tested in this performance range. Even when this card was overclocked to a gargantuan level we only experienced a load temperature of 52 degrees Celsius, which is amazing!
Read more »Nokia has reduced the MSRP of the N810 Internet Tablet by $90, bringing the device's price down to $389.99. Could it be a response to Apple's mobile SDK?Read More...
Read more »We played with OCZ's "brain mouse", looked at ASUS' HDMI equipped sound card that will enable high definition audio codecs over HDMI from a HTPC, saw some more 4-series motherboards and much more in our day 2 coverage from CeBIT.
Read more »"The latest graphics card to make its way to the labs at TweakTown (and the public very soon) is the 9600GT. Generally speaking, any x600 form of card has never been that exciting really; sure the 8600GT and 8600GTS weren’t bad, but far from what you’d call exciting.
What makes this one any more interesting you say? Well, word floating around the interweb is that the card is supposed to be quite the performer. How much of a performer is it? It doesn’t really matter at this second because we’re only a few pages away from finding out exactly that!"
Read more »"Noctua derived its name from the Greek mythology. The little owl, Athene Noctua, is the symbol of the Greek goddess Athene, who represents wisdom, science and strategy. She has a marked preference for the most clever among the Greek heroes, like Odysseus, who endure their adventures by the use of savvy consideration instead of mere force. It is the owl’s silent flight that Noctua keeps in mind with their fan design..."
Read more »CrossFireX is here and we can now combine any arrangement of same class hardware that will yield 4 GPUs in the system. There are quite a number of combinations, so we are first looking at what will be the most popular: 2 card configurations that yield 3 and 4 GPUs.
Read more »Thintresting move, Steve! Be it marketing or design, the MacBook Air is hotter than many expected. Even a month after general retail "availability," the MacBook Air is out of stock in major markets, and Apple's own online store is still showing significant delays. Read More...
Read more »The OLPC Project is looking for a CEO to take on leadership responsibilities as the first large-scale XO laptop deployments begin.Read More...
Read more »A secret table PC project at Apple called "Safari Pad" was tapped for the iPhone's interface. But could a tablet product still be in the pipeline? Maybe.Read More...
Read more »CeBIT just begun and as an esteemed colleague put it, it's like a big Computex. Motherboard and chipset announcements galore!
Read more »NVIDIA just launched the GeForce 9800 GX2 video card with a pair of 600MHz G92 GPUs, 256 stream processors running at 1.5GHz and 1GB GDDR3 memory operating at 2GHz. We have a couple XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 cards on hand and the performance numbers are very impressive. Read on to see how the GeForce 9800 GX2 does against a number of other video cards!
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