June 2010

by Rafael Hernandez on June 21, 2010 · 0 comments

Going ultraportable means ditching any sort of performance or usability along the way. Well that’s not entirely true but you’d better make sure to pack your external optical drive and hope your fingers are nice and limber because you’re going to be slaving away on that cramped keyboard for a while. The Toshiba Portégé R700 […]

Read more Toshiba Portégé R700 manages thin, light, and optical

by Rafael Hernandez on June 21, 2010 · 0 comments

Any sort of surprise announcement pretty much went out the window. Android and Me has gotten its hands on a soon to be released (Google Android powered if you hadn’t yet guessed) Motorola Droid 2 smartphone and has run a number of benchmarks that show it to be quite the capable performer…well given that the […]

Read more Motorola Droid 2 Man-handled, spills its secrets

by Rafael Hernandez on June 21, 2010 · 0 comments

That case you’re interested in, yeah you know the one with the bells and whistles and the preloaded with fans that’ll blind you if not make you go deaf? Well all of those fun extras clearly add to the cost of the case and probably aren’t what you need given how many extra fans you […]

Read more Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum isn’t interested in frivolity

by Rafael Hernandez on June 18, 2010 · 0 comments

PC cases generally don’t have a good way at getting airflow to components without making things look amateurish. Specifically we’re talking about those side panel fan mounts which show off whirling mass of plastic instead of the fancy guts inside. So Zalman has taken the only reasonable approach and covered it all up with a […]

Read more Zalman Z7 Plus goes extra wide for that cooling action

by Rafael Hernandez on June 18, 2010 · 0 comments

The biggest question you would face when looking for a gaming performance improvement was which graphics card was the one to buy, now you’re faced with which platform to choose for that extra special multi-GPU performance push as well as which graphics cards to buy. You just can’t win. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 […]

Read more NVIDIA Fermi SLI scales quite nicely thank you very much

by Rafael Hernandez on June 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Your trusty portable computing device has something of a bad habit when it comes to loading up files. Its piddly, spindle-based harddrive leaves a lot to be desired in the performance category which can get annoying given the amount of thrashing that goes on in a modern PC. OCZ wants to alleviate your pain with […]

Read more OCZ Launches Vertex 2 and Onyx 1.8″ SSDs for your mobile needs

by Rafael Hernandez on June 17, 2010 · 0 comments

The latest and greatest typically means it’s a few years off from hitting the mainstream so while the enthusiasts have been enjoying the hardware for over a year we’re finally starting to see an effort into pushing the older chipsets down to the affordable level. The ASUS P6X58D-E Xtreme Design Motherboard comes up big with […]

Read more ASUS P6X58D-E Xtreme Design gets you in on the ground floor

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2010 · 0 comments

USB 3.0 is one seriously fast connection offering up to 4.8Gbps of bandwidth which means you’re looking at a whole new world of possibilities for peripherals. Quick storage anybody? The OCZ Enyo SSD crams all of its components into a portable case and offers up a USB 3.0 connection which means you can take your […]

Read more OCZ Enyo SSD enjoys a little USB 3.0 action

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2010 · 0 comments

Your desktop next to you, yeah that one right there, are you fully utilizing is potential. I mean the thing has several PCI or PCI-E slots but there’s nothing in them now is there? So why have a PC that takes up so much space when you can easily downsize. The GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 mini-ITX motherboard […]

Read more GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 sneaks in under your nose

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2010 · 0 comments

A new phone launch means that you’ll need some form of update in order to be ready to take care of syncing up your digital bits. In that case Apple has you well covered. iTunes 9.2 has been released which brings along Apple iPhone 4 (once you manage to get your grubby little hands on […]

Read more Apple iTunes hits 9.2 for your iPhone 4 managing needs

by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2010 · 0 comments

People upgrade their speakers about as often as they upgrade their keyboards…almost never. There’s something that’s reassuring about seeing the same old speakers year after year despite their cruddy controls and less than stellar audio reproduction capabilities. Eagle Arion ET-AR506-BK Speakers sport a snazzy design and some meaty specs for an inexpensive set. The satellites […]

Read more Eagle Arion ET-AR506-BK Speakers does its best Tron impression