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 HP Compaq 2510p Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published October 9, 2007
Sure, you'd like a compact, 3.5-pound laptop, but you're not going to sacrifice to get it. You're not going to settle for a single-core processor. You want your DVD±RW drive on board, not in some separate slice or dock or at the end of a USB cable. You'll accept nothing less than four hours of battery life, 2GB of RAM, and a 100GB hard disk to stand up to Windows Vista Business. You dare HP to match that. You get this. [more Computers]
Platform Trends: Intel Primes the X38 for Takeoff
By Vince Freeman -
Published October 1, 2007
As Intel freshens its Core 2 processor line with a 1333MHz front-side bus and DDR-3 memory support (not to mention next month's new "Penryn" variants), PC performance enthusiasts look forward to motherboards worthy of the new CPUs. Hence Intel's first hardcore desktop chipset in two years, featuring PCI Express 2.0, dual PCIe x16, and under-the-table overclocking ... but probably not the feature gamers crave most. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Data Robotics Drobo Review
By Joseph Moran -
Published September 25, 2007
Got files -- and plan to get more? You could install a RAID array or surround your PC with a daisy chain of external hard drives, or you could slide one to four SATA drives into a self-configuring, automated storage manager that combines RAID-style safety with on-the-fly drive removal, addition, or replacement. It's the most effortless way yet to set up and maintain large amounts of storage. [more Peripherals]
The Tick-Tock of Doom, or For Whom Intel Tolls
By Eric Grevstad -
Published September 25, 2007
Processor upgrades: just say no? HardwareCentral editor Eric won't go that far, but finds reasons not to tie your purchases to Intel's newly announced policy of scheduling new CPU designs and less radical manufacturing and power-saving improvements for alternate years. He also covets a 433MHz notebook and considers the apocalypse: putting a Mac on the Labs, Weather, & Sports Desk. [more Opinions]
Platform Trends: Quad-Core AMDs At Last
By Vince Freeman -
Published September 17, 2007
After gnashing its teeth while its nemesis Intel sold truckloads of what AMD views as quick and dirty quad-core processors, made by simply putting two dual-core CPUs onto the same die, the underdog has finally shipped its more elegant, native-quad-core "Barcelona" in the form of nine new Opteron processors. Now it's mano a mano -- or at least cuatro a cuatro -- with the lucrative server market in the balance. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published September 12, 2007
You've probably done the wave in a stadium, but Logitech wants to do it on your desk: The company's newest wireless keyboard and mouse combo features keys that rise and fall like the tide beneath your fingertips. Is being ergonomic but not too ergonomic the key to typing success? Will Eric get back to writing about the keyboard instead of rhapsodizing about the mouse? [more Peripherals]
AMD's Quad-Core Opteron Arrives
Published September 10, 2007
Whose quad is more quad? AMD finally delivers its half-year-late 'Barcelona' processors, letting IT managers at last compare their 'native' or full-fledged four-core design to Intel's dual-dual-core Xeon and Core 2: The first batch peaks at a modest 2.0GHz, but hey, AMD's got 4- to 8-way server versions at rollout while Intel only got around to shipping MP Xeons five days ago. [more News]
Platform Trends: Graphics Technology Is On the Move Again
By Vince Freeman -
Published September 3, 2007
The PC graphics market has made news -- some predictable and some inexplicable -- lately, with ATI partners offering quad GPUs to appear alongside quad CPUs; the second coming of the Ageia PhysX card; and the umpteenth comeback of S3 Graphics, in which the punching-bag brand discovers DirectX 10. Vince Freeman brings you up to date. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Autumn in the Air, Digital Cameras Everywhere
By Eric Grevstad -
Published August 28, 2007
You can't hide from this fall's crop of digital cameras -- practically all of them boast face detection technology that identifies and then sets focus and exposure for one or more human faces in the frame. If that's not enough, our rundown of more than two dozen new models turns up some spectacular stats: 18X optical zoom? 21-megapixel resolution? 51-point auto focus? 15 shots per second? ISO 25,600? [more Peripherals]
Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published August 21, 2007
A compact, wireless mouse can be a laptop lugger's best friend. Logitech already offers several slightly-scaled-down, airline-tray-table siblings of its high-precision desktop mice, but this time the mouse's size isn't the only thing under the knife: Can anybody see where the USB wireless adapter went? [more Peripherals]
Platform Trends: Intel Readies New Products and Wraps Up Old Ones
By Vince Freeman -
Published August 17, 2007
What's an Extreme Server? It's one of the market segments that high-flying Intel has decided to dominate, as the processor powerhouse prepares to ship a gotta-have-it new chipset for its newest 1333MHz-bus Core 2 Duos and Quads, roll out Xeon CPUs with a hefty 12MB of cache, and basically just flaunt its 45-nanometer-process stuff in front of AMD's face. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Gateway E-155C Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published August 10, 2007
Transformers is the summer's hit movie, but convertible Tablet PCs that swivel and flip between keyboard and pen input modes haven't been market blockbusters. Gateway aims to change that with a thin and light model that features everything from Core 2 Duo power and an onboard optical drive to a two-way touch screen on a two-way hinge. We give it the hands- and teeth-on treatment. [more Computers]
Platform Trends: AMD Stumbles in 2007, Looks to Rise in 2008
By Vince Freeman -
Published August 3, 2007
Intel's been kicking sand in its face for months, but AMD is dreaming of Charles Atlas. It's no secret that Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad processors and Nvidia's GeForce 8 Series graphics cards have pummeled the Athlon 64 X2 and ATI Radeon 2000 lines, but last week AMD demonstrated its next-generation Phenom running many MHz faster than folks expected, and the graphics division vows that the Radeon 3000 series won't be the letdown the 2000 was. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Samsung Q1 Ultra Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published July 31, 2007
Samsung's second crack at the new Ultra Mobile PC category is a light (1.5 pounds) and bright touch-screen machine with Intel's new A110 processor and full handwriting-recognition, wireless Web-surfing, and Windows Vista capability. It may look like a PlayStation Portable, but does this mini have the moxie to be your second or third PC? Is the price right? Do you have a spare USB keyboard? [more Computers]
HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One Review
By Eric Grevstad -
Published July 24, 2007
As if the inkjet multifunction market wasn't crowded enough, HP boldly says its latest, fully loaded printer/scanner/copier/fax can meet or beat the speed and quality of color laser models -- while erasing color inkjets' reputation for higher operating costs. Could this $399 small-business centerpiece be the best all-in-one we've ever seen? [more Peripherals]
Platform Trends: Intel Goes To New Extremes
By Vince Freeman -
Published July 19, 2007
Intel's mainstream Core 2 Duo and out-of-the-mainstream-but-getting-closer Core 2 Quad processors are such good performers that it's getting hard for the company to set its top-of-the-line Extreme CPU series apart. This week's two introductions don't make giant strides in clock speed, but take other routes to temptation: a new 1333MHz bus for the desktop and the company's first overclockable processor for notebooks. [more Chips & Upgrades]
Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB Review
By Joseph Moran -
Published July 11, 2007
It may not be the fanciest external hard disk around -- it's a single-drive solution with no RAID or expansion capabilities -- but Seagate's desktop "data mover" should satisfy your backup and file-sync needs for a long time, both because of its hefty 750GB capacity and because of its up-to-the-minute eSATA as well as USB 2.0 interface. Its free-trial-subscription, browser-based remote access is tempting, too. [more Peripherals]
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