Holiday Buyer's Guide: Notebooks
Yes folks, it's that time again: time to open your wallets and let a ravenous technology industry take its cut so you can have the shiniest, latest gadgets on...
50 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/15/2010VIA's Dual Core Nano & VN1000 Chipset Previewed
I haven’t had an official product briefing with VIA in years. The last time I met with a representative from the company was two years ago outside of IDF...
54 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/15/2010A brief look at upcoming ASUS P67 Motherboards
With the launch of Sandy Bridge on the horizon, the larger motherboard manufacturers are putting the final touches to their products. ASUS, Gigabyte, EVGA, MSI, Foxconn, and others...
53 by Ian Cutress on 11/14/2010HTC Surround Review: A Pocket Boombox
Even though the WP7 official unveiling is quite a ways behind us, we’ve been spending quite a lot of time with the respective Windows Phone 7 launch devices. Anand...
39 by Brian Klug on 11/13/2010Netgear Roku XD: Streaming for the Masses
Today I have in my hands the Netgear Roku XD media streamer, the latest media streaming solution for the living room to get retail store distribution by allying itself...
27 by Alan Lueke on 11/12/2010Kingston SSDNow V+100 Review
I'm not sure what it is about SSD manufacturers and overly complicated product stacks. Kingston has no less than six different SSD brands in its lineup. The E Series...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/11/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: The SLI Update
Picking up immediately from where we left off yesterday with our review of NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 580, we have a second GTX 580 in house courtesy of Asus...
83 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2010Dell XPS L501x: An Excellent Mainstream Notebook
As we discussed a couple weeks back, Dell has relaunched their XPS brand for laptops, with a focus on quality and "mainstream performance". The latter means that unlike previous...
95 by Jarred Walton on 11/10/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
There's little doubt in our minds that the GF100/GTX 480 launch wasn't quite what NVIDIA was hoping for. It did end up being the fastest single GPU card on...
160 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2010Previewing AMD's Brazos, Part 1: More Details on Zacate/Ontario and Fusion
I hate to keep things from you all, but last week I was diligently working in a room at AMD’s new campus in Austin, Texas. You see, AMD wanted...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2010LaCie 5big Storage Server NAS Review
Back in March 2010, Intel announced an Atom based platform optimized for storage applications. Using either a D410 or the dual core D510, paired with an Intel 82801IR I/O...
37 by Ganesh T S on 11/8/2010AMD Radeon HD 6850 Overclocking Roundup: Asus, XFX, & MSI
With an all-custom launch for the Radeon HD 6850, the door was immediately opened to a variety of 6850 cards with a wide variety of performance characteristics. In fact...
93 by Ryan Smith on 11/8/2010Apple's 11-inch Upgraded MacBook Air: Do 1.6GHz and 4GB Make a Difference?
A couple of weeks ago we looked at Apple's new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs. We came away happy with the upgrades, however a little disappointed at the performance...
85 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/6/2010A Quick Look at OCZ's RevoDrive x2: IBIS Performance without HSDL
Over the summer we previewed OCZ's first affordable PCIe SSD: the RevoDrive. Made of a pair of SandForce SF-1200 controllers behind a PCI-X RAID controller and a PCI-X to...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/4/2010Corsair HS1 Gaming Headset
At the risk of sounding like a puff piece and marketing drivel, Corsair has been essentially synonymous with quality hardware for a while now. If you were having trouble...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/4/2010ASUS G73Jw: Out with the Old, In with the New
The original ASUS G73Jh was an instant classic: a great performer with a good screen, build quality and cooling at an amazing price. Six months later, ASUS is coming...
53 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2010Asus WiCast: Wireless 1080p to your TV
Intel's been making a decent amount of noise with their Intel Wireless Display, or "WiDi" technology, something our own Vivek Gowri is a big proponent of. But WiDi has...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/1/2010550W Roundup: Three PSUs at Different Prices
"You get what you pay for!" Is this maxim realy true? On the one hand there are more than enough expensive PSUs with high ripple and noise results with...
83 by Martin Kaffei on 10/28/2010AnandTech 2010 Server Upgrade: The Memory
A couple of months ago we shared with you the CPUs that are going into our new server farm. We've actually started physically installing the machines (hence the brief...
69 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/28/2010AnandTech Giveaway: Patriot Box Office
I realize I've been very slow with these. My travel schedule as returned to unexpectedly ridiculous once again. You've been seeing the results of those travels on the site...
931 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/28/2010