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Saturday, February 13, 2010
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Lenovo had one of the largest showings from any single PC manufacturer at CES this year, and while sifting through the company's new lineup of machines can be a daunting task for the average consumer, it was pretty clear from the outset that the ThinkPad Edge would be one of Lenovo's standout products of 2010. In many ways, it's a departure from the ThinkPad norm. It's the first ThinkPad to be available in more than just black (it will also ship in red), and there are a copious amount of customization options. Processors from both AMD and Intel are available, and it ships in 13", 14" and 15" form factors. It's not usual that a single machine type is available in ultraportable, mid-size and full-size notebook form factors, but the Edge seemingly breaks the mold...
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"There are some community projects like Lomoco for providing
configuration controls for Logitech mice under Linux, but this project
and others have not exactly moved along at a brisk pace even though mice
drivers are much simpler than say graphics cards or most other hardware
components. For Razer mice, there was RazerTool, a simple project to
provide some basic tweaking options for select Razer mice under Linux,
but that project has been defunct since early 2007. Even with the lack
of configuration tools or specialized drivers for Razer mice (or
keyboards and other peripherals) on Linux, we still end up falling in
love with their hardware as the build quality of their products are
phenomenal, the products we have tested have been designed very well,
and they really have just been excellent products. Back in February of
2007 we tested out the Razer DeathAdder, which was an example of a great
Razer product and received our Editor's Choice Award, but today we are
trying out the 1800 DPI version of their DeathAdder gaming mouse."
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"Steelseries produce a range of gaming gear from mice and mats to keyboards and clothing, providing a range of useful additions to gamers of all abilities. Among the plethora of toys from this Danish-born company is a selection of more than a dozen mousing pads. The mouse mat is an oft-forgot element of the gamer's apparel. Much attention is given to mice and high-resolution monitors, but people tend to forget about that extra layer in communication between man and machine. So we'll now take a look at the Steelseries 9HD Pro Gaming mouse mat, designed to meet the extra demands of precision gamers. "
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Looking for a dedicated media player that does it all? And by does it all I mean plays 1080p, supports many codecs, and supports bit-torrent? Than look no further than the Patriot Box Office.
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With the Fanqua IN WIN presents a steel midi tower which comes
with practical features as well as a fancy design. The case is kept in
black and yellow and wether the product is able to convince or not,
that's what you can find out if you read on.
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"Today we are testing another CPU cooler from Titan: Fenrir. It supports all available CPUs, has a tower design, four 8-mm U-shaped heatpipes and a 120-mm fan. Other coolers with similar design performed very well in our tests; will this cooler perform well too?"
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With the Vertex Turbo OCZ offers a SSD with "afertburner". Overclocked and with selected chips it should outperform the competitors.
We took a look at several benchmarks and used the the firmware 1.5.
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"The ASUS Eee PC 1005PE is based on the same external design and features as our previous favored Eee PC, the 1005HA. While the external shell is nearly identical, what lies under the hood is a whole new platform from the improved power consumption of the Intel Atom N450 CPU and slightly improved graphics with the Intel GMA 3150 integrated GPU. When we began testing the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE, we quickly realized the new Pineview Intel Atom processors and platform were all about further reducing power consumption in order to continue to increase battery life. We were impressed to see the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE was able to meet the same battery life duration as the ASUS UL80Vt notebook which featured an Intel CULV SU7300 processor..."
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?These days with large file sizes and HD video a simple flash drive isn?t going to cut it when you are on the road or working off-location. Although who wants to carry around a large external hard drive and the power adapter that comes with it? This is where portable hard drives come in and we have one from LaCie today. The Rikiki portable USB drive is very small, requires only USB power, and has a very sleek aluminum exterior. Let?s see if it?s the perfect portable hard drive for you."
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With this latest release, ATI is doubling back to fill some gaps in its wildly successful Radeon HD5xxx series of video cards. The previous release, the HD5450, was the logical terminus of their GPU bisecting act. In fact, they got a little carried away, and lopped off almost all the Stream Processors, in order to reduce the power requirements down to the lowest possible level. This time, the goal was to create the best performing low-profile HTPC card they could. The HD5570 is the first in a series of HD55xx video cards, and for now, it will probably be the top card in the group. Loaded up with the Redwood GPU from the HD5670, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, and an all copper active GPU cooler, the HD5570 looks to be the King of the low-profile world, without the attendant King's ransom. Follow along with Benchmark Reviews as we see how it stacks up against its siblings.
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"Most users are generally fine with just storing their content on one standard hard drive until they have a loss of data. At that point your eyes are opened to just how vulnerable you are to a personal digital disaster. If you want to know what it is like, just go to your own storage folder, highlight everything and hit DELETE. It can happen, it does happen and it isn?t a matter of if, but when. Preventative measures are the only way to avoid such losses and the easiest defense is a good offence.
Today we are going to take a look at the HornetTek X2-RAID. This product will allow you to keep two hard drives in one of many forms of RAID (we will go over the full capabilities on the next page) and do so at a low cost. The X2-RAID uses a common eSATA connection to your PC that is much faster than USB or FireWire, so you still retain desktop drive speed while having the security needed to survive a drive loss."
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?The PowerColor PCS+ 5670 512MB may be a mainstream gaming card, lower on the performance ladder than its larger 5700 and 5800 siblings, but looks to offer some respectable gaming performance at a great price. Clearly geared to consumers who occasionally do some light gaming, and particularly at 1280 resolution, the PCS+ 5670 is a small card that is designed to be frugal in terms of power consumption, and to run cool and quiet, offering a good upgrade option for people on a budget or perhaps those with an older system looking to easily improve their graphics performance.?
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"ASRock M3A785GMH/128M offers nice value for its price -- which is rather low, traditionally for ASRock products. The motherboard also has a good set of peripheral interfaces. You should also note the surprisingly rich set of overclocking options which actually work, letting you overclock CPUs to levels unusual for motherboards of this class."
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"Today's review item is the Cooler Master Hyper TX3. Unlike many of the coolers you're used to seeing reviewed here at OCIA.net, the Hyper TX3 is not designed for high-end processors, nor is it geared towards overclockers. Indeed, the TX3 is Cooler Master's latest mainstream cooling solution, compatible with i5 and below, as well as Phenom II and below."
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?All of these changes in processor and chipset design, along with Intel?s new 32nm manufacture process, opened the door for their latest and most radical change yet?placing the VGA on the processor. Yes, Intel?s new 2010 Core i5 600 series processors have on-die graphics processing. Of course to accommodate this, Intel has released a new motherboard chipset, the H55 Express. Sporting the same LGA 1156 socket as the P55, this new design has monitor ports in the I/O panel. So far I?ve seen 20 H55 motherboards for sale at my favorite online retailer. Of these 20 boards, 19 are mAT X boards, including the motherboard I am looking at today, the Asus P7H55D-M EVO. Sporting Asus? EVO cosmetics and onboard extras, this motherboard also natively supports the new ?Superspeed? USB 3.0. Read on to check out the Asus P7H55D-M EVO!"
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