Valve Video Demo of Steam Controller
Some of you may be tired of the SteamOS/Steam Machine/Steam Controller news posts, but Valve’s foray into the living room is set to potentially change the way many people...
23 by on 10/12/2013Radeon GPUs Confirmed for Retail Steam Machines
Last week Valve posted the specs for their prototype Steam Machines, and we noted at the time that all of the prototypes were using Intel CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs...
55 by on 10/11/2013Futuremark Updates PCMark 8 with Windows 8.1 Support
We’ve begun using PCMark 8 for some of our laptop reviews over the past few months, but this is honestly the rockiest launch we’ve ever seen from Futuremark. There...
2 by on 10/10/2013Acer Launches C720 Chromebook with Haswell CPU
Last year, one of the hottest selling laptops was Acer’s C710 Chromebook. Part of that of course was the fact that it was one of the least expensive laptops...
30 by on 10/10/2013Maingear and CyberPowerPC Prepping R9-290X Desktop Systems
During the past week, AMD revealed their new R7 and R9 desktop GPUs, which mostly consist of rebranded 7000-series parts (e.g. the R9-280X). The one exception is the R9-290X...
20 by on 10/9/2013Valve Releases Specs for Prototype Steam Machine
Last week we analyzed Valve’s announcement of their forthcoming SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller. There are still a lot of unknowns, but today Valve released the details for...
99 by on 10/4/2013Dell Updates 2013 Line of XPS Laptops with Ultra-High Resolution Displays
Going along with the updates to their Venue tablets, which we just posted about, yesterday Dell also announced updates to their XPS line of laptops. There are three new...
81 by on 10/3/2013Dell Updates Venue Line of Tablets
Yesterday Dell announced their latest mobile products, with major updates to their tablet and laptop offerings. Starting with the Venue tablets, Dell has three new models available on October...
51 by on 10/3/2013The Humble Weekly: Nordic Games
Looking for some more "oldies but goodies" to pass your time? The Humble Bundle has a new weekly sale up, and as usual it's $1 minimum to get the...
15 by on 10/3/2013Gigabyte P34G First Impressions: A Thin and Light Gaming Notebook
Over the course of a year, we look at a lot of devices and hardware; while it may require a lot of effort to publish a full review on...
64 by on 10/1/2013Massdrop TECK Keyboard Group Buy
Earlier this year I reviewed both the TECK and ErgoDox keyboards, the latter coming via Massdrop. As I discussed in the ErgoDox review, Massdrop does a group buy of...
21 by on 9/30/2013MSI Unveils GP Series Notebooks: GP60 and GP70
Today MSI unveiled their latest notebook line of notebooks, the GP series designed for mobile productivity, entertainment, and gaming. For those not keeping track, that means MSI now has...
4 by on 9/30/2013Analyzing Valve’s SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller Announcements
In 2012, Valve released an update to their Steam platform called Big Picture, which essentially consisted of a new user interface tailored towards the needs of the living room...
77 by on 9/28/2013Humble’s Weekly Sale: Kalypso Media
So let me first start this post with a question: who out there feels stuff like this is worthy of our/my coverage, and who thinks I should give it...
27 by on 9/26/2013HP Announces Spectre 13 x2 Hybrid Ultrabook
Since the launch of Windows 8, many users have been waiting for something that does a better job of spanning the gap between laptops/Ultrabooks and tablets. We’ve seen sliders...
48 by on 9/19/2013HP Announces Tegra 4 Powered Slate7 Extreme and Slate8 Pro
Several weeks ago, HP announced their second Tegra 4 powered device, the HP Slatebook x2 10.1” hybrid with a 1080p display. Their first Tegra 4 device was announced back...
33 by on 9/19/2013AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL Drivers Available
Going along with this morning’s NVIDIA drivers announcement, AMD has released their latest 13.9 WHQL drivers today. AMD’s way of doing driver releases can frankly get a bit confusing...
12 by on 9/19/2013DVDO Announces Matrix6 6x2 Ultra HD Matrix Switcher
Most people I know are still merely lusting after the thought of a good 4K display – the least expensive displays start at around $700 for a 39” model...
11 by on 9/17/2013Hardware Tricks: How to Not Fix a Crashed Hard Drive
Earlier this year, I posted a short story and video of my attempt at – and success – repairing a Gateway notebook that was suffering a Code 43 GPU...
66 by on 9/13/2013Acer Previews Haswell Chromebook at IDF
While they’re not for everybody (yet?), Chromebooks have become one of the most popular laptops to buy online lately – more specifically, Acer’s $200 C710-2833 Chromebook is reportedly selling...
4 by on 9/11/2013