Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time on iOS
Over the past several years, I’ve wasted invested more time than I care to admit to the slaying of zombie hordes with the help of my plant minions. (Truth...
33 by on 8/15/2013Acer R7 Review: Something Different
What happens when you rethink everything concerning the traditional notebook and try to come up with something newer and hopefully better? Earlier this year, Acer released the Aspire R7...
114 by on 8/15/2013Newegg’s First Pop-Up Store: This Week in Thousand Oaks, CA
Ask any [Ed from Ian: US-based] computer/technology enthusiast about the best place to buy hardware online and it’s almost inevitable that you’ll hear the name “Newegg”. They have been...
29 by on 8/14/2013Acer S7-392 Haswell Ultrabooks Now Available
Acer sent along word today that their S7 Ultrabook, now updated with Haswell internals, is available for order. At present, Acer lists two different models; as usual, the less...
42 by on 8/12/2013ASUS Reports Disappointing VivoTab RT Sales, Stops Making RT Tablets
In a move that’s likely to surprise…well, just about no one, the Wall Street Journal reports that ASUS will cease making Windows RT tablets. Windows RT is basically stuck...
85 by on 8/9/2013Xbox One: Unboxed
We’ve already discussed the hardware of the Xbox One (or Xbone as Brian likes to call it) and compared it with the PlayStation 4, so all that’s left is...
41 by on 8/8/2013IBM Offers POWER Technology for Licensing, Forms OpenPOWER Consortium
The CPU wars are far from over, but the battlegrounds have shifted of late. Where once we looked primarily at the high-end processing options, today we tend to cover...
32 by on 8/7/2013Samsung’s 3D Vertical NAND Set to Improve NAND Densities
Ars Technica has posted information on Samsung’s new 3D Vertical NAND technology, and it promises to boost densities for SSDs and other similar devices dramatically. Samsung announced last night...
33 by on 8/6/2013Surface Pro $100 Price Drop - A Prelude of Things to Come?
Techreport.com posted earlier today that there's currently a $100 rebate from Microsoft on the Surface Pro. That brings the price of the 64GB SSD model to $799 and the...
100 by on 8/5/2013Intel Ivy Bridge-E Pricing Leaked
Yesterday VR-Zone leaked information on the initial pricing expected for Ivy Bridge-E (IVB-E) processors, which we’ve reproduce in the table below. The LGA-2011 platform is an interesting departure from...
58 by on 7/31/2013ASUS MeMO Pad HD7 Pre-Orders Available
We just reviewed the ASUS MeMO Pad HD7, and we've now received word that pre-orders are available via several major outlets: TigerDirect.com, Newegg.com, Amazon.com, and Gamestop.com. (Let us know...
19 by on 7/31/2013MSI GE40 Review: a Slim Gaming Notebook
With Intel’s Haswell launch officially behind us, we’re getting a steady stream of new notebooks and laptops that have been updated with the latest processors and GPUs. MSI sent...
93 by on 7/16/2013Welcome to the Preview Release of Microsoft 2014
Today Microsoft released a couple of major announcements regarding the restructuring of their entire business. The complete One Microsoft email from Steve Ballmer along with an internal memo entitled...
79 by on 7/11/2013Digital Storm Unveils VELOCE: 13.3 Inches of Gaming Goodness
It seems with the launch of Intel’s Haswell processors and platform, notebook manufacturers are starting to focus on smaller devices without sacrificing a lot in the way of performance...
24 by on 7/11/2013Acer’s M5-583P Touchscreen: Available at Best Buy
With the summer now half over, all of the major OEMs are beginning to launch their back-to-school lineups. Acer just sent word that they have a new model available...
23 by on 7/10/2013The Joys of 802.11ac WiFi
We’ve had quite a few major wireless networking standards over the years, and while some have certainly been better than others, I have remained a strong adherent of wired...
139 by on 7/8/2013Kinesis Advantage Review: Long-Term Evaluation
Round two of our ergonomic keyboard coverage brings us the Kinesis Advantage. Earlier this year, I reviewed the TECK—the Truly Ergonomic Computer Keyboard—one of the few keyboards on the...
67 by on 7/2/2013Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M
We recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M. With a theoretical computational performance increase of 30%...
59 by on 6/21/2013UPDATED! AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz Race
AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz Race Today at E3 AMD announced their latest CPUs, the FX-9590 and FX-9370. Similar to what we’re seeing with Richland vs...
115 by on 6/13/2013N-trig DuoSense Pen2: Who Needs a Stylus?
With the dawn of capacitive touch displays and the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc., some might think the day of the stylus is past. N-trig has been around since...
34 by on 6/12/2013