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Everyone and their mother seems to be producing aluminum-clad notebooks these days. We've heard rumors that high-tech fiberglass and plastic cases will be found...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

More than a month has passed since we last looked at hard drive prices, so it's time for an update. We've been tracking a...

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Android tablets featuring Nvidia's Tegra 3 processors may slip under $200 this summer. The Verge says that, at Nvidia's Annual Meeting of Stockholders briefing last...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

While SSDs keep getting cheaper by the day, the price of mechanical storage seems to be declining at a much slower pace. Part of that...

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7 Up Ballmer: Windows 8 will bring 'rebirth' of Microsoft OS Eurogamer: Diablo III accounts hacked; gold and items stolen Engadget: Asus

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We've freshened up our system guide with new-and-improved builds featuring Ivy Bridge CPUs, 28-nm graphics processors, and cheaper-than-ever solid-state drives. Come and see what...

Type: Feature article Tags: Systems

Hot on the heels of Asus, which unveiled a similar motherboard yesterday, MSI has announced its first Thunderbolt-equipped mobo: the Z77A-GD80. Just...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Think Windows 8 is optimized solely for touchscreen displays? Think again. In its Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft has detailed numerous enhancements...

Type: News story Tags: Displays Operating systems

Android-powered mini PCs seem to be the hip new trend these days. The Raspberry Pi folks deserve a lot of the credit for inciting...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Systems

In an egregiously belated fashion, I'm checking in with a quick update to say that we are delaying the podcast by one week and will...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report Podcast

The first GeForce R300 drivers to receive certification from Microsoft's WHQL labs are out, and they include everything from new features to performance improvements to...

Type: News story Tags: GPUs

Last week, we gave you the lowdown on AMD's new Trinity APUs and their top mobile incarnation: the A10-4600M. Trinity has turned out to...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards

The Starting Five AMD says "enough" AnandTech: Heterogeneous and GPU compute with AMD's Manju Hegde Introducing the Leap (video) VR-Zone reports early MSI...

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Earlier today, we saw a rumor claiming that Nvidia's Kepler GPUs suffer from a flaw that results in "serious performance degradation over long periods of...

Type: News story Tags: GPUs

Almost exactly one year ago, we learned that a new chapter in the Carmageddon franchise was in the works. The Stainless Games studio...

Type: News story Tags: Games

Adding Thunderbolt support to a desktop PC isn't as easy as dropping in an expansion card. Current Thunderbolt chipsets need to see a motherboard's...

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At CES in January, weeks before Apple introduced the new, Retina-enhanced iPad, Asus showed us a version of its Transformer Prime tablet featuring a...

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Microsoft's Aero interface managed to survive the transition from Windows Vista to Windows 7 mostly unscathed, but it's nearing the end of its run. Just...

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