Archive - The Tech Report

Most commented stories

Hot forum threads

• First Time Builder-Requesting Assistance
• *plunge* Bought a GTX 780
• Xbox One revealed
• MSI RMA
• What's with all the extra Chrome traffic

ARCHIVE

IE6's demise celebrated... by Microsoft by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:34 PM on January 4, 2012 Of all people, Microsoft is cheering Internet Explorer 6's long-awaited decline into irrelevance. In a post on the Windows Blog yesterday, the company revealed... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	56
AMD sued over allegedly defective chipsets by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:00 PM on January 4, 2012 Looks like AMD has yet another problem to contend with: a lawsuit from the world's biggest contract manufacturer of notebooks. Bloomberg reports that Quanta Computer... Type: News story Tags: Chipsets Mobile computing	42
2012 to bring a bounty of new PC games by Geoff Gasior — 12:10 PM on January 4, 2012 2011 was a great year for games. Heck, I'm still nowhere near catching up on all the new releases from the last couple of months.... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	96
MSI outs ultra-high-end X79 motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 11:01 AM on January 4, 2012 When Intel launched its Sandy Bridge-E processors and accompanying X79 chipset, MSI didn't have an ultra-high-end board ready to show off. At... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	10
$900 Samsung ultrabook goes up for sale by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:44 AM on January 4, 2012 Samsung's premium Series 9 laptop might have all the makings of an ultrabook, with a slim chassis, solid-state storage, and a low-power CPU, but... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	25
Engineers pinched for selling Intel samples on eBay by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on January 4, 2012 It's no secret that CPU engineering samples get around; if they didn't, we wouldn't be treated to spy shots from the Far East on a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	28
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:54 AM on January 4, 2012 Eight is Enough AllThingsD's exclusive: Yahoo! poised to name CEO—with eBay's PayPal prez as top choice EETimes reports engineers arrested for selling Intel... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Transformer Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich to collide on 1/12 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:22 PM on January 3, 2012 No, this isn't about a little kid's Saturday morning routine. It's a deadly serious bit of tech news—and something that ought to please early adopters... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	17
PlayBook tablet slashed to $299 by Geoff Gasior — 12:25 PM on January 3, 2012 If the BlackBerry PlayBook drops to $299, will anyone buy one? We'll find out soon enough, because RIM has slashed the price of... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	50
Leaked pictures tease Ivy Bridge motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 11:06 AM on January 3, 2012 Heard of motherboard maker Wibtek? Yeah, me neither. The Chinese firm has popped up on our radar because pictures of one of its... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	19
iPad pricing seen plummeting to $299 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on January 3, 2012 The future painted by DigiTimes this morning certainly sounds nice: iPads selling for as little as $299, and a next-generation model with a high-density... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	32
Video teases slim HP Spectre laptop by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on January 3, 2012 Is HP on the verge of unveiling a new ultrabook? Maybe so. By way of an unnamed HP employee, gadget blog The Verge has... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	8
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:50 AM on January 3, 2012 Eight is Enough The NY Times: How Samuel Palmisano of IBM stayed a step ahead TechCrunch: This month's Apple event to focus... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:23 AM on January 2, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld on processors: What to expect from CPUs in 2012 Akiba PC Hotline: AMD A8-3870K overclocked to 5.88GHz (in... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	32
Happy new year; our servers will briefly be flaky by Scott Wasson — 9:07 AM on January 1, 2012 We're working on our web servers this morning, so you're likely to see some brief down time, followed by a period of transition where some... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	41
New Year's Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on January 1, 2012 Eight is Enough Phandroid: Asus Transformer Prime 32GB now available at Office Depot Android Police: Asus Transformer Prime GPS performs very poorly without... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
New Year's Eve Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:11 PM on December 31, 2011 7 Up FoxNews: Verizon bows to critics, drops plans for $2 'convenience' charge Ars Technica reports researchers publish open source tool for hacking... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	33
Friday night topic: Smoking and slow-cooking by Scott Wasson — 7:12 PM on December 30, 2011 So it turns out both Geoff and I got Bradley electric smokers for Christmas this year. I'm pretty excited to try mine, but... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous	22

Older

Don't
miss!

TR's famous Podcast and System Guide.

TOP COMMENTS

CampinCarl

I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there's MORE than enough demand for 24" 2560x1600 screens.

+47

danny e.

Based on the content of the presentation, it almost feels like gaming is taking... +41

Xenolith

No Start menu, so the Xbox One is dead to me. +38

superjawes

I am thinking PC. +28

NEW GALLERY ITEMS

More pictures »

CHECK PRICES

120GB OCZ Vertex 3 120GB Corsair Force GT 64GB Crucial M4 3TB Caviar Green 2TB Caviar Black 2TB Caviar Green 1TB Spinpoint F3 1TB Caviar Black 500GB Scorpio Black
Core i7-3960X Core i7-3930K Core i7-2700K Core i5-2550K Core i5-2450P Core i3-2130
FX-8120 Black Phenom II X6 1090T Phenom II X4 975 Black Phenom II X2 565 Black A8-3870K A6-3500
Radeon HD 7970 Radeon HD 7950 Radeon HD 7870 Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 560 Ti GeForce GTX 560
Corsair 600T Corsair 650D