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Today, we're giving stragglers a hand with their last-minute Christmas shopping. We've put together a freshly revamped set of PC build recommendations—because, sometimes, a...

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Wondering what frame latencies mean to smooth animation? We have a couple of high-speed video examples for your viewing pleasure.

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Last week, we published a rematch between the Radeon HD 7950 and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in which the Radeon took an unexpected beating....

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We've compiled our lists and checked them twice. Read on for TR's Christmas gift guide.

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The new Samsung Chromebook is an interesting animal: it costs $249, has an ARM Cortex-A15-based processor, and runs Chrome OS, which is unlike any operating...

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Much has changed since we last tested the GeForce GTX 660 Ti against the Radeon HD 7950. New drivers, new games, and a new...

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In this episode of the TR Podcast, our panel discusses Cyril's debut novel, Intel's Next Unit of Computing, and the latest solid-state drives from...

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We've compared the successor to Antec's famous Three Hundred enclosure to a new, similarly priced entrant, the Carbide Series 200R—Corsair's cheapest enclosure ever. The...

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At last, OCZ has an SSD controller all its own. The Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller debuts in the Vector SSD, and we've run...

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Intel has crammed a pretty capable PC into a box that will fit into the palm of your hand and dubbed it the "Next Unit...

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Samsung's 840 Series SSD combines a next-gen fabrication process with an extra bit per cell to lower the cost per gigabyte. We take...

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Our latest episode of the TR Podcast is all about incremental upgrades: the iPhone 5, Windows 8, and Intel's 335 Series SSDs. We also...

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More than a year has passed since flooding in Thailand ravaged the hard drive industry, sending prices skyward. We check in to see...

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Asus' Transformer approach to convertible tablets has finally come to Windows. We take a closer look at the new VivoTab RT.

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We've refreshed our famous system guide to account for AMD's new A- and FX-series processors, the latest GPU releases, and of course, the arrival of...

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The next generation of NAND has arrived. Intel's new 335 Series sports 20-nm flash, and we've run it through our test suite to...

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In this episode of the TR Podcast, we answer listener mail, discuss Borderlands 2 and Dishonored, get our hands on a Windows RT tablet,...

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After spending a week with Microsoft's touch-friendly OS, one thing is clear: Windows 8 is perfect for convertible tablets.

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