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COMPUTEX — Back in February, we told you all about Shuttle's notebook ecosystem initiative, which involves modular notebook components and two standard form factors:...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Seagate's Momentus XT swaps the Windows-only shackles of previous hybrid drives for a scheme dubbed Adaptive Memory.

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing

COMPUTEX — Corsair's Obsidian 800D enclosure has many virtues, but low cost isn't one of them: the thing sells for $270. The trimmed-down...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

COMPUTEX — No doubt about it, one of the most interesting product announcements at this year's Computex was that of the Asus Eee Pad...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

COMPUTEX – Few in the audience gasped when Asus Chairman Jonney Shih (literally) lifted the veil off the Eee Pad this afternoon in Taipei. Asus...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Emperor Palpatine would be overjoyed with Antec's latest creation: the Dark Fleet series, four gaming enclosures with black paint jobs and configurable front panels that...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Super Talent's USB 3.0 RAIDDrive stripes dual internal SSDs to offer 32GB of SuperSpeed connectivity in a lightweight and easily pocketable package. We run...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

Remember that mysterious GeForce GTX 480M we encountered in a Eurocom laptop configuration page three weeks ago? Nvidia has now made things official. As...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing

Futuremark is moving into the DirectX 11 fray. The Finnish company has officially announced 3DMark 11, the next version of its popular benchmarking software, and...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

This latest Eee PC defies convention with AMD guts and no operating system in the box. Is it the perfect ultraportable for Linux geeks,...

Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing

An SSD's controller chip largely determines its destiny. SandForce's SF-1200 is the latest controller to hit the market, and we've taken it for a...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

The newest Radeon HD 5870 unifies six monitors as one giant display wall. We've played loads of games on such a rig, purely for...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Displays

I love budget ultraportables—especially my Aspire 1810TZ. For my needs, the Aspire's Consumer Ultra Low-Voltage processor is snappy enough to make the thin-and-light...

Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming

With some of those new AMD 890FX mobos sporting outrageous numbers of PCI Express x16 slots, we were bound to see some retaliation from...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Who ever said Macs can't play games? Valve released the Mac OS X version of its Steam client earlier this afternoon, allowing users of...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Mac

A year on from the release of its Killer Xeno Pro, Bigfoot Networks has struck again, unleashing a whole new Killer card aimed at...

Type: News story Tags: Networking

The folks at Gigabyte don't have a monopoly on AMD 890FX motherboards with entirely too many PCI Express x16 slots. Asus is about to...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

With 44 Gen2 PCIe lanes and six 6Gbps SATA ports, AMD's new 890FX may be the finest high-end chipset on the market. Join us...

Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets