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So you heard the news: Intel's Haswell processors, known officially as 4th Generation Core, are coming out on June 3. Users hoping to upgrade...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Power

This week's deal post is all about eye candy—or, rather, graphics cards and monitors. Some mid-range Radeons have gotten quite a bit cheaper since our

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays

As promised, I have watched FunnyOrDie.com's fictionalized account of Steve Jobs's life entitled iSteve. As threatened, here is the review. (By the way,...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Today, the e-tail giant...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech

Folks on Wall Street were awaiting Apple's latest quarterly results with bated breath. By the looks of it, they were pleasantly surprised when Apple

Type: News story Tags: Mac Personal tech

Last week, I prattled on about how Apple's dearth of a single, visionary leader was starting to make them feel like just another tech company....

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

Next-generation Haswell motherboards are approaching, and Gigabyte has teased a few details about what it has in store for the new platform. The firm has...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Multimedia

Asus' lineup of Xonar audio products has been confined predominantly to PCI and PCI Express sound cards. The firm is slowly expanding its selection of...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

This week's deal post is all about eye candy. For starters, EVGA's "superclocked" version of the GeForce GTX 660 2GB is still available for only

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays Gaming

On October 5, 2011, the vultures returned to One Infinite Loop. Having once taken up what seemed like permanent residence in Cupertino during the Sculley...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

Intel unveiled two new generations of Thunderbolt controllers at the National Association of Broadcasters show yesterday. Rumors of the Redwood Ridge and Falcon Ridge chips...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays Mobile computing

If you're unfortunate enough to be like me, you'll find the impending release of iSteve to be frightening and confusing to your caveman brain. Produced...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

I don't know how many of you have observed this, but I think there's a growing trend over the past, say, 20 years or so...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

We'll keep our deal 'o the week post short and sweet this week. We've got two hardware deals and two gaming deals for you all...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays Gaming

First, to those of you who wondered if I exhausted six months of pent-up wordplay in the last MacHole, I'm afraid you'll be rather...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

We're doing our Friday Night Topic early this week, since tomorrow is a TR holiday. Also, because Scott is on a plane flying back from...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

Growing up, I sometimes wondered what my generation's contributions to the world might be. Now that I'm an adult, I can see those contributions...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

It's true. I have in my possession the mildly mythological Pebble watch. More...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac