![]() 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.... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming Operating systems |
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A tale of tablet flashing About a year and a half ago, I picked up Asus' original Eee Pad Transformer tablet. This precursor to the growing crop of Win8 convertibles... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems |
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My six days with Windows 8 So, I installed Windows 8 on my desktop PC last week. It was late on the eve of the launch. The download link for the $39.99... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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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. Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems |
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![]() Asus' Xonar DGX and DSX cost less than $50, making them tempting upgrades for folks seeking better sound. Both cards have PCI Express interfaces,... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia |
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![]() Corsair's new Professional Series AX1200i uses digital circuitry to convert AC to DC power. We take a quick look at the PSU and the... Type: Feature article Tags: Power Software |
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![]() The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Multimedia |
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Sennheiser's HD 558 headphones are cans of whoop-ass It's rumored that if you give a mouse a cookie, he'll probably ask you for a glass of milk. They also say that if... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Windows 8 frightens me, and here's why Some people just hate change. It can't be helped. Those people cling to old versions of their favorite software as long as they can. When... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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![]() Asus has been quick to roll out Ice Cream Sandwich updates for its Eee Pad Transformers. We take a closer look at the... Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech |
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Windows 8-Ball Consumer Preview There aren't many experiences in life more disconcerting than waking up and not knowing where you are or how you got there. I was... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems |
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The misadventures of Blu-ray in HTPC land If you'll humor me, I'd like to take a brief break from all the CES coverage to complain about the sad state of Blu-ray on... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Where's my 21st-century television? Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Are sound cards still relevant? Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Windows 8 and the marginalization of geeks On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return.... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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The next computing revolution will be televised Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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![]() For just $40, the Xonar U3 squeezes headphone and microphone jacks, an S/PDIF output, EAX emulation, speaker virtualization, and Dolby Digital Live support into... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia |
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Ubuntu ushers me out of the Windows XP era Well, it finally happened. Windows XP is no longer the primary OS on any of my day-to-day machines. The last holdout was my laptop,... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems |
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Windows 10 update has Spectre fixes for Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake | 13 |
Our storage bench has not been patched for either vulnerability, so it's not that. Like we noted, we're working with Samsung to explore what's going o... | +20 |