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Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

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Type: News story Tags: Systems

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Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards

Unlike SSHDs that augment mechanical hard drives with small flash caches, WD's Black² stacks a 120GB SSD on top of a 1TB notebook drive. This...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

Looks like the press embargo has lifted on reviews of the Xbox One in anticipation of the console's impending public launch, so you can now...

Type: News story Tags: Game consoles

We already know that AMD's next-gen Kaveri APU is coming to mobile systems. However, the chip will only fit into power envelopes ranging from...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Personal tech

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti has a clear mission: to best the best single-GPU graphics card in the world. To succeed, it'll have to

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics

There's a new SSD in town. OCZ's Vector 150 combines the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller with 19-nm Toshiba NAND and additional spare area. ...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

Less than two weeks ago, AMD introduced the Radeon R9 290X to good reviews and much fanfare. Here's hoping you didn't buy one, because...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics

There's a new 17" gaming laptop out there—and this one isn't a gigantic, workstation-sized thing with a two-inch thick chassis. In fact, according to the...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Once marginalized by their extravagant pricing, Topre mechanical keyboards have now entered (somewhat) more affordable territory. How does the $150 Topre Type Heaven stack up...

Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices

We're in the process of hammering six SSDs with an unrelenting torrent of writes to see what happens as the flash wears out. Today,...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

This is the one we've been waiting for. The Radeon R9 290X incorporates some truly new technology in the form of the GPU code-named...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics

Despite its low $350 starting price, the Transformer Book T100 offers a quad-core Bay Trail SoC, a 10" IPS touchscreen, 10+ hours of battery life,...

Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing

I do a lot of sitting. Like, a lot. I sit in my home office for eight to nine hours every day doing TR-related work. Once...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous

PC makers are announcing 8" Windows 8.1 tablets left and right. The latest one to hop on the bandwagon is Lenovo, whose new Miix2...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

So iPhone 5S and 5C mania has died down (although someone needs to tell the entrepreneurs on eBay), OS X Mavericks has yet to go...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Personal tech

Seagate's NAS HDD 4TB is optimized for network-attached storage and desktop RAID implementations. It promises better reliability than typical desktop drives, too. We...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage