Poll: What's the best premium upgrade? When upgrading their PCs, most enthusiasts seem to focus on swapping in faster CPUs and graphics cards. The CPU has the biggest impact on... Poll Question: • Best premium upgrade: Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cooling Displays Input devices |
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Poll: What sort of products should TR cover more? We're constantly evaluating our content mix here at TR. There are only so many hours in each day and much interesting hardware to cover.... Poll Question: • I'd most like to see TR cover more: Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Poll: The future of pointing input methods For a long time now, the mouse and touchpad have been the primary computer input devices for pointing and selection. True challengers have been few... Poll Question: • In 10 years, the dominant computer pointing/selection input method will be: Type: News story Tags: Input devices |
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Poll: How much storage is enough for a system drive? In the PC storage world, 2011 looks primed to be the year of the SSD. Drives continue to get cheaper, the latest models look... Poll Question: • How much storage is enough for a system drive? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: What's your pick of upcoming games? We're set for a bumper crop of top-flight games in 2011, and the toughest part of the story may simply be choosing which games to... Poll Question: • Game you're most anticipating Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming |
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Poll: What's the worst PC hardware bug? Intel's 6-series chipset bug has dominated the headlines this week, and for good reason. The flaw has been traced back to a single transistor... Poll Question: • Worst PC hardware bug? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets Storage |
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Poll: Notebook battery life requirements I spent a fair bit of time using my Acer 1810TZ ultraportable laptop this past week, and the thing's battery life continues to impress me.... Poll Question: • How many hours of battery life do you require in a notebook? Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing |
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Poll: Do you prefer glossy or matte finishes on your notebook? Despite looking quite nice when all buffed up, glossy notebook surfaces easily become marred by an unsightly mess of fingerprints and smudges. When applied... Poll Question: • I want my notebook to have a... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing |
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Poll: How important is USB 3.0? After making its debut on high-end motherboards, USB 3.0 is quickly trickling down to more affordable boards and making its way into notebooks. It's... Poll Question: • USB 3.0 is... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets Mobile computing |
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Poll: How much storage in your primary PC? Although hard drive capacities aren't growing at the rate they once were, the drives themselves are getting cheaper and cheaper. That's made it easy... Poll Question: • How much storage capacity is in your primary PC? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: What's your ideal laptop size? When I bought my first laptop more than a decade ago, there were only a few sizes from which to choose: big, bigger, and huge.... Poll Question: • What's your ideal laptop size? Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing |
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Poll: Your network-attached storage solution In this week's podcast, we field a question about home storage servers. Scott and I both have network-attached storage rigs cobbled together from... Poll Question: • Do you have network-attached storage in your home? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: Do you have a home-theater PC? With the exception of my desktop, the next most often-used PC in my home sits in the living room. I've had one in there for... Poll Question: • Do you have a home-theater PC? Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Systems |
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Poll: Does your primary portable have an optical drive? This week's poll comes to us courtesy of TR reader Ben, who wonders just how many folks have an optical drive in their primary portable... Poll Question: • Does your primary portable have an optical drive? Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing |
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Poll: Are you running an SSD in your primary desktop? You'll have to excuse me if I have SSDs on the brain, because I've spent the last couple of months testing a stack of pure... Poll Question: • Are you running an SSD in your primary desktop? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: Gigabytes vs. gibibytes You may not know it, but the world of technology is split into two camps right now. For one camp, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes are... Poll Question: • Would you say a PC has: Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory |
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Poll: The dominant removable storage medium in 2014 Floppy drives took years to disappear from pre-built PCs. These days, optical drives are starting to fade from many machines, especially laptops of the ultraportable... Poll Question: • What will be the dominant removable storage medium in five years? Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Poll: What are you most looking forward to? Looking at the latest roadmaps, both official and not, it's hard to be indifferent about the wave of shiny new products coming this year. We... Poll Question: • What are you most looking forward to? Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Windows |
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Windows 10 update has Spectre fixes for Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake | 14 |
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... | +21 |