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MSI teases ultrathin 15-inch gaming laptop with "3K" display
- MSI has unveiled their latest gaming laptop at this year’s CeBIT. Dubbed GS60 Ghost Pro, the company claims it’s the world’s thinnest and lightest 15.6-inch gaming notebook, measuring in at less than 0.86-inch and weighing in at 4.4 pounds. Aside…
Sony and Panasonic unveil 300 GB Archival Discs for long-term storage
- Sony and Panasonic have today jointly announced a new type of optical disc, which they're dubbing the Archival Disc. As the name of the media would suggest, it's aimed at long-term data storage, both through large capacities and durability. …
Neowin: Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Desktop review
- As users across the world embrace a more mobile, and increasingly touch-focused approach to computing, the market for ‘traditional’ peripherals is not what it once was. When the overwhelming majority of us relied on big, bulky Windows PCs as our…
AMD announces low-cost desktop chipset AM1
- With an aim to dominate the desktop in emerging markets, chipmaker AMD has announced the AM1, a new low-cost SoC. It's effectively a sibling of the Kabini family of chips, that were launched last year with both dual- and quad-core CPUs…
PC sales to keep declining through 2018, says IDC report
- PC sales will keep falling through the next few years, says International Data Corporation. According to the research firm's latest report, PC shipments will continue dropping in 2014, and are expected to decline till 2018.
HP CEO Meg Whitman says Chromebooks are doing better than expected
- Microsoft’s recent marketing efforts have focused on how Chromebooks are not real laptops because they don’t have Windows or Office, how they are supposedly useless when offline, and how they just make it easier for Google to capture your personal…
OCZ's huge 3.2TB Z-Drive 4500 SSD is fast and smart
- OCZ has launched a brand new high-capacity, high-speed solid state drive destined for server applications, known as the Z-Drive 4500. Boasting performance well over what is supported through a 6 Gbps SATA interface, the Z-Drive 4500 is a full-height, single-slot…
AMD launches Radeon R9 280 as a re-branded HD 7950 Boost
- AMD has launched yet another product in their sprawling Rx 200 series today: the Radeon R9 280. The mid-to-high end GPU is essentially a re-brand of the Radeon HD 7950 Boost that was released in mid-2012, giving prospective graphics card…
Thief Benchmarked, Performance Review
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Despite being built with the aging Unreal Engine 3, Thief touts some cutting edge rendering techniques that have put the game on our radar. Thief's built-in benchmark appears to do a good job of demonstrating a worst-case performance scenario, so if your system can average 60fps in the benchmark you should enjoy perfectly smooth gameplay from start to finish.
Hauppauge's new multi-standard TV receiver works with NTSC and PAL TV
- TV tuner specialist Hauppauge recently announced a multi-standard TV receiver designed for computers running either Windows or Linux. Specifically, the WinTV-HVR-1975 works with the NTSC standard used in North America as well as the PAL TV encoding system that’s popular…
Monoprice mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches is a solid value
- Interested in a mechanical keyboard that gets the job done at an affordable price without all the bells and whistles? Look no further as Monoprice has a barebones mechanical gaming keyboard that just might fit the bill.
TiVo's co-founders launch $49 Qplay TV streamer
- Michael Ramsay and Jim Barton, the folks who co-founded TiVo 15 years ago, on Tuesday launched a consumer entertainment solution for online video viewing. Dubbed Qplay, the product combines a streaming device and an iPad app that lets you stream…
Samsung launches new Exynos SoCs, one destined for the Galaxy S5
- MWC 2014 has been the launching ground of a number of smartphone-oriented SoCs, first from Qualcomm who launched the Snapdragon 801, 610 and 615, and then from Intel who detailed Moorefield and Merrifield. Samsung won't be left out of the…
Huawei unveils TalkBand B1 smart band at the Mobile World Congress
- Huawei on Sunday officially unveiled their first ever wearable technology device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Dubbed TalkBand B1, the device is a smart band that features a 1.4-inch flexible OLED panel fitted in a plastic case. It…
Samsung steps into fitness tracking market with the Gear Fit
- Samsung kicked off its Mobile World Conference announcements with the new Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo a few hours ago. But the company kept mum on another wearable technology device until just now: the Gear Fit. The latter is…
Mozilla at MWC: Firefox OS to get an interface overhaul; $25 smartphone in the offing
- Mozilla announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday that its Firefox OS will get an interface overhaul in the coming months. According to a Cnet report, the interface changes will apply to things like notifications, search, app discovery,…
Intel details mobile Atom 'Merrifield' and 'Moorefield' SoCs
- It's not just Qualcomm detailing their latest efforts in the mobile SoC space today: Intel has also taken the time to talk about their new chips, 'Merrifield' and 'Moorefield', as well as their latest LTE modem. Intel isn't targeting the…
Qualcomm launches flagship Snapdragon 801, 64-bit Snapdragon 610 & 615
- Qualcomm has added three new ARM-based SoCs to their line-up today at MWC 2014: an updated flagship in the Snapdragon 801, and two new 64-bit SoCs known as the Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615.
Maingear Pulse 17 thin gaming laptop quick review
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There was a time when the size of a gaming notebook didn't matter so much. Three or four years ago a portable gaming rig that was nearly two inches thick and weighed close to ten pounds was an impressive thing. Pull one of those beasts out at a crowded coffee house and the other customers knew you weren't about to pull up a spreadsheet.
LaCie's new external drive line-up is equipped with 5TB Seagate drives
- LaCie on Thursday became the first company to ship a 5TB, 7,200 RPM external hard drive. The drives are available in an array of external storage enclosures including the 5big Thunderbolt Series, the 2big Thunderbolt Series and the d2 Thunderbolt…
Roadmap reveals Intel Broadwell NUCs coming Q4 2014
- If you've been looking for a small form factor PC recently, chances are you've stumbled upon Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC), a tiny 4x4" PC powered by either 'Ivy Bridge' or 'Haswell' low-power parts. NUCs haven't been hugely popular,…
How not to be a "Glasshole," a guide by Google
- Google Glass is an interesting piece of wearable technology that holds a lot of promise. But ever since the Glass Explorer program began there's been a number of reports calling out “Glassholes” -- a term used to describe people who…
Nvidia quietly launches Titan Black graphics card, rolls out new GeForce drivers
- Nvidia’s flagship Titan graphics card quietly received a refresher today with the launch of the Titan Black. I say quiet because Nvidia didn’t even publish a press release on the matter (a blog post got the job done), instead electing…
GPU Battle at $150: GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs. Radeon R7 265
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Marking the introduction of its Maxwell architecture, Nvidia has targeted AMD's $150 Radeon R7 265 with the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti. With fewer cores being used to get more performance, Maxwell consumes less power and improves Kepler's performance per watt. Does that mean AMD's newly relaunched Radeon R7 265 could be in trouble considering it's essentially a slightly overclocked and steeply discounted HD 7850?
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