ASUS' Haswell 8-Series Motherboard Lineup
Like clockwork, JJ from ASUS showed up at the studio last month with a ton of 8-series Haswell motherboards in tow. JJ gave us a tour of what's new...
67 by on 6/4/2013SanDisk Extreme II Review (480GB, 240GB, 120GB)
A few weeks ago I mentioned on twitter that I had a new favorite SSD. This is that SSD, and surprisingly enough, it’s made by SanDisk. The SanDisk part is...
51 by on 6/3/2013The ASUS Transformer Book Trio: Atom + Haswell, Android + Windows 8
Now on to notebooks, ASUS just announced the Transformer Book Trio - what it is calling the world's first three-in-one notebook, tablet and desktop PC. In a move that's...
29 by on 6/3/2013ASUS' $149 MemoPad HD 7: Quad-Core Cortex A7, 1280x800 IPS Display
It just keeps coming. ASUS also announced a $149 16GB MemoPad HD 7 featuring a quad-core Cortex A7 SoC and a 1280 x 800 IPS display. The HD 7...
21 by on 6/3/2013ASUS Announces 6-inch FonePad Note
The FonePad Note is a 6-inch tablet complete with a 1080p Super IPS+ display, Atom Z2560 SoC (Clover Trail+), 2GB of RAM and a 3G modem with support for...
11 by on 6/3/2013ASUS' New Transformer Pad Infinity: Tegra 4 + 2560 x 1600 IPS Display
ASUS just announced its next-generation Transformer Pad Infinity based on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC and featuring a 2560 x 1600 display.
16 by on 6/3/2013ASUS MemoPad FHD10: Clover Trail+, 10-inch, 1920x1200, Android 4.2
Alongside the beautiful Zenbook Infinity ASUS also displayed its MemoPad FHD10, a 10-inch Clover Trail+ tablet running Android 4.2. ASUS' silicon of choice is Intel's Atom Z2560, a dual-core...
6 by on 6/3/2013ASUS Zenbook Infinity: 28W Haswell with Iris 5100 Graphics, 2560 x 1440 Panel?
I just got seated for ASUS' annual Computex press conference, but just outside of the conference area ASUS already had its to-be-announced products on display. The most exciting? The...
20 by on 6/3/2013ARM Cortex A12: Between Cortex A9 and A15 in Power & Perf, Sampling in Late 2014
We’ve talked about the hole in ARM’s product lineup for quite a while now. The Cortex A9 is too slow to compete with the likes of Intel’s Atom and...
78 by on 6/2/2013ARM Mali-T622 & V500 Video Block Complement Cortex A12
Alongside today's Cortex A12 announcement, ARM is also announcing two new IP blocks: the Mali-T622 GPU and the Mali V500 video encode/decode block. The Mali-T622 is a 2-core implementation of...
2 by on 6/2/2013Intel Iris Pro 5200 Graphics Review: Core i7-4950HQ Tested
We review what's quite possibly the most exciting Haswell SKU available at launch: the Core i7-4950HQ equipped with Intel's new Iris Pro 5200 graphics.
177 by on 6/1/2013Gigabyte's 8-Series Haswell Motherboard Tour [video]
Today is all about Haswell and Gigabyte is kicking things off with a video tour of some of their Haswell motherboard lineup. Colin from Gigabyte stopped by a couple...
28 by on 6/1/2013The Haswell Review: Intel Core i7-4770K & i5-4670K Tested
This is a very volatile time for Intel. In an ARM-less vacuum, Intel’s Haswell architecture would likely be the most amazing thing to happen to the tech industry in...
211 by on 6/1/2013AMD Opteron X1150 & X2150 "Kyoto": Kabini Heads to Servers
Last week AMD launched its Kabini APU for clients, a quad-core Jaguar based SoC with GCN graphics aimed at entry-level and mainstream ultraportable notebooks. In our review we found...
26 by on 5/29/2013The Kabini Deal: Can AMD Improve the Quality of Mainstream PCs with Its Latest APU?
There are two non-negotiables in building a PC these days: the cost of Intel silicon and the cost of the Windows license. You can play with everything else but...
109 by on 5/24/2013A Closer Look at the Kabini Die
With our review done I did the one thing I've been keeping myself from doing for the past week: I pulled the heatsink off my Kabini review notebook and...
4 by on 5/23/2013AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: The CPU Powering Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Kabini & Temash
Microprocessor architectures these days are largely limited, and thus defined, by power consumption. When it comes to designing an architecture around a power envelope the rule of thumb is...
78 by on 5/23/2013The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
It’s that time of decade again. Time for a new Xbox. It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The transition...
245 by on 5/22/2013The Seagate 600 & 600 Pro SSD Review
If you had asked me back in 2008 who I thought would be leading the SSD industry in 2013 I would’ve said Intel, Western Digital and Seagate. Intel because...
59 by on 5/7/2013Seagate 1200 SSD: Custom Seagate SAS Controller, X8 PCIe SSD Also Announced
Alongside the Seagate 600 and 600 Pro SATA SSDs, Seagate is also announcing its 1200 SSD aimed squarely at the enterprise market. While the 600/600 Pro use Link A...
8 by on 5/7/2013