MSI GT70 Ivy Bridge Gaming Notebook Giveaway
Congrats to lebarle who won the MSI Z77A-GD65 from our last giveaway. As I hinted at last time however, if you didn't win or aren't in need of a...
4880 by on 5/24/2012Replacing my HTPC with a mini ITX System
Free time is hard to come by these days. Since the beginning of the year I've hit Vegas, Barcelona, Santa Clara, New York, Santa Clara (again), Austin, Seattle, Chicago...
56 by on 5/24/2012AMD's Gift to AnandTech Readers: 50 Free AFDS Passes - Update: All Gone
Apparently Manju was feeling pretty generous after our recent Ask the Experts session and gave us 50 free passes to AMD's Fusion12 Developer Summit (AFDS) to give away to...
16 by on 5/23/2012ASUS' Zenbook SSD and Apple's MacBook Air SSD Are Not Compatible
In working on yesterday's Zenbook Prime review I ran into a problem with the 256GB Sandisk U100 drive that came with my review sample. Unfortunately, since the drive doesn't...
22 by on 5/23/2012ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX21A) Review: The First of the 2nd Gen Ultrabooks
The first round of Ultrabooks were mostly underwhelming. It shouldn't be a surprise, but many of the efforts were just half hearted at best. Of the companies who shipped...
192 by on 5/22/2012Sonic 4: Episode II Now Available for Tegra 3
Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA and Sega announced Sonic 4: Episode II would be coming to TegraZone in an optimized version for NVIDIA's Tegra 3 hardware...
17 by on 5/16/2012What We've Been Waiting For: Testing OpenCL Accelerated Handbrake with AMD's Trinity
AMD, and NVIDIA before it, has been trying to convince us of the usefulness of its GPUs for general purpose applications for years now. For a while it seemed...
60 by on 5/15/2012Ask the Experts: Heterogeneous and GPU Compute with AMD’s Manju Hegde
AMD’s Manju Hegde is one of the rare folks I get to interact with who has an extensive background working at both AMD and NVIDIA. He was one of...
101 by on 5/14/2012A First Look at Thunderbolt on Windows with MSI's Z77A-GD80
I finally made the transition to a notebook as my desktop last year, a move many had made years prior. Quad-core mobile Sandy Bridge and good SSDs made the...
98 by on 5/11/2012The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life
When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to...
100 by on 5/4/2012Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast
Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time...
94 by on 5/3/2012MSI Z77A-GD65 Ivy Bridge Motherboard Giveaway
Thanks to everyone who entered our last giveaway. We're waiting for eligibility confirmation from our four potential winners: bigbluerobo, nhilyna, Lord 666 and fiftysixtius. Respond to the email in...
2294 by on 4/30/2012ASUS Ivy Bridge/7-Series Chipset Video & Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago we ran a call for questions as I got word that ASUS would be paying me a visit in NC. JJ from ASUS sat...
2878 by on 4/24/2012The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review
The times, they are changing. In fact, the times have already changed, we're just waiting for the results. I remember the first time Intel brought me into a hotel...
173 by on 4/23/2012ASUS Transformer Pad 300 (TF300T) Review
Before the $399 iPad 2, before the $199 Kindle Fire, there was the $399 Eee Pad Transformer from ASUS. Like nearly all first attempts in the tablet space, the...
37 by on 4/22/2012HTC One X Cases: Taking Protection into HTC's Hands
With the One lineup (particuarly the One X and One S), HTC really ratched up its focus on design. The One X is easily one of the best looking...
21 by on 4/20/2012HTC One Media Link HD Demo
We've just started work on our HTC One X/One S testing, however HTC was kind enough to give us a demo of one of the coolest accessories that was...
8 by on 4/20/2012NVIDIA Plots Mobile SoC GPU Performance, Surpassing Xbox 360 by 2014
Qualcomm was the first to tell us that it expects to offer console level GPU performance in the not too distant future, generally hinting that its Adreno 3xx GPUs...
51 by on 4/19/2012AMD's Godfrey Cheng Joins Rick Bergman at Synaptics
A couple of weeks ago one of my oldest friends in the industry, Godfrey Cheng, announced his resignation from AMD. Godfrey came over from the ATI side of the...
11 by on 4/17/2012Intel SSD 330 Officially Announced: Affordable SandForce
We reported on Intel's SSD 330 weeks ago, but today is the official announcement of the drive and its availability in the channel. Unlike previous 300 series drives, the...
75 by on 4/16/2012