CyberPowerPC FangBook X7: An Alternative to Clevo Whitebooks
We’ve reviewed quite a few Clevo notebooks over the years from a variety of vendors: AVADirect, Eurocom, Mythlogic, Origin, and Sager, to name a few. While there are certainly...
22 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2013NVIDIA's New F2P Bundle: The First Hit Is Free
Last week AMD announced their Never Settle Reloaded gaming bundle, with several high-profile games available with the purchase of AMD GPUs. This week, NVIDIA follows suit with their own...
51 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2013Samsung Laptop UEFI Bugs: Not Just for Linux
About ten days ago I posted about a problem with Samsung laptops getting bricked when trying to boot Linux using UEFI. There was a fair amount of commentary on...
18 by Jarred Walton on 2/9/2013HP Chromebook Confirmed: Available Now For $329
We already covered the leak, and now we've got the confirmation we knew would come. HP has officially announced the HP Pavilion 14-c010us Chromebook. Quite the name, eh? Specs...
29 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/7/2013WikiPad Gaming Tablet Coming This Spring For $249
Gaming on Android has been a hot topic lately. Purpose built consoles and handhelds have been rolling out along with plenty of excellent games. The WikiPad, announced in 10-inch...
11 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/7/2013QNAP Introduces XBMC App for TS-x69 Pro / L Series NAS Units
The Atom D2700 series CPUs have proved quite popular in the SMB / SOHO NAS market. We saw vendors introduce models with HDMI outputs as early as December 2011...
7 by Ganesh T S on 2/7/2013Micron and TE Connectivity Offer New Ultrathin DRAM Solutions
The push for smaller and thinner laptops, Ultrabooks, and tablets of late has come with some potentially undesirable side effects, namely the loss of flexibility. Of the Ultrabooks we’ve...
17 by Jarred Walton on 2/7/2013Arctic Introduces OpenELEC-based MC001-XBMC HTPC
Arctic announced the availability of their MC001-XBMC passive HTPC today. Based on the Intel Atom D525 and the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5430, the unit comes with OpenELEC pre-installed...
17 by Ganesh T S on 2/5/2013Apple Is Now Using SanDisk SSDs in the Retina MacBook Pro As Well
There has always been some level of lottery involved when buying an SSD-equipped Mac. The first Mac to start the lottery was the 2010 MacBook Air, which initially used...
31 by Kristian Vättö on 2/5/2013AMD Announces New Winter Video Game Bundle: Never Settle Reloaded
Although game bundles are nothing new for the video card industry, in the last couple of years they’ve come back into vogue in a way we haven’t seen in...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/2/2013The Making of NVIDIA's Project SHIELD
NVIDIA put up a blog post recently that goes into some of the details of how Project SHIELD came together. There's plenty of marketing hyperbole in the blog post...
29 by Jarred Walton on 2/1/2013Intel Releases 180GB SSD 335
Intel released the SSD 335 in October last year but the initial launch included only the 240GB version. Today Intel is adding a 180GB model to the SSD 335...
14 by Kristian Vättö on 2/1/2013Fractal Design Launches Core 3000 USB 3.0
Last year, we looked at Fractal Design’s Core 1000, their entry level chassis that can be had for under $40. It performed “okay”, which is about all you can...
11 by Jarred Walton on 2/1/2013Cineca’s Tesla K20-Based “Eurora” Supercomputer Unveiled; Water Cooling Unlocks Extra Efficiency
We typically don’t cover a lot of supercomputing news outside of the major Top500/Green500 announcements due to the fact that the launches of so many supercomputers are clustered around...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2013Epic Games Releases Epic Citadel for Android Devices - We test it out
Epic Games granted us a huge wish and released Epic Citadel for Android devices publicly this week, and included a benchmark inside. Getting Epic Citadel for Android and thus...
52 by Brian Klug on 1/30/2013Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI
Ryan passed this along early this morning (really early for Ryan, seeing that we’re not even in the double digits of the morning hours!), and while this issue is...
43 by Jarred Walton on 1/30/2013Updating AnandTech’s 2013 Mobile Benchmark Suite (RFC)
If it seems like just last year that we updated our mobile benchmark suite, that’s because it was. We’re going to be keeping some elements of the testing, but...
47 by Jarred Walton on 1/29/2013Slightly Smaller Apple TV 3,2 (A1469) Contains A5X SoC, BCM4334 Combo
Yesterday along with iOS 6.1 being pushed to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, Apple released an update to the Apple TV 2,1 and 3,1, and curiously enough released another...
17 by Brian Klug on 1/29/2013AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 Drivers Released
As promised alongside last week’s release of the Catalyst 13.1 WHQL drivers, AMD has shipped out the first public beta for the next version of their drivers this week...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/29/2013HP Leaks Their First Chromebook
Google's venture into the desktop operating system space has been getting a lot of the right kind of attention lately. Acer's C7 Chromebook has been well received, as has...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/29/2013