If you want your desktop, named after the heroic champions systems or strong supporters of a cause, the Gamer paladin from 998 iBuyPower is for you. We found that the system was at least a strong supporter of the game, the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe GPU (ATI Radeon 4870 X2) [...]
Microsoft recently released the Zune16 (a flash drive-based media player) and Zune120 (a larger, hard drive-based player). The newest DAPs (digital audio players) from Microsoft offer more storage space (16GB and 120GB, respectively) than previous versions of the player, but the basic design doesn’t differ from the second-generation Zune. With a 3.2-inch screen, a touchpad [...]
It’s been a blue year for Toshiba. The company threw in the towel to end the so-called format wars last March, making the HD DVD (high-definition digital video disc) obsolete overnight. As of press time, the company hasn’t jumped on the blue bandwagon with its own BD (Blu-ray Disc) players, which play the “winning” high-def [...]
Internal hard drives-both for desktops and laptops-have dropped so dramatically in price in recent years that many consumers regularly replace their drives with beefier models to accommodate their everexpanding collections of video files, music, and other storage hungry content.
But that practice can present a challenge: Do you try to sell the old drive for pennies [...]
Following up on the release of its sub-$500, student-targeted HP 2133 Mini-Note in April 2008, the company has now expanded its HP Mini family with the new HP Mini 1000 line. Each of the three new netbooks measures less than 1 inch thick, weighs 2.25 pounds, and has a keyboard that is slightly smaller than [...]