As we continue down this path toward ultimate geekdom, we will get buried deeper and deeper in our gadgetry. It seems that every portable device that I have needs a different charger and a different memory card, so it helps when someone comes up with something a little more convenient. Marrying the functionality of a USB flash drive with a memory card reader is the DataTraveler Micro Reader from Kingston Technology. Convenience is great, but are you sacrificing something as a result? This review aims to answer this oh-so-pressing question.
To the untrained eye, the Micro Reader looks like any other budget-minded USB flash drive, but that little flap reveals a memory card reader. Aside from the somewhat nifty design, you really get nothing else in the package but a small lanyard-like string. Well, I shouldn’t say lanyard. It’s the same string that comes with the DataTraveler 150. Nothing too exciting here.
Kingston 4GB DataTraveler Micro Reader Review
Alienware Area-51 M15x 15.4-Inch Gaming Notebook Review
Gaming notebooks are an odd breed of machine that tends to be much more expensive than what you could get a higher performance desktop for. However, anyone who has tried to lug a decked out full tower desktop gaming machine to a LAN party can tell you, sometimes giving up performance for portability isn’t such a bad thing.
Alienware is a gaming notebook and desktop maker that started as a boutique notebook builder catering to the gamer with the coin to spend on high-end equipment. The company was purchased by Dell and has continued to build gaming machines under its own brand name, unlike the major change that happened to Voodoo when HP gobbled it up.
Umid M1 Mbook Has 4.8-Inch Screen
Tired of the usual Korean e-Dictionary? Why not get a netbook of the same size. Yes, UMID just announced the tiniest netbook yet, dubbed the mbook. The mbook uses an Atom Intel CPU just like its big brothers running at 1.1GHz. The mbook. Battery life up to 6 hours. It has WiFi and a form factor the company promises full Internet experience “while walking.”
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Samsung S5600 To Come As An Affordable Touchscreen Phone
Among the likes of Omnia HD and Bead DJ, Samsung has also presented the GT-S5600 at MWC 2009 – a handset that, apparently, was ignored by almost everyone. By the looks of it, Samsung S5600 will be launched as an affordable touchscreen phone, hence it might be competing with LG Cookie. Details about the features of S5600 are scarce, but we can see that it uses Samsung’s TouchWiz UI (without Windows Mobile, so it’s not a smartphone).
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Loewe Art SL 42 Television Review
If you’re hunting for a TV, you’re probably confused about choosing between several gloss black sets that have confusing model numbers - and appear to be almost the same. Step forward Loewe, a German luxury brand that eschews the mass market to offer something a little different with its new “Art” screen.
Ah, at last a TV with a proper name - but is that a proper price? This 42-inch LCD TV costs £2345, around double that of the mass-market electronics brands. It might be hard to believe, but the Art is actually an entry-level set by Loewe’s standards.
As such it uses a LCD screen instead of an LED screen, which is increasingly appearing on high-end screens - and that’s certainly what the Art 42 aspires to be. A 42-inch LCD TV with Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, the Art 42 goes one better than most TVs by integrating a digital recorder called DR+. Its inclusion ups the price of the Art 42 to £2685, while the attractive pedestal stand our review sample appeared with brings the grand total to over £3000.
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Cooler Master V10 Vs. Xigmatek Thor’s Hammer Review - Heatsink Showdown
Is bigger always better? That’s what Cooler Master seems to think, based on the humongous size of the V10. In addition to the huge array of fins and dual 120mm fans, the other main selling point of the V10 it its use of a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) to accelerate heat transfer.
At the other end of the arena today is the Thor’s Hammer from Xigmatek. It looks like a pretty typical tower heatsink, albeit with an unusual fin pattern. What you don’t see at first glance is Xigmatek’s Heatpipe Direct Touch design, which has the heatpipes directly contacting the CPU.
Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB Review
The state of graphics hardware is often predictable. A new generation of chipset is made, it’s faster, it subsequently is improved, and more variation comes out of it. Older hardware is pushed aside, sometimes unnecessarily, but gains appeal through price drops. Saying that the last year or so of developments hasn’t been entertaining is wrong, but it’s not taking a new turn. It’s just happening ridiculously fast.
This year’s video card harvest was massive. Lots of new cards, lots of old cards with a fresh sticker, but most impressively, the bang-for-buck has basically tripled. It’s that everything’s a great deal–although the HD 4830 may be a little greater than the rest.
The ‘30 is, deceptively, a broken card. It’s got the same 4800 core we’ve come to all love, maybe a little too much, but with some flaw preventing all 800 stream processors to work. Cooler heads prevailing, ATI designed the chip to allow for some chunk of the core to be disabled, leaving the remaining 640 kicking hard.
- Introduction, The Card & Bundle
- Specifications and Setup
- DirectX 10 Titles
- DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics
- Video, Power, and Overclocking
- Conclusion
Evercool Hermes Notebook Cooler Review
Like most desktop PCs, a typical notebook/laptop nowadays is using more power and thus is creating more heat. In response to the heat, many companies are starting to offer notebook PC coolers designed to provide additional cooling capability. Today we’ll be looking at the Evercool Hermes Notebook cooler, which has a small footprint and a unique shape. Read on to find out if this cooler brings cool temperatures to your notebook.
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First GeForce GTS 240 Card Exposed
We have already told you quite a bit of details about GeForce GTS 240 which is slated for April release. It is basically 55nm G92 based 9800 GT GPU on a new P361 PCB and internally Nvidia calls it D10P2. Now we will provide you a glimpse on the schematic diagram of the GTS 240 card. The differences are mainly on the power design department.
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ASUS P5Q3 LGA775 Intel P45 ATX Motherboard Review
Launched last summer by Intel, the P45 chipset has quickly grown in popularity, replacing the aging P35 chipset. Intended for a mid to upper mainstream consumer base, the P45 chipset boasts some impressive features, such as: full DDR2/DDR3 support, 20 PCI Express 2.0 lanes, ATI Crossfire support, and a 65nm manufacturing process. By now manufacturers have had ample time to design and refine their P45 based motherboards and today Benchmark Reviews takes a look at ASUS’ mainstream P45 DDR3 motherboard: the P5Q3. As a twist on our usual motherboard reviews, this article will also shed some light on the growing DDR2 vs DDR3 debate with some hard numbers in the benchmark sections.
DDR3 has been around for a while now, but its increased cost over DDR2 has limited it to mostly the enthusiast segment. With the launch of the new Core i7 platform, however, DDR3 prices have been steadily falling. While the high cost of the Core i7 platform is still out of reach for most consumers, the effect it’s had on DDR3 prices can be felt throughout most market segments. Combined with the P45 chipset, which offers support for DDR2 and DDR3, these price drops have brought about an interesting question: is DDR3 worth the extra cost?
- ASUS P5Q3 LGA775 Intel P45 ATX Motherboard
- ASUS P5Q3 Features
- ASUS P5Q3 Specifications
- Closer Look: ASUS P5Q3
- ASUS P5Q3 Detailed Features
- Motherboard Testing Methodology
- 3DMark06 Benchmarks
- PCMark05 Benchmarks
- SiSoft Sandra
- Lavalys Everest
- Crysis Benchmark Results
- World in Conflict Benchmarks
- ASUS P5Q3 Power Consumption
- ASUS P5Q3 Final Thoughts
- ASUS P5Q3 Conclusion
