ASUS' Transformer Prime TF700T: Improves Wireless, Adds 1920 x 1200 Panel, Available in Q2
ASUS just announced an updated version of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the TF700T. The new tablet keeps the same form factor, dimensions, screen size and weight of the...
22 by on 1/9/2012
Intel Sort of Demonstrates Ivy Bridge Graphics at CES 2012
Intel's Mooly Eden just ran through a couple of demos running on Ivy Bridge based Ultrabooks. The first demo was a real time Havok render of a troll. The...
15 by on 1/9/2012
Zotac's ZBOX AD04 Gives HTPC Users an AMD E-450 APU
If you'd rather have a Brazos based mini HTPC than something that uses Cedar Trail, Zotac has you covered with the ZBOX AD04. Equipped with an AMD E-450, the...
3 by on 1/9/2012
Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD: Bus Powered, 120/240GB, Available in February
Elgato sent over info on its brand new Thunderbolt SSD available in February in 120GB and 240GB capacities. There's no word on the controller inside. If I had to...
4 by on 1/9/2012
OCZ Scores an Ultrabook Design Win for Everest: LG Super Ultrabook Z300
OCZ is on a roll at CES this year. It just announced LG's Super Ultrabook Z300 will ship with a 256GB mSATA Indilinx Everest based SSD. I'm still trying...
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Zotac's Cedar Trail ZBOX ID80 Uses Discrete GPU
Intel announced its 32nm Atom platform for netbooks/nettops at the end of last year. Codenamed Cedar Trail the new Atom doesn't really change CPU performance all that much but...
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OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ (RM1616) Features Sixteen SandForce Controllers
The Z-Drive R4 is a PCIe SSD available in 4 and 8-controller versions targeted squarely at the enterprise. Apparently some of OCZ's customers wanted an even beefier version, which...
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OCZ's 4TB 3.5" Chiron SSD
Take four Indilinx Everest controllers, put them behind custom OCZ FPGAs that implement its own VCA (RAID-like) architecture and you've got the Chiron. The complete enclosure provides support for...
9 by on 1/9/2012
OCZ's Portable Thunderbolt SSD: Lightfoot
I mentioned earlier that we'll be seeing more Thunderbolt devices at CES this year, but what I wasn't expecting was for one of those devices to be made by...
12 by on 1/9/2012
OCZ's Indilinx Everest 2 Launching in June 2012, Features Vastly Improved Random Performance
OCZ has a lot to show off this year at CES/Storage Visions, but the most exciting product from a client standpoint is its new Everest 2 controller. While the...
11 by on 1/9/2012
OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G 480GB SSD Upgrade for MacBook Air
OWC released a SandForce SF-2281 based 2011 MacBook Air SSD upgrade earlier this year in 120GB and 240GB capacities (the Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G). Using Hynix 2x-nm NAND...
5 by on 1/8/2012
LaCie at CES: 2big & eSATA Thunderbolt Hubs
We're expecting to see a lot of Thunderbolt devices at CES this year and we've already seen our first two new products, both from LaCie. The first is the...
2 by on 1/8/2012
OCZ & Marvell Create Native PCIe SSD Controller, Z-Drive R5 to Debut Next Week
Just a couple of months after launching its first SATA based SSD controller developed in-house, OCZ is announcing a PCIe based SSD controller co-developed with Marvell. The controller is...
22 by on 1/6/2012
5th Generation WiFi: 802.11ac, "Gigabit" WiFi Primer
Five years have passed since the first 802.11n devices implementing a draft of the now-finalized specification hit the market. Over the years 802.11n support has become ubiquitous in the...
39 by on 1/5/2012
Broadcom Announces Family of 802.11ac Chipsets & 5G WiFi Brand
If you've read our 802.11ac primer you already know that the fifth generation of WiFi is something to be excited about. At 433Mbps of bandwidth per stream with expected...
7 by on 1/5/2012
Scaling to 802.11ac Speeds in Smartphones and Tablets
I promise this is the last thing I'll write about 802.11ac today, but it is very relevant to our smartphone and tablet coverage. If you've followed any of our...
15 by on 1/5/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Teardown
In researching for my piece on the Transformer Prime's GPS issue I needed to know the location of the GPS antenna inside the Transformer Prime. Given the limited supply...
14 by on 1/4/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime GPS Issue Explained
An Apology Over the past couple of weeks I've received emails and tweets asking me to look into GPS performance issues with ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime. By the...
67 by on 1/4/2012
Intel Core i7 3820 Review: $285 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge E
If you are a normal desktop user or even a power user with plans to run at over 4GHz, the vanilla LGA-1155 Sandy Bridge platform is good enough. You...
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Intel's Atom N2600, N2800 & D2700: Cedar Trail, The Heart of the 2012 Netbook
Netbooks aren't dead, but they're not quite the hip topic of discussion they were a few years ago. The focus on cost conscious computing hasn't changed since the introduction...
39 by on 12/28/2011
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