Archive for May, 2008

LaCie and SimpleTech Dual Drive Mammoths

External drives are becoming the storage backbone for home users. Single drive solutions do not provide true data safety, though, as a drive failure will kill all your data. LaCie and SimpleTech move beyond single-drive storage with dual-drive solutions. Continue to read more…

Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile Bluetooth soundsystem

Logitech’s new wireless Pure-Fi Mobile would make the ideal outdoor speaker set, given the changeable nature of the British weather system. It can playback tunes wirelessly from your mobile or other Bluetooth device so if the heavens open you’ve only got one thing to grab on the way in. It’s got a range of 10m, […]

HP MediaSmart Server Update Arrives, With New Media Streaming, Anti-Virus Capabilities

HP have released their “April” update for the HP MediaSmart Server to the Web, which brings new, DLNA-complaint media streaming and anti-virus capabilities to the home server, along with a suite of bug-fixes for HP’s own add-ins. Read the full article at We Got Served.

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Arctic Cooling launches new CPU cooler

Arctic Cooling has launched a new high end CPU cooler, the Freezer XTREME. The cooler uses the so-called Twin Tower-design, cooling fins on both sides, with a fan in the middle. The Freeze XTREME has four double heatpipes and a silent 120mm fan, running between 800 and 1500 rpm.    […]

Wolfdale Shrinks Transistors, Grows Core 2

Intel’s new 45-nm E8000 series is more powerful and more efficient than any other dual-core processor architecture on the market today. But just how good is it, and more importantly, should you upgrade right away? Continue to read more…

Intel chastises AMD for ’scorched earth’ anti-trust attack

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AMD vs Intel Intel continues to paint AMD as an annoying, over zealous whiner, as the two companies’ anti-trust battle makes its protracted way to court.…
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Intel’s 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled

Four cores, 45 nm structures and overclocking up to 4 GHz make Intel’s Penryn Core 2 CPUs faster and more efficient. How bad does it look for AMD? Continue to read more…

Adaptec’s Series 5 Unified Serial Controllers

RAID controllers are of little interest to enthusiast users, but the entire IT industry relies on them. The new Adaptec RAID cards target all sorts of business storage solutions in the areas of DAS, NAS and SAN. Continue to read more…

Intel’s 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled

Four cores, 45 nm structures and overclocking up to 4 GHz make Intel’s Penryn Core 2 CPUs faster and more efficient. How bad does it look for AMD? Continue to read more…

Multifunction printers call the tune

With their domination of the inkjet market, multifunction printers represent more than just a simple alternative to conventional A4 printers. Using the same print engines and benefiting from enormous progress in the level of integration between the printing and scanning components, they are becoming easier to use and their prices are in freefall. What could […]