Synology DS1815+ 8-bay Intel Rangeley SMB NAS Review
Synology started the roll-out of their SMB-targeted NAS units based on Intel's latest Atom platform (Rangeley) in September 2014. We have already looked at the 4-bay DS415+ in detail...
65 by Ganesh T S on 11/18/2014Corsair Neutron XT (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review: Phison S10 Debuts
The ugly truth is that the SSD market has been tough for almost all the typical PC component vendors lately. With Samsung, SanDisk, and Micron/Crucial being serious about the...
57 by Kristian Vättö on 11/17/2014Windows 10 Technical Preview First Impressions: The Return Of The Desktop
Windows 10 is ditching the “One Interface to Rule them All” mentality, and moving to a more user friendly model of a single store across all platforms, and multiple...
200 by Brett Howse on 11/13/2014The Nexus 6 Review
When consumers think of Google's Nexus devices, they think about the promise of receiving the latest updates for Android essentially as soon as they release. They also think about...
136 by Brandon Chester on 11/12/2014MSI GT72 Dominator Pro Review: GTX 980M Reigns Supreme
When it comes to high-end gaming notebooks, there are only a few real competitors: Alienware, ASUS, Clevo (under various brand names), and MSI are the main options, with a...
57 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014ASUS TUF Z97 Mark S Motherboard Review: The Arctic Camo Special Edition
There are many ways to do something different in the motherboard space, especially with respect to functionality and design. In terms of the design element, we have seen many...
45 by Ian Cutress on 11/10/2014Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7 GPUs - Series7XT & Series7XE
Taking place this week are Imagination Technologies’ Chinese idc14 and Imagination Summits developer events. While Imagination holds these events in multiple countries over the year, the Chinese event is...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2014The Apple iPad Air 2 Review
As we approach the holidays, Apple has launched a new iPad as expected. As one might expect from the name, the iPad Air 2 is more of an evolution...
227 by Joshua Ho on 11/7/2014Intel Haswell-EP Xeon 12 Core Review: E5-2650L V3 and E5-2690 V3
As part of our Haswell-EP coverage, the next two processors on our test beds are both 12 core variants. The E5-2650L V3 is a surprising monster, giving 12 Haswell...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2014Lenovo ThinkStation P300 Workstation Review: Haswell plus Quadro
Individual under-the-desk workstations are an integral part of modern society. Normally a work PC is either thought-limited or throughput-limited, but depending on the type of business and financials of...
57 by Ian Cutress on 11/4/2014Google Nexus 9: Preliminary Findings
For a few years now, Google has had a generally consistent tablet strategy. Instead of chasing after the ~10 inch tablet segment and focusing upon the high end, we’ve...
146 by Joshua Ho on 11/3/2014Zotac ZBOX CI540 nano Review: A Fanless Haswell-Y mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
48 by Ganesh T S on 10/31/2014Synology DS415+ Review: DSM on Intel Rangeley
Synology recently launched the DS415+, their first Intel Rangeley-based NAS. This 4-bay NAS, targeted towards SMBs and SOHOs, finally brings about hardware accelerated encryption capabilities to DSM in the...
42 by Ganesh T S on 10/30/2014A Look At OS X Yosemite And iOS 8.1
It has been a busy year for Apple, although one could argue it has been more of a busy few months. The yearly updates for most of Apple's products...
173 by Brandon Chester on 10/27/2014GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXBT-1900 Review: A Bay Trail UCFF PC
Over the last couple of years, the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) has emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Intel kickstarted the category with...
35 by Ganesh T S on 10/24/2014Investigating NVIDIA's BatteryBoost with MSI GT72
BatteryBoost initially launched with the GTX 800M series earlier this year, and our first look at the technology came with the MSI GT70 with GTX 880M. That may not...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014Benchmarked - Civilization: Beyond Earth
One of the longest running gaming franchises around, the Civilization series goes all the way back to my high school years. There have been many changes along the way...
73 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014Interacting with HTPCs: Adesso Keyboard Options Reviewed
There are many options in the market for users wanting to interact with HTPCs and media streamers. In this short piece, we review the keyboard / trackball / touchpad...
40 by Ganesh T S on 10/22/2014Upgrading the SSD in Chromebook & MyDigitalSSD Super Boot Drive M.2 2242 SSD Review
The majority of the Chromebooks tend to have 16GB of onboard storage with some high-end models having twice that. For the intended usage where everything is done in the...
67 by Kristian Vättö on 10/21/2014SteelSeries Apex Gaming Keyboard Capsule Review
RGB variants of mechanical keyboards are very popular nowadays, but what about those users that want to stick with a classic membrane keyboard and gamers on a budget? SteelSeries'...
19 by E. Fylladitakis on 10/20/2014