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AOpen MiniPC Duo MP945-VXR

The AOpen MiniPC Duo MP945-VXR is a $350 bare-bones system, clearly designed to capture the pocket-size feel of the popular Mac Mini. AOpen has offered Mac Mini clones before, including full systems, such as the MP945-V, but this is the first one to harness the power of Intel's Core 2...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, AOpen, Intel Core 2 Duo, AOpen MiniPC Duo MP945-VXR, AOpen MiniPC Duo, Apple Intel Mac Mini, AOpen MiniPC, bare-bones system, CPU, Apple Macintosh

Product reviews 2006-09-18

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Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.

If your holiday list includes a laptop, there's a new choice from an well-known name: Samsung. In October, Samsung announced that it was entering the U.S. market with six new notebooks, as well as a netbook. The timing wasn't great. After several quarters of double-digit growth, the PC market cooled...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laptop Computer, Laptop Magazine, PC Magazine, Notebooks, Modems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide: Top desktops for any budget

Desktops get little love these days as more and more users opt for notebook PCs. Laptops have closed the gap in recent years in terms of features and performance. But the fact remains that desktops deliver a lot more bang for buck. In fact, you can...

Tags: Game, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., PC, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Quad-core System, Studio, Flash Memory, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 10 camcorders

This year's hottest product category is arguably digital video, and there are a ton of options available on the market. So which camcorder should you choose? To aid you in your search for the best gadget for your visual adventures, here's my list...

Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Canon HG10, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-19

First laptops "designed by" Best Buy look like winners

HP's first 13-inch consumer laptop, the Pavilion dv3510nr, is getting good grades, including an Editors' Choice award from CNET.com. The Pavilion dv3510nr is one of two Blue Label notebooks--the other is the Toshiba Satellite e105-s140--which are not only sold exclusively at Best Buy, but were also designed...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Battery, HP Pavilion, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Engineering, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Visionman Allio 32-inch and 42-inch HDTVs with built-in PCs debut

One of the most popular posts since this blog started concerned whether people would use all-in-one PCs as their primary HDTVs. While all-in-ones from Sony may work for apartments or if you want an HDTV in your office, the fact is that a 24-inch or 26-inch...

Tags: Hard Drive, PC, built-In, HDTV, Intel Core 2 Duo, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, Processors, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Belkin N+ Wireless Router

Without a fancy name, the Belkin N+ impressed us where it matters the most: range and throughput performance. As a bonus, it also offers a limited network-storage function. We were only disappointed that it doesn't offer dual-band support, like the DIR-855 or the Linksys WRT610N. The N+'s performance, however, more...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Belkin Router, wireless router, router, Belkin Corp., Belkin Storage Manager

Product reviews 2008-11-08

Asus X83VM-X1 - Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz, 14.1-inch TFT

Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.With its brown lid with a woven gold graphics pattern, the Asus X83VM-X1 might be mistaken for some sort of Gucci-branded laptop. (Hey, it...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, TFT, Asus X83VM-X1, ASUS, laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo

Product reviews 2008-11-07

Dell S1535-143B

Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's Studio line of laptops is an attractive middle ground between the inexpensive Inspiron line and the high-end XPS line, incorporating some of the...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Dell S1535-143B, Intel Core 2 Duo, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-11-07

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs

Laptops using multiple GPUs aren't new, but they are becoming more widespread. Earlier this week AMD touted the first laptop "from a major manufacturer" with two ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, the Alienware M17. Not to be outdone, Nvidia announced yesterday that it was powering the first three-GPU laptop, the Toshiba...

Tags: Alienware, Notebook, Nvidia GeForce, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., GPU, Toshiba Qosmio X305 Series, Alienware M1, Trade-off, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Sony VGNFW270J/W

When we reviewed the 16-inch Gateway MC7801u earlier this month, we bemoaned its lack of a Blu-ray drive and the absence of Centrino 2 components. The Sony VAIO FW270, which incorporates a similarly HD-friendly 16.4-inch display, does not have these shortcomings. Its optical drive both reads and writes Blu-ray discs,...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, VAIO FW270

Product reviews 2008-11-07

Alienware M17

With Alienware's recent M17x laptop still relatively fresh, why would the Dell subsidiary launch a new model? The new M17 (minus the "x") system trades Nvidia graphics for ATI (including a multi-GPU CrossFireX option) and also includes optional Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme CPUs. Those new parts drive the price...

Tags: Processors, Alienware M17, Alienware

Product reviews 2008-11-06

Should the Mac Mini die?

Should the Mac Mini die?Most everyone who owns one appears to really like it.Performance wise you're the first person I've seen who had anything less than favorable to say about it.RE: Should the Mac Mini die?I have a spare 19" LCD at home that is just waiting for the new...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Consumer electronics, current MacBook, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Micro-Mac, motherboard

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7

The public face of the Windows development-chief duo is Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, who runs Windows and Windows Live Engineering. The private face is Jon DeVaan, the head of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to interview DeVaan by phone this week on his role...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Idea, Microsoft Corp., Jon DeVaan, MJF, JD, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Office, Office Suites

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Pantech Slate (AT&T)

Most of Pantech's messaging phones have been of the high-end variety. The Pantech Duo is a smartphone, the Helio Ocean is as close to a smartphone as you can get without having a third-party operating system, and the Pantech Matrix has HSDPA speed, along with multimedia features like a megapixel...

Tags: Instant messaging, Keyboards, Pantech Duo, AT&T Corp., SLATE, Pantech, phone

Product reviews 2008-11-06

Asus X83VB-X1

Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.We have tested and reviewed five retail laptops in the $800 to $1,000 range, and the Asus X83VB-X1 is the cheapest and most powerful...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Asus X83VB-X1, ASUS

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Gateway MC series: The best deal on a 16-inch notebook?

Gateway announced its MC series notebook in late October, but so far it has received little coverage aside from Laptop Magazine's review. The MC series is one of several recent laptops with 16-inch widescreen displays geared toward entertainment. Like other Gateway notebooks and desktops, the MC series...

Tags: Gateway Inc., Series, Laptop Computer, MC Series, Gateway MC7801u, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Don't upgrade to Windows 7 ... clean install instead!

Don't upgrade to Windows 7 ... clean install instead!Everyone Should Know ThisANY Microsoft OS you are gambling with your life to do an upgrade....98, ME, XP, Vista...all of them ground the system to a halt...Fresh install no problems!Why is there still a 32 bit version?If I am off-base, please correct...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, clean install, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-11-04