Computex 2012: be quiet! Brings German Engineering & Design to the US
I just met with be quiet! a famous German PSU maker where I learned the company will be finally entering the US market later this year. Differentiation in the...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012Computex 2012: New Efficient PSUs & LED Controller from NZXT
NZXT is also showing off its new line of 80 Plus Bronze certified PSUs, the HALE82 N (non-modular). The HALE82 supports up to 3.5A for 5V standby, enabling high...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012Computex 2012: NZXT's Cryo V60 & X60 Notebook Coolers
With features like configurable TDP with Ivy Bridge and more users moving to notebook-only usage models, finding new ways to add extra cooling to increasingly small form factor notebooks...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012Sony Goes Whole Hog With a New Ultrabook, Updates Vaio Notebook Line
It's not surprising with Computex on and hardware refreshes from the three major players (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA) that vendors have been updating their offerings. What is surprising is just...
4 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/4/2012Toshiba Announces THNSNF Series SSDs: 19nm NAND Is Here
Toshiba announced their THNSNF SSD series today. The announcement was long overdue as currently Toshiba's fastest SATA offering is the HG3 series, which was released in January 2010. The...
6 by Kristian Vättö on 6/4/2012SanDisk Releases Lightning PCIe SSDs for Enterprises
Computex is now running at full power and announcements are coming from everywhere. SanDisk just launched their latest addition to their enterprise storage portfolio: the Lightning PCIe SSA. SanDisk...
3 by Kristian Vättö on 6/4/2012Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular Announce More Galaxy S III Details | Update: AT&T As Well
This morning, Verizon started something of a firestorm when it posted pricing and preorder information about the Samsung Galaxy S III (SGS3) on its website, with T-Mobile, Sprint, and...
15 by Brian Klug on 6/4/2012Microsoft Announces Xbox SmartGlass Service For Windows 8, Windows Phone
While we’ll leave most of the E3 gaming announcements today to the gaming press, there is one bit of news that has come out of E3 that’s going to...
1 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2012Origin PC Announces EON15-S and EON17-S with GeForce GTX 680M
It looks like there’s a bit of confusion on some embargo dates, but Origin PC has released some details on their upcoming EON15-S and EON17-S notebooks. The big news...
4 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2012Hands on With ASUS' Tablet 600 & Windows RT
Earlier today ASUS announced its first Windows RT device, the Tablet 600. Based on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 SoC (T30), the Tablet 600 features a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 IPS...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012Gigabyte and the X79 Refresh
Intel's Sandy Bridge-E platform is slated to be with us well into 2013. Thus if you want the highest performing system with no expense spared, there is only...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012Gigabyte - Dual Thunderbolt on Z77
Thunderbolt based motherboards have become a talking point over recent weeks, with our look at a pre-certified MSI solution, followed quickly by ASUS and Intel's certified products. Now...
3 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012Gigabyte meets Trinity - A Computex Look At FM2 and A85
One of the meetings today was with Gigabyte, up on the 36F of the Taipei 101. We got a chance to see close up their FM2 prototype design...
10 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012Patriot's EP Pro UHS-I SD Card
Earlier today Patriot announced its EP Pro UHS-I SDXC card. The UHS-I spec is really about driving up performance. The EP Pro is rated at up to 90MB/s reads...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012Other new ASUS products: Monitors, and a Reverse Screen Laptop
Not content with just showing the Transformer concept to AIOs and Notebooks, ASUS had another couple of new interesting devices of note in our press conference today. The...
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012New ASUS AIO Transformer. Oh, it’s also a tablet.
With the push towards more powerful AIOs and tablets, ASUS have decided you can have both in one device. At their press conference today ASUS announced the new ASUS Transformer...
9 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012New ASUS Transformer Book - Ultrabook meets Tablet
In a spate of announcements today, ASUS have shown us their latest innovations, including the new ASUS Transformer Book. In almost every way, this looks like a normal...
16 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012ASUS Tablet 810 & 600: Giving us Almost Exactly What We Want in a Windows 8 Tablet
ASUS had another amazing Computex press conference this year. Along with the dual-screen Taichi notebook, the Transformer All-in-One and the Ivy Bridge based Transformer Book, ASUS announced two more...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2012HP Updates Workstations with Ivy Bridge
In a move sure to come as a surprise to approximately no one, HP is updating several members of their workstation lineup with new Ivy Bridge-based processors, including Ivy...
3 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/4/2012Lenovo: New Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks and Increasing Market Share
Lenovo is hardly a new name in the computer industry, as they're one of the top five PC OEMs in worldwide sales right now. In fact, Lenovo was keen...
13 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2012