PC

The Origin EON-11s Is An Impressive Gaming Machine Masquerading As A Netbook

The bigger the gaming laptop is, the more powerful it is. At least that’s been the experience I’ve had in my gaming laptop-reviewing career. A bigger chassis means more bells and whistles, better heat management, and a larger, more vivid display.


May 10, 2012
PC

Taking A Bite Out Of Raspberry Pi, $35 Of Tiny PC Power

Six years ago, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton set out to reignite programming in schools with a cheap, compact computing platform. Despite targeting students, his foundation’s $US35 computer captured the imaginations of tinkers worldwide, resulting in overwhelming demand.


May 3, 2012
PC

The Spectacular Live Debut Of Nvidia’s $999 Dual-GPU Video Card

Nvidia president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took this stage this weekend at the GeForce LAN Shanghai to introduce the GeForce GTX 690, a dual-GPU monster designed from the ground up to be the most powerful video card in history. Are your nipples hard too?


April 30, 2012
PC

A New Ultra-Compact Gaming Laptop Rises

When Alienware recently discontinued its M11x line of compact laptops, many feared the age of the 11-inch gaming machine had come to a close. Origin PC keeps the tiny dream alive with its EON11-S, so small it photographs well next to an Xbox 360 controller.


April 26, 2012
PlayStation

With Skype On The PS Vita Nyko’s Speaker Stand Is Doubly Handy

Available now at GameStop locations across the US, Nyko’s Speaker Stand for the PS Vita adds a little more oomph to the Sony portable’s sound and transforms it into a handy mobile Skype solution.


March 29, 2012
In Real Life

Crucial Adrenaline SSD Review: Solid State Cache For Your Hard Drive

Last year we reviewed OCZ’s RevoDrive Hybrid, which saw the marriage of a 1TB hard drive and a pair of 50GB SandForce SSDs on a PCI Express card. The idea was to use the SSD controllers and 100GB of NAND flash as a high-speed cache for the much larger spinning disk drive.


February 24, 2012
In Real Life

A Wireless Headset That Changes Channels And Gets Out Of The Way

How do you review a product for something that isn’t there, and isn’t supposed to be there? That’s the distinguishing trait of the Turtle Beach X32 headset for the Xbox 360. It’s identical in nearly every way to its X31 predecessor, released in 2009, except for one. A big one.


February 23, 2012
PC

My Week With A Very, Very Expensive Gaming PC

Alienware has recently launched a new line of its Aurora desktops, a range of very pretty, very expensive gaming PCs. And I just spent a week playing video games on one.


February 3, 2012
In Real Life

This Magic Box Transforms Your Electrical Outlets Into Internet Connections

Over the course of several years I’ve painstakingly migrated all of my gaming and electronics equipment into a single area, an impassable tangle of wires and blinking lights, all in the name of making sure I had a stable, wired connection at all times. Once I got everything just right, Diamond Multimedia sent me the Powerline Internet AV Kit, a pair of devices that turn any power outlet into a wired network connection.


January 25, 2012
PC

The Coolest Gaming Station I’ve Ever Seen

The MWE Emperor 200 may be labelled a “workstation”, but don’t let that fool you. It’s being demoed using video games for a reason: this is not for work. It’s for playing video games. In the future.