HD-DVD is dead - long live Blu-ray! But what about buyers who bet on the wrong horse? Buffalo has a solution for this group and will begin shipping an external USB 2.0 device that can write Blu-ray discs at up to 6x speed and reads HD-DVDs as well. It can also write CDs and DVDs, all courtesy of the LG drive used by Buffalo. Read more
When you're going to use a new solid-state drive, you can expect to hook it up to your computer one of two ways: USB or eSATA. But new hybrid SSDs from Buffalo and Transcend pack both connections into a single product for speed *and* portability! Read more
While thousands stood in line to see Google president Larry Page not announce the "Google PC," we continued to find out some very interesting news last Friday, including looking into how a simple notebook computer can not only achieve high-definition, but surround sound. Read more
A newly released internal Blu-ray drive by Buffalo Technology claims the position of world's fastest Blu-ray drive Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more