The first official day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show - which we who keep count call "Day 2" - brought the two competing high-definition videodisc formats back into the spotlight. Meanwhile, a consumer electronics giant and a microprocessor foundry both took steps to become, well, the next Napster. Read more
Intel CEO Paul Otellini's keynote address to CES Thursday evening provided some flash along with some substance, but not necessarily a banquet of both. How will Intel be able to sell its message of ubiquitous digital content to the consumer, along with a message of controlled access to the content industry? Read more
Take about a quarter million people, stuff them all into about 40 football fields, load them with the latest consumer gadgets, and what happens? Pandemonium. This year's CES was a little more Vegas and a lot more Hollywood this year, as everybody wanted to be a content company all of a sudden. Read more
The day when everyone starts flying home, and the crowds start to thin out, is when you can actually see some of the kiosks and displays and tucked-away corners that you might have missed earlier in the week. In such places, we found a WiMAX notebook and a dual-signal DV-R, among other things. Read more
Hard drive capacities have increased in large increments over the last few years, while trends indicate reduced spindle speeds of 5,400 RPM instead of 7,200. We looked at three generations of Samsung hard drives to analyze the performance ramifications. Read more
This month, ATI's new Radeon HD 4770 is missing in action, since online stores are not only unable to keep it in stock, but also de-listing it completely. With violent movements in pricing, though, it'd have been taken off the recommended list anyway. Read more
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had some teething pains right out of the gate. Chris Angelini revisits those issues and uses Ion as a real HTPC. Read more
Do you want a quick Core i7 system, but don’t feel confident sticking to Intel's spec and using the DDR3-1066 memory supported by the processor? We benchmark the most relevant memory speed and timing combinations to check the benefit of going faster. Read more