The second incarnation of Alienware’s M17x is creating lots of excitement amongst mobile gaming enthusiasts, but does it really beat a field of premium models? We put it up against solutions from Eurocom and...
September delivers familiar (moderate) price adjustments, a handful of new processors from AMD, and news of upcoming models from Intel as well. We also learn some interesting information about Intel's pilot...
Do you want the gadgets in your pocket to help you make decisions or monitor aspects of your daily life? Intel believes context-aware computing will take hardware to the next level of intelligence, but there...
We've recently put a lot of effort into designing a custom benchmark suite for testing workstation-class hardware. It's a work in progress, first used to test Intel's Xeon 5600-series CPUs. Today we have some...
Do you own one of Intel's new K-series CPUs? How high have you overclocked it? We have a bunch of hardware here to give away, if you're willing to share your overclocking successes!
One of the best things about laptops is that they allow you to work from pretty much anywhere. Unfortunately, as anyone working from the couch or their bed will know, using a pillow as a makeshift desk can mean...
In our second-day coverage of Intel's Developer Forum, we see Sandy Bridge's graphics engine handle 3D Blu-ray on the PC, AMD's forthcoming Zacate processor in action, SSDs help improve gaming performance, and...
The first day of Intel's Developer Forum saw discussion of the company's new CPU microarchitecture, code-named Sandy Bridge and manufactured at 32 nm. But the most important changes might be how the company...
In this quarter's System Builder Marathon, we balance out our CPU and graphics subsystems, rather than piling on the GPU performance like last time. The results are shocking, to be quite honest. Check out the...