When physical and virtual worlds collide Microsoft made a handful of revelations during its press event yesterday, such as that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users for the first year, and that Cortana is headed to the desktop. But one of the most intriguing things Microsoft talked…
Tough times for second tier mobo makers Asus and Gigabyte dominated the motherboard market in 2014, with Asus coming out slightly ahead of its rival for bragging rights. However, there’s more at stake than bragging rights for second tier players. ASRock, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), and Micro-Star International (MSI) all have new strategies for 2015…
Tough times for second tier mobo makers Asus and Gigabyte dominated the motherboard market in 2014, with Asus coming out slightly ahead of its rival for bragging rights. However, there’s more at stake than bragging rights for second tier players. ASRock, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), and Micro-Star International (MSI) all have new strategies for 2015…
Top Deal: Don’t you love the smell of fresh hardware? There’s nothing like unwrapping a new motherboard, knowing that you’re about to embark on a new build. If it’s been awhile since you’ve had that feeling, why not jump back in the saddle? And if you need some guidance on a starting point, check out…
We tried Microsoft’s augmented reality demo and couldn’t stop smiling Many suspected that Microsoft would toss its hat into the virtual reality headset game. After all, Oculus VR was successful enough with its Kickstarter campaign that Facebook ended up purchasing it for $two billion, and longtime console rival Sony jumped into the fray not long…
Sit or stand, it’s your choice There’s a new desk on the market, though it’s a bit smarter than your average contraption. Called the Stir Kinect Desk M1, it sports built-in electronics and a motorized platform that rises up and down to keep you from sitting on your rump all day long. Unless of course…
Better late than never Look who’s showing up fashionably late to the Windows Phone party. It’s Dropbox, which is now available as an app download for Windows phones and tablets. According to Dropbox, this marks the next phase of its partnership with Microsoft — the two somewhat joined forces in November of last year to…
Making the case for 4TB hard drives It was a year ago that cloud backup firm BackBlaze revealed some interesting data it had collected in regards to hard drive failure rates. For a number of reasons, trying to analyze the reliability of hard drive brands and models can be complicated, though when the dust settled,…
Asus and EVGA represent, plus DSR and VSR benchmarks One of the nice things about PCs is that your budget has a wide range of entry points. If you don’t need the heavy lifting of an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 or an AMD Radeon R9 290X, you don’t have to cough up hundreds of dollars…
Free, Surface Hub, Cortana and Hololens Microsoft held a Windows 10 press conference today and revealed a massive amount of details from the upcoming OS and much more. After many rumors, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10 will be free to Windows 8, 7, and Windows Phone users…for the first year, at least. The company views…