January 2015

Thinner and lighter Alienware laptops Several years ago, it was vogue to gobble up boutique builders — Dell acquired Alienware, HP grabbed Voodoo PC, and OCZ (now owned by Toshiba) snagged HyperSonic. Out of those, only Dell has consistently kept its enthusiast brand active with new product releases, and at the Consumer Electronics Show in…

New Keyboard has lower “debounce delay” and full anti-rollover Looks like Cherry has been busy trying to improve the performance of its keyboards with some new technology that will make keyboards more responsive and provide full anti-rollover. Online Managing Editor visited the booth at CES 2015 where Cherry is showing its new MX Board 6.0…

Top Deal: Hey, we get it — saying goodbye is tough. That’s especially true after a long and fruitful relationship in which you’ve both been faithful to each other. But sometimes, the grass really is greener on the other side, especially when the one you’ve been leaning on starts making funky noises at random intervals….

Cutting the cord on Momentum, and more Whenever talk turns to audio, Sennheiser is a name that inevitably comes up. And with good reason — we’ve sampled several different Sennheiser brand headsets and earphones over the years, and more often than not, we end up liking what we hear. Will that trend continue into 2015?…

Turn an HDMI display into a Windows 8.1 PC Intel already used the Consumer Electronics Show as a platform to introduce its newest 5th Generation Core micro-architecture (14nm Broadwell), but that’s not all it wanted to show off. On a somewhat smaller scale, Intel today introduced its Compute Stick, a $149 dongle that turns your…

Well, there goes all our free time! If your friends and co-workers all seem unusually busy as of late, it’s probably because they discovered a virtual gold mine of gaming goodness. You can discover it too, courtesy of the Internet Archive and software curator Jason Scott, who assembled a collection of roughly 2,400 MS-DOS games,…

We’re gonna need a bigger desk Dell announced today that it was going to start selling the U3415W, a 34-inch “ultra-wide” 21:9 curved IPS monitor, on its website tomorrow. We first heard about this hot item at PAX last year, but they weren’t talking about availability at the time. It has a resolution of 3440…

Another attempt to get Android in the living room You can always count on Razer to introduce a surprise product or two every year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Last year it was Project Christine, a modular PC concept that may one day become an actual consumer product. And this year? Well, Razer has multiple…

Hardware overload for gamers Gaming at 4K is still a pipe dream for many people. Too many roadblocks exist, one of them being the need for high-end hardware to push all those pixels around on a screen at a comfortable pace. However, for those who are equipped with sufficient GPU horsepower, you’ll be glad to…