Uh, where’s the kitchen sink? Day 1 of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is quickly wrapping up, though not before Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) could blitz gamers with a bevy of hardware, including its new Spatha and Sica Gaming Mice, Strix Tactic Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, and a few other products. While not all…
Bigger Isn’t Always Better Samsung announced the Portable SSD T1 line of external solid-state drive today, the first of its kind for this company. The drive uses a standard USB 3.0 cable to connect to your PC and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. But you’ll definitely want the faster connection — Samsung claims that…
Though CES is officially A Big Big Deal in the consumer electronics world, it’s not generally known for making a huge splash among gamers. Nevertheless, we like our gadgets and we suspect that you do, too. So in the interest of furthering the public good, we present Sony Electronics’ annual CES keynote. The festivities kick…
Hello Broadwell, nice to finally meet you Intel waited until CES to formally introduce its 5th Generation Intel Core processor family, essentially a die shrink of Haswell built on a 14nm manufacturing process. These are the Broadwell parts you’ve been waiting for — yes, we’ve already seen the Broadwell architecture manifest in Intel’s Core M…
Honey, HP shrunk the desktop! Go back in time a few years ago and we might have scoffed at the idea of palm sized desktops PCs. And if you would have tried telling us they’re as powerful as some desktop tower PCs, you would have elicited a hearty chuckle from us. Ah, but times are…
SanDisk targets tablet and laptop users with new SSD options We’ve already seen solid state drive pricing drop to around 50 cents per gigabyte and below for high performance models, and here’s hoping even lower prices are bound for 2015. In the meantime, SanDisk just unveiled a couple of new SSD lines at CES —…
Lenovo kicks off 2015 by crossing a big time milestone If you thought Lenovo would slow its roll in 2015, think again. The world’s top PC supplier is currently celebrating over 100 million ThinkPad unit sales to date, which is enough to equip every man, woman, and child in Canada almost three times over (in…
Meet the world’s first 15.6-inch Chromebook The primary appeal of Chromebooks is the price of entry — without a low price tag, these modern day cloud-based netbooks probably wouldn’t find much of an audience. This begs the question, is there a market for slightly more expensive Chromebook models with bigger size displays? Acer intends to…
You’ve been able to rent games through PlayStation Now for several months now, but many of you have asked –- what about a subscription? I’m pleased to announce that starting January 13th, we’ll launch a subscription service for PlayStation Now that will provide instant and unlimited access to a catalog of more than 100 PS3…
Will help drive auto-piloted cars You can’t buy driverless cars just yet, but Nvidia is hoping to change that over time with its new Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip. The SoC is an offshoot of Nvidia’s K1 chip and is based off of the company’s Maxwell GPU architecture, which is currently implemented in its GeForce GTX 980…