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Big fish in a small pond Samsung has built a good reputation for fast and high-quality SSDs. It introduced the 470 to desktops four years ago, and its SSDs were in high-end laptops before that. The company also distinguished itself by designing its own controller chips and manufacturing its own NAND flash memory. Indeed, Samsung’s…
Laptop seen in FCC filing At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Lenovo introduced the U31 laptop, a 13-incher the Chinese company said it did not plan to bring to the North American market. A recent filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), however, seems to suggest otherwise. According to Liliputing, the 13-inch laptop cropped…
The cheapest 15-inch Chromebook Not that long ago, the distinction of being the biggest Chromebook belonged to the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook (14-inch), but that changed earlier this year when Acer introduced its 15.6-inch Chromebook 15 at CES. Acer now plans to outdo itself by launching the cheapest 15-inch Chrome OS-running machine on the market….
Project Composer becomes Dropbox Notes A few weeks back, some sites chanced upon Project Composer, an Evernote-esque note-taking tool Dropbox was testing silently. Curious as to what the fuss was all about, many flocked to the limited-access service, only to be turned away at the gates. While entry is still restricted, you can at least…
Ten Skylake desktop CPUs supposedly outed It may only have been a few months since the first Broadwell CPUs (finally) hit the market, but Intel is already looking set to move on from the Haswell’s troubled 14nm die shrink. Media reports in February suggested that the chip maker could showcase its 6th generation Skylake-S desktop…
Top Deal: It doesn’t take much to fill up most solid state drives. Install Windows, some productivity apps, and a handful of games and you could be looking at running out of space. What about all those vacation photos and home videos? One solution is to check out today’s top deal for a Seagate Expansion…
Not your average rads Thermaltake today debuted a full range of radiators that it claims are all designed for the most demanding and hardcore enthusiasts around. Not to be confused with your run-of-the-mill radiator, Thermaltake’s new Pacific RL (over 50mm thickness) and R Series (under 50mm thickness) radiators are designed from high-quality German aerospace-grade materials…
Grab your screwdriver, it’s time to buid a new PC! Build it. DIY. Roll your own. Whatever you call it, there’s nothing more satisfying than putting together your own computer. Sure, you can argue that there’s no point to it anymore—OEMs get such a big price break that at best, your DIY rig will cost…
Microsoft’s cloud revenue more than doubled yet again If it appears that Microsoft has its head in the cloud these days, it’s because it does, and that’s where it will likely stay for a long time to come. There’s little incentive for Microsoft to change course at this point, as its commercial cloud revenue just…
Good or bad idea? In what ranks as a truly game changing announcement (literally), Valve has cleared the way for developers to sell their mods in the Steam Workshop. That also includes game content such as items and maps, all of which can be made available for sale directly in the Steam Workshop for titles…