PC Gaming
A curvaceous beauty If your purchasing habits are dictated by a “Go big or go home” attitude, then your next monitor might very well be Acer’s Predator X34, a 34-inch curved IPS display with some fancy specs. Sure it’s big, but all that screen real estate isn’t wasted on a 1080p resolution. The Predator X34…
Sharp looking convertible There’s a window of opportunity for companies to claim “world first” designs with the arrival of 4K resolution panels in the consumer sector, and Toshiba is capitalizing on it. Hence the marketing pitch for the PC maker’s new Satellite Radius 12, the first and only 12.5-inch convertible laptop with a 4K Ultra…
Your new Internet connection, and the tech powering it Internet speeds have been on a steady increase for decades now. While users were at first satisfied with dialup speeds, this was supplanted by DSL and cable modem, bringing faster speeds over existing copper networks. To offer even more blisteringly fast performance, attention then turned to…
Storage expert Synology has announced that it has launched two new Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers: the DS416 and the DS216play. The former seems to be built for businesses, packing a “powerful” hardware encryption engine while the latter solution focuses on home media streaming thanks to on-the-fly 4K video transcoding. Synology says that the business-class…
Asus said that thanks to consumer demand, the company is introducing what it calls its “best Maximus Impact ever,” the ROG Maximus VIII Impact mini-ITX motherboard. The company promises that it’s no cut-down version of a larger model, packed with plenty of features that allow it to run with the larger mobo crowd. The board…
Top Deal: If you hook up a $500 PC to Vizio’s new 120-inch Reference Series 4K TV, you’ll only be looking at spending $130,500! We know, we know, who could pass up a deal like that? Call us crazy, but what if we told you there was a display out there that costs less $100,000?…
Do you scoff at stock firmware? We still regard the Linksys WRT1900AC as one of the best and fastest routers available, though if you’re eyeing that model, there’s a new version available with more memory and a faster processor. It’s the WRT1900ACS, which is essentially an improved version of the WRT1900AC. The new model boasts…
Why pay full price? Need a new laptop? If so, you might want to check out a few systems that Acer just marked down, the cheapest of which is $550, down from $650. That’s the temporary new price for its Aspire Switch 11 V, a convertible notebook with an 11.6-inch Full HD 1080p (1920×1080) display,…
An expensive virtual play Michael Dell just made history by orchestrating a deal for Dell and private-equity partner Silver Lake to buy EMC, a cloud and data storage outfit. It’s the biggest deal of all time in the tech industry. It was only two years ago that Michael bought back the company he founded for…
Ten software solutions for maintaining a healthy PC Over the last several weeks we’ve taken a look at programs that you should install on Windows 10, along with a number of tools that will keep the Windows platform safe. This time around, we’re taking a peek at programs that aim to keep the platforms in…