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…
The Seagate Seven is a celebration of company’s 35 years in the industry Seagate earlier today announced what it says is the slimmest portable drive the world has ever seen. The Seagate Seven — called thus because of its 7mm depth — is as minimalistic as it is slim. Its unembellished steel enclosure, according the…
RealSense is an Intel technology Acer is bringing Intel’s Kinect-esque RealSense 3D camera to its Aspire V Nitro series of gaming laptops, the company announced in a press release Saturday. Available in North America since October 2014, the Aspire V Nitro family currently contains as many as a dozen models, all of which either have…