Mini DisplayPort becomes a real standard
When Apple unveiled its aluminum MacBooks in 2008, it broke new ground on several fronts, offering users aluminum unibody enclosures, multi-touch glass touch pads... and a new display connector of its own design: Mini DisplayPort. Just over a year on, the Video Electronics Standards Association has adopted Mini DisplayPort...
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Poll: What will be the best PC game of the season?
It's that time of year again. Days are shorter, the weather is colder, folks are putting up decorations and prepping for the holiday shopping rush, and a new batch of games is coming out. Well, unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case you're probably enjoying long, warm...
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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 has dual-core CPU, is 0.75'' thick
Are we seeing the beginning of a schism between similar consumer ultraportables? Some, like Acer's Aspire AS1410, seem to prioritize bang for buck. Others, like Lenovo's new IdeaPad U150, trade the rock-bottom pricing for a little more oomph and a sleeker design. The IdeaPad U150 packs an 11.6" 1366x768...
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New OCZ SSDs to include SandForce controllers
OCZ will soon start treading new ground in the solid-state drive world. The company has teased a brand new line of drives based on controllers from little-known startup SandForce. While OCZ is keeping specs under lid for now—more details will follow in the weeks leading up to the Consumer Electronics...
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Corsair adds 32GB, 64GB Survivor GT thumb drives
Ever taken a USB thumb drive scuba diving and run out of storage capacity? Well, you can now avoid that conundrum: Corsair has added 32GB and 64GB models to its Survivor line of durable flash drives. The new Survivor GT drives feature the same "super-strong, CNC-milled, aircraft-grade aluminum casing" as their...
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TR's 10th: The evolution of overclocking, more winners chosen
As we look back on ten years of TR, it's fascinating to see how hallmarks of the enthusiast community have changed over the past decade. Take overclocking, for example. Back in the day, overclocking was a black...
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Dell Zino HD 'nettop' is cheap, has AMD guts
Eat your hearts out, nettops. There's a new kid in town, and it's got a little more power under the hood than your typical Atom processor and old-school Intel chipset. Dell has started offering the Zino HD, a low-cost, small-form-factor, Athlon-powered PC, on its Irish website. Measuring just 7.8" x...
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Amazon releases Kindle app for Windows
No need to shell out 260 bucks for a Kindle reading device—so long as you don't mind reading books off of your PC monitor or laptop display, that is. Amazon has released a Windows application that lets...
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