November 28, 2007

Anandtech has published their digital camera buyers guide for 2008. They have dubbed it the Year of the DSLR, because digital SLR cameras are getting better, faster, and cheaper. Among the cameras reviewed: Canon 5D, Olympus E-510, Canon 1Ds Mark III, Sony A700, Canon EOS 40D, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, Nikon D40X, Olympus E-410, Olympus E-510, Pentax K10D, and Canon Rebel XTi.

November 25, 2007

Ars Technica has posted an unboxing and first impressions of the new Nokia N810 internet tablet device. The reviewer was very impressed with the device, stating that the device is smaller than the N800, and has more features, including built-in GPS, the new NS2008 operating system, better performance, improved battery life, and more applications, including Skype.

November 23, 2007

EXO Performance Network researchers claimed that after the series of benchmark tests it was concluded that Vista Service Pack 1 will not significantly improve the performance.

According to Exo-Blog:
"After extensive testing of both RTM and SP1-patched versions of Windows Vista, it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized. Vista SP1 is no faster than Vista from the RTM image."

November 6, 2006

Kotaku.com has published a hands-on review of the new Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game for the new Nintendo Wii console. The review features many screenshots of the game, and describes gameplay in detail.

October 16, 2006

Linux Forums just published a review of the Mandriva 2007 commercial distribution of Linux. The review is quite thorough and includes a number of screenshots showing the various unique features of Mandriva 2007. Among the new features are a better installer, 3D desktop effects, multimedia acceleration, and better package management and configuration tools.

November 1, 2005

Anandtech has published a review of the new Sony DRU-810A DVD recorder. Based on an entirely new chipset from Philips, this DVD burner features 16x DVD+R recording, 8x DVD+RW recording, 8x DVD+R DL recording, 16x DVD-R recording, 6x DVD-RW recording, 8x DVD-R DL recording, 48x CD-R recording, 32x CD-RW recording, 16x DVD-ROM reading, and 48x CD-ROM reading. See how it performs in various benchmarks against other top of the line DVD burners.

August 17, 2005

Tom's Hardware has published a comparison and review of four low cost color laser printers. They include the Dell 3000cn, the HP LaserJet 2600n, the Oki C3200, and the Samsung CLP-510. The average price of these printers is around $500, with the Dell 300cn going for around $320. In addition, the costs per page using these printers are far lower than those of inkjet printers. The review compares these printers in terms of price, cost per page, print quality, and print speed.

August 12, 2005

NewsForge has published a review of Xandros Desktop 3.0 Business Edition, a commercial Linux distribution aimed at corporate and small business desktops. One of the unique features of Xandros is the inclusion of CrossOver Office 4.2, which allows users to run many popular Windows software packages.

August 12, 2005

IGN.com and Tom's Hardware have published reviews of the new Zen Vision portable media player from Creative. Features include a 3.7" 640x480 262k color screen, AVI / DivX / XviD4 / MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG4-SP / WMV9 / Motion JPEG file format support, 30GB hard drive, up to 13 hours of audio playback and 4.5 hours of video playback, Compact Flash I and II support, TV-out, FM tuner, and microphone.

August 7, 2005

LaptopLogic.com has published a review of the new Toshiba Satellite M45 notebook PC. Features include an Intel Pentium-M 730 CPU at 1.6 Ghz with 2MB L2 Cache and 533 FSB, Intel 915GM Express chipset, Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG (802.11b/g), 15.4" WXGA 1280 x 800 TruBrite LCD, Hitachi ATA-5 80GB hard drive at 4200RPM, 512MB DDR333 PC2700 SO-DIMM RAM (maximum 2GB), Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, S-Video TV-Out port, 4x DVD+RW DVD Burner, Integrated V.90 Modem, Ethernet 10BASE-T/1000BASE-TX Ethernet, Memory Card Reader, i.LINK IEEE 1394, and more.

August 6, 2005

Anandtech has published a review of the new Plextor PX-740A DVD burner. Among the features of this product are: 16 DVD+R writing, 8x DVD+RW writing, 8x DVD+R DL writing, 16x DVD-R writing, 6x DVD-RW writing, 4x DVD-R DL writing, 48x CD-R writing, 32x CD-RW writing, 16x DVD-ROM reading, 48x CD-ROM reading, 2MB buffer, and more.

July 6, 2005

AnandTech has published a comparison and review of seven top nForce4 Ultra motherboards. They include the Epox 9NPA+, the Biostar NF4UL-A9, the Winfast NF4UK8AA, the Abit Fatal1ty AN8, the DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D, the ECS KN1 Extreme, and the Chaintech VNF4-Ultra. The article compares the features of these products as well as testing them in a number of general, synthetic, media encoding, and gaming benchmarks.

June 27, 2005

AnandTech has published a review of AMD's new Athlon 64 FX-57 processor. Clocked at 2.8 GHz, it is the fastest single-core CPU available in the PC marketplace. See how it performs in a number of system, synthetic, rendering, multimedia, and gaming benchmarks.

June 22, 2005

NVIDIA has just released their new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card, and a number of tech sites have published reviews of it. The card has a number of new features compared to previous NVIDIA cards, in addition to being faster. The reviews look closely at the card as well as perform the usual system, synthetic, and gaming benchmarks.

June 19, 2005

GDHardware.com has published a review of the yet unreleased AMD Athlon FX-57 processor. The Athlon FX-57 is targeted at the ultra-gamer, and operates at 2.8 GHz using a 90nm "San Diego" core. The FX-57 is currently the fastest single core processor available, easily beating all dual-core chips on single threaded performance tests. The review runs the new chip through a number of system, synthetic, and gaming benchmarks, including Cinebench, ScienceMark, Sysmark 2004, PCMark 2004, 3DMark 2003, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 2004, Doom 3, and DivX Compression.

June 15, 2005

ArsTechnica has published a lengthy and informative review of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Bridge. New reviewed features of Photoshop CS2 include layer management, new thumbnail options, Smart Objects, Smart Guides, Smart Sharpen, Vanishing Point, HDR and RAW image support, and more. The article then goes on to review the new Adobe Bridge application for image and file browsing. In addition, this review features a number of QuickTime clips of the various new software features in action.

June 14, 2005

HardwareZone has published a massive 22 page comparison and review of the seven top RADEON X800 XL graphics cards. The cards reviewed were the Elsa Falcox PX80 XL, the GeCube RADEON X800 XL, the Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V, the HIS X800 XL IceQ II Turbo, the MSI RX800 XL-VT2D256E, the PowerColor RADEON X800 XL, and the Sapphire RADEON X800 XL Ultimate. See how these cards compare in terms of features and performance in a number of synthetic and gaming benchmarks.

June 14, 2005

MadPenguin has published a review of the new Xandros Desktop 3 Business Edition commercial distribution of Linux. Xandros Desktop 3 Business Edition is a business-oriented Linux designed to play nicely on Windows networks, working smoothly with Windows Domains and Active Directory. The product also includes CrossOver Office for Windows application compatibility. Features include Linux kernel 2.6.11, GNU/Debian package support, KDE 3.3 desktop environment, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and Sun StarOffice 7, Codeweavers Crossover Office 4.2, Novell Evolution 2.0.4 for use with MS Exchange, Xandros Antivirus 1.34, Skype 1.0 free Internet telephony, Adobe Acrobat Reader 7, Citrix ICA Client 8.0, xt5250 IBM 5250 terminal emulator, SAP Java Client for Linux 6.3.0r2, Wireless 802.11g support, and more.

June 11, 2005

Tom's Hardware has reviewed three moderately priced home theater projectors. They are the Mitsubishi HC2000, the Optoma H79, and the Sony VPL-H51. These projectors have native 1280 x 720 resolution and are compatible with HD signals like 720p and 1080i. The Mitsubishi and Optima use DLP technology while the Sony uses three LCD imaging units. In terms of brightness the Mitsubishi HC2000 comes in at 700 ANSI lumens, the Optima H79 at 1000 ANSI lumens, and the Sony VPL-H51 at 1200 ANSI lumens.

June 10, 2005

NewsForge has published a review of the recently released Debian 3.1 distribution of Linux, previously known as Sarge. Among the new features are a much better installer; better security and reliability; enhanced package updating functionality; support for the ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS file systems during installation; KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.8 desktops; Mozilla 1.7.8, OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Samba 3.0.14, Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1, and Perl 5.8.4; and more.