NETGEAR Announces R7000 – Nighthawk AC1900 Wireless Router

Continuing the recent push towards summing Wi-Fi bands to classify wireless routers NETGEAR announced today their newest AC1900 (1300Mbps 5GHz AC + 600Mbps 2.4GHz N) Wi-Fi all-in-one the R7000 “Nighthawk”. This three stream router/access point/repeater/media bridge is based on the Broadcom 4709 Communication Processor; which is interesting for a few reasons – academically a shift away from MIPS to ARM […]

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Xi3 PISTON Console Availability Outlined

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We saw Xi3’s unique brand of SFF at CES last year, and they created some buzz later by hinting that they were the Steam Box, but we didn’t have a date for when we could actually buy this miniscule PC aimed at gaming and media consumption. It looks like Xi3 has answered the date question with the quad-core PISTON available […]

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