I’m not sure I’d settle for anything less than OLED in my next TV, but if you have to save some dosh and need one now – that’s not really an option. That said, Samsung LCD’s do tend to perform well, and have a good set of features, so it shouldn’t hurt to much to “settle” for this “HDR Dazzler”. […]
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Microsoft bills their Continuum enabling display dock as “A PC-like experience”, and I think the “like” in that title requires some serious attention. Reviews of the dock + Windows 10 Mobile device (currently only supported on the 950 & 950XL) have been a bit thin so it was great to see Ian Dixon’s video showing the experience. Unfortunately, I just […]
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I don’t get it. Not why a portable Wi-Fi enable storage device would be useful, but why for $70 you have to BYOS[torage] to a device that stands up its own AP (unclear if it can be a client on an existing network) which would potentially take your mobile off a useful network. For that much $ you could get […]
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With one, 1GHz core and 512MB RAM it wouldn’t be fair to expect much performance from this $5 computer. But it’s still legitimate to ask “how fast can it go”, thankfully phoronix has that answered. For those curious about the performance of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, here are some benchmarks I’ve just finished up for this low-end, low-power ARM […]
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Shuttle has been a well respected OEM in the SFF barebone space for quite a while. Their systems generally have exactly the right look for a certain type of HTPC (read nice looking cubes :)). If a Skylake based SFF is in your future, and you don’t mind a proprietary motherboard (which could limit future upgrades), have a look at […]
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BenQ does an excellent job of proving you don’t have to break the bank to have a proper “theater room” with a big screen projector. We’ve had one of their higher-end models in for review a while back, but if your budget is a bit smaller (around $1000) it looks like the HT3050 would be the one. Of course, there’s […]
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If you have been computing long enough, eventually you will end up with a pile of old hard drives (HDD) and USB drives that are not useful anymore, but still work. The problem of course is that at one point they held potentially sensitive data, so while you could just format them and hope for the best it really is […]
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When I go motherboard shopping, there is one thing that makes it first on the list of must-haves – Intel NIC. So it was awesome to see that the ASUS B150 Pro Gaming/Aura for Intel Skylake CPUs includes the I219-V. The price is right @ $129 and there’s lots of good stuff like M.2, USB Type-C and DDR4 support, but […]
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I’m beginning to wonder if Roku is cherry picking review units, or if the vocal folk out on the Interwebs complaining about fan noise are in a small (but obviously loud) minority. It is always curious when the actual experience doesn’t mirror (at least roughly) what is available from the media. I do recommend checking out the review, I learned […]
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Stress is difficult. Sometime almost impossible to deal with, and when that happens you’re forced to break, or bend, if you happen to be a CPU. Thankfully there doesn’t appear to be a “gate” associated with what is turning out to be quite an issue for some third-party HSF suppliers (see the Ars article for more detail and links). With […]
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