News for April 12th 2009
Amazing, it’s April 12th and I woke up to a temperature fo 27 degrees Fahrenheit outside… global warming? Yeah right…
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Title: Laptop Lifts @ TestFreaks
Review Link: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/laptop-lifts/
Review Snipit:
” Over the course of my time as a reviewer I have reviewed my share of laptop coolers. These have ranged from passive to actively cooled to portable to made from space age materials. Today we will look at another of these products designed to keep ones laptop running cooler. A company known as CJSolvesIT was kind enough to send Testfreaks a sample of their passive cooler -Laptop Lifts. ”
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NEW CONTENT (Software) – ATI Catalyst 9.4 Vista Driver Analysis
QUOTE: “Last month brought one of the worst Catalyst driver updates we’ve seen in a long time. Across the board we saw a performance drop on all cards that we tested across a number of different resolutions. While there aren’t any performance improvements promised in the release notes this time, we’re hoping that the performance drops we saw last month have been fixed.
There’s no doubt that ATI recognized the issue with the last driver set and this is one of the main reasons we’re seeing the new 9.4 set come out so early in the month. This driver set also marks the release of the first official driver for the newly released HD 4890 which we’ve included in our benchmark line-up.”
For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2716/ati_catalyst_9_4_vista_driver_analysis/index.html
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Hardware Bistro has just posted latest review on Orbita Freestyle Mouse.
Quote: “Are you bored with your transitional mouse? If yes then you may interest with our topic today; Cyber-e-Sport Orbita freestyle mouse. Unlike traditional mouse, Orbita freestyle mouse has unique design with wireless connectivity and freestyle rotating features. Besides that Orbita mouse works more than a mouse and let us go through together to deep dive this device.”
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Title: Samsung SC-MX20 Digital Memory Camcorder Review at CCE Reviews
Link:
http://www.ccereviews.com/reviews/samsung-sc-mx20-digital-memory-camcorder/
Quote: The Samsung SC-MX20 is a great starter camcorder. It is very
customizable allowing you to progress from a new or novice user to one who
becomes more familiar at the manual modes. The small profile, long battery
life and relatively low price makes it a great deal. The fact that is also
has an optical zoom and shoots good daylight videos is a huge plus.
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It has been five years since we saw Riddick shredding up enemies in 2004’s “Escape from Butcher Bay”. That game was a runaway hit that came out of nowhere, and left many PC gamers wanting more. Atari has now developed the sequel to this sequel (Riddick’s character was originally introduced in the movie Pitch Black), but this time expands its audience to include the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. In this review, we’ll be focusing on the PC review, because believe me there are glaring differences between the PC version and its console bretheren.
Review URL ::
http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1543
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Overclock3D have just published a new article titled: OCZ Vertex 120GB SATA2 SSD.
Quote: With a read speed of 250MB/s, the OCZ Vertex serves up some serious speed….just not on a platter! Check out our review inside.
Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/storage/ocz_vertex_120gb_sata2_ssd/1
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InsideHW.com has reviewed Logitech Z-5 speakers. Here is a quote from this review:
“How many times did you wish to bring speakers along with your notebook on a business trip or vacation so you don’t have to use headphones when you are into enjoying in your music collection or good movie sound? New notebooks do have good speakers but they always sound “bucket-ishâ€. In case you ever carried with yourself speakers you know that a lot of problems came from a lot of cables that you needed to carry around and of course necessity for an power socket. Logitech recognized this problem and created solution for similar problems. This time we got in our test lab Logitech speakers under the code name: Z-5…â€
Article link:
http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Multimedia/Logitech-Z-5.html
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We take a look at another upgraded version of a heatsink, the OCZ Gladiator Max. The heatsink has grown bigger and offers increased performance on the LGA 1366 Intel 965 Extreme Edition CPU, so let’s see how it can it stand up to the heats on our tests.
Full Article:
http://www.tbreak.com/2009/04/ocz-gladiator-max/
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