My favorite days are the ones where I get to provide links to a whole bunch of varied reviews. It’s just not as exciting when all I have to show are six motherboards and a power supply. Today, the products and articles come from all over the web and showcase a wide variety of items. Joyous.
The War is on, the console pricing war that is..
Link: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/information/the-war-is-on-the-console-pricing-war-that-is/
Article Blurb: “Competition is a wonderful thing for consumers, when you’ve got choices companies will try and sway you to buy their product with gimmicks, and bundles. The best way though to get a customer to buy your product is to lower the price. The prices on gaming consoles are dropping, something that was expected much sooner actually, especially for the Nintendo Wii”
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Seagate FreeAgent Go 500Gb External Hard Drive
Link: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/seagate-freeagent-go/
Review Blurb: “During my visit to the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular the folks from Seagate were previewing their latest docks for their FreeAgent Go hard drives – the Free Agent Theatre and the Free Agent Dockstar. Of course to be able to use these drives one needs to have a FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. Seagate was kind enough to provide a FreeAgent Go for Testfreaks to test out before we get a chance to check out one or both of the above-mentioned docks.”
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Batman: Arkham Asylum PC Review
Link: http://www.lgrnexus.com/?articles/2009/09/30/batman-arkham-asylum-review.html
Review Blurb: “Enter Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game is based around Batman, the dark bat-dressing knight, who has filled our movie and television screens with awesome comic book action for decades. While a lot, if not all, of Batman games have focused on emulating a movie, AA (Arkham Asylum) creates its own flavor of the Batman universe. This video game will rest on your Batman tasting palate somewhere between the most badass comic book version of Batman to date and the Batman from the new Bale movies.”
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Roccat Valo Keyboard
Link: http://www.rbmods.com/content/14264/first-look-at-the-valo.aspx
Review Blurb: “Roccat a well known gaming accessory manufacturer sent us their latest keyboard named Valo. This keyboard really aims mainly at the game with 41 macro keys, profiles, and macro recordings that all come in handy for a gamer, lets take a closer look at what we got here.”
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OCZ Technology Rally2 Turbo 8GB Flash Drive
Link: http://www.bayreviews.com/computers/330-ocz-rally2-turbo-8gb-usb-drive
Review Blurb: “After using my PNY Attaché 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for almost three years, I finally decided I couldn’t deal with slow running portable applications. I usually run Trillian Astra Pro (for IM), Mozilla Thunderbird (for emails), RoboForms2Go (to have all my passwords and form data to go) and many other application from my USB drives, but I just needed them to load and run faster.”
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Synology Disk Station DS209
Link: http://hi-techreviews.com/index.php/review-links-mainmenu-80/9757–synology-disk-station-ds209
Review Blurb: “Have you ever decided that it made a lot of sense to start backing up your entire system and to do it you have set side a large partition of your jumbo hard drive to place the duplicate files of your system. Then the day that your main operating systems heads south you are no longer able to access the second partition on your hard drive without the use of the original partition that is no longer available.”
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Luxa2 H1-Touch Mobile Holder Review
Link: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/luxa2_h1_touch/
Review Blurb: “When it comes to computer gear, most people simply think of the actual computer and overlook some of the items that they may be using around their system. Designing products that are "Uniquely You", Luxa2 may be a new name, but it comes to us by a well known company. Luxa2 is a division of Thermaltake that was created in 2009 and manufactures products that are made with simplicity, luxury and a uniqueness for your lifestyle. Today, we are going to be taking a look at one of Luxa2‘s new products designed to make your mobile life a lot simpler and more luxurious. The H1-Touch is a mobile holder for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, though it can also be useful for any smartphones or large devices if you want to keep them safe and in easy reach while maintaining a sense of luxury in your space.”
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VidaBox Premium Wireless Keyboard with Laser Trackball
Review Blurb: “Step up Vidabox – With your compact but functional keyboard and trackball combo, a nifty oversized laptop style keyboard with a USB RF dongle, meaning you do not need to maintain line-of-sight with your PC all the time.”
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CRU DataPort SecureDock
Link: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=1053
Review Blurb: “Hard drive enclosures are generally something cheap, mobile, and entirely insecure. A passerby in a lab, office, or other location with a computer with potentially privileged information could easily open a computer, extract the hard drive, and make off with the data. It’s even easier if the hard drive is an external. The CRU DataPort SecureDock attempts to address this. Combining a proprietary enclosure connector format, a locking enclosure dock, and a token, the DataPort SecureDock aims to beef up the security of an external hard drive. ThinkComputers has the review.”
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OCZ Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard review
Link: http://www.techspot.com/review/203-ocz-sabre-oled-keyboard/
Review Blurb: “I had the opportunity to see it in person at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show as well as get some hands-on time with its little brother, the Mini Three. The hype was real and the technology very cool indeed. I wanted one, as did nearly everyone else — that is, until the company revealed how much it would cost. Priced at over $1,400, the Optimus Maximus remains more fantasy than reality, as the closest most users will come to it are the photos and videos available online.”
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NesteQ FanMax 8-channel fan controller review
Link: http://www.elitebastards.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=860&catid=13&Itemid=27
Review Blurb: “If you’re looking to build a truly high-end system for yourself, then beyond more obvious considerations such as CPU cooling, you’ll also want to think about airflow within the actual system chassis itself to optimise system temperatures, particularly if you’re serious about overclocking. If you really want to go all out along these lines, then that could well mean employing quite a few fans, which in itself can lead to a few issues – For starters, not all motherboards are equipped with a sufficiently large number of fan headers to suit your requirements, and of course the more fans you employ the more noise can become an issue if you’re also looking for a PC that can run quietly when you need it to.”
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MSI Afterburner
Link: http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1696
Review Blurb: “Now MSI came out with another RivaTuner spin off, but this time we have even more flexibility than RivaTuner could ever have. What is that extra that RivaTuner does not have? What we do get is the ability to add voltages to our video cards, giving us even more overclocking head room to snuff out our opponents in all out overclocking endeavors.”