Sandy Bridge
Almost a decade ago, with the launch of Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors, came the H61 chipset. Compared to the high-end P67 and Z68 models, the idea behind H61 is that it was cheap, and it was long-life. At a time when low power embedded Atom CPUs still didn’t have enough power, H61 was there to be equipped with one of Intel’s new-fangled Core processors, with the systems that designed for it destined to last a couple of decades. We’re now 9 years into that life cycle, and Biostar deems it necessary to create a new H61 design for the new decade. We’re getting to a time now where the cheaply made H61 boards of yesteryear are starting to go pop. When you save a tenth...
HP EliteBook 8760w: Color, So Dreamy
Just over ten months ago, we had a chance to take a look at a very big, reasonably impressive mobile workstation: HP's EliteBook 8740w. It sported HP's DreamColor IPS...
83 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/25/2011
The Sandy Bridge Pentium Review: G850, G840, G620 & G620T Tested
Despite abandoning Pentium as a high end brand with the 2006 release of Intel's Core 2 Duo, Intel has kept the label around for use on its value mainstream...
110 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2011
MYTHLOGIC Pollux 1400: Clevo's W150HR Tested
The past year has seen the vast majority of mainstream notebooks with discrete graphics shift to NVIDIA's Optimus, and with the W150HR Clevo makes the move as well. Equipped...
22 by Jarred Walton on 8/23/2011
MSI Launches Slim 14" X460 and X460DX Notebooks
If there’s one thing I like about computer technology, it’s progress. Late 2010, the best you could get from the 14” sector would have been something like the discontinued...
13 by Jarred Walton on 8/16/2011
Info on Sandy Bridge-E Pricing
VR-Zone has released preliminary info about Sandy Bridge-E pricing. There doesn't seem to be any surprises though; the report states that SB-E will adopt exactly the same price points...
33 by Kristian Vättö on 8/15/2011
Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air (Core i7 1.8GHz) Review Update
Last week we published our review of the new 2011 MacBook Air. Both the 11 and 13-inch models ship with ultra low-voltage (ULV) dual-core Sandy Bridge CPUs, a first...
64 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/1/2011
The 2011 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch): Thoroughly Reviewed
I've always liked ultraportables. Back when I was in college I kept buying increasingly more portable notebooks until I eventually ended up with something horribly unusable for actual work...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/28/2011
Sandy Bridge Memory Scaling: Choosing the Best DDR3
Intel's Second Generation Core processors, based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, include a number of improvements over the previous generation's Nehalem architecture. We’ll be testing one specific area today...
76 by Jared Bell on 7/25/2011
Alienware M11x R3: Portable Powerhouse
We've been keeping track of Alienware's M11x series since the very first one landed and have had the privilege of testing each one. The move from Penryn to Arrandale...
55 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/22/2011
2011 Mac Mini goes Sandy Bridge: Specs, details and our thoughts
The Mac mini is yet another Mac to be updated with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and Thunderbolt. The Mini saw its last update on June 15th 2010 so a...
87 by Kristian Vättö on 7/20/2011
Alienware M14x: the Sound and the Fury
Understanding that many users would just as soon want to be able to game on the go without having to lug a ten pound land monster with them, Alienware...
48 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/19/2011
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Review
Gigabyte has released their Z68 lineup, and I am going to look at the UD3H - a $170 Z68 board aimed at the mainstream consumer market. The Z68 based...
70 by Brendan van Varik on 7/11/2011
CyberpowerPC's Compal PBL21: The Shark's New Teeth
The last time we took a look at a Compal whitebook (again courtesy of CyberpowerPC), we noted to Compal that their whitebook wasn't a shark, perfect and needing no...
16 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/11/2011
AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
Today is all about Lynx, the desktop version of the Llano platform from AMD. Anand is reviewing the A8-3850 from a generic PC perspective, and Ian is covering its...
107 by Ganesh T S on 6/30/2011
Alienware's M17x R3: An Antidote to Clevo
We've had our hands on quite a few gaming notebooks here, but most of the time they're Clevo-based machines. These aren't necessarily bad notebooks; they're fast, typically have good...
84 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/20/2011
Sandy Bridge Buyer’s Guide
Almost a half-year after the launch of the second-generation Core processors, Intel’s newest CPUs remain dominant in the mid- to high-end desktop computing markets. Since the January release of...
90 by Zach Throckmorton on 6/17/2011
Acer Moves Forward in Time
Acer's popular TimelineX line of notebooks has undergone a refresh to Sandy Bridge and brought a healthy number of upgrades to the hardware with them, including a major (and...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/9/2011
Patriot: 16GB is the new 8GB for Sandy Bridge-E
Patriot gave me a preview of their new Viper Xtreme Division4 DDR3 memory due out later this year. Patriot is targeting this new line at Sandy Bridge E systems...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Up Close with ASUS UX Series with SanDisk's U100 SSD
I met with SanDisk earlier today and to my surprise they had an ASUS UX Ultrabook in their meeting room. It turns out that at least one model in...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Intel's Thin miniITX Sandy Bridge Platform
Intel's Mooly Eden just showed off its new thin mini ITX Sandy Bridge platform. The form factor is a standard mini ITX but with a low profile backplane so...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
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