I was the ultimate PC Guy.  Being an avid PC enthusiast, as I am a motorcycle enthusiast, I believed that Apple and Harley Davidson were simply brilliant marketing schemes that sold millions on the belief that brand ownership was more important than product build. That was then. Three days ago I received a new Ivy Bridge Mac Air, locked myself …

Today’s highlight was chosen simply because it had the word ‘kid’ in the title.  Sticking with the theme of May, Mom and you are a mom if you have a kid! Since there are only a few shopping days until Mother’s day I continue to post the link below to Amazon’s Mother’s Day Shop. So for all you techies out …

Welcome back!  If the speed in which we are seeing affiliate reviews arrive is any indication of whats in store for 2012, watch out! We have some amazing reviews below and will be completing some great SSD reviews this weekend so stay tuned! Continue to stop by and check out the new reviews, updates and maybe even jump into one …

As you know from following our updates, we were in a totally different realm at CES…and SWAMPED. From technology, to SSDs, to Booth Babes, Playboy Bunnies and all the way even to automobiles, we tried to make the coverage as complete as possible. Lets take a look now at some of the content popping up on the sites of our affiliates …

This SSD report is our first of the New Year and  examines the Super Talent Tera Nova 120GB SATA 3 SSD that was announced this past December. The Tera Nova is touted by Super Talent as being their fastest yet and aimed at the Pro/enthusiast market with new SandForce ‘optimized’ firmware.  This firmware (334ABBF0) provides for better boot times and …

With $45000 in hardware, over 100 hours spent pushing it to it’s limit, speeds of 2.7GB/s and over 461,800 IOPS, we are fairly certain that this RAID Controller and SSD review will be one of our most exciting reports to date, and not matched anytime soon. Today we are going to go head-to-head with the LSI 9265-8i and the Adaptec …

Z68 CHIPSET-SPECIFIC BENCHMARKS *ONLY THE INTEL TEST-SYSTEM WAS USED FOR THESE TESTS LucidLogix Virtu In a nutshell, Virtu is software developed by LucidLogix that allows the use of a dedicated GPU and the CPU’s integrated GPU (as present on Sandy Bridge processors) simultaneously (much like AMD’s APU architecture). Seeing as how I do not have an AMD APU to work with …

Today’s review of the Crucial M4 128GB SSD comes as a ‘readers choice’ review as it has made its way to our office only through the amount of e-mails received asking for its performance beside that of its big brothers and other SSDs of similar size. The common theme with new ‘Gen 2’ SSDs is that higher capacity equates to …

The heart and sole of all ‘Sandforce Driven’ SSDs is the processor and the SF-2280 and the 6G is well equipped with this as well as 16 modules of Micron 25nm NAND memory (29F128G08CFAAB) for a total of 256GB of RAW memory on board. SandForce equipped SSDs are rather unique, however, because a specific amount of this memory is proprietary …

INTERNAL COMPOSITION We almost feel like there should be some type of warning with respect to the pictures below of the PCB, a warning that might assure the reader of photograph authenticity.  The simple truth is that we were left speachless on first observation of the internal SSD components. The Intel 510 Series 250GB SSD is controlled by the Marvell …