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Toshiba Portege R500-12Q – it has a 128GB SSD!

James Allan Brady, Apr 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

This notebook has a 12.1-inch screen that is LED backlit, a Core 2 Duo ULV U7700 processor, a couple gigs of RAM, a DL-DVD-RW drive, and then the 128GB SSD drive. This might actually be one of the most energy efficient notebooks there is that still maintains a respectable about of storage space. I mean, sure the ULV processor, LED backlit display, and SSD drive will help keep the battery life up, but they also combine to help keep the price up. There wasn’t one listed on any of the sites, and apparently this particular model can only be found on a few of Toshiba’s international sites right now, but I can guarantee it’s going to cost you a pretty penny. Read The Full Story

Sharp Mebius Notebook – PC-FW70X and PC-FW50X featuring AMD processors

James Allan Brady, Apr 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

These notebooks have a broad processor range, but all of them are AMD processors, ranging from a Mobile Sempron 3600+ all the way up to an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58. They come in your choice of black or white, and have a UV coated case on them. Read The Full Story

Sony BDU-X10S internal BD-ROM drive for your PC – not too pricey

James Allan Brady, Apr 7th 2008 Discuss [1]

This may be the cheapest way to get your Blu-Ray on. It comes with the necessary player software and should work with XP SP2 but definitely works with Vista. The drive plays Blu-Ray discs, VCD’s, and DVDs. Read The Full Story

Blu-Ray Xbox 360 Coming soon, maybe

James Allan Brady, Apr 2nd 2008 Discuss [5]

The real headline was that such a system might sell at a loss, but looking back its been Microsoft’s strategy to sell their systems at a loss just to be the cheapest in hopes that game sales would eventually push them back into the black, and they always have, as far as I know. Problem is that Microsoft is being quoted between $95-$100 per drive, OEM, for the BD-ROM drives; a price they couldn’t really make up without raising the price of the system by a lot, especially considering they are only putting out $18-$20 per drive for the DVD-ROMs. Read The Full Story

What is the best Blu-Ray player out there?

James Allan Brady, Mar 25th 2008 Discuss [10]

With the versions of Blu-Ray standards changing as often as they are, and with new features being added to various Blu-Ray discs its no surprise that even with the choice of HD-DVD being eliminated its still hard to decide which Blu-Ray player to buy. You might be surprised at the answer to this new question. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 – big, beasty, shiny, and pricey

James Allan Brady, Mar 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

This is the perfect card for playing your HD video content and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD movies on, and that’s it. Those 256 stream processors, dual GPU’s, and 1GB framebuffer just isn’t good enough for doing anything more than watching movies. Read The Full Story

Oppo Digital DV-983H Universal Up-Converting DVD Player – buy an HD-DVD player instead

James Allan Brady, Mar 11th 2008 Discuss [2]

Somehow, this DVD player manages to convert all the way up to full 1080p HD, it also offers up to 7.1 channel audio. It apparently does a lot of this using the latest and greatest VRS chips from Anchor Bay. Read The Full Story

Toshiba rolls out DVD Recorder Add-On for Gigashot HD Cam

Daniel Lim, Mar 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

If HD-DVD were to survive, the new gigashot’s add-on from Toshiba would have been more attractive as an optical recorder but they will have to make do and mend with a legacy DVD burner instead. Read The Full Story

Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 22x DVD burner is ‘industry’s fastest’

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2008 Discuss [3]

Samsung have, for the moment at least, taken the title of "industry's fastest DVD burner" with their Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 drive. Capable of writing to all DVD formats, the SH-S223 burns at 22x speed to DVD±R media, 12x to DVD-RAM, 16x to DVD+R dual layer, 12x DVD-R dual layer, 8x DVD+RW and 6x DVD-RW. Over-speed burning means that discs rated for 16x can be safely used at 22x speeds, and 8x media at 12x speeds.

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Everex gPC Mini – because the Mac Mini wasn’t good enough

Milena Glimbovski, Feb 27th 2008 Discuss [0]

It has a 1.86GHz Intel dual core mobile processor (its model number is T2130 which signifies a new Core 2 Duo chip, but it could be the older Pentium D chips). It also has a half gig of RAM, 120GB HDD, a DVD Burner, gigabit Ethernet and more. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive $50 at Best Buy

James Allan Brady, Feb 25th 2008 Discuss [2]

You also still get the 5 free HD-DVDs by mail in rebate. Sure, the format’s dead, but if you already have an Xbox 360, the $50 price would be worth it just for the Universal Media remote that comes with and the DVD upconverting that this drive can also do. Read The Full Story

Hi-Can is a Hi-Fi Canopy

James Allan Brady, Feb 20th 2008 Discuss [0]

In fact that’s what its name is short for, so you are wondering, how can a canopy bed be high fidelity? Well, its simple, there is a projector, sound system, and projection screen that you can’t readily see, all built in. Read The Full Story