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Garmin Foretrex 301, 401 GPS announced

Brenda Stokes, Jun 16th 2009 Discuss [0]

Garmin announced today new models for their Foretrex line, specifically the Foretrex 301 and the Foretrex 401. These models are wrist-mounted and offer a convenient GPS device on the go. Read The Full Story

Vudu partners with Entone for set-top box service

Brenda Stokes, May 5th 2009 Discuss [0]

Vudu will soon be offering its movies on a third-party set-top box, changing up their title and adding the function of service provider to their already able hardware manufacturer moniker. Who is this third-party company in question? That would be Entone. Read The Full Story

RunCore Pro IV SSDs offer super speed for a price

Brenda Stokes, May 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

RunCore just announced their latest solid-state drive and though it's certainly fast, the price tag might be just a bit too high for what you get. The Pro IV SSD is the device's name and it'll be interesting to see just what has jacked up the price. Read The Full Story

Palm Pre hardware worth $138 suggest iSuppli

Chris Davies, Apr 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

Tech industry analysts iSuppli have performed a virtual break-down of the Palm Pre, and decided that the unreleased smartphone will cost the company $138 in hardware. Working from both known suppliers and extrapolating the rest from Palm's confirmed specifications, iSuppli deemed that Palm will see a 44-percent return on each device it sells to Sprint, after taking into account software licensing and royalty costs. Read The Full Story

CitiDISK R258 tapeless video recorder debuts

Brenda Stokes, Apr 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

If tapeless video recording is your thing, you'll be interested to hear that Shining Technology has just announced their latest offering, the CitiDISK R258, which is a portable device that offers plenty of space to store your footage. Read The Full Story

LaCie announces 3 new RAID solutions, up to 32TB

Steven Grady, Apr 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

If any of you can actually use 32TB of RAID storage, I'll be amazed. Users can combine either two or four LaCie 4big Quadras, which feature four hot-swappable disks, seven RAID modes including RAID0 and RAID5, and storage up to 32TB at 700Mb/s transfer speeds. Read The Full Story

Reviews

iStarUSA xAGE 902 HDD Docking Station Review

Ewdison Then, Feb 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

External drive caddies have been a boon for anyone wanting to switch one hard-drive between several systems. Start playing with more than one drive, however, and opening up the caddy gets tiresome: instead, take a look at the “toaster” style drive dock. iStarUSA’s xAGE902-SAUF accepts both 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives in an easy-access top-loading slot. More than that, it offers no less than four different connection types – eSATA, USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 – to suit all but the most stubborn of systems. Is this the last drive dock you’ll ever need? SlashGear set to finding out.

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Intel drops prices on processors with little notice

Staff Editor, Jan 19th 2009 Discuss [0]

Intel has taken the time to drop the prices for their Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Pentium processors, all while not drawing too much attention to the change. This makes some of the Core 2 Quad processors a considerate amount cheaper than before. See below for full price changes. Read The Full Story

Fitting an Xbox 360 into a PS3 case just may make your eyes bleed

Staff Editor, Dec 30th 2008 Discuss [14]

Well it finally happened, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was fit into a Playstation 3 case. This May be able to fool your friends into thinking you had enough money for you, but look at it twice and you will see that there is something very strange about it. For one there is a big hole in the front. Read The Full Story

Micron 1GB/s SSD to be released in the near future

Brenda Stokes, Nov 26th 2008 Discuss [1]

Well this is exciting news. Micron has come up with a new SSD that could actually break current records for internal storage and would be incredibly fast. This new storage would actually use two solid-state drives that have 16 data channels. This would make for a transfer speed of up to 1GB/second! Call me impressed! Performance exceeds 200,000 input/output operations per second. It also requires that the current Serial ATA II 300MB/s bandwidth cap be released with a PCI Express. During a demo video, the SSDs are mounted on cards and these managed to top 800MB/s. Read The Full Story

S3 Chrome 500 series graphics chips announced

Brenda Stokes, Nov 21st 2008 Discuss [0]

S3, the graphics label for VIA, announced their Chrome 500 series graphics chips yesterday, offering up a competitor to the Radeon HD 4350 line as well as other budget cards that provide features at a much lower price. Read The Full Story

AMD Phenom II microprocessor set to launch at CES

Brenda Stokes, Nov 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

AMD is really rolling out the processors these days and are set to launch their Phenom II at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas in January 2009. The Phenom II X4 will be a part of the Dragon platform and is also known as the Deneb core. This will be the desktop processor version of the Shanghai processor that launched yesterday. Read The Full Story