Today Apple performed serious internal upgrades on the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro and Time Capsule, and they did it without a keynote—or even a press-release quote from His Jobsness. Here's a recap: Mac Mini The new Mac Mini, available now, is heavily redesigned inside and in the rear, though its...

Remember that GT725? You know, that behemoth of a gaming laptop announced alongside 43.8 other MSI machines at CES. Anywho, MSI has just come clean with the actual specifications, and gamers in the crowd looking for a portable rig should be pleased. The machine is claiming to be the first ever gamin...

Yet again, IBuyPower is stepping out with a few new gaming rigs for the bargain-minded among us. The most recent duo to be outed by the company is the Gamer HAF 91B and the Gamer Fire, both of which are based on AMD's latest Dragon platform and Phenom II CPU. The former gets going at just $999 and i...

Rain Recording make audio-ready notebooks - that is, they’re pre-tested to function well with audio software, with Windows tweaks, driver selection, and configuration all chosen and tested for music and visual production, and no crapware installed. They’re one of a handful of music-frien...

Around the middle of November 2007 I bought a laptop directly from HP, the Pavilion DV9590ea model. At the time I thought I was getting quite a deal, especially since I used an online coupon to get a discount, paying around £1,100, for a laptop with a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and [...]...

Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well. Speaking with Custom PC, representatives from both graphics card manufacturers say that "they're working ...

The build up has been long, but damn, has it ever been worth it. Today, just in time for CES, HP officially announced our latest offering: the HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA. This is a performance PC... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Maxis [finally] announced the minimum system requirements for Sims 3. Quite honestly, the specs. aren’t nearly as crazy as I was expecting but I know there are going to be a lot of disappointed Simmers out there. Remember that these are minimums and if you’re right at these minimums then...

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Benchmarks and reviews of Intel's Core i7 processors are pouring in, and while mere mortals must wait till later this month to get their hands on the hardware, we spent much of our weekend working overtime with Crysis, Fallout 3, and Age of Conan on an $8,238 Core i7 96...

My god this stinking saga continues. I bought an ATI X800 Mac Edition Video Card on ebay. I installed it and it sounded like my computer was ready to take off. Listen. Yeah it’s an upgrade if I’m working with graphics but forget about me doing any more ADR from my home office or even pod...