http://www.extremetech.com/article2...2129TX1K0000532 "If you've ever used Photoshop, and watched the little progress bar crawl across the screen when you apply a filter, you've no doubt wished for better performance. Performance in photo editing applications has become a little more complicated, pa...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news...apixel-race.ars "Megapixels are the digital camera market's equivalent of horsepower and megahertz—a single metric that consumers and marketers latch on to tenaciously, despite the fact that it hardly describes overall performance. Over the last several ye...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...p-box-with-ads/ "A company called ZillionTV is pulling the covers off yet another set-top box Wednesday that will let you watch movies and other video from the Internet on your TV. Yawn. That’s right, it’s just like boxes from Apple, Roku, Vudu, 2Wir...

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archive...desktop_pc.html "The XPS 435 can be found on Dell's website, a quick glance at the specs shows that it is indeed a top of the line PC: Core i7 Extreme, powerful graphics, optional Blu-Ray drive, up to 24GB of RAM and up to 4.5TB of hard drive space makes it a po...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/t...icle5723942.ece "Its electronic gadgetry is gathering dust on the shelves of high street stores, nobody is buying new fridges and the mountain of unsold plasma televisions is growing by the day. However, in desperation, Panasonic has hit on the perfect counter-a...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fe...MC-R3A917316679 "The bulk of overclockers, however, are more concerned with the cost dividends. If you can take a $300 CPU and make it as fast or faster than one that costs $1,000, the money you save can go toward other components in your system. For these folks...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...ii,2119-10.html "In light of a new competitive challenge—Intel’s Core i7—AMD is revamping its Spider platform with a new processor and the addition of software able to tie all of the hardware together. As you no doubt already know from reading ...

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/...t-of-the-worst/ "We didn't notice nearly as much crap at CES 2009 as we did last year, but what we did see was pretty stunning in its mediocrity -- and then there was the amazing Dragon gamepad, which in our opinion was single best product of the show. Pick your...

http://www.rahulsood.com/2009/01/ne...has-landed.html "What we’re bringing to the table is a performance PC that doesn’t suck energy, doesn’t dominate a room in terms of size, but does kick ass. The HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA strikes a balance that has never been struck before. It...

http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/1...busters-e-butt/ "While I’ve always liked Netflix, I’ve remained dubious as to their potential for long term success. Even when they hit their first million subscribers I thought little of it. From my perspective, with tens of millions of customers, I...