For years, the hard drive industry had been going on and on about perpendicular recording. This is a method where the magnetic poles on the media are stacked vertically side ... Read More

All this week I have been posting reviews of the latest thin and light notebooks. Now that all my reviews are posted, it is time to post my selections of ... Read More

The big news this week for PC hardware was AMD's latest processor release along with the new chipsets to support it from ATI and NVIDIA. While the performance gains from ... Read More

Multimedia is a tag that has been tossed around with notebooks for some time now. While the ability to play music and movies has existed for years on portable computers, ... Read More

While many people point to Apple as an example of excellent design in their computer systems, Sony provides much of that same level of design in their notebook computer lines. ... Read More

Now that the US State Department has chosen to ban Lenovo's notebook computers from use in their offices, it looks like Lenovo is going to need to find some additional ... Read More

Multimedia notebooks have become extremely popular. The ability to record TV shows onto the notebook and then play them back while traveling is a great feature. The problem is that ... Read More

Gateway has been all over the map in terms of its business plans. They entered the retail market with their stores only to have them removed several years later. Next, ... Read More

Thin and light notebooks haven't been all that popular with consumers over the past couple of years. Desktop replacement systems with their large 17" screens and not moved much were ... Read More

Dell made a big mistake when they originally released the XPS M140 thin and light system by not offering a dedicated graphics processor. This model has since been discontinued by ... Read More

All this week on the PC Hardware / Reviews site, I will be covering thin and light notebook computer systems. These are highly portable yet very functional computer systems that ... Read More

With the close of E3 last week, the number of reviews posted on the Net has jumped back up to its normal levels. While last week had a number of ... Read More

In my last poll, I asked if you intend to purchase one of the two next generation DVD formats. Surprisingly, the top choice was for Sony's Blu-ray format. I figured ... Read More

Yesterday, I posted a ten page article that looked at the performance of eleven different DVD burners when writing to the various types of media. I'm sure a lot of ... Read More

DVD burners haven't had much progress in terms of speeds over the past year. While minor speed bumps have been made to dual layer and rewriteable media, finding compatible media ... Read More

The reviews started out pretty heavy during the first half of the week, but then E3 started and the reviews dropped to a trickle. The big news in PC components ... Read More

Rounding out my coverage this week on LCD monitors, I take a look at the 17" monitors. For those on a tight budget needing a screen or having limited space, ... Read More

With prices dropping to near those of 17-inch screens and performance increasing, it is no surprise that 19-inch monitors now make up the majority of computer monitors sales. Widescreen sales ... Read More

Overall a fairly large week in terms of reviews posted on the Net. Probably the biggest news in hardware was preliminary tests by a number of sites of the new ... Read More

Yesterday I posted an editorial talking about the two next generation DVD formats of Blu-ray and HD-DVD. In my opinion, consumers are best to wait out this format war until ... Read More

Now that the next generation DVD players are finally starting to make their way to market, consumers might be thinking of the possibility of purchasing a burner for their home ... Read More

In probably one of the weirdest parnerships announced recently, Radio Shack and PC component manufacturer Thermaltake have teamed together. Radio Shack has agreed to to be an exclusive retailer for ... Read More

USB and FireWire have been hugely successful for external storage either via hard drives, flash or CD and DVD burners. Now a new interface for external storage based on the ... Read More