ReviewsIntermatic Home Settings Lighting Control Starter Kit

If you’re considering automating your home, lighting is the best place to start. But if you’re afraid that handling bare electrical wires will leave you with an Einsteinian hairdo, pick up Intermatic’s Home Settings Starter Kit.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
0
TAGS 
home automation, hardware, michael brown, reviews
ReviewsShure SE530PTH Earphones

For the price of one set of Shure’s SE530PTH earphones, you could buy two 30GB iPods, 17 sets of Apple earbuds, or 500 encrypted songs from iTunes. A worthy investment or Marie Antoinette­–style consumption?

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
0
TAGS 
headphones, earphones, hardware, shure, push to hear, reviews
ReviewsFlip Video 1GB

It seems that most people would want to use a high-def video recorder to document their growing families or Star Wars action-figure collections, but can a case be made for purchasing a low-res camera? At 640x480, the Flip Video’s resolution isn’t VideoCD low, but you won’t stun your family when you proudly display your movies on a 60-inch, 1080p set.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
0
TAGS 
usb, Gordon, video camera, reviews, flip video
ReviewsOWC Mercury On-the-Go External Drive

There are three schools of thought concerning external storage solutions: build an oversized bookend that rocks out with huge amounts of storage, sculpt a supremely portable device that you’d actually want to carry around, or just make a plain-vanilla enclosure. OWC’s Mercury On-the-Go drive is a surprise contender in the second category, as it’s a delightful combination of portability and speed.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
0
TAGS 
hardware, external drive, owc, mercury, reviews, backup drives
ReviewsAeroCool PowerWatch

At first glance, AeroCool’s PowerWatch front-panel display looks like every computer enthusiast’s worst nightmare. Admittedly, the display itself is pleasing to the eye, but the back of the device looks like two octopi trying to leg wrestle. It’s a tangled mess of cords, cables, connectors, and prongs that’s sure to bring ruination to anyone’s wire-hidden case.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
1
TAGS 
hardware, aerocool, front display, poweredusb, reviews
ReviewsHammer Storage Myshare

When we first got the Myshare into the Lab, we were a bit taken aback by its simplicity. There’s no fancy software to accompany the 500GB device; it’s actually two 250GB drives striped using RAID 0. If you want to access the Myshare, you have to go through Windows Explorer, just as you would with any other network drive.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
5
TAGS 
storage, nas, RAID, hardware, hammer, reviews, nas boxes
ReviewsWestern Digital My Book World Edition II

We fondly recall reviewing this unit’s connected brother in arms, the My Book Pro Edition II (March 2007). The products are virtually identical, featuring two 500GB hard drives locked in a RAID 0 configuration that gives you one honkin’ terabyte of space. The difference, of course, is that you access the World Edition II through an Ethernet cable instead of a FireWire or USB connection.

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
3
TAGS 
Western Digital, nas, david murphy, hardware, reviews, nas boxes
ReviewsOverdrive PC Core2.SLI

One thing we respect about Overdrive PC is that it’s never predictable. These guys seem to always take the path of most resistance.

In this case, Overdrive PC has constructed a rig whose sole purpose seems to be smashing our benchmarks. The company’s theory: Why go with a quad-core setup when you can push a dual core to higher speeds and guarantee stability? Since the overwhelming majority of applications aren’t multithreaded for quad core, why not push the hell out of a dual core?

Click Read More for more. 

Read More

Comments 
3
TAGS 
Desktop, gordon mah ung, quad core, overdrive pc, reviews, fast, rigs
RESOURCE CENTER

THIS MONTH's ISSUE
FEATURE 35 Amazing Things Your PC Can DoHOW TO Play Games on Your Linux Machine SOLID STATE DRIVES We Break Down the Tech and Review 7 SSDsBIO TWEAKS Get the Best Performance From Your Rig

Don't have an account? Register Now! Forgot password?