Posted 05/01/08 at 04:49:22 PM by Katherine Stevenson

It’s easy to be seduced by Alienware’s m15x notebook. From its handsome silver-gray case to its cool-yet-tasteful LED accents to its comfortable lap weight of less than eight pounds, this 15.4-inch machine had us at hello. Of course, only excellent performance would keep us interested.

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Posted 01/14/08 at 04:44:12 PM by Nathan Edwards

January 2004. DirectX 9 had just shipped. SCO had begun its ultimately futile crusade against IBM. And Hypersonic’s brightly colored Sonic Boom, featuring Intel’s newest processor, was smacking our benchmarks around.

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Posted 12/11/07 at 01:12:41 PM by Michael Brown

Previous generations of Nvidia GPUs (AMD’s, too) presented buyers with a difficult choice: You could get great 3D performance for gaming or you could offload high-definition video decoding from the host CPU, but you couldn’t have both. Nvidia’s 8800 GT not only changes that situation, it does so at a competitive price.

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Posted 10/29/07 at 07:42:04 PM by Michael Brown

Not content with owning the high end of the market, Nvidia turns it skills to dominating the budget segment, too.

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Posted 04/17/07 at 08:15:16 AM by Michael Brown

Nvidia continues to lower the barrier of entry to the world of DirectX 10; but they've further sweetened the pot by adding a powerful new video-decoding engine.

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Posted 02/06/07 at 03:45:01 PM by Michael Brown

The first wave of DirectX 10 cards are here, but just how well do they preform with DX10?

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