Posted 06/14/08 at 08:13:59 PM by David Murphy

We've taken a look at engineering samples of Western Digital’s speedy new Velociraptor drive. Now that we have our hands on a final version of the drive, we’re ready to deliver a full review of the big beast itself. And not surprisingly, it’s every bit as fast as we anticipated.

But are you willing to trade the fastest performance ever for limited functionality? Read on to see how the critical flaw of Western Digital's Velociraptor might muck up an enthusiast's shopping list.

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Posted 04/29/08 at 06:29:22 PM by David Murphy

Here we go again: Western Digital has launched yet another line of portable USB hard drives. The four drives in the My Passport Elite series don’t vary by size, just color. You’re free to select a capacity of 250GB or 320GB in gunmetal gray, old-shoe brown, a soft blue finish, or a sandy red. And as far as we can tell, that’s one of the few differences between this line of devices and Western Digital’s “normal” My Passport Essential drives—the latter having 11 different colors and four different capacity points to choose from.

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Posted 04/15/08 at 03:27:42 PM by David Murphy

UPDATE: Crytek tells a Crysis modder to stop showing off his CryEngine 2 port of Oblivion, but we've found mirrors to this awesome graphical accomplishment!

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Posted 10/24/07 at 01:40:32 PM by David Murphy

Consider this month’s batch of case reviews to be a second chance of sorts, as both companies highlighted this month have previously built total clunkers. Cooler Master threw down the iTower 930 in February, which was the functional equivalent of bringing a wiffle bat to a gunfight. And NZXT troubled us with the Adamas—which sported a relatively mediocre design when stacked up against its competitors.

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Posted 09/06/07 at 10:23:43 PM by <a href="/david_murphy">David Murphy</a>

The top five reasons why 2K's big blockbuster isn't as groundbreaking as you've been told.

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Posted 05/17/07 at 05:30:57 PM by David Murphy

Dave Murphy often uses the exterior of this new, limited-edition case to preen his luscious man-locks.

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Posted 05/14/07 at 09:24:47 PM by David Murphy

Since he can't afford a fancy, $1,000+ DSLR camera, Dave Murphy gets creative when it comes to "HDR" photography

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Posted 05/07/07 at 04:11:26 PM by David Murphy

We’ll get the bad news out of the way first. Hitachi’s Deskstar T7K500 hard drive, with an easy-to-remember 500GB of storage, is unremarkable. More than that, it underperforms when compared to similarly featured, similarly priced (if not cheaper!) products.

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