QNAP Introduces XBMC App for TS-x69 Pro / L Series NAS Units
The Atom D2700 series CPUs have proved quite popular in the SMB / SOHO NAS market. We saw vendors introduce models with HDMI outputs as early as December 2011...
7 by Ganesh T S on 2/7/2013
Micron and TE Connectivity Offer New Ultrathin DRAM Solutions
The push for smaller and thinner laptops, Ultrabooks, and tablets of late has come with some potentially undesirable side effects, namely the loss of flexibility. Of the Ultrabooks we’ve...
17 by Jarred Walton on 2/7/2013
Arctic Introduces OpenELEC-based MC001-XBMC HTPC
Arctic announced the availability of their MC001-XBMC passive HTPC today. Based on the Intel Atom D525 and the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5430, the unit comes with OpenELEC pre-installed...
17 by Ganesh T S on 2/5/2013
Apple Is Now Using SanDisk SSDs in the Retina MacBook Pro As Well
There has always been some level of lottery involved when buying an SSD-equipped Mac. The first Mac to start the lottery was the 2010 MacBook Air, which initially used...
31 by Kristian Vättö on 2/5/2013
AMD Announces New Winter Video Game Bundle: Never Settle Reloaded
Although game bundles are nothing new for the video card industry, in the last couple of years they’ve come back into vogue in a way we haven’t seen in...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/2/2013
The Making of NVIDIA's Project SHIELD
NVIDIA put up a blog post recently that goes into some of the details of how Project SHIELD came together. There's plenty of marketing hyperbole in the blog post...
29 by Jarred Walton on 2/1/2013
Intel Releases 180GB SSD 335
Intel released the SSD 335 in October last year but the initial launch included only the 240GB version. Today Intel is adding a 180GB model to the SSD 335...
14 by Kristian Vättö on 2/1/2013
Fractal Design Launches Core 3000 USB 3.0
Last year, we looked at Fractal Design’s Core 1000, their entry level chassis that can be had for under $40. It performed “okay”, which is about all you can...
11 by Jarred Walton on 2/1/2013
Cineca’s Tesla K20-Based “Eurora” Supercomputer Unveiled; Water Cooling Unlocks Extra Efficiency
We typically don’t cover a lot of supercomputing news outside of the major Top500/Green500 announcements due to the fact that the launches of so many supercomputers are clustered around...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2013
Epic Games Releases Epic Citadel for Android Devices - We test it out
Epic Games granted us a huge wish and released Epic Citadel for Android devices publicly this week, and included a benchmark inside. Getting Epic Citadel for Android and thus...
52 by Brian Klug on 1/30/2013
Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI
Ryan passed this along early this morning (really early for Ryan, seeing that we’re not even in the double digits of the morning hours!), and while this issue is...
43 by Jarred Walton on 1/30/2013
Updating AnandTech’s 2013 Mobile Benchmark Suite (RFC)
If it seems like just last year that we updated our mobile benchmark suite, that’s because it was. We’re going to be keeping some elements of the testing, but...
47 by Jarred Walton on 1/29/2013
Slightly Smaller Apple TV 3,2 (A1469) Contains A5X SoC, BCM4334 Combo
Yesterday along with iOS 6.1 being pushed to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, Apple released an update to the Apple TV 2,1 and 3,1, and curiously enough released another...
17 by Brian Klug on 1/29/2013
AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 Drivers Released
As promised alongside last week’s release of the Catalyst 13.1 WHQL drivers, AMD has shipped out the first public beta for the next version of their drivers this week...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/29/2013
HP Leaks Their First Chromebook
Google's venture into the desktop operating system space has been getting a lot of the right kind of attention lately. Acer's C7 Chromebook has been well received, as has...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/29/2013
Trio of New Gigabyte Server Motherboards Announced
We recently reviewed a dual processor setup using the Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 and a pair of socket 2011 Xeons, with varied reactions from the point of view of a need...
13 by Ian Cutress on 1/29/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 15
We're back after CES and have a little bit of post-show wrap-up. We kick off this week's podcast with a discussion of Intel's near term challenges in the industry...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/28/2013
NVIDIA GeForce R313.95 Beta Drivers Available
It seems ironic that after years of their monthly releases when AMD/ATI has now switched to a "when it's necessary" release schedule--something NVIDIA has been doing via official beta...
2 by Jarred Walton on 1/28/2013
Intel's SSD 525: Bringing iSandForce to mSATA
Today Intel is officially announcing what we've had in house since the end of last year: the Intel SSD 525. Based on SandForce's SF-2281 controller but using a special...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/28/2013
Element Case Sector 5 for iPhone 5 Review
Most of the AnandTech crew seems to be averse to putting cases on their phones for a variety of different reasons. I’m still of the persuasion where I want...
47 by Brian Klug on 1/26/2013
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