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mSATA SSD drives are all the rage these days and Intel is now jumping head first into the market with their new 525 Series.  In this review, we take a look at the 120GB and 180GB versions, two drives which are striving to dominate this segment. Full story @ Hardware Canucks

Late April, we reported that not all power supplies were suited for Intel’s Haswell processors. Intel has improved the C6 and C7 power states, allowing the CPU to shut down almost entirely when idle for prolonged periods of time. With the Ivy Bridge chips, a minimum current of 0.5 amps was specified, while the new [...]

This news has been a long time coming. It’s been six years since Intel first began talking about Atom. When it was initially announced, the 45nm, in-order core, based on the Bonnell microarchitecture, was a new product from the ground up. It drew on Intel’s expertise in other areas and shared some design elements with [...]

Intel’s Haswell CPU’s and Z87 motherboards may well be just around the corner, but that hasn’t stopped MSI from releasing another line of Z77 motherboards. With this new line of motherboards MSI are aiming at the gaming scene, and have a bold new color scheme and heatsink design to match. We are used to seeing [...]

Intel’s fourth generation of Core processors, codenamed Haswell, will make their debut during the Taiwanese Computex conference, early next month. Although the processors won’t be released until next month, the CPU-Z database already lists the Core i7-4770K. This quad-core model has a 3.5 GHz clock frequency, but has been overclocked to 7012.65 MHZ. The chip [...]

GSM Insider reports that Lenovo’s Ideaphone K900 is now available in China. This smartphone features an Intel Clover Trail processor. The Atom Z2580 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) is a 32 nm dual-core processor with a maximum clock frequency of 2 GHz. The chip contains a PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU, which operates at 533 MHz. The K900 has dimensions [...]

Over at the Ocaholic some interesting results were posted that were found using the CPU-Z Validator. Not just Haswell processors, but also an unannounced AMD FX-8570 CPU showed up. Aside from these CPUs, mention of AMD’s Radeon HD 8970 and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780 graphics cards is also made. Naturally, these pictures have to be [...]

The launch of Intel’s Haswell processors is drawing near. The chips, which are the fourth generation of Intel Core processors, will be featured in various devices, including laptops. Acer is already preparing its products, as today’s press event in New York showed. The manufacturer demonstrated the Acer Aspire V5, a touchscreen notebook that was already [...]

The third new product announced by Acer in New York today is the Aspire P3, an Ultrabook tablet weighing in at 1.39 kg (3.06 lbs) and measuring only 1.975 cm (0.77 inches) thin. The Aspire P3 can be considered the successor to the Iconia Tab W700/W710. It comes with a special keyboard case, so you [...]

Companies are starting to rely on the use of tablets more frequently. Toshiba has developed a new tablet that is to meet the demands of the professional market. The device is called Toshiba WT310. The WT310 has an 11.6-inch panel with a 1920×1080 pixel resolution. Using the optional DigitizerPen, it’s easy to make notes that [...]