Optoma Pico PK101    Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:19 -0500
Texas Instruments’ DLP (Digital Light Processor) technology deserves much of the credit for making such a product possible. DLP projectors create an image by bouncing light off microscopic mirrors arranged in a matrix on a semiconductor. Ea... read more

Premiere Elements 7.0    Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:59:25 -0500
One thing we hoped for that’s definitely not present: three full upgrades’ worth of new features and improvements. Adobe continues to use its dumbed-down interface, which we initially viewed with disgust. Oddly enough, the more we’ve used i... read more

HP TouchSmart tx2    Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:00 -0500
This is the first convertible touch-screen PC designed for the consumer market, and its underlying hardware—which in our review unit included AMD’s best mobile CPU—delivered enough horsepower for this machine’s touch-screen elements. Benchm... read more

DFI LAN Party UT X58    Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:39:52 -0500
The idea is to transport heat from the heatsinks attached to the board’s power regulators and chipset to outside the case, where it can be cooled by the exhaust from the case. Does it work? The concept makes sense, but we’re a bit skeptical... read more

Gateway FX6800    Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:00 -0500
The results were surprisin. While the FX6800 didn’t clean anyone’s clock, the Core 2 Quad boxes didn’t exactly blow the lowly $3,000 Gateway out of the water, either. For example, the radical, oil-cooled, nearly $11,000, Hardcore Reactor th... read more

BFG GeForce GTX 295    Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0500
The GTX 295’s memory configuration is also similar to the GTX 260’s. Each GPU is paired with 896MB of GDDR3 clocked at 999MHz, connected to the GPU by a 448-bit bus. Where ATI increases memory bandwidth on the 4870 family of cards by using ... read more

LG GH22LS30    Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:30:21 -0500
The GH22LS30 comes with Nero Express for recording discs and Cyberlink's Power-Producer and PowerDVD for disc authoring and playback chores.

If you read our disc-ripping challenge on page 62, then you already know th... read more

Cooler Master V10    Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:02:56 -0500

Huge, mediocre, and difficult to install is no way to go through life, son

The Cooler Master V10 is a monster. It weighs two pounds, 10 ounces, stands 6.3x9.3x5.1 inches, and contains one thermoelectri... read more