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HP TouchSmart IQ506t
HP’s TouchSmart line of all-in-one desktop computers has undergone quite a transformation since we examined the very first model, the IQ770, nearly two years ago. Not only is every change for the...
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Velocity Micro Raptor Z90
The Velocity Micro Raptor Z90 is the first production rig we’ve tested that boasts Intel’s new Core i7 microarchitecture—and it really cooks. Velocity cranked the 3.2GHz clock speed on Intel’s...
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ZeeVee Zv-100
Plenty of boxes will stream video from your PC in one room to a TV in another, but they all have two things in common: You need to provide the network, and you need to buy one box for each TV you...
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Sonos Bundle 150
You know a product is uncommonly designed when each of its successors looks and functions pretty much like the original. Such is the case with the latest revamp of the Sonos multiroom audio system. All...
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Haier Rhapsody Ibiza
When talk turns to digital media players, Apple’s iPod and Microsoft’s second-generation Zune (with its third-gen firmware) dominate the conversation. But if you’re a Rhapsody-to-Go subscriber ($15 per...
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Verbatim PhotoSave DVD
All it takes is an errant foot strike or a power spike and poof—you’ve lost gigabytes of photos and memories in a single hard-drive crash. Let’s face it, few of us ever actually take the time to copy...
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Ask the Doctor: Feelin' My Flow
After many years of heating my room with an air-cooled PC, I’m thinking about building a water-cooled system. Since most rigs have blocks for just a CPU and maybe two videocards, I need some advice on...
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White Paper: Cloud Computing
If a computer can exist without hardware, as we learned in last month’s white paper about virtual machines, can it be useful without application software? It can if it relies on the concept of cloud...
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Ask the Doctor: Boot, Baby, Boot!
I was installing a Windows Update on my laptop, and I left it to finish making dinner, not realizing that the automatic update wanted to restart my computer. While I was away, the computer restarted....
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Ask the Doctor: Security Slowdown?
After reading the “Powerful Protection” Doctor question in the July issue, I started wondering what kind of performance hit I was taking from the plethora of security programs on my system. I have two...
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Ask the Doctor: Where Are My Documents?
The XP Home SP1 install on my girlfriend’s old laptop was getting a little buggy, so I decided to wipe and upgrade to XP Pro SP3. She had about 16GB of music and pictures stored on the laptop, which...
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Texas Messes with Innovation
[Ed note: This edition of Byte Rights was originally published in our Holiday 2008 issue.]Since childhood, I’ve bitterly wondered why I don’t have a jet car, or my own robot assistant and constant...
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Patent Trolls
[Editor's note: This edition of Game Theory was originally published in our Holiday 2008 issue]So, did you know that Worlds.com invented massively multiplayer gaming and has a pair of patents to prove...
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AMD Parallels Nvidia
[Editor's Note: This edition of Fast Forward was originally published in our Holiday 2008 issue]As I’ve noted before, when you’re not playing action games, the killer GPU in your PC is basically a case...
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25 Most Popular Windows Tips: The Best Explained and Worst Debunked
Since the dawn of Windows, power-user tipsters (us included) have proffered hundreds of suggestions with the promise of improving your PC’s performance or streamlining its operation. The tip-givers...
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