Today, Razer announced their 2017 Razer Blade Pro, their 17” premium laptop designed to replace the desktop at home. Back in October Razer announce the Blade Pro 17” for 2016, which brought a design overhaul of the device and a steep price tag of $3,699. Today, we keep the same design aesthetics, but have upgrades… Continue reading Razer Introduces the THX Certified Razer Blade Pro 2017
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MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Unboxing and Overview
Today I kick off my AMD Ryzen Coverage with this unboxing and overview of MSI’s X370 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard, a matte black board with carbon fiber accents and RGB LED Accent lighting sprinkled throughout the board in what looks to be a tasteful manner. The packaging itself is simple, but for a $180 motherboard,… Continue reading MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Unboxing and Overview
Intel announces Optane Memory for the desktop
Last week in Tech Brew I brought up the fact that Intel launched their enterprise, data center entry for their new line of storage devices, the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, a PCIe based Intel Optane SSD using their brand new 3D Xpoint technology inside the individual storage modules, giving read and write speeds that… Continue reading Intel announces Optane Memory for the desktop
Tech Brew #2 | Intel joins AMD in the spotlight
Hey there everyone, welcome back to another edition of Tech Brew. This week I’m a day late on publishing, but that isn’t a bad thing as it gave us time to get some interesting and expensive news from Intel to go along with the major news from AMD this week as well. Starting with what… Continue reading Tech Brew #2 | Intel joins AMD in the spotlight
Tech Brew | March 12, 2017
Hey everyone and welcome back to my roundup of this week in PC hardware. This week there were two real things that kind of staying in the spot light, one from team green and another from team red. Starting with Team Green, aka nVidia, the GTX 1080 Ti was released, along with the subscription feel… Continue reading Tech Brew | March 12, 2017
Sunday Sit Down | PC Hardware the week of March 5th, 2017
Whew, it’s been a whirlwind of a week for PC Enthusiasts. We got a brand new CPU and CPU Architecture from AMD, a new video card from nVidia and more details on AMD’s upcoming Vega GPU Architecture. AMD Ryzen Launched Starting with the biggest news of the week, AMD finally launched their long awaited Ryzen… Continue reading Sunday Sit Down | PC Hardware the week of March 5th, 2017
Vizio to pay $2.2M by FTC
The concept of companies watching what you are doing on electronic devices isn’t new. The concept of them taking that data, made anonymous, and selling it to advertisers isn’t, either. But in 2014, Vizio was caught doing something worse, and subsequently sued for it. Vizio was caught not only watching what end users were doing… Continue reading Vizio to pay $2.2M by FTC