• Requirements: SATA-3 for best results, space for a 2.5“ drive When Toshiba purchased the OCZ brand a couple of years ago, the first product to come from the newly marketed name was the OCZ Trion, an SSD that failed to excite the media at the time. Roughly a year later, Toshiba released the Q300 … Read more
Let’s be real: Solid-state drives aren’t exactly known for their stunning visual flair. Best-case scenario, the SSD you buy has a decent enough aluminum housing and a product sticker that looks like it was designed in Photoshop rather than MS Paint. After all, there’s a reason nobody squawks about SSD drive bays on the reverse … Read more
Corsair delivers elegant styling and desirable features in the highly affordable Carbide 400c Corsair’s Carbide 600C case that I reviewed recently suffered from being rather big and having a slightly weird inverted layout. Neither of those points are an issue with the 400 Series design. It’s more modestly scaled and also presents a conventional internal … Read more
Any similarities between the name of this product and a gadget mag are purely coincidental Samsung is always looking for new ways to exploit its VNAND flash technology, and the T3 is the latest it’s come up with. Essentially a USB memory key on steroids, the T3 is a precision-made device that looks like something … Read more
One thing that we know from spending lots of time at LAN parties and talking to modders and DIY PC builders everywhere: Where PC cases are concerned, one size does not fit all. Certainly there are popular trends in case design, just like in any other product market, and the other Rosewill case we review … Read more
Thermaltake Core P5 Review | Nobody appreciates modded PCs as art better than CPU. Just flip to the Mad Reader Mod in this issue and you’ll see yet another world-class example of a PC that’s pleasing to the eye yet brutal with the benchmarks. But thanks to Thermaltake and the new Core P5, you can … Read more
Sony reimagines a home-theatre-in-a-box system for the 2010s The idea of a soundbar accompanied by surround speakers and a subwoofer is a bit of an odd one. The huge success of soundbars has been based on people’s distaste for multiple boxes – those who fell out of love with all-in-one systems. Now the clutter is … Read more
Cheap portable sound that resonates with our reviewer I recall the first Bluetooth speaker I reviewed and it cost. These days, you can find them much cheaper, like Gear4’s new Soundwave. It’s one of many Bluetooth speakers Gear4 makes, but it’s at the most affordable end of its extensive range. While not exactly feature rich, … Read more
A no-brainer for novices, and handy for more experienced users, too. by samuel axon Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 offers most of the same basic video-editing features you’d find in other consumer packages, but it separates itself from the pack with tutorials and automatic curation and content-creation features that very nearly (but not quite) do all … Read more
We wake up to modern connectivity and our own choice of music Soundfreaq exactly a household name in the UK, but it is popular among audiophiles the world over, and for good reason, if the Sound Rise Wood is anything to by. This is a modern spin on the radio alarm clock and one that … Read more
We were somewhat conflicted prior to testing the Pure Evoke C-D6. On one hand, we want to be able to recommend it – we don’t see many decent one-box systems at this price, so it would be nice if this could fill the gap. On the other, perhaps we don’t want a one-box system at … Read more
Anyone drawing up a mid-range/premium soundbar shortlist will no doubt be intrigued by Yamaha’s YSP-1600. It shares some of the DNA of the brand’s higher-end models (the YSP-2500 and YSP-5600) but leaves more cash in the bank for Blu-rays. There are plenty of other prospect at this price, however, so can the soundbar do enough … Read more