January 2012
4 posts
IRL Portal Long Fall Boots →
You’re still going to break your legs, but you’ll look good doing it.
SilverStone Precision PS07: Temjin For Less? →
We were big fans of SilverStone’s Temjin TJ08-E when we reviewed it back in August. Who wouldn’t be? Even SilverStone was surprised at just how effective the little enclosure was, producing…
Ice World Musical Comic →
Life slides by so fast.
The Top 10 Dorkly Bits of 2011 →
10. Mario Meets With His Agent
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December 2011
38 posts
ViewSonic V3D231 3D Display - The Passive Approach →
Almost all of us have gone to see a movie in 3D at the theaters at this point. Unlike most 3D designs at home, movie theaters use a passive 3D setup with polarized glasses that enable you to watch…
Play Crush the Castle →
Angry Birds before there were angry birds.
OCZ Octane 128GB SSD Review →
Earlier this year OCZ acquired Indilinx, one of the first SSD controller makers to really make a splash in the enthusiast community. Ever since OCZ entered the SSD business it wanted to…
Star Wars Planet Named After Jon Stewart →
And Chewie’s home planet is named after former Daily Show anchor Todd Kashyyyk.
Updated Smartphone & GPU Bench DBs Live! →
We’ve been running our public performance database tool, Bench, for a few years now. Bench allows you to have direct access to the performance data we use in our reviews, segmented according to…
Christmas in Hyrule →
Netgear NTV200 : Over-the-Top Streaming for... →
The current flux in the television market is embodied by the emergence of two closely related categories, namely, the Smart TV and the connected TV. While the former category is being actively…
Firefox 9 Released, Brings JavaScript Speed... →
Mozilla is in the process of pushing Firefox 9 out to users on its release channel, about six weeks after the release of Firefox 8. The major stated improvement to Firefox 9 is what…
Samsung Promises Ice Cream Sandwich By 1Q12 For... →
In a post on Samsung Tomorrow, Samsung Electronics announced that they would begin rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy S II variants and Galaxy Note by the end of the first quarter in…
Pwn Up: The Pwned Republic →
Ever had a moment so nerdy that you needed to tell the Internet about it? Send your submissions to dorklypwnup at gmail.
As people may know, Ireland is going through some tough economic…
Samsung S23A750D 3D LCD Display →
The big push in movies and displays has been 3D the past few years. In movies it’s ranged from well designed and executed (Avatar) to a gimmick to charge $4 more per ticket (many examples), but…
The Skyrim Dilemma →
Microsoft Releases Hotfix to Improve Bulldozer... →
The launch of Bulldozer in October wasn’t exactly a success for AMD. In our review, Anand ended up recommending the Intel i5-2500K over AMD FX-8150. One of the reasons behind the poor…
Shirt of the Week: Elect Zaphod Beeblebrox →
Two-heads of State are better than one.
Motorola Droid RAZR Review - A Better Clad Bionic →
Recently Motorola unleashed a bunch of devices it was keeping up its sleeve, and the latest for Verizon is the Motorola Droid RAZR. A while ago we reviewed the Bionic, which was the first time we…
Harry Potter Gingerbread House →
“You’re a Twizzler, Harry.”
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review Part II:... →
In our original review of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime I did the best I could do given limited testing opportunity with the platform before the NDA lifted on all reviews data. I made the…
Play Nurse Quest: Love Hurts →
An adventure game for the unadventurous.
The Antec Giveaways: Part 2 →
If you’re looking for a new case, Antec is setting side a pair of its Eleven Hundred model cases for two lucky AnandTech readers. The Eleven Hundred features three tool-less 5.25” drive bays and…
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Preview – Custom... →
Later today AMD will be releasing the first preview for their Catalyst 12.1 driver set. AMD has been going through preview/beta drivers at a rapid pace in the last couple of months – we’ve seen 3…
Ice Cream Sandwich Previewed on the Archos G9 →
When we posted about the launch of the Archos G9 Turbo, we mentioned that Archos was aiming for a Q1 2012 release date for the G9’s Ice Cream Sandwich update. Since then, Archos showed…
Acer TravelMate 8481T-6873: Remarkable Road... →
With all of the noise Intel and some of the OEMs are making about ultrabooks, it’s easy to forget that as PC users we’ve already enjoyed thin-and-light and ultraportable notebooks for a while now….
Incredible Diablo III Cosplay →
The Lord of Terror is never late for a dinner party.
Hitachi Ships The First 4TB Hard Drive →
Hitachi has started shipping the world’s first hard drive with 4TB capacity. There has not been an official press release from Hitachi yet, but a Japanese site Akiba has spotted the hard…
BenQ VW2420H Monitor Review →
Recently I reviewed another monitor from BenQ that was designed as an all-in-one model to handle your computer use, as well as TV or video game usage. While the performance of the display was…
Shirt of the Week: Zelda is the Girl →
Wait, nobody told me the Princess of Hyrule was female.
Holiday 2011 Mainstream High-End Buyer's Guide →
After covering the budget and midrange sectors of the DIY PC market, as well as pre-built desktops and laptops, today we have a guide outlining mainstream high-end builds. Saying the computers…
IRL Half-Life Gravity Gun →
And it REALLY* works!
Quick update: more Interlagos testing →
As promised in our last Opteron “Interlagos” review, we have been taking the time to deepen our understanding of AMD’s newest Interlagos server platform and the “Bulldozer” architecture. Server…
Microsoft Announces Windows Store Details →
In an announcement aimed squarely at developers, Microsoft’s Antoine Leblond and Ted Dworkin yesterday revealed some hard details for the upcoming Windows 8 app store. Using Apple’s and…
Mario Hats for Cats →
Your cat has been going around not looking like Mario for too long.
Holiday 2011 Midrange System Buyer's Guide →
The latest edition of our Holiday 2011 guides focuses on midrange desktops. If you enjoy the prospect of building your own PC or you just prefer the ability to customize every component, we’ll…
Professor Layton Takes a Hint →
Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview →
It’s that time of the year. Once again, Intel’s roadmaps have been leaked and we get to see what Intel has in store for us in 2012. I find the first bits of concrete info like frequencies…
Shirt of the Week: Winter is Coming →
I’m dreaming of a white walker. It’s actually a nightmare.
CyanogenMod 9 Should Support Most CM7-Compatible... →
In an update on the CyanogenMod blog today, Cyanogen gave us our first details on device support for the forthcoming Ice Cream Sandwich-based CyanogenMod 9: the first SoCs supported will…
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Availability: Week... →
If you’re waiting to get your hands on an Eee Pad Transformer Prime, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer. ASUS is expecting the first etail and retail availability in North…
Play Hanger →
Swing your life away.
November 2011
49 posts
Pre-Built Desktop Buyer's Guide: Holiday 2011... →
While we at AnandTech recognize that a good portion of our readership prefers to roll their own as far as desktops go, not everyone is that way. Sometimes there are also situations where we’d be…
Real Life Hobbit Home →
So this is what Frodo kept babbling on about.
Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta to Developers →
Apple seems to have had a Cyber Monday surprise of its own lined up, releasing iOS 5.1 Beta (build 9B5117b) to developers this evening. We’ve updated an iPhone 4S of our own to 5.1, and…
Batman: Arkham City—New Villain DX11 Man on PCs! →
If you’re one of the gamers who waited anxiously for the PC release of Batman: Arkham City yesterday, and you have a reasonably high-end PC, there’s a good chance the initial experience…
The Top 25 N64 Games of All Time →
Last week, Dorkly users voted to elect the greatest N64 game of all time. The competition was tough. Palms were decimated by frantic joystick spinning, countless Capri-Suns were consumed, and…
Puget Systems Deluge: Revisiting the Art of Custom... →
It’s been a little while since we’ve had a Puget Systems desktop in, and so far we haven’t yet tested any of their big dog gaming machines. Everything else we’ve tested, we’ve liked, but what…
Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290: Glasses-Free 3D? →
Way back in the dark ages of CES 2011, we were able to lay hands on and play with some interesting new technology from Toshiba. They had a prototype notebook on hand that was capable of…
Star Wars Engagement Photos →
Until death do you part or you become one with the force.