Before you read on, know that this is a positive review of Samsung hard disk drives based on personal experience. However, this is not a review specifically of the hardware itself, but an aspect of the purchase that's equally as important: the warranty. Samsung, like all major electronics manufacturers, offers »

Apple has made a power play with its inclusion of Thunderbolt, Intel’s new high speed interface for connecting peripherals, such as monitors and input/output cards, in its new iMac and Macbook Pro. What’s notable about Apple’s vie for Thunderbolt, however, is its snubbing of USB 3.0. This is in stark »

Intel Core i7-2600 is based on Intel’s new Sandy Bridge architecture that uses 32nm manufacturing technology. The processor has 4 physical cores clocked at 3.4 GHz for extreme performance and with Hyper-Threading enabled; the number of logical cores is doubled to 8, which means up to 8 threads can be »

Today’s high performance motherboards are able to take advantage of the graphics processing unit (GPU) built-in to the graphics card in order to assist the CPU in completing processor intensive tasks. Known as parallel processing, or stream processing, this method of employing the GPU for applications other than graphics processing »

Audiophiles lurking the Apple Store may have noticed that Apple tends to favor USB microphones from Blue—the leading name in high quality, external microphones for pro and pro-am users. For years, the Blue Snowball and it’s smaller cousin the Blue Snowflake dominated the desktops of Mac users looking for a »

Pogoplug was originally a hardware company that has recently dabbled in the art of cloud storage. Presently, Pogoplug offers up to 5GB of free storage to users everywhere. Even though Pogoplug’s cloud storage offering has gone over relatively well, this company is heading back to its hardware roots. Pogoplug has »

As a hardware reviewer, I often come across new hardware that is truly innovative. Sometimes, just sometimes, though, I come across devices that leave me wondering where the world of hardware is headed. One such device is the all-new Hammacher Schlemmer USB drive. What’s so special about this drive? It »