Content and news by Rob Williams

Mobile warriors have their advantages, but storage isn’t one of them. It’s not uncommon to see desktop users with multiple TBs of hard drives, but notebook users tend to suffer with 500 or 750GB options. Western Digital, with its 9.5mm tall WD10JPVT, wants to change that – and trust us when we say that it’s well worth looking into.

“Feature-packed” is a term we often use to describe products that offer a lot of features and lacks nothing, but there may be no product more deserving of that description than SteelSeries’ Sensei ‘pro-grade’ gaming mouse. It’s identical in design to the award-winning Xai, but has a much greater focus on the pro-gamer, making sure…

To coincide with the kick-off of the Gamescom show in Cologne, Germany, Gearbox has released the first trailer for its upcoming Borderlands 2 game, set to see a release in 2012. In the span of this 30 second trailer, we’re introduced to one of the new classes, Gunzerker, and get a taste of what it’s capable of. With its…

In a quick bit of Apple news, the Cupertino company has just released a thumb drive variant of its Mac OS X ‘Lion’ operating system, allowing those who would rather forgo the download-only option to do just that. Kicking things off with last year’s MacBook Air model, Apple decided to get rid of optical discs for install media, and as…

When Intel launched its Sandy Bridge CPU line-up earlier this year, it released a large collection of models in order to leave as few gaps in the price-ranges as possible, and as long as you weren’t looking for a true high-end product, there was little to complain about (ahem, perhaps aside from certain chipset issues). But what…

Not respecting the fact that some people like to kick off their Monday slowly to help get themselves into a groove for the rest of the work week, Google’s CEO Larry Page announced via the company’s official blog its plans to acquire Motorola Mobility for a healthy $12.5 billion. This, my friends, is the sort of news that makes this…

As it’s been almost a full two months since the release of Firefox 5, it can be assumed that most users are beginning to become a little bit bored. But don’t fret; Firefox 6 is here! While officially set to launch tomorrow,Firefox 6 has been moved to the /releases/ folder, stating that it is in fact the shipping version.

Google has been in the search engine business longer than most, and compared to the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo!, it has dedicated far more effort into making its own product the best it can be. To call that a smart move would be an understatement, because Google’s search engine business gained users early, and helped…

Given the massive popularity of mobile gaming today, doesn’t it seem a bit odd that the company with some of the most iconic video game characters around are seemingly ignoring it? After all, with the average iPhone gamer spending about 15 hours per month gaming on the go, why wouldn’t Nintendo want a piece of this rapidly…

Last September, Intel rolled out its first-ever ‘upgradeable’ desktop processor, Pentium G6951, and since then, the company has kept quiet about its potential successes or follow-up products. Given this, and also the fact that the G6951 and idea behind it was rather controversial, it lead many to believe that both were dead in the water.

It’s been almost seven full years since Counter-Strike: Source was released, and given that it came out a mere four years after the original, no one would blame you if you thought that a third game in the series would never see the light of day. But, at the Eurogamer Expo 2011, Valve has shown that the series isn’t to remain stagnant, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive set to launch in 2012.

Given the unbelievable growth mobile computing has seen in the past five or so years, especially with regards to things like tablets, it seems obvious that the “future is mobile”. But does that mean that the era of the PC is coming to a close? According to Dr. Mark Dean, one of the co-creators of the first IBM personal computer, it is.

For a couple of reasons, I tend to keep about five or six thumb drives around for the sake of having non-disc copies of bootable software, and also a quick place to backup small, but important data. OS-wise, I keep a thumb drive with a Windows 7 install on it at all times, along with Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Then I have Ultimate Boot CD…

When USB 3.0 was first made commercial a couple of years ago, its introduction was a welcome one. While we didn’t see quite the same sort of leap going from 2.0 to 3.0 as we did from 1.1 to 2.0, USB 3.0 is faster than a SATA 2 port and sits just behind SATA 3. In gist, it’s fast, and most people will never be able to totally saturate…

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 is a beast of a card, able to reach 80°C with minimal effort. So what about those who value high performance along with silence? There are some options, such as Zalman’s VF3000F after-market cooler. But with it requiring three slots in your PC, and $75 from your wallet, can it deem itself worthy?

When Valve launched its Steam platform in 2004, the company entered an unknown territory and I’m sure had no real idea of what to expect with regards to its success. Well, it goes without saying that creating Steam was the best decision the company ever made, and though it doesn’t disclose revenue, it can be assumed…

The first time I installed Gentoo, back in late 2004, I used an at-the-time brand-new Dell Inspiron (5150 if I recall) notebook as the victim. At that time, Gentoo was a new world to me, and a confusing one. It took me about a half-week’s worth of actual work to get it installed, but it happened, and it was one of the most satisfying…

Comcast, home to some of the most caring and thoughtful executives around, today announced an “Internet Essentials” plan that aims to get the Internet into the hands of all low-income American families. At a mere $9.95 USD / mo, the cost of the package should be much easier to handle than Comcast’s other offerings, which start…

As soon as DDR3 hit the mainstream market in 2008, the appeal of fast RAM kits seemed to disappear almost instantly, and it was this point that I stopped reviewing individual kits due to the apparent lack of need or interest. When DDR3 kits are as fast as they are, the fastest kits out there become a niche product, and given the…

I’m not sure how I got this curse, but it feels like no matter what kind of preemptive action I take, I inevitably hit 100°C on the CPU I’m using at some point. To help prevent this sort of thing from happening, I upgraded to a Corsair 800D chassis and H60 CPU cooler a couple of months ago, up from an Intel stock cooler (the large…