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A while back I tested and reviewed the Kindle Fire HDX from Amazon, and to put it mildly I was very impressed.
That being said, I must say that when Amazon announced the release of the Kindle Fire HD 6 (#ad) at such a fantastic price, I was more than a little skeptical.
But as it turns out, I shouldn’t have been.
While putting the Kindle Fire HD 6 through its paces, it quickly became evident that this was far from just another bottom-dollar junk tablet. [Read more…]
If you’re a “gamer” you understand the importance of raw hardware performance in a gaming PC. Well, I recently had the opportunity to check out the best gaming laptops I have ever seen.
The ASUS ROG G750JZ-DS71 17.3-inch Gaming Laptop is a veritable gamer’s dream machine.
It comes standard with an Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.4Ghz CPU, 24GB of DDR3 RAM, a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive and a 256GB SSD. Yes, that’s right. This laptop comes with both a hard drive and a solid state drive!
The screen on this computer is a very nice 17.3″ FHD (1920*1080) anti-glare display that will really bring your graphics, videos and photos to life. [Read more…]
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX is the most advanced Kindle tablet ever released. I recently had an opportunity to check it out, and it’s an exceptional machine.
In addition to its super-sharp 1920 X 1200 HDX 7″ display, it also features the fastest processor you can get on a 7 inch tablet (2.2GHz quad-core) along with 2GB of RAM for fast, efficient multi-tasking, gaming, and video rendering.
The base model comes with 16GB of flash storage, but you can opt for up to 64Gb if you wish. Battery life is a very respectable 11 to 17 hours, depending on how the tablet is used. [Read more…]
It seems that laptops are getting cheaper by the day, but most of the models on the lower end of the price scale are bare-bones machines that don’t have the power for serious computing tasks.
I recently had an opportunity to check out a great laptop that perfectly bridges the gap between low-cost entry-level PCs and the more powerful and more expensive ultrabooks. It’s the HP 15-d097nr TouchSmart laptop, and I really like it. [Read more…]
These days replacing your computer’s hard drive with a super-fast solid state drive (SSD) gives you more bang for the buck than just about any upgrade you can make.
Most people will tell you that once you’ve owned a PC that boots from an SSD, you’ll never want to be without one again!
I recently received a Samsung 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III SSD for review, and I decided to install it in my Gateway desktop PC. In this review I’ll give you my opinion of the drive. [Read more…]