Hardware

Lenovo’s ThinkSmart Hub 500 for boardrooms arrives in South Africa

Lenovo has today launched its latest Skype system device for your company’s swanky meeting room. Dubbed the ThinkSmart Hub 500, the device is geared…

Snapdragon 855 benchmarks leak: is it faster than the Kirin 980?

The upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 has reportedly been profiled and benchmarked on Geekbench. Scores published to the benchmark site earlier this week allegedly parades…

Samsung debuts ‘bezel-less’ curved gaming monitors at Gamescom 2018

Samsung has today announced new “affordable” gaming monitors at Gamescom 2018, dubbed the CJG5 series. “The newly-developed CJG5 32-inch (C32JG5) and 27-inch (C27JG5) monitors…

Beastly Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti stars in leaked graphics card lineup

For those who just bought their Nvidia 1000 series graphics cards, you may want to look away now. A list of preliminary specifications has…

How to breathe new life into old PCs and laptops

Chances are high if you’re a tech lover that you have a senior laptop or computer occupying garage space. It’s certainly true for me….

Seagate debuts consumer Barracuda SSD range

Hard drive stalwart Seagate is now making consumer SSDs. It has previously dabbled in enterprise hardware, focussing specifically on business performance and “instantaneous data…

Qualcomm’s gunning for Intel’s ultrabook market share with 1000 series

Smartphone processor king Qualcomm is reportedly coming for Intel and AMD’s desktop throne. According to a report by German site WinFuture, the company’s readying…

This ARM CPU, GPU will power some of 2017’s phones, VR

Whether it’s MediaTek, Samsung or Qualcomm, they all license CPU and GPU designs from British company ARM to some extent. Sure, many players are…

This battery breakthrough could change the world

I’m sure most of us can recall quite a few situations where we wished that battery technology was a bit more evolved. Whether it’s…

Nvidia GTX 1080 faster than a Titan X, costs nearly half as much

Nvidia has finally outed its 10 series of graphics processors, and on paper at least it was definitely worth the wait. The two new…

AMD revisits the budget storage game with Radeon R3 SSDs

Companies are forced to diversify to stay relevant (and more importantly, alive), so it wasn’t much of a surprise to see AMD launch an…

Battery tech talk: lithium ion and lithium polymer

For those considering the purchase of a lithium-based battery for a specific purpose, it is important to know the difference between a lithium ion…

TRENDnet N300 Easy-N-Range extender review: weak connections made complicated

I have a thing about crappy internet connections, especially since I’m sure my house has leaden walls. Located in my bedroom, the primary WiFi…

Intel’s Apollo Lake platform wants to beef-up, slim down entry PCs

Intel wants to make sure that your next entry-level PC can hold its own with its newly announced Apollo Lake platform. Unveiled at IDF…

WD’s 314GB PiDrive is hilarious because World Pi Day

I love novelty gadgets. I can’t begin to explain how many random flash drives and powerbanks I’ve impulsively collected over the years, but some…

Nvidia GTX 1080 could boast 16GB memory, launch in May

Nvidia’s Pascal graphics cards could be here as early as May, if a new report on the company’s latest wares is to be believed….

G-Technology G-DRIVE ev RAW review: hardy storage

Do you enjoy blogging while boating across the Nile, hiking up Kilimanjaro or perhaps while vehemently guarding your power point at the next overcrowded…

WD My Passport for Mac review: reliable external storage for OS X

A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive, right? Well, yes. In a sense that there’s an actuator, a reading system…

Speedlink Parthica Core review: a weekend bash ’em up board

We’ve had the privilege of using some of the best gaming keyboards these past few years, from the likes of Logitech, Razer and Corsair…

6TB WD Black hard drives now available in South Africa

WD, one of the world’s biggest hard drive manufacturers, has announced that its performance-orientated WD Black drives are now available in 6TB and 5TB…

WD My Passport X is a 2TB drive for Xbox One, PC gamers

In light of the next-generation console games, space on consoles is fairly limited. We filled up a 500GB PlayStation 4 is just under two…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 coming in August: here’s what you should know

Nvidia’s 2015 graphics card onslaught is not done by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, it seems that the company is just about…

Intel Core i7-6700K overclock results surface, reaches 5.2GHz on air

If you’re a PC builder and an overclocking enthusiast, Christmas has definitely come early. Some might be a tad annoyed at Intel’s deliberate slowing…

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