Archive for November, 2009

Roku HD-XR Excels at Streaming Media to Your TV

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Roku HD-XR Excels at Streaming Media to Your TV

Streaming media players that relay Internet video content to TVs are becoming increasingly common–but ones that do it well and reliably for HDTV over a wireless network are less so. That’s why the Roku HD-XR is a real gem: For $130 (as of 11/24/09), it delivers high-definition content from Netflix,..

HP Pavilion Elite E9120f: Nice Storage Specs, Underwhelming Pe

Monday, November 30th, 2009
HP Pavilion Elite E9120f: Nice Storage Specs, Underwhelming Performance

The HP Pavilion Elite E9120f is built around a 2.6GHz Phenom II X4-910 processor–one of AMD’s newer chips.

Polywell Poly P5500C: Massive Storage, Mini Design

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Polywell Poly P5500C: Massive Storage, Mini Design

The Polywell Poly P5500C power desktop PC has a 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 870 processor. That isn’t the fastest CPU on the charts, but it’s swift enough to help the system come within 7 percent of the category’s speed leader, the Xi MTower PCIe 965

Help File: HDMI or VGA from laptop to HDTV; a stopped Mac cloc

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Help File: HDMI or VGA from laptop to HDTV; a stopped Mac clock

Q: Is there a difference in quality between HDMI and VGA when plugging a laptop into an HDTV?

Holiday guide to video games

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Holiday guide to video games

When the holidays roll around, the video game industry rolls out the big blockbusters.