Articles on Performance

Acer upgrades Aspire 8900 series to Core i7 performance - Nov 4, 2009

Crave The Acer Aspire 8900 series is impressive. Despite an affordable price tag of just under S$3,500, it offers quad-core performance and a high-end graphics card, not to mention a full-HD panel ... Read story »

Logitech's Performance Mouse MX gets Editors' Choice - Sep 1, 2009

Crave The results were conclusive in our mouse head-to-head. Logitech's Performance Mouse MX and its new Darkfield sensor boldly went where Microsoft's Explorer Mouse and its BlueTrack sensor could not. We tried ... Read story »

Now, this is a fast card--SanDisk Extreme Pro - Sep 29, 2009

Blogs Last week, I was asked to try the all new SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card, thanks to the guys at TEXT100 HKG (PR firm in Hong Kong). As an amateur photographer, ... Read story »

Do you really need SanDisk's 90MB/sec CompactFlash? - Sep 15, 2009

Crave Despite its being out of vogue at the moment, I'm still a big believer in the faster-is-better philosophy. That said, I also recognize that it's not always worth the extra ... Read story »

Intel brings Core i7 to laptops - Sep 24, 2009

Features Intel mobility tech guru Mooly Eden shares details on the two new "Clarksfield" processors, which will be the fastest notebook chips ever from the chipmaker, and spotlights some Core i7 portables to come. Read story »

Putting both ATI and Nvidia cards in one PC - Sep 23, 2009

Crave Lucid's Hydra allows for this kind of fraternizing to take place. An Nvidia and ATI card in the same system. Last year I reported on the Lucid Hydra 100. For ... Read story »

Joe Kane projector by Samsung lauded - Sep 15, 2009

Crave Samsung, with the help of video guru Joe Kane, again delivers outstanding performance in the high-end front-projection DLP category with the flagship SP-A900B. This 1080p resolution, one-chip DLP projector sports the ... Read story »

The Toshiba T series: Expensive and underpowered? - Oct 12, 2009

Crave Toshiba Satellite T135-S1300: Single-core CPU inside. We have a bit of a beef with a trend that's currently happening in full-size (by that we mean 13-inch and above) thin-and-light laptops, ... Read story »

Logitech Darkfield takes on Microsoft BlueTrack - Aug 20, 2009

Crave Logitech's Performance Mouse MX. Apparently unhappy with falling behind in the input arms race, Logitech announced its response to Microsoft's BlueTrack mouse sensor technology by way of two new mice ... Read story »

New iMacs' Flash video performance woes - Nov 2, 2009

Crave After reading Engadget's report citing recent complaints about Flash video playback mucking up system resources on the latest 27-inch Apple iMacs, we decided to test out the claims using our ... Read story »

New Dell desktops with new Core i5 and i7 chips - Sep 9, 2009

Crave Dell launched its new Studio XPS 8000 and Studio XPS 9000 desktop computers, intended for users requiring a decent amount of power under the hood for multimedia or gaming. That ... Read story »

DirectX 11 supported on new ATI Radeon HD 5800 3D cards - Sep 24, 2009

Crave AMD has introduced its ATI Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850 desktop graphics cards, beating rival Nvidia to the marketplace with the first DirectX 11-capable products. As DirectX 11 is ... Read story »

Electronic or optical viewfinder? - Oct 20, 2009

Crave The Olympus 17mm optical viewfinder for the E-P1 and Panasonic's DMW-LVF1 for the Lumix DMC-GF1. Last week, Epson announced the production of a high-resolution electronic viewfinder (EVF) with the company ... Read story »

New Sanyo beamer sets new lumens record - Oct 21, 2009

Crave The latest Sanyo LP-XF1000 is hailed as the world's brightest projector with a staggering 12,000 lumens output. This is easily four times the performance of an average multimedia model in ... Read story »

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