Sharky's Notebook

Chosing the right Server CPUs for your application matters more now than ever! A twelve-core Opteron or a six-core Xeon? Find out which one is the best for your applications....

NVIDIA first introduced us to its next-generation GPU in September of 2009. Six months later we're on the verge of its consumer launch. Join us as we review the first 3 billion transistor chip we've ever touched and find out if it was worth the wait....

Apple's iTunes-based App Store represented a major shift in the distribution model for mobile applications, creating a single storefront where various developers could showcase their apps for the iPhone/iPod touch devices. Since then, the app store model has become the accepted and preferred software distribution method for most mobile...

The Lenovo ThinkPad line is the quintessential business laptop seen in corporations throughout the world. If you're looking for a high quality laptop that won't break after a few short years, your next laptop purchase might be better served by skipping the consumer products and going after the corporate world....

I'm trying my hands at a new feature here on AnandTech called This Just In. The idea is simple: when something that's not under NDA shows up at my doorstep, I'll snap some pics and post it for you all to see. Something to gawk at while whatever it is I'm working on gets reviewed. It'll give you a glimpse into what I'm working on and at the same time, it'll make sure I...

A few weeks ago my C300 died. Crucial sent me a replacement and an explanation. For those of you thinking about buying one, you may want to wait until Crucial sorts through some of these issues....

We look at the performance of AMD's native 6Gbps SATA controller and compare it to Intel's 3Gbps controllers as well as a Marvell 6Gbps card installed in Intel motherboards. The results aren't as straightforward as you'd expect....

Two months ago Intel released its Clarkdale line of CPUs. We liked the Core i3 530 but didn't care so much for the Core i5 661. Today we look at the cheaper and much more expensive members of the Clarkdale family....

The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding Palm, the former PDA and smartphone leader which, in recent years, has fallen on hard times. Given that, it’s probably a good time to take a look at where Palm and its excellent WebOS stand in the warp-speed environment that is the mobile smartphone world....

With a launch several months away, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone OS begins with a clean slate. Finally learning from Apple's success, does Microsoft have what it takes to compete in the next generation of smartphones?...

Both Intel and Kingston are shipping $125 SSDs, find out which one is worth your money!...

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at MIX10. Though the current release of the platform preview is very rough around the edges, it promises to bring Internet Explorer into full web standards compliance, partially erasing the web-standard scourge that IE 6 still scandalizes on the internet. ...

ASUS has an updated Pine Trail netbook that cuts the price to $330 and includes one of the nicest looking LCDs we've seen in a netbook. If you're after a $330 netbook and can't spend a penny more, this is the one to get....

The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. ...

Microsoft answered nearly all of the questions we had about Windows Phone 7 Series after Mobile World Congress at this year's MIX. 7 series is quickly shaping up to be one of the more impressive things we've seen from Microsoft in a while....

In keeping with our desire to refresh our GPU test suite periodically, we’re going to be redoing our GPU test suite to rotate in some more modern games, along with rotating in some DirectX11 games capable of taking advantage of this generation of GPU’s full capabilities. And while we already have a pretty solid idea of what we’re going to...

Mobile users that actually use their laptop unplugged for any extended amount of time should absolutely love NVIDIA's Optimus technology. The ASUS N61J pairs a higher spec GT325M GPU with an Arrandale processor to bump performance to the next level. If you want a fast but balanced notebook, this is the new king of the hill....

Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past 4GHz....

It's got 6 cores, 12 threads and it's good. Meet Intel's Core i7 980X, the first Gulftown CPU. If you've got the money, there's nothing better....

With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...