Adobe apps — works in progress
Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 11th 2011 | Permalink
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Adobe has come to the market with a raft of new apps for the tablet. They are useful to varying degrees but they all cost $9.99. Now, $9.99 is not a lot of money but it is a little high for an app and Adobe’s new apps vary quite a bit when it comes to usefulness and features. The app list looks like this: Photoshop Touch—a scaled down version of Photoshop optimized for touch and designed primarily for content creation. Collage—a brainstorming tool that lets people gather visual elements together on a work board to try out concepts. Kuler—a color picking…
Egnyte makes cloud storage a business
Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 11th 2011 | Permalink
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Dropbox, Sugar Sync, OpenDrive, Mozy, Egnyte ... there are quite a few options for cloud storage services, but Egnyte hopes to stand out with security and management as well as competitive pricing.
Reviewing the HP Z210 Small Form Factor (SFF) workstation
Posted by Alex Herrera on December 11th 2011 | Permalink
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HP’s first foray into integrated-graphics for workstations was over a year ago, when the company launched the Z200 workstation with Intel’s 32 nm Westmere parts. That archicture coupled the GPU and CPU with two die in a package. Now, we think HP offered integrated graphics on the Z200 not because it expected many workstation buyers to be clamoring for it, but because it allowed HP to push down that always very marketable “starting at” price. Without the cost of an incremental discrete GPU, the build cost for the Z200 was (on the order of) $100 less than it otherwise would have…
Benchmarking the FirePro V7900, V5900 and V4900 / The V4900 shined on SPECapc Lightwave
Posted by Alex Herrera on December 11th 2011 | Permalink
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The FirePro V7900 and V5900 boards, based on AMD’s Caymen GPUs, now occupy the mid-range and high-end positions in AMD’s workstation graphics portfolio. The V4900 workstation AIB is the latest addition to the line. It’s built with the Turks Northern Island’s GPU, and targeted at the entry level. AMD provided us with all three new models to assess their competitive positioning. To get a sense of the performance the new trio can deliver, we employed some of the same basic tools we have in the past, including one relatively new (and very welcome) addition. We benchmarked the three boards shortly after they were released, but not simultaneously. We tested the V5900 and V7900 in August 2011 and the V4900 in November 2011.
Review of ASUS MARS II 3GB: the fastest AIB in the history of the world
Posted by Robert Dow on October 27th 2011 | Permalink
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Visually striking, the Mars II 3GB dual GTX 580 is an impressive piece of technology in both performance and size. The Mars II checks in at 13”x 6”x 2.5” and at a stunning 5.2 lbs. Consider: two EVGA GTX 590s together weigh in at a mere 5lbs. Aside from its staggering size the first thing one notices are the dual 12 cm fans capable of 220CFM which Asus says gives the Mars II a 600% greater air flow than a standard AIB. The fans come with a Turbo fan button that when enabled keeps the 12cms fans buzzing at top speed…
Testing Vellamo
Posted by Webmaster on September 24th 2011 | Permalink
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Vellamo is a mobile Web benchmark that evaluates browser performance on Android devices and provides a holistic view into browser performance. It also evaluates networking, JavaScript, rendering, and user experience incorporating industry standard and custom tests. The test was developed by Qualcomm. We ran Vellamo on a couple of Android tablets and a few android phones to see how they compared. There was a mixture of operating systems and service providers as shown in the table. The tablets, with larger more powerful SoCs clearly got the best scores, while most of the phones were in the same range. Brand Model Specifications…
Building a hot rod
Posted by Robert Dow on September 24th 2011 | Permalink
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There are three (probably more) approaches to building a gaming PC: Build the lowest cost unit you can that will run FPS Dx11 games at >30 fps. Build a machine that is pretty good and less than $5,000. Build the biggest baddest money is no object machine. We chose to go for the middle and built the following system. JPR’s Corsair hot rod of the month This can be considered a state of the art machine with a dual GPU AIB that runs S3D and a nice size 23.6-inch monitor. A fast SSD drive and 8 GB of DDR3 give it…
AnTuTu mobile device benchmark
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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The AnTuTu System Benchmark by Beijing Zhirui is an Android benchmarking tool that can run a full test of a mobile devices’ processor through a series of test for easy comparison.
Benchmarking Mobile devices
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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How do you benchmark a mobile device? You download an app and run it. Qualcomm has a nice one.
Review: HP Envy 17 redux
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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This is a lot of computer for $1,600. It comes with a 120 Hz (S3D) 17-inch display, a Blu-ray player, 750 GB HDD (7200 RPM), 6 GB DDR3 (1333 MHz) system RAM, AMD HD6850M discrete GPU with 1 GB GDDR5, HDMI and an Intel i7-263QM (2.) GHz—2.9 GHz). It’s got a SATA I/O, DS memory slot, VGA and four USB 2.0 sockets. A whole lot of computer for not too much money.