Last week at Computex, our visit with Patriot brought to light several product introductions, of which the new Pyro M3 SSD caught our attention. The Pyro M3 is a mSATA SSD that will be available in capacities of 120 and 240GB.  Performance for this SSD is listed at both read and write speeds above 500MB/s.  Patriot is also showing much …

If you would have told me that I would be starting a report with that title 3 weeks ago, I would have said you were nuts.  A necessary evil of my work, I have been carrying around a BlackBerry for several years now and have never been impressed.  I am sorry but it is true.  Right now, I have in …

Monday morning, following a great time at Computex 2014.  It is a great place to meet up with our affiliatate review colleagues, manufacturing and distributing personal.  We are often amazed at the events put on and how welcoming everyone is.  As we regularly mention, when we pull together our affiliate review posts, it is important to get as much information …

Undoubtedly the leader of the pack when it has come to product release events has been Kingston.  It doesn’t seem so long ago that we were invited to a little place called the Bellavita in Taipei where Kingston’s last HyperX party was led by the country’s top models and enough press to make your head spin.  Let’s take a quick …

We are about to get things underway here in Taipei.  After a total flight time of 19 hours, I’m wide awake after sleeping the day away, hopefully that takes care of the jetlag.  What kind of exciting new experiences will we leave Taiwan with this year? Stay tuned…. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW ASROCK Z97 Extreme6 Tests … @ The SSD Review To …

Long weekends are a perfect opportunity to take the family up to the cottage for a fun-filled and relaxing weekend. For many of those who return from the weekend with a smartphone filled with great pictures and shots from throughout the weekend, it can be difficult to transfer those pictures over to your computer. You may have a dropbox account where …

As mobile technology continues to advance, we’re finding ourselves more connected to our banks than ever before. Or are we becoming even further disconnected than ever? As mobile payment apps move forward with third party entities like PayPal or their own internal accounts, banks themselves have been slower to catch up. More consumers are using smartphones at the checkout counter …

It’s a fairly common theme to see technology or trends that are supposedly outdated to come back in the modern era in some form or another. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that mechanical keyboards, which have largely been replaced by membrane keyboards, are resurfacing and gaining traction amongst die-hard enthusiasts and a new generation of both gamers and typists …

INTRODUCTION The 70-200mm focal length has been one of the most versatile and popular zoom ranges available. First introduced in March of 1995 the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM has been one of the go to lenses for sports, portraiture, and journalism across the world. Canon has four 70-200mm lenses in their lineup, two f/2.8s and f/4s with and without …

Today BIOSTAR has released their new micro ATX motherboard, the A88MQ. The A88MQ is based on the new AMD FM2+ socket design and supports AMD Multi-Core processors. On top of that, the motherboard also features the AMD A88X Chipset, 4 DIMM slots that allow for RAM expandability up to 64GB, SATA 3 6Gb/s ports, and support for AMD dual graphics …