T-Mobile Web n Walk tested

T-MOBILE'S Web n Walk HSPDA Data card is tested by Trustedreviews in what seems to be a clear win for T-Mobile. The card allow you to browse the web at 1.8Mbit per second in two thirds of the country. This speed should double next year and quadruple in 2008. The price of the connection should be £240 per year with a free modem and a 2GB download quota. That's equal to what some are offering on landline.

Whao, the world's first notebook with a blu-ray drive comes from Sony. The Vaio VGN-AR18GP includes HDMI port, a S-Video out, VGA output and Firewire. The laptop comes with the most powerful Intel Core Duo with two 80GB HDDs, 1GB memory but a very limited battery life. The Vaio also packs a 7600GT video card and of course the Blu Ray drive.

Hothardware reports on the XPS M1710 laptop. This is a Special Edition Formula Red and comes with a Core Duo T2600 processor. Inside, there's even more power hardware like 2GB memory, a Geforce Go 7900GTX with 512MB memory, a 100GB HDD, a 17-inch WUXGA TFT LCD and Windows MCE 2005. Dell did not pull any punches including the price; nearly $4000.

Tweaktown puts two Western Digital Caviar RE2 hard disk drives in RAID0 mode and tries to tweak them. The drives come with a five year warranty and 16MB cache each. Performance, as you can expect is near exceptional although the drive on its own struggles at times. The drive is compared to the Seagate 7200.9 in single and RAID0 mode as well.

Another ECS motherboard on the bench. The ECS 945G-M3 motherboard is a mATX model built around the 945G and the ICH7 chipsets and supports all P4, including the Pentium D. It has GbE, HDA, SATA2 ports and four expansion slots. You also have integrated DirectX9 graphics. ECS is definitely trying to crack the lucrative AV market with this one.

Quiet and cheap, that's how Extremetech considers the Sapphire X1600XT Ultimate video card. The card is compared with the Geforce 7600GS and the rig used is a powerful FX62. Although it has the moniker ultimate attached to it, there's nothing exceptional with it. Apart from the silent operation, there's not much that differentiates it from other silent solutions.