Linux Ion nettop reviewed

HOW ABOUT a Linux nettop for starters? Phoronix has scored, perhaps, the most intriguing of reviews... The ZaReason Ion Breeze, a nettop that’s running Linux on Ion. Considering it’s cheap and it runs some decent video, it could make an interesting HTPC box or a plain office machine…

Hot Hardware reviews the Lenovo G530, a notebook that’s priced below some netbooks. It’s a no-frills notebook with all you need for work and some play. The price tag says it all, really.

CPU3D has been playing around with a Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB graphics card. It comes factory-overclocked at 870MHz and sports an array of video connections for every situation you might come across.

The 3D Professor gets into the nitty-gritty with a Boston Systems Venom workstation sporting AMD’s new Istanbul-based Opteron hexacore. Some interesting numbers turned up…

Anandtech is dissecting the new MacBook Pro. Anand was flabbergasted by the notebook, but testing under Vista didn’t prove very good… Check out Part I and Part II.

Legit Reviews pokes and prods the SLC version of OCZ’s Vertex SSD. The Vertex EX 120GB is targeted at enterprises and costs accordingly, but then again you’re getting blistering performance.

Benchmark Reviews has written a gargantuan 80-way TIM performance test. If you want to know what’s best for you (and your CPU) give it a read.

Legion Hardware has a go at the Asus Extreme AH4770 Formula – which contrary to what you might think… isn’t overclocked. It just bears a more advanced cooling system and a bigger price tag…

Tom’s Hardware Emporium goes through 3 years-worth of Samsung hard-drives, ranging from “puny” 500GB units to big honkin’ 1.5TB kit.

Tweak Town enjoys a little FPS carnage with the Sharkoon Rush Fireglider laser gaming mouse. It oddly resembles some age-old Razer kit, but it’s really 21^st century stuff. Decals and weights included.

Xbit Labs addresses that most important of issues: system wattage. Oleg measures 6 typical configurations ranging from office computing to high-end gaming.

Bjorn 3D gets some hands-on time with that Leadtek Winfast PxVC1100 card that is based on the Spurs Engine from Toshiba, yes, Cell on your PC. All the bells and whistles of Super Resolution and video upconversion. µ