Daily Reviews Summary 06/20/10

Do you want both performance and style on the go? If so, then the stunning 10.1" Aspire One D250 is right for you. Beneath its handsome exterior, this netbook delivers 8 hours1, 2of battery-powered connectivity via wireless and optional 3G. Its advanced features and easy carry-ability make the Aspire One D250 perfect for go-everywhere daily.

The Chief KCY220 Dual Monitor Desk Mount is a great product for the business minded computer user or any user that multitasks on a computer.

Digital cameras have become the norm for almost all home consumers. While most of us do not have $2500 to drop on a Cannon EOS 5D DSLR, we can afford something better than the cameras built into our phones. Geeks offers cheap digital cameras so, today we are reviewing the Kodak M341

Todays review includes SandForce, Indilinx and Toshiba based SSDs mixed in with the Seagate 6GB/s and VelociRaptor mechanical models then just for good measure a high spec 2.5" mechanical drive is added to ensure we have a complete picture of the real world performance available at each market segment.

Today for review I’ve got the Race R310 16gb USB drive from a company called Memonex, I never heard of them, but they emailed me and asked me to review their products, being curious I said sure. The drive itself is aluminum and plastic so it’s well well, but I found that it performs very well, above the specs that Memonex even cited for it. It’s probably one of the fastest drives out there today, at least faster than those I’ve compared it to anyway, and they’re form companies like Sandisk, Verbatim and PNY. So read on to check out a fast little USB drive…

Today for review I’ve got the new Vantec NexStar 3 2.5” SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The long product name there pretty much says it all, it’s a USB 3.0 enclosure for 2.5” sized hard drives. The enclosure itself is very well made, it’s metal and aesthetically it looks good. Vantec even included a nice carrying case with it as well. So read on to learn more about it and see some testing results, I used a regular hard drive and an SSD for testing.

If you have no idea what's different between an AMD Opteron processor and an Intel Xeon processor, then this is the guide for you.

Currently covering 462 workstation and server CPUs, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare up to 20 different specifications for each and every CPU.

Here's what we updated in this new release :

- Added the Intel Xeon E5645 (Gulftown) processor.
- Added the Intel Xeon L5638 and L5618 (Gulftown) processors.
- Added the Intel Xeon W3680 (Gulftown) processor.
- Added the Intel Xeon L7455 (Dunnington) processor.
- Updated the specifications of the Intel Xeon 7500 series (Gulftown) of processors.
- Updated the specifications of the Intel Xeon 7400 series (Dunnington) of processors.
- Updated the specifications of the Intel Xeon 6500 series (Beckton) of processors.

We’ve been speaking with Zalman’s engineers and they seem to think they have a winner on their hands with the CNPS9900 MAX. Part of their confidence comes from the ‘slightly larger than most’ 135mm fan, which they tell us will increase the CFM across the cooling fins. The fins themselves have a special Black-Pearl nickel plating which is also supposed to assist in the movement of thermal energy from your CPU to your chassis.