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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, I*** and Dave discuss the MainGear SHIFT do-it-yourself case kit, should game consoles be upgradable(?), the used game debate and game devs locking down DLC content for new game buyers only, the new Intel SSD 520 series built on SandForce technology, details of our upcoming contest and a whole lot more!

http://hothardware.com - In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, I*** and Dave discuss highlights from the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas, including OCZ's new blistering fast PCI Express and SATA SSD technologies, Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga, Intel Medfield Smartphones, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T, Samsung's Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD, AMD's Trinity APU and details of HotHardware's current contest where you could win great PC gaming gear from Gigabyte.

http://hothardware.com - In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, I*** and Dave discuss AMD's hot new Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0, HotHardware's Liquid Cooler Lineup with Intel, Corsair, MainGear Tested, the Lenovo IdeaPad U400 Notebook, and hints of our next sweepstakes where you could win some sweet gear!

http://hothardware.com - If you've been paying attention to Android smartphones lately, you know there's one phone that people have been eagerly anticipating for a few months now. That phone is the Galaxy Nexus. The reason this phone is so hot is because it is the first smartphone in the US to run Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. As the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to offer a single Android platform that will run on both smartphones and tablets.

http://hothardware.com - The Motorola Droid RAZR features a slim body that measures 7.1mm thick. According to Motorola and Verizon Wireless, the Droid RAZR is the world's thinnest 4G smartphone. And while thin is definitely a key feature in today's competitive smartphone market, we all know horsepower is equally important. Motorola has given the Droid RAZR a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.3-inchd qHD Super AMOLED Advanced display, 8MP camera, and Android 2.3. The phone will be upgradeable to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) at some point in the future.

http://hothardware.com - In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Dave, Marco and I*** discuss Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, HotHardware's Holiday Gift Guide for PC Components, Dell's XPS 14z Notebook, Tablet Gaming Today and a Look At the Future, as well as our MSI/NVIDIA Gear-Up and Tablets of the Season Sweepstakes Winners and ongoing giveaways!

http://hothardware.com - To summarize the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus’ purpose in a crowded field is easy enough, though: It’s specialty is giving you all the perks of a WiFi-connected device (email, Web browsing, social networking, etc.) along with some impressive home media functionality--more on that in a bit--and also offering ample offline entertainment when you’re out and about and away from a WiFi connection, such as gaming and e-reading. The specs are solid enough--it runs a tasty 1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos processor and has 1GB of RAM, and you can augment the onboard 16GB of storage with up to 32GB of microSD storage--but it’s the extras, which we’ll delve into shortly, that really make the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus an excellent entry in the 7-inch tablet market.

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, I*** and Dave discuss the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with NVIDIA's Tegra 3 SoC, OCZ's Octane Series SATA III Solid State Drive, Amazon's Kindle Fire: Insight and How Not To Get Burned, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core graphics card, and details of the HotHardware Gear-Up Giveaway with MSI and NVIDIA!

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, I*** and Dave discuss Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition processor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 vs Battlefield 3 and the advantages of PC gaming, Corsair's GT 240GB SSD and firmware updates for Crucial's M4, the PCAudioLab's Rock Box, and details of our current contest where you could win PCAL's hot Digital Audio Workstation PC!

http://hothardware.com/News/HotHardware-Giving-Thanks-System-Sweepstakes/ - There aren't many system builders that can say they've worked with the likes of Peter Frampton, the Grand Ole Opry and Eric Clapton. PCAL builds what folks in the music biz call a "DAW" or Digital Audio Workstation. Today we're looking at the PCAL Rok Box MC 7xs, a mini-tower ATX platform built for sweet, melodic content creation. Full disclosure; PCAL sponsored this machine for our Giving Thanks Sweepstakes here at HotHardware. As such, for a variety of reasons, including objectivity and fairness, we won't be running down the usual review gauntlet with this machine. Rather, we'll give you a hands-on look at the product, what its made of and a quick-take look at performance.

http://hothardware.com - The Photon 4G features a 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor along with 1GB of RAM and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Although the Photon 4G has been out for few months, it still has some compelling features that other phones don't offer. For example, the Photon 4G is the first WiMAX equipped phone from Sprint to feature global GSM roaming.

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco takes us through the component selection and build process for the grand prize of HotHardware's Labor Day Giveaway contest - a custom gaming PC decked out with the latest technologies from Intel, NVIDIA and many more! Congrats RRPlay for winning!

http://hothardware.com - We've been testing the Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, otherwise known as the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch for a couple weeks now, and we like what we see. In fact, we'd go as far as saying this is one of the best smartphones we've seen in the US this year.

http://hothardware.com - The Droid Bionic is the first smartphone from Verizon Wireless to offer 4G LTE connectivity paired with a powerful dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. This smartphone is currently the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone from Verizon Wireless at 10.99mm, though other phones in the pipeline will steal this title soon. Was it worth the wait? We take an in-depth, hands-on look at the phone to find out.

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, I***, Marco and Dave discuss Apple's new iPhone 4S, OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express HD/SSD, the Asus Zenbook UX21, our huge round-up of Z68 motherboards, and details of our next sweepstakes where you could win a high fidelity multimedia PC!