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April 28, 2013

Smart Plugs: USB Wall Chargers from Fine Upgrades

In the last couple of years, a lot of electronic devices have standardized their charging ports. Around this time, around 90% of smartphones and tablets in the current market are already using micro-USB as their charging ports.

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April 05, 2013

PowerColor HD7870 Myst Edition

We took the PowerColor HD 7870 Myst Edition for a spin and replaced the old VGA card in our gaming PC at home. The HD 7870 Myst is a fairly new mid-range GPU and is now selling in PC stores for a retail price of about Php12k.

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April 02, 2013

Asus Zen Drive DVD Writer, a partner to the Zenbook

While using the MS Surface Pro for about a week now, we found we will need an external DVD drive to install additional software into the tablet. Fortunately, Asus sent us one of their newer external DVD Writer.

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January 25, 2013

J5 Create Ultra Station JUD500 laptop docking station

I’m not very keen with docking stations and every time I see them, I’d think they’re just for ThinkPads and those corporate laptops. This docking station by J5 Create is far from that though.

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January 13, 2013

Silverstone Heligon Series HE01 Twin Tower Heat Sink

Th folks from Silverstone sent this huge heat sink for us to check out and use in our next build. The Heligon Series HE01 is one huge heat sink it’s almost as big as a power sully unit (PSU).

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January 06, 2013

J5 Create Wormhole Switch JUC400

Every once in a while I’d transfer huge amounts of files from my Macbook to my Zenbook and the quickest way for me to do it is via a flash drive or an external HDD. However, sometimes the disk format (NTFS) of the external drive prevents me for doing the transfers.

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January 06, 2013

MSI GT70 One: Windows 8 Gaming Laptop for Php140k

MSI’s latest gaming laptop is the GT70 One, a Windows 8 powered gaming rig. MSI pulled all the stops with the GT70 One so you would not ask for anything more.

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December 17, 2012

Visible Light Charging Cable for iPhone and micro-USB

Third-party charging cables are sold aplenty by a hundreds of suppliers, each one having their own unique version or some times offering a more affordable version of the original.

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October 27, 2012

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 running Windows 8

One of the more interesting laptops that was showcased in the Windows 8 launched the other day was from Lenovo. The IdeaPad Yoga looks like a regular ultrabook at first look but once you rotate the hinges around, you can get it to sit on different positions.

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October 27, 2012

Toshiba Satellite U840W on Windows 8

During the Windows 8 launch in Singapore, a number of new laptops were showcased featuring Windows 8. While most of the laptops in the demo tent were ultrabooks or hybrid tablets, this one from Toshiba looked pretty interesting.

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