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Despite a large subwoofer, the $200 Altec Lansing Expressionist Ultra speaker set distorts and disappoints. Full story

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 offers a D-SLR experience in a body that's not much bigger than a superzoom camera. Full story

The HP Pavilion dv4-1540us laptop offers solid performance and a generous feature set at an affordable price. Full story

The Iomega StorCenter ix4 offers many high-end features you won't find in similar NAS servers, making it a solid choice for small businesses in need of an entry-level NAS. ... Full story

The HP Pavilion p6234f-b gives you a decent PC in a box. Nothing jumps out as being spectacular, but nothing spectacular may be all that you need. ... Full story

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 offers plenty of tools that automate content creation, and it delivers professional looking results to boot. Full story

Image Courtesy Averatec The 13-inch ultraportable laptop market has been growing dramatically lately and with a number of very affordable options. Much of this growth has been spurred on by the economy and the introduction of Intel's Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage (CULV) platform that provides affordable and very low power consumption options. Averatec is a company ... Full story

Thermaltake just unveiled its newest full-tower case specially designed for gamers. Element V (VL20001W2Z) is built-up in zinc-coated steel, measures 21” x 8 ¾” x 21 1/8”... Full story

A-Data has announced S596 series of 2.5” solid state drives. Available in 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB, drives from this new series have DDR2 cache memory (the amount was not published), SATA-300... Full story

PowerColor has launched Radeon HD 5870 LCS, a factory-overclocked video card based on AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPU equipped with a waterblock (piece used on watercooling systems) from EK. This card works... Full story