you might still feel overwhelmed. We’ve come up with a few recommendations for component arrangements with specific users needs in mind. For a business professional who wants to be able to keep up with work while on the go, we recommend a 2.0 GHz dual-core...

a special plug-in that can be used to edit MPEG 2 videos without converting (recompressing) to other formats first. We hesitated to recommend the 32 MB board because the ATI drivers aren't mature yet. It's hard for us to understand why, in comparison to the...

with almost any audio interface and soundcards, Pro Tools is only for use with a few approved products. Still, it is the de facto audio studio standard for many professional situations. For the recording enthusiast, I would recommend the Digi 002 Rack made...

G Plus actually turned in better WQS numbers than the Pre-N gear, but the Pre-N seems to be more widely available. At least in my testing, the results were not generally clear enough to categorically recommend one over the other, so buy on price. If high throughput...

PCs with HDMI at or under these prices, this will truly be a labor of love (or at least, of serious interest) for those who decide to proceed. To this elect crew, we'd recommend checking into the new generation of HDMI-equipped Nvidia 8600 cards currently on...

for the AVerMedia M780 combo tuner that newer, smaller tuner capsules now operate at temperature ranges equivalent to those of CPUs and GPUs. That’s why we recommend using TV tuner cards, either old or new generation models, in cases where nearby fans can...

in search of a home media server, the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition and its Axentra HipServ Home Server software are hard to beat. In fact, we’re hard-pressed to recommend a better way to spend $150-$200 for those in need of digital media storage...

images you capture. The SP-565UZ offers several useful features that could potentially balance out at least some of the detrimental features we have detailed. However, we recommend that when researching your next camera purchase, you regard all the aspects...

Finally, they all recommend defragmenting the drive prior to capture. If you have done all these things and still end up dropping frames then most companies will recommend RAID configurations or (gasp) SCSI drives. If you're serious about video capture and...

be enough, depending on the needs of the VPN server that you're trying to connect to. Recommendation: Check with your company's IT department to see if they recommend a particular product. If they don't, at least get some details on the type of VPN equipment...