Storage capacity comes courtesy of a quartet of Western Digital Caviar drives that run at 7200 RPM with 8 MB cache each. Embedded Linux handles all the dirty work under the hood, and lays the foundation for the TeraStation's RAID capabilities. One clear advantage...

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for EDGE and EvDO running about the same, they say go for EvDO. I might be tempted to do that, if only I could get a computer like the UX180P with built-in EvDO capability. One good reason for not moving to EvDO is that it's mostly an American service; go to...

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music player without pulling it out of your pocket. But can you get the same audio quality that headphones offer and Bluetooth phone capabilities in one device? There are several different approaches to wireless headphones, ranging from Etymotic’s oddly square...

when compared to traditional laptops, and we've tried to reflect that in our tests, which are slightly different from those that we use for other notebook computers:Battery Life & Portability Their rugged go-anywhere capabilities are one of the main selling...

left to explore, I turned my attention to the Squeezebox. There are a couple of different versions of the Squeezebox on the market, one with wireless capabilities and one without. The model included in the bundle has both wired and wireless capabilities, but...

primarily for use with XMLTV-based program guide feeds such as DataDirect. MythTV is also scalable in the sense that one system may contain multiple tuner cards, or multiple systems can contain one or more tuner cards, where all of them work in concert from...

with the Asus not too far behind. Of all the benchmarks we’ve presented here, we think this one comes closest to representing the kinds of capabilities one might wish from a media PC. That said, we’re not sure that Intel’s assumptions that people will...

Internet-based telephony. Skype was created by KaZaA founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and combines instant messaging, voice telephony and file transfer capabilities into one application. Skype is pretty adept at getting around firewalls (unless it...