We Test Our BYO HTPCs With Intel's DHCAT

Published on June 11, 2007 to Home Theater

Intel's Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (DHCAT) was designed to evaluate multimedia hardware performance. We test our System Builder AMD- and Intel-based HTPCs with it. Read more

Intel Chipset Shootout! 945GM vs. 915GM

Published on April 24, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Intel's dual core Napa (Centrino Duo) platform features the 945GM chipset, the first chipset with integrated graphics for Core Duo mobile CPUs. We used two Asus W5 laptops to compare the 945GM and the older Sonoma (Centrino) platform's 915GM to see if the former is really faster and more energy efficient. Read more

Intel's Dothan Makes Its Late Debut

Published on May 10, 2004 to Notebooks and Laptops

Intel's Dothan mobile processor has the trappings to boost performance while consuming less power. With a 2 MB L2 cache backed by Intel's 90-nm production technology, Dothan's promise is put to the test in a notebook from Winbook. Read more

Intel's RAID 5 NAS Makes the Grade

Published on May 18, 2006 to Networking

Intel has decided it wants to play in the SOHO/SMB NAS market and produces a first product that should get it into the game. Read more

Intel 915GM: A Worthy Successor to the 855GME?

Published on May 11, 2005 to Notebooks and Laptops

Intel introduced the 915GM at the end of January, the first PCI Express chipset with an integrated graphics core for notebooks. Is the new model better and faster than its AGP predecessor, the 855GME? We decided to find out, on a Dell Latitude D610. Read more

20 Unusual Uses for USB

Published on June 16, 2008 to Miscellaneous

USB is here to stay, so we might as well make the most out of our USB ports. Here are 20 useful and inventive ways to take full advantage of those ports. Read more

Firefox 3: Speed, Stability, Security

Published on June 19, 2008 to Software Companies

Speed, stability and security are the hallmarks of Mozilla's new Firefox 3. Dramatic improvements, sure, but features are still missing. Read more

Sonoma: The Second Generation of Intel's Centrino Mobile Technology

Published on January 19, 2005 to Notebooks and Laptops

Intel's new Sonoma platform increases the FSB clock speed of the Pentium M, and introduces a new chipset family with such features as SATA, PCIe, and DDR2 dual channel memory support. Is switching over from the original Centrino to Sonoma worthwhile? Read more

It Doesn't Have To Be Intel: HP iPAQ H1940 With Samsung's S3C2410

Published on January 9, 2004 to Smartphones

HP's iPAQ H1940 hums along to the beat of a Samsung processor drummer, unlike the majority of PDAs based on Intel's Xscale processor. So while HP's new iPAQ dares to be different, THG puts the device through its usual battery of performance tests to see if the H1940 can hold its own. Read more

PDAs: Toshiba + ATI + Intel

Published on October 24, 2002 to Smartphones

The e310 was great and the e740 was going to be the PDA of our dreams: ATI graphics chip, 400 MHz Intel processor, wireless communication, and all assembled by Toshiba. Verdict... Read more

HP DV1000T Is Happy In The Office Or The Den

Published on April 10, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

MobilityGuru takes its first look at a mobile computer with Intel's GMA 950 integrated graphics processor, HP's Core Duo DV1000T laptop. How does the GMA 950 compare with the older GMA 900 technology? And, what's the DV1000T like? Read more

Does Everything Have To Be A Centrino? Intel says "No"!

Published on March 9, 2004 to Notebooks and Laptops

Intel's Celeron M discreetly arrived in the notebook world in January. Based on the Pentium M notebook processor, the Celeron M's introduction went virtually unnoticed by the public. We compare and contrast the new processor on the block against the high-end version. Read more

Seeking the Ultimate Intel DHCAT PC

Published on October 3, 2007 to Home Theater

Intel's DHCAT tool is supposed to assess the media-handling capabilities of PCs. We've worked with it quite a bit now. Here are some new tests and findings that may surprise you. Read more