When I first read the review of the new Linksys Network Storage Unit device (NSLU2) I was definitely interested. It looked to be small, silent, inexpensive and flexible enough to provide backup and file storage to my network. My only concerns were reports...

than being a standard PC tailored for multimedia use, they were specialized devices designed exclusively for multimedia use. These were attractive to me for a number of reasons; they were small, low-powered, silent devices that would be able to connect into...

Hush Technologies offers sleek, compact fanless Media Center PCs to the cognoscenti. German boutique PC vendor Hush Technologies offers a silent and fan less Media Center PC that offers a sleek design and is a triumph in small form-factor engineering. Motherboards...

collection in your bedroom or in your living room, you don't want to have to fire up a PC.. If you want to listen to your digital music collection in your bedroom or in your living room, you don't want to have to fire up a PC. You don't want to hear the...

media gear of all kinds, some peerless PC parts and a snappy new Lenovo notebook.. By Ed Tittel and Toby Digby Anybody who’s dug into the specifics of SSDs knows that they offer light weight, silent operation and amazing random disk access speed—but also...

thin clients, the connection went strangely silent. Anti-virus scanning appeared to work on my PC, but I had a difficult time seeing whether the Spyware detection function really worked. I installed Lavasoft's Ad Aware and cleaned my PC before installing the...

as a high-end multimedia device for stereo-quality sound and DVD video? The reasons vary, between fan noise and lack of compatibility with big-screen TV screens. But now, Pinnacle has launched a silent player that imports videos, music and photos from the PC...

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battery life for such a small device. With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled, running on Vista’s Balanced power plan with screen brightness on full and the fan in silent mode, we measured 5 hours 20 minutes of actual use. This involved intermittent Web browsing,...