Archive for October 15th, 2008

Sony pushes out firmware 5.0 for PSP

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds "Soon-ish" has turned to "now-ish." PSP owners eager to get their minds into the PlayStation Network (and thus, the PS Store) right on their handheld can now do so... right after they suck down the freshly released firmware 5.0, of course. Aside from the obvious changes, the ...

Toshiba Satellite NB100 netbook gets spotted, critiqued

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Late last month, we found that Toshiba's Satellite NB100 netbook was making a beeline to the UK, and while a press shot is well, fine and good, there's just nothing like a little hands-on action to get you salivating. The crew over at TrustedReviews made it over to ...

Iomega ships Bluetooth-equipped 1TB / 2TB StorCenter ix2 NAS

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Filed under: Wireless, Storage If you've been passing off NAS devices for years due to the typically prohibitive price tags, you might want to have a gander at Iomega's latest. The StorCenter ix2 brings 1TB (500GB x 2) of network storage for just $299.99, and the 2TB edition is also available ...

PS3 + SSD = faster load times, shattered budgets

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Storage Sitting idle while your new PS3 game installs is painful, but since it's all in the interest of reducing subsequent load times it's worth the wait, right? Not for the impatient sods at ExtremeTech, who tried to speed things up further by swapping out their original 60GB ...