ECS LIVA Q1D Mini PC Review: Impossibly Small Form-Factor
The LIVA Q1 is a ridiculously small mini PC platform which ECS calls "ultra tiny form-factor" - just 74 x 74 x 34.6 mm (2.91 x 2.91 x 1.36 inches). It features…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 18, 2021 | Systems | 0
The LIVA Q1 is a ridiculously small mini PC platform which ECS calls "ultra tiny form-factor" - just 74 x 74 x 34.6 mm (2.91 x 2.91 x 1.36 inches). It features…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 13, 2021 | General Tech | 1
A surprising bit of industry news this morning as Intel's CEO Bob Swan is being replaced, as Intel's board of directors has chosen to appoint (soon to be former) VMWare CEO…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 12, 2021 | Mobile, Processors | 1
While light on technical details today's AMD event revealed that the first notebooks sporting AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 mobile processors will arrive next month. The new models feature Zen 3...
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 12, 2021 | Systems | 0
ECS is jumping into the Arm-based PC space with their latest LIVA mini-PCs, the Q1A and Q1A Plus. These ultra tiny form-factor machines (74 x 74 x 34.6 mm) are powered by…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 11, 2021 | Mobile, Systems | 0
While certain editors opine the virtues of thicker machines with more I/O, a taller 3:2 aspect ratio display is certainly a tempting feature of yet another ultra-thin laptop design. But this isn’t…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 11, 2021 | Processors | 0
The new 11th Gen Core desktop processors are official, and they feature new architecture (it was fun while it lasted, Skylake), though still on the 14nm process. The new flagship will be…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 11, 2021 | Mobile, Processors | 0
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that we were introduced to the Ultrabook segment (OK, it was actually a decade ago), and the resulting trend has produced a...
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Jan 11, 2021 | Storage | 1
Western Digital has announced their new 4TB portable SSD portfolio today, with a focus on performance as well as capacity. And just what might a fast portable SSD with 4TB capacity cost?…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Dec 30, 2020 | Storage | 6
It should come as no surprise that the ASRock Rack has provided another unusual and delightful addition to the world of PC hardware, and though intended for enterprise one wonders just what…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Dec 16, 2020 | Graphics Cards | 2
AMD's Radeon RX 6000 Series launched in November with the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, and the Big Navi promise was fulfilled on December 8 with the launch of the…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Dec 15, 2020 | Storage | 1
Western Digital's WD Blue SSDs are mainstream drives in the middle of the company's consumer product stack, offered at lower price points than the company's high-performance WD_BLACK products, and positioned above the…
Read MorePosted by Sebastian Peak | Dec 2, 2020 | Cases and Cooling | 0
CORSAIR's H115i liquid coolers are the 280 mm option in each year's lineup, last reviewed here way back in 2018 with the H115i RGB PLATINUM. This year the H115i gets...
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