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The MacBook Pro lacks many traditional external connection options, such as an SD Card reader or an HDMI port. In the place of all of those legacy ports resides two or more USB-C ports. USB-C is an ...

Unless you have an older laptop model, or you bought a model that was specifically made with creative professionals in mind, ...

Flash drives are awesome, there's no doubt about that. Carrying them around isn't always fun though. I've already lost the rubber cap for my Corsair flash drive (it was bound to happen). Wouldn't it ...

I'm looking for a device to add 5.1 surround to my PC. The AMD APU doesn't support 5.1 over HDMI for whatever reason, only stereo, or I'd use my normal HDMI optical audio extractor as usual. I have a ...

Are any Ian video cards worth a darn for video gaming? I'm talking games that are already 3 or 4 yrs old. I have a thinkpad with a more than powerful CPU and plenty of memory but its got Intel ...