Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

5 of the most popular Raspberry Pi distros
Case Mod Friday: The Riddler
Compro TN900RW 720P PTZ Network Camera Review
Cougar 200K Gaming Keyboard
Inside ARM's Cortex-A72 microarchitecture
Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe 480GB Solid State Drive Review
Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD Review
Surface 3 Review
The state of multi-process architecture in Firefox
Thecus N4310 Review (NAS)

5 of the most popular Raspberry Pi distros

Originally designed to promote basic computer science education in schools, Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized single-board computer, has been spreading across the world like wildfire. The latest iteration, christened Raspberry Pi 2, offers 1GB of RAM and was released in early 2015.

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Case Mod Friday: The Riddler

Welcome to another Case Mod Friday showcase! This week we have TechPuppet's “Riddler” build. Here is what he had to say about it, "I have a H440 Special Edition Green Case and I'm going with the "Riddler" theme from Batman. Decking it out with Green and Purple, this build will have a beautiful airbrushed mural on the case to go with the added touches of vinyl to make the build really pop. It will have the Riddler standing over Gotham city wrapping around the case.

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

Compro TN900RW 720P PTZ Network Camera Review

Lately I’ve seen more of a trend of moving toward a connected home where you specifically can control devices while you’re not there. We’ve had IP style security cameras for a while now and they’re getting better all the time, not only the picture quality, but adding more features. Some of my favorite cameras are from Compro and I have another one of theirs for review today called the TN900RW with the R standing for Remote and the W standing for Wireless. The TN900RW features up to 720P resolution and the ability to pan, tilt and zoom which are great but it also has a built-in temperature sensor and the ability to actually control other devices in your home via infrared remote. You can program the TN900RW to control your HDTV, blu-ray player, home theater, air conditioner, or virtually anything that can be controlled via infrared. Read on to learn more…

Read full article @ Technogog

Cougar 200K Gaming Keyboard

A few months ago I took a look at one of Cougars new mechanical gaming keyboards as well as one of their mice. The 700K was a surpassingly good keyboard, I was caught off guard by a fairly new company that had clearly put a lot of time into developing the 700K. Well today here I am again about to check out another Cougar keyboard, this time though this is a little more of a budget focused keyboard. This is the 200K. Cougar swapped out the Cherry key switches for scissor key switches and cut back on the features. Today I’m going to check it out and see if it still has the pedigree of the 700K and find out if this is worth a look when looking for a cheap gaming keyboard.

Read full article @ LanOC Reviews

Inside ARM's Cortex-A72 microarchitecture

The Cortex-A72 is ARM's next big CPU core, successor to the Cortex-A57 that currently dominates among premium Android smartphones. Here's a look at the CPU that could drive the next crop of new phones--and how this core might play in servers, too.

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Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe 480GB Solid State Drive Review

Do we create faster interfaces because of faster devices, or do we have faster devices because of faster interfaces? For questions like these, it is easy to dwindle down to a circular argument like the technological equivalent of the chicken and the egg, but we can always take a look at history. Back in 2010, we have reviewed the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, an SSD I claimed to be "one sizzling fast piece of storage device for $100". By 2015 standards, pulling a little over 270MB/s for write and about 283MB/s for read in ATTO would have been absolutely laughable. Of course, the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB existed in the relative infancy of solid state drive popularity; not to mention the SATA 3Gb/s interface does not have a whole lot of bandwidth to work with in the first place. A year later, we saw an influx of products based off the famous SandForce SF-2281 controller, which gave us renowned drives like the OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 240GB. By then, the SATA 6Gb/s interface was readily available, and the SF-2281 took full advantage of it. For years, the SF-2281 was the controller to buy, and even to this day, its performance is still relevant by any standard. As SSDs continue to drop in price, and the gap narrows between performance and value SSDs, we now have new void in the market for those who want the best of the best. To alleviate this problem, drive manufacturers set out to find the solution. Last year, OCZ wrapped four SandForce SF-2282 controllers together, put them in RAID 0, gave it a PCI Express bridge, and created the mind-blowingly fast OCZ RevoDrive 350 480GB for an equally mind-blowing price of $800. For Kingston, they decided to do it a little differently. Using the new M.2 interface, the Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe 480GB promises to deliver up to 1400MB/s read and 1000MB/s write for a more wallet-friendly price of $460. No M.2 on your motherboard? No problem. If you have a free PCI Express x4 slot, Kingston will even throw in an adapter board to convert it to HHHL form for an extra $10. If you are as excited as we are, let us waste no time, and take a closer look at what it is all about.

Read full article @ APH Networks

Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD Review

The Samsung SM951 AHCI M.2 PCIe SSDs might be the most talked about enthusiast SSD at this moment, but what about the Samsung SM951 NVMe drives? If you thought the OEM-only Samsung SM951 AHCI drives was tough to purchase you will likely lose some hair trying to find someone that has the Samsung SM951 NVMe drives available to purchase today. Though the SM951 NVMe drive is not available through retail channel just yet, we managed to get our hands on one and have been using it on a number of systems over the past few weeks.

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Surface 3 Review

It's hard to believe that it's almost been a year since Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 3. A tough act to follow, it remains one of the best 2-in-1 devices around and sets the bar high for the Surface 3, the newest member of Microsoft's Surface family, to follow.If the mood leading up to the launch of the Surface Pro 3 was quietly cautious following several Windows RT-shaped mis-steps, there is an almost palpable sense of excitement for the tech coming out of Redmond today. From Windows 10 and Edge to DirectX 12 and HoloLens, Satya Nadella's Microsoft has been anything but dull on its quest for innovation in the past 12 months.In that sense, it almost seems disappointing that the Surface 3 isn't an all-singing, all-dancing upgrade; you'll likely have to wait for the Surface Pro 4 to launch along with Windows 10 for that. Instead, Microsoft has effectively made a smaller, less powerful and cheaper Surface Pro 3. It features a 10.8-inch touchscreen display that's housed in an attractive magnesium-alloy body, this time attached to a three-position kickstand. A magnetically-reinforced Type Cover keyboard and numerous other accessories can be picked up for it - but as usual you'll have to cough up extra.

Read full article @ Techradar

The state of multi-process architecture in Firefox

Mozilla has been working on a multi-process architecture for Firefox for some time now. The feature separates components of the browser from each other to improve stability and also security. Electrolysis, or e10s, is still in active development and original plans to release it with an earlier version of the browser has to be delayed.

Read full article @ gHacks

Thecus N4310 Review (NAS)

Budget friendly, built well and plenty of features...

Read full article @ HardwareHeaven