Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

AK Racing Premium V2 Gaming Chair Review
Apple iPhone 7 Plus Review
Arozzi Vernazza Gaming Chair Review
Asus ZenBook 3 Review: An Intel Kaby Lake-Powered Ultrabook
Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB SSD Review
D-Link DCS-2530L HD 180-Degree Wi-Fi Camera
The Best PC Speakers
The Western Digital Blue (1TB) SSD Review: WD Returns to SSDs
Toshiba OCZ VX500 512GB Solid State Drive Review
WD Blue 1TB SSD Review
WD Blue 1TB SSD reviewed
Western Digital Blue 1TB SSD Review
Western Digital Blue SSD Review

AK Racing Premium V2 Gaming Chair Review

Thanks to the elegant looks, very good body support and excellent build quality of the Premium V2 line AK Racing has proven that gaming chairs are not just for gamers.

Read full article @ NikKTech

Apple iPhone 7 Plus Review

Apple has been following a “tick-tock” cadence of releasing a newly designed iPhone and following it up a year later with an optimized “s” variant. This year, however, Apple broke precedent by launching a third model on the same design. Yes, the iPhone 7 Plus looks a lot like the two iPhones before it. However, upon closer inspection, there are some unmistakable differences.

Read full article @ Techspot

Arozzi Vernazza Gaming Chair Review

Automotive-inspired gaming chairs have been all the rage in the last few years. Bringing the concept of bucket-seats to your home office or man-cave, these peripherals are usually on the expensive side. Most gamers will have them at the bottom of the wish-list when building a PC or considering an upgrade, usually well below that next-gen video card or shiny 4K HDR monitor! It is however never a bad decision to invest into a good chair, more so for gamers or professionals that tend to spend unhealthy periods of time sitting in front of a PC or gaming console. If said chair happens to looks great while feeling great, I think it's worth a little premium.

That leads us to today's review of the new top-of-the-line Vernazza gaming chair from Arozzi. The sample I received is the red version, although my wife thinks it's black with red accents. The Vernazza comes also in full-black, orange, green, blue, and white.

Read full article @ Neoseeeker

Asus ZenBook 3 Review: An Intel Kaby Lake-Powered Ultrabook

Although they were initially announced all the way back at Computex, ASUS held a casual event in NYC this past Wednesday (Oct. 5) to officially launch an array of new products, including the ZenBook 3, ZenWatch 3, ZenPhone 3, and Transformer Pro 3 and Mini. We’ve got some initial coverage of all of those products here at HotHardware if you’d like some additional background on the full line-up, including hands-on video of the latest ZenBook and smartwatch. However, we couldn’t wait to dive in a little deeper with the ZenBook 3 for a couple of reasons. First off, the ZenBook 3 is the first Ultrabook to hit the lab built around Intel’s brand-new Kaby Lake-based 7th Generation Core series processors. If you’re unfamiliar with Kaby Lake, it is the follow-up product to last year’s Skylake, and features improved responsiveness, a beefed up multimedia engine, and it's built with a refined 14nm process that improves clocks and overall power efficiency.

The ASUS ZenBook 3 also happens to be one of the thinnest and lightest Ultrabooks to hit the market, but despite its diminutive form factor, it is packing some sought after amenities like a NVMe PCIe SSD, 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi, a backlit keyboard, and Windows Hello-compatible fingerprint reader -- at least on the Core i7-based model...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB SSD Review

By now I’ve got to know the Crucial MX300 series pretty well. I initially reviewed the limited edition 750GB model upon release and recently we had a look at the largest model which comes with 2TB capacity. Today it is time to check out the physically smaller and compact M.2 2280 format and I got the Crucial MX300 M.2 SSD with 525GB capacity in for the testing.

Crucial has previously had two lines of consumer solid state drives and they still do, the BX and the MX series. However, the MX300 combines the best of the MX200 and BX200 drives into one resilient little drive that won’t break the bank. You get an instant performance increase, especially compared to mechanical drives, a long lasting drive with a high endurance, a lot of capacity, and all that at a fair price. Besides this 525GB model, the M.2 version of the MX300 is also available as a 275GB model and a 1TB model.

Read full article @ eTeknix

D-Link DCS-2530L HD 180-Degree Wi-Fi Camera

The DCS-2530L is a full HD 180-degree wide angle IP camera that works with D-Link's mydlink Lite app for remote access, features 1-way audio, 16 foot IR illumination, local recording with microSD (up to 128GB), 802.11n/g Wi-Fi, as well as sound and motion detection. Below is a more comprehensive list taken from the product page on the D-Link website.

Camera Hardware Profile:

» 1/3" 2 megapixel progressive CMOS sensor
» 16 feet IR illumination distance
» Minimum illumination: 0 lux with IR LEDs on
» 10x digital zoom
» Focal length: 1.7 mm
» Aperture: F2.5
» Stand angle: -15° to 90°
» Angle of view (16:9):
(H) 180°
(V) 86°
(D) 180°
» Minimum object distance: 11 inches
» Built-in microphone

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com

The Best PC Speakers

A good audio setup is essential when it comes to fully experiencing music, movies and games on a PC. Sadly, the speakers that come bundled or built in with off-the-shelf systems rarely, if ever, cut it. We’ve done the dirty work of researching various PC speakers to bring the best options in three categories: best studio speakers, best 2.1 speakers and best budget speakers.

Read full article @ Techspot

The Western Digital Blue (1TB) SSD Review: WD Returns to SSDs

After completing the acquisition of SanDisk, Western Digital is entering the consumer SSD market under its own brand with new SSDs derived from existing SanDisk product lines. As with their hard drives, the Blue SSD is a mainstream mid-range product, in this case using the SanDisk X400s combination of SanDisk 15nm TLC and Marvells 88SS1074 controller.

Today well be taking a look at the 1TB drive, how it compares to its sibling, the X400, and whether it can find its place in the highly competitive mainstream SSD market.

Read full article @ Anandtech

Toshiba OCZ VX500 512GB Solid State Drive Review

Today we have a new OCZ solid state drive that fits right in the mainstream with that of Crucial’s MX300 and Samsung’s EVO series in terms of both price and performance. The VX500 is made to replace OCZ’s Vector 180 and is made up completely of Toshiba parts with Toshiba’s TC358790 controller and Toshiba-made 15nm MLC NAND. It is actually quite interesting to see a MLC-based solid state drive come out now with many companies opting for the less expensive TLC NAND. In any case the OCZ VX500 boasts sequential read and write speeds speeds of 550 MB/s and 510 MB/s respectively and is backed by OCZ’s impressive 5-year Shield Plus warranty. Can this new SSD compete with other lower-cost drives out there? Read on as we find out!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

WD Blue 1TB SSD Review

WD is taking another stab at the Solid-State Drive market after purchasing SanDisk earlier this year by releasing the WD Green and WD Blue SSD series. The WD Green SATA consumer SSD is aimed at the entry-level market whereas the the WD Blue SATA Consumer SSD is aimed at mainstream consumers. Both series are available in both 2.5″ and M.2 form factors, so they will fit in a wide range of desktop and mobile systems. The performance on the WD Blue SSD series varies between capacities, but the sequential read peaks at 545 MB/s and the Sequential write tops out at 525 MB/s. The 4K Random performance reaches up to 100,000 IPS read and 80,000 IOPS write, which is pretty solid for the mainstream market. WD went with a Marvell 88SS1074 4-channel controller and SanDisk 15nm 3-bit per cell (TLC) NAND Flash for this series.

Read full article @ Legit Reviews

WD Blue 1TB SSD reviewed

After the company bought Siliconsystems Inc. in mid-2009, it indicated an interest in expanding its traditional disk drive industry into the solid-state storage market, giving it the means to form the WD Solid-State Storage Business.

In May 2013, the company released its first solid-state hybrid drive, the WD Black SSHD, featuring NAND flash from SanDisk between 8GB and 24GB in capacity, with performance up to 450MB/s reads and 350MB/s writes. The drive also offered a SATA III 6Gbps interface for storage, using firmware to determine caching to the solid-state storage module.
After announcing its plans to acquire SanDisk last fall and completing the acquisition for $19 billion earlier this year, the company is now ready to introduce its first self-branded solid state disks to consumers based on the SATA interface in 2.5-inch and M.2 2280 form factors.

Read full article @ Fudzilla

Western Digital Blue 1TB SSD Review

Western Digital, once known for their hard drives alone, is now wading in the SSD market with two new series. In this review, we take the new Blue 1TB SSD out for a spin.

Read full article @ Hardware Canucks

Western Digital Blue SSD Review

Western Digital gets back into the SSD market with another Blue series product. The new Blue SSD has SanDisk’s DNA, and it should be more competitive than the Silicon Edge from 2010.

Read full article @ Toms Hardware