The Samsung Galaxy Nexus launched on Verizon's 4G LTE network as the first Ice Cream Sandwich phone in the United States back in December of last year. Recently Samsung sent us a Galaxy Nexus so over the past month we've been testing out the Galaxy Nexus. This review focuses on the hardware of the … [Read more...]
Slow Flash Storage Could Be Bottlenecking Your Fast Smartphone
February 19, 2012 By
If you were going to buy a smartphone and it was offered in sizes of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB and they all had the same price chances are you'd purchase the smartphone with 64GB of storage. For the most part the more storage the better but really the capacity doesn't directly relate to speed and … [Read more...]
Need For Speed: The Run Review
January 14, 2012 By
The Need For Speed series are one of the best car racing series in my opinion. And all of the different series have brought some new experiences, from street racing to on the track racing. The one thing that Need For Speed: The Run brings you though that is different, is the fact that you are racing … [Read more...]
Seagate Releases New Momentus XT Hybrid Solid State Hard Drives
December 4, 2011 By
There are two big options when it comes to storage for your computer. You could get a traditional hard disk drive, they are very cheap for the most part and they offer a ton of storage space. There are also solid state drives which are very expensive for the most part and don't offer as much storage … [Read more...]
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime’s Tegra 3 Chip Gets Benchmarked
November 4, 2011 By
This year we are going to mainly get a lot of dual core devices as far as phones go, the same applies with tablets as well. Which makes a lot of sense since this year's version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich was designed for dual core processors. And not quad core devices like the ASUS Eee Pad … [Read more...]
Crucial m4 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Review
October 25, 2011 By
The majority of computers right now use more traditional hard disk drives for storage. The hard disk drives aren't at all bad, they are actually great if you have a ton of data to store and you don't want to spend a lot of money. I've seen hard drives as large as 2TB for just $100 online. Which is … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Developer Preview First Impressions/Hands From Netbook
September 14, 2011 By
Yesterday Microsoft gave us a lot of new information about Windows 8. They showed a lot of demos of the operating system and announced things like the requirements and new features. But probably the biggest thing they did was release the developer preview last night for Windows 8. The developer … [Read more...]
Linode 512 Xen VPS Review, Compared To Media Temple
September 8, 2011 By
I've been using Media Temple for web hosting for quite a while now. I've been using Media Temple for over a quarter of this year to host ZL Studios. I started with their Grid Service (gs) for hosting but I needed a bit more so I decided to go with their virtual private servers starting with their … [Read more...]
Media Temple (ve) 512MB VPS Server Review
August 9, 2011 By
I've been using Media Temple for web hosting for a while now. I've found them to be the fastest hosting and they also have great support. A while ago their baseline Grid Service hosting which costs $20 a month became not enough for me. So I then moved over to Media Temple's Dedicated Virtual … [Read more...]
ZL Daily #95 – Thunderbolt Controllers, Dell Streak 10 Pro, Google Music Beta Invites…
July 29, 2011 By
The 2011 MacBook Air has a Thunderbolt port. But it turns out that the Thunderbolt port on the Air is a bit different from the other Thunderbolt ports. That's because the MacBook Air uses a different Thunderbolt controller. The other Macs use the Light Ridge controller while the Air uses the Eagle … [Read more...]
