Monday, January 26, 2009

Raidmax Iceberg


Iceberg is an all-aluminum mid-tower case from Raidmax featuring four 5 ¼” bays,
four internal 3 ½” bays and four 120-mm fans, coming with a terrific price tag for an
all-aluminum case, and targeted to mainstream users. Let’s take an in-depth look

on this case from Raidmax.

Iceberg can come in two different colors, black or silver. We reviewed the black
version.This case uses a different opening mechanism where the side panels
are removed by moving them from top to bottom instead of from front to rear;
pay attention to the latches present on the side panels.

This case doesn’t have a door. This case has four 5 ¼” bays – which is more than
enough for mainstream users – and the top 5 ¼” bay come with an optical drive
“fake” cover, which is great: your optical drive will be installed behind this masks
making its “face” to be all aluminum. You can even install a beige drive that it
won’t make any difference to the aesthetics of the case, as the mask will cover
it. You need to remove the front panel to install optical drives

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Mvix MV-2500U Ultra-Portable Media Center

Not quite the typical “portable media center” normally you see, but
more of a compact version of the Mvix MX-780HD. This condensed
media player handles all the same codecs of the larger 780 including
MPEG 1-4, XviD/DivX, and my favorite DVD ISOs (with 1080i upscaling).

The small unit houses a 2.5” hard drive and sports component outs for
HD video along with digital optical out for 5.1 audio. If you would like to
get a better feel for this unit, please check out the 780HD review.

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