In our second-day coverage of Intel's Developer Forum, we see Sandy Bridge's graphics engine handle 3D Blu-ray on the PC, AMD's forthcoming Zacate processor in action, SSDs help improve gaming performance, and Boxee shift away from Nvidia's Tegra.

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Several hard drive makers created transitional products to facilitate the transition towards the compact 2.5" hard drive form factor. We provide an overview of options.

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Another trio of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives landed in our German lab recently. As some of the contenders we've benchmarked underperform compared to our expectations, it's quite clear that hard drive speed matters again, now that we've moved beyond USB 2.0.

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