The News: Monday, December 24 Edition

I survived the first family Christmas with my sanity somewhat intact! It’s a Christmas miracle! No, really…it was actually pretty good. My second-oldest niece brought her boyfriend, who in addition to being an incredibly brave kid for coming to a gathering of my family is a genuinely nice kid. I think she did good with this one. There was more food than any 50 people would need to eat, but we made our most valiant effort. We only do gifts for the kids, and it seemed like they all for the most part liked what they got. Now I have a week of downtime, while I’m sure many of you are just gearing up for the mad rush, so I wish you all luck! I’m going to take tomorrow off to spend time with my mother, so I’ll see you all again on Wednesday (Boxing Day for some of you). Happy Holidays!

TweakTown gets us going with the HIS Radeon HD 7850 2GB IceQ Turbo Video Card

Motherboards.org presents Intel’s Next Unit of Computing – Up Close and Personal

Real World Labs weighs in on the Kingston Digital SSDNOW V300 120GB SSD

techPowerUp sees that and raises the Intel 330 Series SSD 180 GB

The Tech Report takes A first look at AMD’s Radeon HD 8790M

eTeknix points and clicks the MadCatz Cyborg R.A.T.3 Red Gaming Mouse

LanOC counters with the SteelSeries Wireless WoW Mouse

KitGuru checks out some Kingston HyperX Beast 2400mhz Memory

Legit Reviews comes back with the Kingston HyperX Beast 64GB 2133MHz DDR3 Memory Kit

TrustedReviews goes exploring with the Garmin Fenix Performer Bundle

TechReviewSource spends some time with the HP Spectre One

Technic3D chills out with the Xigmatek Prime SD1484 CPU Cooler