April 20th, 2010

Maingear updates the eX-L gaming notebook with new Core i5 & i7 CPUs and ATI Radeon HD 5870

Maingear‘s eX-L has long been a staple in the gaming notebook scene. The latest update should keep it there, too, with DirectX 11 support courtesy of a little GPU called the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870. The new Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs are nice as well. We won’t kick them out of bed but it’s the 5870 that we would wine and dine and take home to momma. → Read More

April 12th, 2010

MAINGEAR Quantum Shift workstation eats Adobe CS5 for breakfast

Maingear announced their latest today, the Quantum Shift workstation. Designed more for the content developer then the gamer, the Quantum Shift definitely brings the heat. Of course, you customize exactly how much power the Quantum Shift is packing, but it’s designed around Nvidia’s Quadro FX GPU technology. → Read More

March 16th, 2010

Maingear stuffs an Intel Core i7 980X into the SHIFT and still calls it an everyday super computer

The Maingear Shift line is designed for serious computing on a budget. You won’t find silly automatic airvents or fancy-pants hard drive trays here. Nope, it’s just a good, solid computer platform meant for those looking to have their own super computer. And that super computer goal is even more achievable now that the Intel Core i7 980X is one of the CPU options. → Read More

March 3rd, 2010

Maingear shows off their new mX-L notebook

Maingear just announced their new mX-L 15 notebook, a gaming machine with a price that’s not on the crazy scale. It’s available in multiple configurations of course, which we’ll talk about after the jump. → Read More

November 2nd, 2009

MAINGEAR ups its game, announces the SHIFT high performance line

Everyone, Maingear has created a beast in its new SHIFT series. These systems are massive towers of gaming and computing powering. You won’t find any design nonsense here. Every aspect of these boys were designed with performance in mind and it shows. → Read More

July 23rd, 2009

Maingear unveils the EX-L 18 gaming notebook beast

Maingear has thrown everything possible into its latest gaming notebook. This massive machine boosts an 18.4-inch screen, three 3.5-inch SATA or SSD drives, and all the ports that you would expect on a $2,999 rig. But that’s not why it’s impressive. Oh no, this bad boy is packing some serious power. → Read More

June 18th, 2009

Maingear's luxury gaming-HTPC comes with a Phantom Lapboard

While I think this Maingear HTPC looks good, and it’s certainly spec’ed well, I’m not sure I buy the idea of serious PC gaming in the living room. Gaming from your couch is about laying back with a controller and rocking the Halo-Kazooie or whatever it is the kids have these days. I know Phantom has been trying (ineffectively, for years now) to change that, but they’re not… → Read More