Trusted Reviews looks at the Olympus E-510 digital SLR. Phoronix talks about Intel's Threading Building Blocks 2.0, TechGage has the Edifier MP300 portable speaker system for us to check out. Overclockers Club takes the Foxconn GeForce 8600GTS out for a spin and finally ThinkComputers play around with the Mvix MV-500 Multimedia center.

Every now and then, a little-known company comes out of the ether and delivers a product that is revolutionary. Mvix believes its MV-5000U media-playing hard enclosure is a candidate for these laurels. Once the end-user installs a hard drive in the MV-500U, he or she can use it for storage or, when combined with a television, as a portable media player (one can even put it in a car!). However, the MV-5000U isn't all it's cracked up to be, but shows promise. Read on to find out why.