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Why China can't compete in IT services, yet

Why China can't compete in IT services, yetChinese IT Tech SupportWhy not get the chinese to do your IT support since cost is the only consideration not service or customer satisfation. Dell, Microsoft, IBM and many other industry giants proved that cheap Indian help desks provided less than adequate...

Tags: Help desk, Call centers, Chinese IT, worker, IT services, Cooling Fan, information technology, American Corporation

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

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Spice up your power management

InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...

Tags: Notebooks, power management, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Synology Disk Station DS409slim - NAS server

Synology Disk Station DS409slim is a true miniature powerhouse in the network-attached storage device market. It's the first 2.5-inch hard drive-based NAS server we've reviewed that offers hot-swappable capability. However, that is its least impressive feature. The server did well in our performance tests and, like other Synology products we've...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, disk, DS409Slim, NAS, NAS server, hard drive, server, RAID

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient

RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

eVGA GeForce 9400 GT - graphics adapter - GF 9400 GT - 1 GB

Great for Windows 7The EVGA GeForce 9400GT can be summarized in one word; Performance. The Windows Experience Index increased from 3.5 to 4.9, mostly because the old card had only 128 MB of memory while this one has 1 GB. Several things worth mentioning, especially for Windows 7...

Tags: installation disk, graphics, card, eVGA, Microsoft Windows 7, adapter

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010

Recovery is already starting up...Around us, I've noticed construction is starting back up, which means jobs are starting to appear again, which means people won't be losing their homes, which means our local economy is restarting after the craziness. It's about time!RE: Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in...

Tags: Intel Corp., Otellini, patent, recovery

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Falcon Northwest Talon (Intel Core i7)

Falcon Northwest was first to ship us a PC with Intel's new mainstream Core i7 CPUs, and based on this $2,495 Talon configuration, we can say that Intel has met its goal of enabling system builders to sell fast PCs at lower prices than they could previously. Falcon Northwest has...

Tags: Intel Core Microarchitecture, TALON, Falcon Northwest

Product reviews 2009-09-08

Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at System Building

It all started with two extra Opteron CPUs and RAM and a bunch of hard drives which I had lying around, that mushroomed into a Build-Your-Own monster PC project. Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his...

Tags: PC, AMD Opteron, Amazon.com Inc., Power Supply, CPU, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Asus Essentio CG5270-BP003

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. The large, angular Asus Essentio CG5270-BP003 strikes us a desktop trying to be something it's not. PC gamers may feel comfortable...

Tags: Games, Desktops, ASUS, Asus Essentio CG5270-BP003, Asus Essentio, desktop, game

Product reviews 2009-07-31

We don't know what we don't know

We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...

Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Digital Storm 950Si (Intel Core i7)

The $3,636 950Si is the first PC we've reviewed from Digital Storm, and for the most part we've come away impressed. The system itself came with an overclocked, but more importantly stable Intel CPU, and but for a minor design flaw it seems competently built. Digital Storm could have pushed...

Tags: Storm 950Si, Intel Core Microarchitecture

Product reviews 2009-07-02

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Jul/Aug 09Adrian:Use Intel much?I appreciated your lineup, but noticed one glaring fact: while I can agree that Intel offers the best extreme processor in the i7 965 EE (for $1000), I noticed the glaring omission of any AMD parts. I think that if...

Tags: Processors, Virtualization, RAID, Jul/Aug 09, Hardware 2.0, Intel Corp., CPU, HyperThreading, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Thermal Design of the Dell PowerEdge T610, R610, and R710 Servers

Dell wants to simplify IT for its customers by developing energy-efficient servers that are easier to integrate into power and cooling challenged environments. The custom thermal design of latest server generation has reduced the power-to-cool ratio over last generation by at least 50%. Flexible BIOS options, dynamic fan speed control,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, BIOS, Servers, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-06-12

Analyst: An Apple tablet is coming to shake up netbook market

Analyst: An Apple tablet is coming to shake up netbook marketApple could not build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk!!!!!!Therefore, unless you don't consider tablet as a computer, don't expect something too far from reality.Apple has a standard!!!!!And yes Ipod Touch is not a computer. That's...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, Digital music, Digital media, netbook, tablet, Apple Inc., netbook market, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

A different 'spin' on flying cars

A company in Australia is developing a flight technology that allows for compact Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL using a type of fan system to move air that is commonly found in central heating/cooling systems. [caption id="attachment_1525" align="alignleft" width="245" caption="Entecho's Hoverpod"][/caption] Entecho is using...

Tags: Car, Joystick, Skirt, Entecho Hoverpod, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

AVADirect Custom Gaming PC

A dirty secret of gaming PC reviews is that vendors frequently try to submit systems with aggressive overclocking that they won't actually sell because of poor reliability, but that will last long enough to score well on our benchmarks. Imagine our skepticism when this $2,900 AVADirect Custom Gaming PC showed...

Tags: Network technology, PC, AVADirect Custom Gaming PC, gaming PC

Product reviews 2009-04-23

Microsoft ad: 'I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person'

Microsoft ad: 'I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person'olePigeon would HATE this computer!!Is the screen too small? Nope.Is the hard drive too small? Nope.Is it too expensive? Nope.So what is wrong with the laptop she bought? It comes in a brown box.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13615-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=62493&messageID=1152605[i]it turns out that it ships...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., advertisement, Mac person, laptop computer, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Dell Adamo vs. Voodoo Envy 133 vs. Apple Macbook Air vs. Sony Vaio Z [Toybox Shootout]

Dell Adamo vs. Voodoo Envy 133 vs. Apple Macbook Air vs. Sony Vaio Z [Toybox Shootout]Contribute!Think I gave the laptops a fair shake? Did I forget an important spec? Is "premium" a load of bunk?Tell me here, in TalkBack.WAP in A/C Adapter is a great idea...one SSID to rule them...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Desktops, Dell Computer Corp., battery, Dell Adamo, Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Voodoo Envy, Voodoo, Voodoo Envy 133, Sony VAIO Z, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-25