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- Optical storage: RIP
- Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...
- Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- 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
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support
- Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
- I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddanceâ€...
- Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Does inexpensive have to equal cheap?
- The Acer Aspire One I recently acquired and largely raved about has developed what appear to be motherboard issues. It sometimes won't boot, sometimes won't make it past the BIOS, sometimes won't recognize USB disks, will only occasionally boot from USB, and generally just isn't working very well. ...
- Tags: Acer Inc., Netbook, Convertible Classmate, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- 10 things you should look for in a netbook
- Guest post: When you’re evaluating netbooks, you have to weigh the convenience of their small form factor against a variety of limitations. TechRepublic's Erik Eckel explains several key considerations that will help you find a suitable middle ground. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's 10 Things blog. ...
- Tags: CPU, Netbook, CPU Detail, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009
- Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009Not quiteThe trouble is, the situation is exactly the opposite of what you say.Most people aren't doing anything with their computer that they weren't doing when Windows 98 was around: Email, surf, and MS Office.Unless someone is really excited about...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., stock, cockroach, vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-21
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks
- The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...
- Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas
- Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasI did all eightNow I have a new computer.Check first is a good idea.For example, a computer may be capable of managing a maximum of, say 1 GB of RAM, so adding more will be ineffective. It's possible to play Blu-ray with existing hardware using...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, PC, RAM, computer, Nero, monitor, software, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Is Blu-ray worth it?
- Is Blu-ray worth it?AgreedI'm glad this didn't degenerate into something about bitrates, etc. :)RE: Is Blu-ray worth it?I don't even bother with the upconversion! I bought a Sony XBR tube TV with fantastic upconvert circuitry - my Onkyo DVD player's upconversion isn't nearly as good as the native Sony...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Media players, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, HDMI, Sony Corp., DVD player, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- RAID Alert 2.0 (Mac)
- Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks RAIDs allow safe and inexpensive, safe storage of important data using two or more hard disks - either internally or as Firewire drives. Apple delivers software for buidling mirrored software RAIDs with every copy of Mac OS X. RAID Volumes continue to work even if...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Objectpark Software, RAID Alert, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
- External drives: The hot gift this season?
- External drives: The hot gift this season?Love external hard drives...I bought a few 1TB external drives and use them as spare RAM for Vista. My rep delivered me some "secret sauce" that allows me to use the external drive as a RAM drive for Vista. The performance boost is amazing....
- Tags: hard drive, External Drives, hot gift, external hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch
- Has Google has built its own 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch - one far cheaper and power-efficient than existing switches - as it seeks to widen its infrastructure cost advantage over Yahoo, MSN and AOL? Andrew Schmitt, an analyst at Nyquist Capital makes the case. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Server, Ethernet, RAID, Networking, Network Technology, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Build a $50 DVD burner
- Build a $50 DVD burnerMessage has been deleted.Video??I didn't see a link to any video, nor any video embedded in this story.. WTF..?Still no video...Obviously I'm missing something here because there doesn't seem to be a video, embedded or otherwise on this page.Viewed in Opera 9.5 Alpha, Opera 9.23 and...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, DVD burner, video, USB
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- More on HD, DRM, and CPU usage
- This is a very quick follow-up to my previous post documenting my experience with HD DVD and Blu-ray playback on Windows Vista. (If you haven't been following this story, you'll want to read that post and its predecessor, Blu-ray, HD DVD, and Vista to get the proper background.) DRM doom-and-gloomers...
- Tags: Monitor, Video Card, Digital-rights Management, HD-DVD, Disc, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, CPU, Blu-ray, Analog Playback, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- The high definition format wars heat up
- The high definition format wars heat upThe Studios have no idea do they.Whilst the big studios alienate their customers with their petty schoolgirl arguments with each other about what next gen DVD format they are going to exclusively support their movies are being distributed over torrents in DivX format as...
- Tags: HD DVD, Digital rights management (DRM), DVD, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony Corp., HD-DVD, HDTV
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- UPGRAID: Usage-Base StriPe ReplicatinG RAID
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAID is the standard for large scale, fault-tolerant storage solutions. The various RAID levels combine space and/or performance optimization to meet the needs of the user. This paper introduces UPGRAID, which can be seen as a new RAID level built upon RAID5. The idea behind...
- Tags: Florida International University, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-09
- Hey BusinessWeek, condoning piracy is wrong
- Hey BusinessWeek, condoning piracy is wrongI agreePiracy is wrong, and I have no idea how anyone could have a different opinion.Chesbrough is simply asking MS to repeat its own pattern.MS did the same thing in the western world. MS turned a blind eye towards software piracy for years. Once it...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., piracy, software, BusinessWeek
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
- Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition
- It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer. The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
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