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- The end of the road for Parallel ATA
- The end of the road for Parallel ATAThere's nothing holding you back nowI'm building a new PC this week with an Intel 945 board and all SATA drives. I'm sure I'm not the first.It's about darned time. sheesh....Should have happened years ago.I guess CD/DVD was holding things back. ...
- Tags: Serial ATA, Plextor, SATA Connector
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
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- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, C'MON, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Mac ready the enterprise?
- Mac ready the enterprise?My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem...My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem. When I'm at home I connect it to my external 22" CRT, keyboard, mouse, etc. It stays there until I get back to work where I use it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, laptop computer, video, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Winegard RCDT09A
- Earlier in the spring we published a blog entry titled, "Don't buy a portable TV this year" highlighting the fact that the vast majority of portable TVs use analog tuners that won't pull in TV signals after the analog-to-digital TV transition February 17, 2009. At the time, our advice was...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Engineering, Winegard RCDT09A, digital television, converter box, battery, DTV converter box, TV, portable TV, battery pack
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Samsung Omnia
- Photo gallery:Samsung OmniaAlong with the RIM BlackBerry Bold and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the Samsung Omnia is one of the most requested and sought after smartphones of 2008. Why all the buzz? It's not so much the Omnia's touch screen that's drawing attention (after all, we've seen it in the...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung OMNIA, OMNIA, touch screen
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- BIOS settings demystified
- BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...
- Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Escalation in the storage wars
- Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Seagate FreeAgent Go (blue, 320GB)
- The FreeAgent Go is part of Seagate's latest new line of portable hard drives and is by far the thinnest we've tested while still maintaining a reasonably fast transfer rate. Seagate sent us a blue 320GB model ($150) for our review, but you can take your pick of four vibrant...
- Tags: Operating systems, Seagate Technology LLC, FreeAgent Go, USB
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Toshiba launches 256GB SSD with MLC
- Toshiba announced today an addition to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives, a new 256GB SSD, and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for Netbooks, UMPCs and other mobile applications. The new drives will be showcased at the CEATEC in Makuhari, Japan, from...
- Tags: Ultramobile PC, Speed, Toshiba Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Serial ATA, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- The mother of all notebook hard drives: Scorpio Blue
- I'm totally psyched that someone has finally released a 500GB hard drive that fits in my MacBook Pro. That someone is Western Digital. WD just announced its WD5000BEVT mobile hard drive, a.k.a. the Scorpio Blue with a huge 500GB capacity. The 500GB barrier was broken earlier this...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment
- Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Performance, Exadata System, Storage Server Grid, Larry, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Reichman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Sling Media Slingbox Pro-HD
- When Sling Media released a trio of second-generation models in the fall of 2006, the Slingbox Pro was at the top of the line. Unlike the entry-level Slingbox AV, the Pro had pass-through outputs, an analog tuner, multisource capability, and the capability to accept high-definition video sources. Unfortunately, it also...
- Tags: 3G, TV & Home Theater, Smart phones, TVs, Home entertainment, Corporate communications, Slingbox, Sling Media
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- Taking a Bott beating
- Taking a Bott beatingOut-of-Band may be slower.But I find that it's much, much safer. It is my preferred method when recovering crashed Windows boxen.I've never really had to worry about anyone doing a system migration like your friend. My experience has always been more along the lines of 'My computer...
- Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, PC Migration, Bott, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Taking a Bott beating
- My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...
- Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC
- The New Adventures of Christine's Old PCIts not that easyOn an ideal machine that is well organized, I would say your approach is valid. However, this machine was full of stuff in a hundred different directories and I couldn't be sure I was grabbing everything she needed with the System...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating systems, Vista PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, New Adventures, Old PC, Christine, PC, XPData, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Perlow@PEPCOM
- Arriba and Feliz Navidad, Gringos! Your economy is screwed! Now go buy some expensive toys, America! See Jason Perlow's PEPCOM Gallery. Ah yes, the annual holiday PEPCOM party at the Metropolitan Pavilion. It was truly a surreal experience attending the popular and...
- Tags: Backup, Electronics, NAVIGON, Cat Genie, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- Green client tech for non-desktop environments
- Most of the time, I tend to pick up green tech information as it relates to products focused on the typical enterprise productivity worker or small business owners. Someone, like me, who probably is the only person using his or her "client" computer. But I wanted to mention a new...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Environment, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- RCA DTA800B1
- The DTV transition has been pushed back before, but the recent tests in Wilmington, N.C., make it clear over-the-air analog TV signals really will be turned off on February 17, 2009. That means analog TV owners will need to pony up for a DTV converter box if they want to...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DTA800, DTV Transition, casing, RCA DTA800B1, digital television, TV, RCA
- Product reviews 2008-09-19
- Lenovo ThinkPad X301
- The ThinkPad X301 boasts the same 13.3-inch display, 3.3-pound weight, and 0.7-inch thickness as its predecessor, the ThinkPad X300. In fact, with the exception of a new DisplayPort connector, the X301's case is essentially identical to that of the X300, right down to the built-in DVD burner. The real change...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Lenovo ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., ThinkPad X301, IBM ThinkPad
- Product reviews 2008-09-19
- Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99
- Here's a pretty good deal from Newegg.com ... buy an OCZ Core Series 64GB SATA II solid-state drive for $169 and get a $70 rebate. Final cost of drive - $99. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Newegg.com, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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