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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
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- Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Disks: why size means performance
- OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...
- Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Apple iMac (21.5-inch, 3.06Hz Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 9400M, Fall 2009)
- We awarded Apple an Editors' Choice for its new $1,699 iMac, largely because its 27-inch screen dwarfs its competition in that price range. So what to make of Apple's new lower-end iMac? At $1,199, its 21.5-inch screen is hardly the size leader for its price, and without a touch screen...
- Tags: Desktops, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce, Acer Aspire Z5610, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Apple iMac, Apple Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-11-17
- Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent
- My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- A 4 SSD array: Apricorn pt 2
- Would love one!Use this as the OS drive, have the traditional drives for mass storage and backups.If the price point were a bit lower it would be great, but I guess the SSD drives alone make up most of the cost.Empty it costs $200You can add drives as you can...
- Tags: Apricorn
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Apple iMac 27-inch
- If we could, we'd take points away from this iMac simply because by giving it a 27-inch display Apple threatens our livelihood. You don't need our input to simply walk past the 27-inch iMac on a store shelf and recognize that it's the largest all-in-one currently available, and that it...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., screen size, Apple iMac
- Product reviews 2009-10-21
- Intel debuts Core i7 960
- Why?LGA1366 is effectively dead.RE: Intel debuts Core i7 960I think I was happier when Intel had competition at the high end and had to price their chips accordingly.Whether or not I use AMD, I need them to compete better to keep Intel's prices down.Why would you say that?Where are you...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., socket, chipset, LGA1366, Bloomfield, LGA1156
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Measuring Windows 7 performance
- my scoresi have an intel i-940, 9gb, nvidia 9800gt w/1gb, nvidia gts 250 /512 amd 54 seagate 7200 rpm drives.processor 7.2memory 7.6graphics 7.0gaming 7.0hard drive 5.9RE: Measuring Windows 7 performance"I used Excel to color-code the values on this chart with a simple 'greener is better, redder is worse' key."Try doing...
- Tags: Performance management, graphics, Measuring, performance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Can a laptop ever be too thin?
- Ralph Lauren is on the receiving end of a blogosphere backlash today over an apparent Photoshop job gone awry. It turns out there is such a thing as too thin. I mention this because yesterday both Dell and Sony introduced new laptops that give new meaning to ultra-thin. The trend...
- Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- First Clarksfield reviews: Core i7 laptops look impressive
- Since Intel unveiled its Core i7 quad-core mobile processors at IDF a couple weeks ago, several PC companies have announced mainstream and desktop replacement laptops using these Clarksfield chips. Many sites have reviewed the new platform--known as Calpella--in whitebox notebooks, but so far I haven't seen many reviews of real...
- Tags: Game, Alienware, Nvidia GeForce, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Toshiba Qosmio, Clarksfield, Alienware M15x, Envy 15, Asus M60J, Studio 17, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Gateway ZX6810-01
- Congratulations to Gateway's One ZX6801-01 for sending in the first official Windows 7-based PC to CNET Labs. We've already reviewed Windows 7, so we'll spend most of our energy here talking about Gateway's new PC. We like the One ZX6810-01 well enough. When it goes on sale for $1,399 at...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Product reviews 2009-10-07
- Intel: SSDs are coming
- A MisnomerThe term "solid-state" is actually slightly off, if the intent is to distinguish a unit with no moving parts from one with moving parts. The term "solid-state", although it can be used informally to mean "no-moving-parts", actually refers to lack of vacuum or gas-based tubes, thereby implying the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Visual Studio, Storage, Intel Corp., SSD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...
- Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
- I agreeusb flash drive would be betterBut, why are you asking the question about the Beatles?Minor CorrectionDL DVDs hold 8.4GB and not 5.4In regards to the article I think Optical Media is a media that is slowly phasing out but the cost of the media for most purposes is still...
- Tags: Flash memory, Consumer electronics, optical media, USB flash drive, DVD, optical drive
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
- Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Storage, Optical Drive, MCE, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- HP Envy 15 targets Apple MacBook Pro with quality, performance
- HP's new ENVY 15 targets Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks with Voodoo spirit. It's about an inch thick and weighs 5.18 lbs. It offers a magnesium case, glass buttonless trackpad, a new Core i7 processor, dual SSD drives and non-switchable discrete Radeon HD 4830 graphics with 1GB of VRAM. Its 15.6-inch...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, product photos, HP, laptops, notebooks, MacBook Pro, Envy 15, Voodoo, Andrew Nusca
- Image galleries 2009-09-15
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