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- Yet another "Mac vs. PC" article that misses the point
- Yet another "Mac vs. PC" article that misses the pointAmazingNever ceases to amaze me when PC geeks fire the 'Apple is overpriced' round. You inherently reveal the truth about it when you say you don't wish to have all the features of a Mac. You pay for those features, often...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Sun stays focused on products, not acquisition talks
- There was a funny moment inside a briefing room on Sun Microsystems' Silicon Valley campus this week. Just as the company was about to kick-off a briefing about new products based on Intel's Nehalem chip, the media and analysts in the room were informed - albeit in a very friendly...
- Tags: Acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Western Digital enters SSD market with SiliconSystems acquisition
- Storage vendor Western Digital announced today that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. SiliconSystems' portfolio includes SSDs with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces in...
- Tags: Acquisition, Western Digital Corp., SiliconSystems Inc., WD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Supply Chain, Corporate Law, Storage, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Asus cuts Eee PC storage options
- Asus cuts Eee PC storage optionsFaster and more robust?"SSDs are faster and more robust than HDDs"Really? Is there any data to support that statement? I know in theory SSDs are faster and less prone to failure, but I have seen some test data that disagrees. Has anyone...
- Tags: Performance management, SSD, performance, storage, hard drive, ASUS
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!
- Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!Get one and try it.It just amazes me sometimes how people will listen to such claims without trying it for themselves. Maybe a netbook isn't up to the task or maybe it is....try it and find out.I've read a guys blog who claims he...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salaries
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salariesthat's the price for working with M$OLPC should have steered clear of M$ and would have been a very prosperous organization.You can deliver the $0.00 laptop if it's running windoze.MS wins another extinguish.You can add this to the very long list of companies who...
- Tags: Operating systems, payroll solutions, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-01-08
- Toshiba to unveil 512 GB solid state drive at CES
- Toshiba said Thursday that it will show off a new lineup of solid state drives at the Consumer Electronics Show including a 512 GB solid state drive. Toshiba notes (statement, Techmeme) that the 2.50-inch 512 GB drive is an industry first and is based on 43 nanometer...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, Toshiba Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Netbooks + Ubuntu: On fence about form factor; OS solid
- Netbooks + Ubuntu: On fence about form factor; OS solidCongrats on getting yoursAccording to Dell there was an "illegal configuration" that would not allow them to send me a Dell Mini 9 in Florida. Their words. No one could tell me what the problem was with the configuration and no...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, WIRELESS, Ubuntu, Netbooks, fence, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- HP: We've broken the 24-hour battery life barrier
- Hewlett-Packard didn't let Dell claim it had the longest battery life too long. HP said Monday that its HP EliteBook 6930p ran 24 hours with an ultra-capacity battery. For those keeping score at home Dell said its new Latitude lineup breaks the 19 hour battery barrier. Oh...
- Tags: Barrier, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Engineering, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Laptop wars: Toshiba goes thin with 128GB solid state drive
- Toshiba on Tuesday added a 128GB solid-state drive to its Portege laptop lineup in the latest move toward flash-based drives. According to Toshiba, its Portege R500-S5007V gallery right is 2.4 pounds and is the lightest laptop with a 128GB SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive. Under that logic,...
- Tags: Toshiba Portege, Solid State Disk, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for Xmas
- Will you have a notebook with a solid state drive on your holiday wish list? Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled a 2.5-inch, 256 GB solid state drive SSD that's the thinnest with a SATA II interface. In English, Samsung just made flash-based drives a lot more appealing. ...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Solid State Disk, JIT, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- The+SSD+failure+debate
- The+SSD+failure+debateMost SSD doom and gloom writers seem uninformedThey know one thing - that NAND and NOR have erase cycle endurance limitations. Then, they create a whole doom and gloom campaign around that one limitation. It's irresponsible technical journalism. Not only are SSD's super reliable, they are are future...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Notebooks, Storage, SSD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use
- And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually useSo are you saying that a business can't use the Air?I'm not sure that is a safe bet. I don't have a use for it. But what of those who end up buying the Air and using it...
- Tags: Notebooks, notebook, MBA, Lenovo Group Ltd., optical drive, sexy notebook, Ethernet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- MacBook+Air+Diary-Day+20%3A+Cutting+the+cord
- MacBook+Air+Diary-Day+20%3A+Cutting+the+cordDecent BonusIt's a decent bonus if you already have AT&T DSL, but I'm not going to switch to a slower service to get access at Starbucks/McDonalds for free. The airport service is much more valuable for travellers, for sure.Many people are already above a 3mb download speed at home,...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Network technology, airport service, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, wireless, Starbucks Corp., MacBook Air Diary-Day 20, Ethernet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound Portégé R500 includes optical drive, all-day battery
- Video: Toshiba's sub-2 pound Portégé R500 includes optical drive, all-day batteryYow...I've yet to have a machine that had a trackpoint that it didn't need to be disabled after a few months of use. Every one of the trackpoints seemed to randomly start moving the pointer in one direction or another...
- Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, Portégé R500, battery, Toshiba Portege, optical drive, Toshiba Corp., video
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler
- HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler60% of Power for Cooling in DataCenter???The whole point of heat pumps for air conditioning is that you don't have to expend 1 watt of power to remove 1 watt of heat from an environment. The statement that "60% of power used in a datacenter is...
- Tags: Data centers, Dynamic Smart Cooling, data center, American Power Conversion Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., United Parcel Service of America Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
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