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3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage

Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...

Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-08-14

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HP: New Quicklook, revamped Media Smart Server top fall product news

HP is making some fall announcements today - some new business desktops, some notebook and netbook lineup upgrades and some pretty cool design features, as well. But during a recent preview of the products, there were a couple that really stuck with me. One of them was...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Media, Server, 1TB Version, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Verbatim wireless mouse, Fantom 1TB external HDD, Bluetooth headsets

A sale on Bluetooth headsets, a 1-terabyte external hard drive, and a wireless optical mouse. Here are your daily deals for Monday, August 17, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Fantom G-Force 1-terabyte external hard drive for $69.99 shipped at Buy.com. The drive has a...

Tags: External Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Mouse, Headset, Bluetooth Headset, Verbatim, Wireless, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Desktops aren't dead (yet)

Laptops have long since overtaken their desk-bound brethren in terms of revenues, and more recently unit sales. In the first quarter, desktop unit sales dropped 23 percent, while notebook sales actually increased 10 percent compared with the same period last year, according to iSuppli. Gizmodo even penned an obituary for...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Memory, Configuration, HP Pavilion, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Aspire M800 Series, SX2800-01, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Alienware's "Allpowerful" notebook unveiled - The M17x

Alienware's "Allpowerful" notebook unveiled - The M17xTempting, but...when the heck are they going to get terabyte laptop hard drives? I'd be willing to pay that kind of money for a top of the line laptop, but not until they come out with terabyte hard drives. Or at least 2 half-terabyte...

Tags: Notebooks, Games, Desktops, notebook, Gaming Laptop, laptop computer, game, Alienware, desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

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

Long-term personal data storage

You can stick a newspaper clipping in a folder and read it in 50 years. Not so with digital content: both the media AND the format can become unreadable. With so much of the world's data - and yours - in digital form, more people wonder: how do I keep...

Tags: Data Storage, Disk, Format, Tape, Media, Storage, Data, Video, MP3, File Format, RTF, Video Video, USCSF, MJPEG2000, Taiyo Yuden, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Acer, Toshiba and Sony push laptop displays to 18.4 inches

[Update 9/16: A page on the SonyStyle site referred to the AW series as having the "industry's first 18.4-inch extra-widescreen display." Sony says this statement should have referred to the FW series, which is the first 16.4-inch laptop on the market, as stated in the press release. The company is...

Tags: Toshiba Qosmio, Sony Corp., Acer Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Selling Point, Toshiba Qosmio G50 Series, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Massive memory servers

How massive? How about 10x standard server memory capacity? There is a boom in large memory server products - anywhere from a quarter terabyte to 2 terabytes. Is this the ultimate solution to server performance problems? Some products Violin Memory is offering a...

Tags: Performance, Metaram, Gear6, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-25

News to know: Comparing quad-core servers; Lenovo goes consumer; Netflix

Notable headlines: George Ou: A comparison of quad-core server CPUs Lenovo has eyes on consumer PC market Phil Wainewright: Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008 Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box Technology Voters'...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Lenovo Group Ltd., Quad-core, Server, Overstock.com Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2008-01-03

The paradise of infinite music

Make that "Ever-receding paradise. . . ." “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it. . . . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Infinity, Storage, Music, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-14

Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive

Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Can we build the unfillable disk drive?

Can we build the unfillable disk drive?Of course, if they do.......backing it up will be a bitch!Yes. One already exists, its called a WOMWrite Only Memories are excellent for infinite storage. The issue is that you can't retrieve the data.Can you build a drive so largethat God himself could not...

Tags: disk drive, disk

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Build a $2,500 supercomputer

Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...

Tags: RAID, Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, Blade servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deep Blue, Cray Inc., supercomputer

Discussion threads 2007-09-01

HTC Advantage image gallery 1 (HTC Advantage X7501)

HTC Advantage image gallery 1 (HTC Advantage X7501)HTC AdvantageYou lost me . . . what was the point of the story?What the?Other than an Ad for this device who cares about the packaging, what was this about?It seems to me that what people want to know is how this device...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Notebooks, keyboard, High Tech Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Samsung's 80GB USB 'pocket drive'

Samsung touts new line of smaller hard drivesZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind talks to Samsung's director of harddrive marketing, Andy Higginbotham, about the company's new line of harddrive products. The lineup includes a 1-terabyte hard drive, a newnotebook drive running Vista, and a new pocket-size 80-gigabyte drive.

Tags: USB, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Videos 2007-07-12

Size matters in Samsung's latest hard drive offerings (includes video footage)

Size matters in Samsung's latest hard drive offerings includes video footageTwo ThingsDave, 1st - Western Digital has had the Passport Protable USB drives out for well over a year now in rages as high as 160 GB and the drives are the size of a US Passport, just...

Tags: Keyboards, Dell Computer Corp., Number 2, hard drive, Size Matters, hybrid hard drive, virtual PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., RAM, PC, video

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

Size matters in Samsung's latest hard drive offerings (includes video)

Yesterday, I dropped down to Greenwich Village in NYC for a private gadgetfest that was put on by Samsung and it proved to be worth the trip. We captured video of a bunch of new products that the company has in the offing -- ones that span a variety...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Intel, Dell hold off on internal rollout of Vista

Intel, Dell hold off on internal rollout of VistaWhy not rollout OSX?Since Macs are basically Intel computers with an extra TPM DRM chip, and Intel is timing its rollout of Vista with a new hardware platform, and OSX is [b]so[/b] much better than Vista, and Macs are cheaper than equivalent...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Home Basic, cost/benefit, Windows XP MCE, Vista Partition, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

Image Gallery: For $900, Toshiba's Vista-loaded Satellite A135 hits right at the middle

Editors Note: An extensive image gallery covering the many angles and features of Toshibas Satellite A135 notebook (as well as the same for three other Vista-preloaded notebooks from Toshiba) can be found here. Blog entries on those other notebooks are forthcoming.Starting at $900, Toshibas Satellite A135 pictured left is the...

Tags: General, Vista, Hardware Infrastructure, Entertainment, Mobile, Wired &, Wireless, Image Gallery, Toshiba Corp., notebook, satellite, Satellite A135

Blog posts 2007-02-01