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- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- How much does a flash disk increase battery life?
- How much does a flash disk increase battery life?Playing DVD and CPU usage"Playing a DVD doesn’t use much CPU. The wattage is mostly the drive itself"Could you please clarify if playing a DVD doesn't use much CPU, or whether it doesn't use much power? I would like to know... because...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Processors, wattage, CPU, flash-disk, video, Playing DVD, battery
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- How much does a flash disk increase battery life?
- Notebooks need longer battery life I used a flash-disk based notebook for much of the '90s and loved its 10-hour battery life. You just have so much more freedom when you don't need to worry about keeping a battery charged. I've been very interested in how...
- Tags: Notebook, Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, CPU, Wattage, Engineering, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
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- (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)
- (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)$2000 build-it-yourself PCGreat article would do it if I didn't already have a pretty good PC. How about a build-it-yourself gaming laptop?RE: (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)I have a similar system with only 4Gb of cheaper ram , 2 Tb...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Desktops, PC, video, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Some brief info about Sun's latest shade of green blades and servers
- Sun is using 55-watt Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to help amp down not a typo its latest Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems. The new models include the Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 (which are being positioned as storage solutions for things like database applications, high-performance computing or...
- Tags: Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
- A bump to the frontside bus and a smidge more L2 cache can safely be classified as a minor update. But even slightly improved specifications, when they come at a lower price than those they replace, are appreciated. Last September, we tested the highest-end 24-inch model, which carried a baseline...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple iMac
- Product reviews 2008-05-01
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer
- 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computerSweet findI still think that would be ideal at packing a case with hard drives. I always wanted multi tiered file servers and thought that if I build several computers into a single system, I would be better off than if I...
- Tags: File servers, Processors, PSU, POWER SUPPLIES, power supply, file server, dual-core computer, dual-core, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- EU+conducts+antitrust+raid+on+Intel%2C+retailers
- EU+conducts+antitrust+raid+on+Intel%2C+retailers*IF* they can't prove anythingThen Intel should file a massive law suit for losses and harrasment.Wow, time to move the operations to another set of countriesif they keep 'raiding' without conclusion. Did they take prisoners during the raid, capture any loot, pillage anything . . . modern day style?Excuse...
- Tags: pricing strategy, Intel Corp., raid, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., fsb
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris...
- Tags: Nick Carr, Mr., Workforce Management, Internet, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- (Photos: Solar power for the masses of gadgets)
- (Photos: Solar power for the masses of gadgets)It's a great idea, and I'm all for them, but...being that I, like most users I suspect, charge my phone, PDA, etc., at NIGHT while I'm sleeping, and use my car's charging system when on the road during the day...I don't see how...
- Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, battery, laptop computer, charger, solar energy, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Hitachi P50H401
- The 50-inch plasma has become one of the best values in flat-panel HDTV. Similar-size LCDs typically cost a good deal more at this size, and although that's changing quickly, the typical plasma still enjoys a few other picture quality advantages. Hitachi's P50H401 is hardly a typical plasma, however. Its spec...
- Tags: Storage, Hitachi P50H401, Hitachi Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2008-01-02
- Carbon Emissions Calculator (zip)
- Carbon Emissions Calculator to help you reduce you carbon emissions. Simply enter the appliance wattage and how long it is used each day. The program will then tell you your carbon emissions by day, quarter and year. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Carbon Emission
- Software downloads 2007-12-05
- The $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC
- Update 11/29/2007 - See updated AIO computer images This is the new all-in-one Intel dual-core 2.0 GHz E2180 19" LCD PC computer I built for the family. The shocker is that I did it for less than $363 in parts (not including keyboard...
- Tags: Box, Hard Drive, Dual-core, PC, Price Tag, Motherboard, LCD, Computer, Shocker, Wood, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday seasonWhat a waste of slots for having four video cards...Try fitting 4 dual-slot video cards as you'll need ThermalTake Armor+ for that. It comes with 10 expansion slots.AMD is putting all their eggs on ATISeems like AMD's CPUs aren't making many waves and...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, radiosity, card, video card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, video, game
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricityFeeling skepticalI think prior art is going to bite them on their behinds.Science 101, conservation of energy"M2E's technology, born in the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab, works according to the principle of electromagnetic induction aka The Faraday Principle. The...
- Tags: Engineering, dung, grass
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- JVC LT-47X898
- Last year, JVC was the first company to come out with an LCD that boasted a 120Hz refresh rate, a feature that's supposed to reduce blurring in fast motion. In 2007 the follow-up 120Hz models are found in the company's flagship LT-X898 series. The largest member of that series, the...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, clicker, JVC LT-47X898, JVC
- Product reviews 2007-10-25
- Microsoft takes on the iPod again, fails again
- Microsoft takes on the iPod again, fails againIf all you want is something to carry and play musicthere are plenty of cheaper solutions that do the job just fine, and they don't come in snot green or raw wound red...Don't get the music player thing?Neither did I till I watched...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Finally a reasonably cheap 80 Plus power supply
- Finally a reasonably cheap 80 Plus power supplyPerfect for me and my computer in a computerI think I will build a second computer in my case now. I will probably have to mount a second power button. I am not too worried about the lights. If I...
- Tags: NewEgg, power supply, brick, Pico PSU
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Mini PC cottage industry, is dead at 6
- Mini PC cottage industry, is dead at 6What real world usesWhat real world uses are there for mini pcs? 69 dollars is a pretty sweet price.another victim of the wintel cartelThese monopolies are reducing our choice of PCs and ripping us off.Should give mini-pc industry a real boostLooks like a...
- Tags: mini-PC, industry, CPU
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?These would be nice, but...How much do they cost when contributing to something like folding. Would I be better off at using a series of cheap Celeron systems.Or if I want to swat folding and rack up massive points, should I...
- Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., commodity part, motherboard, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
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