Archive for the 'Hardware' Category
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one?
Like there is no ad’s on Google to start with? Of course I [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Intel shows off new laptop chip package to counter rival AMD - Yahoo! Canada News
Intel Corp. rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities, the company’s latest salvo against smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Both companies are posturing to capture the attention of [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Source: Nvidia, Via Prepare to Take On Intel
Nvidia, Via Prepare to Take On Intel
posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC
IconFor year now, the x86 microprocessor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD, and the rivalry between the two companies forced both to be innovative in order to gain a competitive advantage [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
As some of you know I purchased a Canon SD750 that just didn’t want to play with Linux (any flavor) but if I went to my main linux box the card reader could see and download the pictures. So that sent me into a search for a linux compatible, portable card reader for a reasonable [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, but it is helpful if you would like to remain in a headache-free zone.
A good starter base of hardware to avoid for the new linux user, Baldy
Check on the [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Even since astronaut Dave Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000’s holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008.
Promising super-high density and excellent media flaw resistance, holographic storage has been an ever-receeding technology for years. You can buy nifty 3D skull and [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I never thought I would see the day when a hard drive manufacturer would go from indifferent to outright stupid all with one drive release. Apparently, it has happened. It seems that Seagate has opted to forgo compatibility for anyone other than Linux users and that’s a real shame, as I have always been a [...]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source project.
“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for almost three years and [...]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
I found this while surfing around and if you are planning on a new Hard Drive in the near future you might want to check it out,Baldy
wtansill writes “Seagate’s Free Agent series of drives are not intended to be compatible with the Open Source operating system Linux. The Inquirer reports on the problem: an unhelpful [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Excuse us for a sec, OK? We’ll start the review momentarily but just need to switch into our Professional PC Critic Veteran Reviewer Voice Omigod! That is like the cutest thing EVER lemme see lemme see! Oh I so have to get one of these RIGHT NOW only two pounds could you DIE? Four C’s [...]
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