TheTechLounge took a look at the Seagate ST3160023AS, a 160GB, 7200RPM hard drive that uses the Serial ATA interface. The SATA connection offers a few advantages over the old Parallel ATA setup speed wise but, for the moment, its greatest…
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NVIDIA and a large number of notebook motherboard manufacturers have come up with a mini PCI Express interface for laptops according to DesignTechnica. It gives notebooks a fast connection to graphics chips and may allow for “card” upgrades to become…
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ARM has a nifty core design up its sleeve with the “MPCore” embedded processor which sports two processor cores in a single package. The chip is used in gadgets such as PDAs and the like so we should see some…
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AnandTech has a review of the Plextor 712A, a 12X DVD+R burner which sets a new speed standard. It’s a Plextor drive so it supports most standards and should work right out of the box, you wouldn’t expect any less…
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EETimes writes of Sony plans to extend its VAIO name into other somewhat related markets. They plan to release gadgets such as a portable video player and audio products which will sport wireless connectivity among other things. The only question…
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Gaming Illustrated has their thoughts and some information gleened from day 2 of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This seems to have been one of the more “quality” shows, this year, with tons of great gear and games being announced and…
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ZDNet does a bit of coverage on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 which will bring a whole bunch of new and tweaked security measures to the OS. Previous service packs haven’t gotten this much attention before so perhaps…
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Techware Labs has a review of the Streamzap PC Remote control. It’s a simple enough looking product with software that will allow you to control applications and your mouse cursor from a distance but it suffers from some hideous designing….
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Hexus.net has a look at a Time Platina Athlon 64 notebook. The particular model they review is something of a beast with a Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, and a 60GB 7200rpm hard…
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The FCC is considering opening up portions of unused TV-band frequencies in rural areas for use as wireless broadband frequencies according to Xchange. I don’t know how well a “smart radio” system would work but once TV station frequencies are…
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InfoWorld writes of a few Ph.D students at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia finding a flaw in the 802.11b spec that could allow for wide spread outtages to occur over a wide area using any ordinary WiFi card…
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