Solid state drives have been gaining plenty of attention as of late, what with their performance, power consumption, durability, and silent running being major selling points. Some drives are quicker than others though so Driver Heaven has run some tests…
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A major switch from one memory technology to another has, often times, been a very painful experience for the PC industry and consumers. Confusion over performance benefits and the obvious cost difference has most people putting off the switch for…
On paper, there’s already plenty to like about the Palm Pre: Linux-based operating system, Web inspired application development platform, gesture-based interface, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, 3 megapixel camera with LED flash… The list goes on. Below are 10 features…
Read more 10 Reasons to Love the Palm Pre
VIA’s portfolio of products doesn’t get all that much attention now-a-days but the company’s latest product may change things. The VIA VX855 Media System Processor combines an integrated graphics chip, audio capabilities, and a memory controller for the company’s Nano…
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ASRock began life as a company that created some rather odd hardware combinations that somehow worked well and allowed users to make use of some older hardware. The company’s new motherboard, the ASRock AOD790GX/128M, keeps things ordinary with support for…
While the promises of speedy solid state drives have been long promised there has been very little movement in bringing those devices to market leaving the consumer to cobble together primitive RAID setups to bring about such performance. Fusion-io’s ioDrive…
Read more Fusion-io Builds A SSD So Speedy Your Server Wants One Posthaste
Dell is looking for a slice of the industrial, ruggedized laptop market with the new Intel Core 2 Duo-powered Latitude E6400 XFR. The armored portable sports a 14.1-inch widescreen 1280×800 display, GbE networking, 802.11g (or n option) and tons of…
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After dropping flash drives into its Sun Storage 7000 storage arrays, Sun is now eyeing “Flash Driven” rack and blade application servers for the fast performing and energy efficient data storage technology. Sure, they cost more than servers with…
Read more Sun Debuts Flash-y Servers
March 6th 2009 marked the date that Nintendo shipped its 100 millionth DS gaming machine, surpassing the venerable Game Boy Advance. The portable, since its “phat” debut four years ago up to its slimmer camera-packing DSi, has found a…
Read more Nintendo Ships 100 Million DS Handhelds
Some exciting news from MIT today. Researchers have made a battery breakthrough that may soon result in batteries that take only seconds to charge. Nature has the details: Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in…
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