Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
Two news items caught my attention in the news recently: RadioShack selling a $99 Netbook PC (which ultimately costs over $1,400 when you factor in the 2-year AT&T data contract), and Microsoft recently publishing a patent for a pay-as-you-go home PC.
The price of home computers has dropped significantly. It’s now cheaper than ever to [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
Everyone who’s owned an Xbox 360 for a period of time is probably at least somewhat familiar, perhaps even intimately familiar, with the dreaded red ring of death, or RRoD as it’s more commonly known. My first two Xbox 360s experienced that fate. The first one died after 6 months, but thankfully Costco’s liberal [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Steve
According to a US federal government complaint filed last week Friday, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui used his position at Fry’s Electronics to set up kick-back deals with electronics vendors. The deals had Fry’s paying over 30% or more for equipment, including flash drives and network routers, with kick-back money going into a shell company owned [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Steve
I nearly missed this last week, but Toshiba announced plans to build a 512GB 2.5 inch SSD, with sequential read and write speeds at a blazing 200 MB/s.
Mass production will begin in the second quarter of 2009.
According to the company press release:
Toshiba and many market analysts expect SSDs to begin to gain significant traction [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
The computer mouse is finally over the hill. The big 4-0. Expect to see it buying a sports car and marrying a much younger woman soon.
December 9th, 1968: the first mouse, made of wood and featuring only one button, was demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart.
[c/o BBC Technology News]
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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Steve
If you’re looking to buy yourself or someone you know a new printer for Christmas, you might want to head over to Printer.com before plunking down $70 on a printer that’ll ultimately cost you $500 in ink over 5 years.
Printer.com calculates the total cost of the printer plus the average cost for ink over 5 [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Steve
If you’ve been shopping for a new PC recently, you’ve probably been trying to decode Intel’s CPU naming system. It just so happens that Intel’s newest system for determining the most appropriate CPU for your new computer is pretty hilarious.
Some people have commented to me on how it’s impossible to tell which is the [...]
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