Moore’s Law says computer chips double in speed every 1.5 to 2 years. Your PC should be 32 times faster than the PC you used in 1998. The chips ARE faster, so why isn’t your PC? Chip speed improvements are being SQUANDERED by everyone from OS makers to driver writers to hardware makers and component…
Worldwide shipments of hard disk drives (HDD) used in PCs and other consumer electronics gear will be flat or could even decline in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to last quarter, according to iSuppli Corp. At the same time, iSuppli is estimating that solid state disk (SSD) drives shipped over the next year will…
PC Magazine Goes Out Of Print — Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis’s PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay off seven print production employees.…
This Monday Intel is scheduled to release its next generation processor, the Intel Core i7. While we have long since moved away from names like Pentium 4 and such it seems, there seems to be a great deal of excitement for Intel’s new chip. Early benchmarks show a pretty significant performance improvement over the previous…
Call it coincidence or call it fate, but it seems something is afoot in the land of the Roku Netflix Player. Out of seemingly nowhere, a fair amount of users are finding that their once beautiful downloads have turned to pixelated iterations of their old selves, and to no fault of their internet connection. As…
Network Attached Storage: more than just a boring hard disk. Don’t be fooled by the simple exterior: a Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive is more than just a hard drive connected to your network for ease of access. Depending on your budget, you can share media files directly from the drive, set up BitTorrent connections…
A new peripheral for Xbox 360 allows gamers to charge their controller batteries without removing the battery pack from the controller itself. Although the play-and-charge pack already enables this while gamers play, TeknoCreations claims that its new InCharge Inductive Charger provides enough juice to the recharged batteries to enable 25 hours of continuous play.Using a…
Netbooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note will soon cost $99. The catch? You’ll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract, just like your cell phone. Why so low? 1) the economy; 2) the cell phone sales crash; 3) the netebook explosion; 4) the netbook…
Wondering just how much you’ll gain by saving your DVD to your 360′s hard drive after the NXE launches? MTV Multiplayer has a nice feature comparison between the two. In all cases, I spammed the A button of my controller as soon as the game started loading, so you’re seeing my fastest attempts to get…
A voluntary recall has been issued for another 100,000 Sony batteries that power notebooks from HP, Toshiba, and Dell. Tweet Source
