Archive for 'Computor & Laptops'
Kobo’s eReader gets reviewed
Posted on11. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
So, how much e-book reader can $149 get you? Well, Kobo’s eReader might not be heavy on the feature set, but based on the general impressions from Electronista’s review, we’d say quite a bit. In exchange for dropping the 3G, WiFi, color screen and audio playback frills of the Kindle and Nook, Kobo’s barebones device puts [...]
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HP Slate to cost $549, have 1.6GHz Atom Z530, 5 hour battery?
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
Well, well — what’s this? We just got our hands on what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation given to cool down some of the iPad hype amongst HP employees, and it just happens to have specs and pricing details on the elusive Windows 7 tablet. As we’d heard, the Slate will run $549 [...]
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ICD’s Tegra 2-powered Gemini is the most feature-complete tablet we’ve seen yet
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
Built around the 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC, the 11.2-inch ICD Gemini should provide comparable endurance to Apple’s A4-sporting iPad, while besting it in the grunt stakes with its glorious ability to chew through 1080p video when required. If that wasn’t enough, the rest of this thing’s spec sheet reads like a wishlist. Headlined by a [...]
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Thumbnail-Sized Chip Holds Equivalent of 20 HD DVDs
Posted on08. Dec, 2009 by kanna.
Engineers at North Carolina State University have created a computer chip that holds one terabyte — or 1,000 gigabytes — of data and is no larger than a fingernail. For perspective, that means you could store 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text on this tiny chip. According to Computer World, this modern [...]
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Mac 101: Building a bootable diagnostic and repair flash drive
Posted on07. Dec, 2009 by karthik.
You cannot install Snow Leopard on an 8 GB flash drive. I was incorrect in writing that an install of Essential System Software would take 3.81 GB. As a few of our commenters pointed out, and as is the case, in testing I erroneously tried to install Snow Leopard on a flash drive that already [...]