Articles about computer hardware
This is no joke folks, the latest protection for USB connected devices is actually called a USB Condom. While not exactly resembling a real condom, you have to admit that the name choice was bound to create a fair amount of attention – clever marketing? […]
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In an obvious effort to combat the growing popularity of Chromebooks, Microsoft is helping hardware manufacturers to build low-priced Windows laptops. Microsoft is using Windows 8.1 With Bing, which was unveiled earlier this year, to spread Windows to more low-cost PCs and tablets. The OS
Microsoft & Manufacturers Team to Produce Ultra-Cheap Laptops Read More »
Are you fed up with the frustrations caused by USB connectors having a right side up? Or from needing different cables with different connectors for different devices? It’s taken some 18 years, but finally, a new standard, USB Type-C, is ready for mass production. The
Reversible USB Connectors – Coming Soon! Read More »
What happens when you start your computer It is a miracle that your computer starts at all. The term “booting” stems from the idea of “picking one’s self up by the bootstraps”. Try it sometime and you will immediately begin to get a message. This is a basic
What is UEFI – The New Kid On The Block Read More »
New King on The Block According to AMD, the Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics card launched in April 2014, is the world’s fastest, period and here’s why: 11.5 TFLOPS 5632 stream processors Core Clock 1018 MHz 8GB memory 12.4 billion transistors 512-bit memory interface x 2 Dual liquid-cooled
Is this the Most Powerful Graphics Card in The World? Read More »
Whatever you decide, then the choice of computer cases available today is mind blowing. Horizontal motherboard Take the Deepcool Steam Castle pictured above as an example of thinking out of the box. This case is so cute you almost want to cuddle it and take it home
Which PC case would you choose? Read More »
Living for the Tweak Anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows that I live for tweaking computer systems. I try to get them to be all they can be. Software methods are one way. Via Windows settings, Registry settings, and countless
How To Overclock Your AMD Graphics Card Read More »
How to upgrade the PS3 hard drive About four months ago my stepson’s Playstation 3 stopped working following a power surge, or to put it another way, the lights were on but there was no one at home. Naturally, the lad was beyond consolation as
How to Fix a Playstation 3 Read More »
Watching us, watching them For many of us, watching TV is no longer the linear, force fed diet of scheduled ads every ten minutes interspersed with trash soap and reality shows, and the argument over whether the Internet killed the TV star is still being
How to rig up your own Home Theatre TV Read More »
Apple Offers Cheaper, Faster MacBook Airs Apple introduced two new MacBook Airs on April 29th: an 11-inch laptop and 13-inch laptop, each available with either 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. These models are similar to previous generations but each costs $100 less than
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If one were to scour the Internet using the search term console wars, I can guarantee that you would find literally thousands of pages dedicated to the subject and an equal amount of opinions to boot. One has only to scroll to the comments section
Console Wars – Battlefield Four Read More »
Facebook Getting Into Virtual Reality After recently purchasing Whatsapp, Facebook bought a virtual reality company, Oculus VR, this week for $2 billion in stock and cash. Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for Oculus include having it provide “completely new kinds of experiences”, of which gaming will obviously be
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Warning, rant follows!! If your household is anything like mine, you have numerous devices which either require connecting to the PC occasionally or charging regularly, and each device’s cable comes with a different connection on one end or different power adapter. For example; in our
Rant: Why Can’t Cables & Adapters be Standardized? Read More »
Toshiba has created a series of ads to display just how tough the company’s hardware is… in a rather unconventional manner. Toshiba hired the services of two whacky dudes who put the company’s products through a series of outlandish tests which go way beyond what
Toshiba’s *Extreme* Product Testing (fun videos) Read More »
