Articles about computer hardware
Amazon Knows What You Want Even Before You Do The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has received a patent for “anticipatory shipping.” Products could start making their way to your door before you even order them. Amazon could use your searches, previous orders and, yes, […]
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Remember when you last moved house? All those boxes, each with a label saying books, cutlery, stamp albums, Uncle Ted’s ashes, that sort of thing? And remember when you all arrived at the new house and the domestic removal technicians unloaded all those boxes, which
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Many of us buy used cars because we don’t have a choice. Our pockets aren’t deep enough for the shiny new twin turbo with go faster stripes, GTX stickers and creamy leather seats. The same can be said for most acquisitions really, whether they be
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And why not? The essential tools required are already in your kitbag: eyes, hands and a lot of enthusiasm. But beware, it could get dangerously enjoyable. You’ve been buying computers from PC stores and internet retailers for years. They’ve never let you down or maybe
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What is a Bottleneck? A bottleneck, when talking about computer hardware, and not your favorite rustic libation, refers to the slowest device in the system. That one piece of hardware that is bogging down everything else. Your hard drive is a typical example. It is
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With SSDs (Solid State Drives) remaining a little on on the expensive side, especially when compared to traditional hard drives on a per gig cost basis, most users who have migrated to SSD generally tend to opt for one of the lower capacity SSDs as
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Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again It used to be that in order to someone a direct message (DM) on Twitter, you had to follow each other. Then, a while back, Twitter did away with that requirement and, basically, you could send a DM to anyone
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Printer Ink Costs – A perspective I don’t do a lot of printing, so much of what follows is advice gleaned from the internet that just makes sense to me. Note: All the costs related in the following paragraphs are in US Dollars. If you’ve
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxy The galaxy is the most distant galaxy that has been discovered and has been designated at z8_GND_5296. It took light from the galaxy about 13 billion years to reach the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope. Both
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Glass half empty or glass half full… it’s all a matter of attitude. While purveyors of doom continue to predict the impending demise of the desktop PC, I prefer to believe there will always be a healthy demand for the full-blown capabilities of desktop PCs.
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Whether your an advanced power user or just your average home user, system information and monitoring utilities can provide a wealth of valuable information about your system and its hardware. In this article we’re going to take a look at some of the best freeware
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As reported by 9TO5Mac, Apple has started a replacement program for the graphics card in selected iMacs sold between May 2011 and October 2012. The affected 27-inch iMacs have: Sandy Bridge processors Thunderbolt ports 3.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 OR 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
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Introduction BIOS is an acronym for Basic Input Output System definition n. – The set of routines stored in read-only memory that enable a computer to start the operating system and to communicate with the various devices in the system, such as disk drives, keyboard,
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We’ve decided to start including the odd video guide as part of our overall service and I have been nominated ‘chief guinea pig’. 🙂 This is a first for me and I openly admit it was a quite nerve wracking experience. I’m not sure why
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