Intel's latest mobile processor offering, the Intel Atom, is one powerful little beast. It measures around 25mm, but still manages to fit in the Core 2 Duo instruction set and speeds up to 1.8Ghz. While these tiny trooopers certainly won't be able to compete with a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, they shouldn't really have to. The chipset housing this new processor, Centrino Atom, will also feature low-powered integrated graphics and wireless capability.
You can read more about the technical specifics of the Atom platform over at CrunchGear or Intel's press release, what I'm more interested in is what this new ...
I think we all agree: The Macbook Air is a gorgeous machine. During his keynote presentation, Steve Jobs whipped the entire Macworld audience into a fervor with his trademarked Apple enthusiasm for this new member of the Macbook family. With the Air we have an insanely light computer that still manages to fit in a 13.3" screen and a screaming fast Core 2 Duo CPU.
But while it's undoubtedly a singular machine, is it really worth the $1799 price tag when you can get much of the same functionality with Asus's $400 Eee? I understand that the Air is more in ...
Ars Technica has a review of the Drobo, a device which I've been following for quite some time. It is essentially a personal backup system that allows you to easily plug in four separate SATA hard drives and take advantage of their combined storage. The kicker is that the Drobo does this while also reserving some space for data protection purposes. So if for some reason one of your drives happen to fail you can just yank out the faulty drive and replace it with a new one. The Drobo, through its automagic processes, will then restore the lost data ...
I came across this seemingly typical Engadget story today, announcing yet another 1 Terabyte external hard drive solution that utilizes dual hard drives, when I realized it was time to speak out out against these inane devices. These external hard drive setups have been marketed for the last couple years as a foolproof storage solution, but I would recommend them as the last place you'd want to store your precious digital wares.
The Trouble With RAID 0
The key to their troubling nature lies in their "ingenious" method for increasing disk capacity: Literally sandwiching hard drives together. External solutions such as these ...
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