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Category Archives: Hardware
Gamestop Dropping Zune, What Exactly is Microsoft’s Zune Strategy Now?
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How sad it is that the biggest news to come from the Zune front in the past few months is anything but positive: Word is out that Gamestop has stopped selling Zunes.
Honestly, I’m surprised it took this long, not because the Zune 2 is a worthless player (despite what some other news [...]
Intel’s New "Atom" Chips Bring Us Closer to Ubiquitous Mobile Computing
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 [...]
Apple Air versus Asus Eee: A Comparison
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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 [...]
The Forgotten Format War: Toshiba’s "DVD-Audio" vs Sony’s "Super Audio CD"
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All this talk about the HD DVD and Blu-ray format war being over has reminded me of a similar situation involving two other competing media formats. Not many people realize that the current format war was not the first “high-definition” war between Toshiba and Sony. The battle for high-definition audio supremacy has actually been going [...]
The Drobo: Finally, Personal Data Backup Done Right!
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 [...]
The iPhone 3G is a Call to Arms for Mobile Computing