Lug around a laptop — a desktop replacement/gaming laptop no less — and longing for something a little more substantial in the GPU department? Gaming oriented laptops certainly have a leg up on the standard laptop affair when it comes to graphical power. But even then, a high-end laptop GPU doesn’t really hold a candle to it’s desktop sibling. Even more extreme — any self respecting gamer wouldn’t even think of gaming on a netbook. But...
SSD’s have come a long way since “back in the day”. From measly single-digit storage capacities unfairly matched with astronomic prices to half a terabyte capacities for a fraction of the cost. Of course, half a terabyte in SSD’s is still going to cost you a pretty penny compared to current HDD models. Speaking of that half a terabyte claim, OCZ has taken the wraps off of two new options in their Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD lines. If speed is number...
Tired of desperately searching for a powerful yet svelte laptop to carry with you on life’s journeys while still getting 5+ hours of battery life? Currently the two words “powerful” and “runtime” don’t go together. To have one you must sacrifice the other. But Intel has something up their sleeve… Would you consider a netbook/ultra portable laptop powered by some anemic ULV processor? For anyone who actually uses a laptop, the...
School — it’s a time for fall, school supplies, falling leaves, and…processors? Yes, says Intel. In Q4 of this year, a new Core i5 580m processor will debut bringing with it more speed and power. Specifically, the 580m will be clocked at 2.66GHz, up from the old predecessors 2.53GHz. Even better, the super speedy TurboBoost feature that overclocks a single core when multiple aren’t needed will apparently push the 580m up to a rather brisk 3.33GHz...
Remember 2008? The year that saw the birth of the iPhone 3G, citizen journalism begin to take off, and of course, the launch of Android on the G1. But one thing that many have forgotten was that 2008 was also the year in which Seagate was touting their upcoming “Hybrid hard drive technology”. Essentially, it was a small bit of SLC memory stuffed onboard your standard platter-based hard drive with the intentions of increasing data throughput while also...
