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In a world full of wireless services and products, ethernet almost seems like a product of a bygone era. And honestly, why use it? In actuality, there are still plenty of reasons to use wire-based networking solutions such as ethernet. For one, there is at many times, less latency. Not to mention, there is far less risk of interference or hijacking of precious data. Finally, depending on the surroundings and other previously mentioned factors, ethernet tends to be faster. And with the explosion of online video and other bandwidth intensive services, even the 100 Gigabit throughput current ethernet is getting strained.
By 2015 however, things will be much peppier according to University of California students. The reason being new ethernet technology that will push the maximum throughput up to 1 terabit per second. By 2020, that number jumps to 100 terabits per second…
USB 3 and eSATA may be the king and queen when it comes to external speed, but no technology is more promising than Intel’s Light Peak. While USB 3.0 was a marginal, linear progression from USB 2.0 and 1.0 before it, Light Peak is exponentially faster. For example, USB 3.0 has a theoretical top speed of 5.0Gbps. Though real-world speeds tend to hover around 100-130MB/s. Still, that’s a helluva lot better than their previous technologies. Light Peak on the other hand has a theoretical top speed of 10Gbps, which will obviously offer at least double the real-world transfer speeds. But what’s slightly surprising is that Intel showed off the successor to Light Peak — mind you, Light Peak still has 3-5 years before we actually see it in mainstream products.
If Light Peak is all the rage in geek world currently, the successor has to be something special, right? Right! Light Peak tops out at 10Gbps. Ok, awesome. But Intel’s even faster laser-based technology will allow data transmissions of up to 12.5Gbps across (4) laser beams, netting nearly ~50Gbps of total bandwidth. That’s inane! But that’s just the beginning…
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I try as hard as I can to make my carbon footprint as little as possible. Though I’m not some living with the animals, wearing loincloths type of extreme. Still, every little bit counts. Along that same path, an all electric bike would be a pretty neat way to traverse our little blue marble floating in space and time wouldn’t it?
If I had to pick my all electric ride, I’d pick the MotoCzysz E1 without hesitation. Why? Oh, only the fact that this rather small bike has 10x more batteries than a Toyota Prius and tops out at 140mph. Also noteworthy, the MotoCzysc E1 has 2.5x more torque than a Ducatti 1198 — wow! You may be criticizing the 140mph top speed as it isn’t exactly blazing by sport bike standards. But then again, most sport bikes don’t have 10 Prius’ worth of batteries strapped to their frame, do they?
The story goes, the E1 was designed to compete in the bike race of all bike races — Isle of Man TT. If a bike can withstand the 37.7 of nerve torturing road and maintain an above 100MPH average, you have on your hands a good bike. Unfortunately, the team behind the E1 barely got to stretch the E1′s legs as an electric spike killed the ECU, putting an end to their race day festivities. Though at the time of the E1′s electric stroke, it was supposedly way out front.
And this all from a 6-person team more or less is rather impressive. There’s always next year…
BlackBerry users will want to take a minute or two out of their hectic schedule today in order to fulfill one app update that’s worth grabbing. The popular Bolt Browser has been updated to 2.1.
With it comes enhanced Facebook integration as well as an updated webkit engine. The latter of which is always considered a good thing as such updates usually beget speed. And we all know how much rendering speed means in the mobile sphere.
But speed isn’t everything. Namely, tabbed browsing, better page rendering, and HTML5 are now part of the game. What are you waiting for?
DL link is right inside.
Scientific number munchers look elsewhere, this is not your Google-sourced, bar chart type of benchmark. It’s nothing more than a dude from Android Police running a benchmark using LinPack. But that benchmark is quite telling.
At stock speeds and non-rooted, the Nexus One averages 6-7MFLOPS. Alright, decent showing. But, flash Android 2.2 (Froyo) on that beast and the ‘putin is kicked up several notches to an average of 37MFLOPS! Talk about a speed increase. That’s a huge improvement brought about by nothing more than more efficient coding. I don’t know if I should be ecstatic for the new found power or depressed that Android was so inefficient this was possible…
Either way, it’s good news for Android users. Whether or not we’ll actually see 450% of real world improvement (and that’s what’s really important) n day to day tasks, under the hood everything should be a lot happier — especially with Flash focusing it’s sights on your Android devices’ resources.
Android 2.2 has my vote. What’s yours?
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The HTC Inedible is as much a beast sitting in the hand as it is on paper. With a screaming fast Snapdragon processor, Sense UI, and a gorgeous AMOLED display, many are left saying “Nexus what?” But it may not be all roses and furry bunnies. A couple of videos have surfaced, compliments of a new Incredible owner showing that a Motorola DROID overclocked to 1GHz (running Pete’s Bugless Beast v1 ROM) actually beats the DROID Incredible also clocked at 1GHz. Say it isn’t so! Why yes, it appears to be…
*Warning: Nerd alert!*
Building and maintaining a custom PC is a work that is rewarding and depressing all at the same time. Depending on how long it took you to build your PC, the “top end” components may already be outdated and 1-2 generations behind of current hardware. Such is the battle we fight…
Great Zeus’ Beard! Just when I thought 1.3 GHz was the fastest (and most insane) speeds I’d see from the DROID’s rather humble 600MHz processor (550MHz self neutering by Moto), along comes this “Jake” guy from AllDroid to blow all previous records out of the water with his 1.8GHz kernel. Yes, that’s 1,800MHz on a phone that normally chugs along at a — let’s be honest — anemic 550MHz. If you need another example, at 1.8GHz, the phone is right at 300% of normal *designed* operating frequency. That’s insane!
Besides a few prayers, liquid nitrogen, and 911 on speed dial, nothing but a few lines of code and a determination to turn your DROID into a puddle of molten plastic is needed to get up and runnin’ at 1.8GHz. From the looks of things, he has the 1.8GHz option disabled by default, though an update is supposedly coming “soon” to unlock it once a few dev issues are worked out — probably some voltage/heat quarreling if I can hazard a guess. While you wait, feel free to get comfortable with the other 5 speed options available to you: 250/600/900/1100/1300/1500/(1800 tba).
You know, it’s mighty impressive if the DROID can even run at 1.8GHz for a short amount of time, let alone in the 800MHz – 1.3GHz range day-to-day, stably, and without melting over the long term. Says a lot for the A8 generation does it not?
Anyone going to try it? Follow the action over at AllDroid.
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Speed, like drugs, hobbies, food, and smoking is addictive. With speed, the adrenaline rush that follows is the natural high for some. In the tech world, while we ourselves may not be moving hundreds of miles per hour in the dopest ride, we do have certain objects that move at high velocity — hard drives. As far as old spinners go, the general rule of thumb is that the faster the drive spins, the faster it will perform. Now, this isn’t exact as a few other factors such as connection interface, number of platters, and cache size also affect the end result. But if you want to soon move from merely “fast” to really fast, Western Digital has a new set of VelociRaptor hard drives they’d love you to take a look at.
While not technically revealed “officially” yet, the announcement is due soon..as in within the next couple weeks soon. The new found speed will come courtesy of the drives utilizing the newer, faster data SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) protocol. Other notable mentions that have no tie to speed include a small 2.5″ form factor wrapped in the 3.5″ “IcePack” cooler allowing easy installation in your standard sized drive bay. Another nod goes to the 3ms average latency time which I might add is pretty damn fast for your standard “moving” hard drive.
Like many other hard drives coming onto the market, the new VelociRaptors will also feature a “NoTouch Ramp” technology which simply means the drive head never touches the actual drive meaning longer life all around and less chances for hard drive failures — yay.
Finally, one corporate-grade feature that is moving down to this prosumer drive is that of “Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF)” This little spiffy piece of tech will help the drive cope with high vibration situations. In the corporate world, certain environments such as the drive being stuffed in a large drive array within a server farm is the most obvious image that comes immediately to mind. For consumers who won’t really ever move their computer or face the same levels of vibration in the home environment, this feature likely won’t return any investment. Still, it’s nice that WD included it.
In my personal experience with a few VelociRaptor drives currently on the market as well as seeing countless reviews, benchmarks, and hands-on videos comparing these drives to comparable SSD’s has left me rather unimpressed. The price premium for the ‘Raptors doesn’t come anywhere close to balancing out on any return in investment (read: speed). Even still, these new drives will no doubt win over countless geeks and speed freaks for yet another generation.
Will WD actually hit that claimed 15% increase in speed on this next generation of ‘Raptor drives?
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