March 15th 2010
I love my netbook, but there are times when I feel the pinch placed upon me by the paucity of the machine’s specs. Sure, most netbooks come with a good amount of storage, but you lose out on an optical drive, which can seriously impact your ability to watch movies or install software. Even worse: [...]
March 13th 2010
Toshiba kindly sent not one, but two evaluation notebooks and today I’m sharing a short video look at the Satellite U505. This 13.3″ device runs $799 as configured and is powered by Intel Core i3 platform. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium is included as is 4 GB of DDR3 memory and a 500 GB hard [...]
March 11th 2010
As Sal recently demonstrated, replacing your conventional hard drive with an SSD alternative is a pretty simple operation. It’s not the installation that stops us upgrading though, it’s the price.
OCZ is about to remove that price barrier with the announcement of the Onyx 32GB SATA 2.5″ SSD. The price for this storage-challenged hard drive? Under [...]
March 10th 2010
Microsoft did something right with Windows XP. While hardly an exciting operating system by modern standards, Microsoft still managed to deliver a flawlessly realized OS at the time… so well executed that it has happily met the needs of computer users for over a decade, even as hardware has radically changed. It’s been so popular [...]
March 8th 2010
Tags: Current, Drive Storage, Hard Drive, Mdash, Microscopic Crystals, Quantum Dots, Quantum Hard, Science, Scientists, Semiconductor Structure, Starters, Storage Capacity
March 8th 2010
Tags: Clocks, Drive Clock, Fly, Hard Drive, Harley Davidson, Hinge, Onlookers, Russian Designer
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Bad News, Hard Drive, Hot Tub, Peripherals, Porn, Pornography, Smut, Time Machine, Tub Time
March 2nd 2010
When it comes to netbooks there is no such thing as too thin nor too light, and the new Averatec N1200 is certainly both. The 10-inch netbook weighs in at a svelte 2.2 pounds, in a case that is less than an inch thick. There are three different models of the N1200, all of them [...]
February 26th 2010
Tags: Backup Disk, Backup Storage, Ball Of Fire, Drive Storage, Hard Disk, Hard Drive, Hell, Macworld, Mayhem, Solid State Drive
February 24th 2010
Viliv showed off its S10 Blade touchscreen netbook at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, but kept mum on pricing and availability. Here in the U.S. the device is now available for pre-order through Dynamism with a starting price of $699. That’s the lowest configuration available and although the S10 supports 3-point multitouch, it won’t work [...]
February 17th 2010
While it is true that I’ve been using mobile devices since they weighed 30 pounds, my excitement for them didn’t peak until they got quite a bit lighter. In 2004 Sony released a mobile device that changed my mobile world completely. The Sony U70 ultra-portable PC was such a ground-breaking mobile device that it set [...]
February 16th 2010
You might know how a hard drive works, but how one is made is a completely different story. These devices are so incredible because of the exact same reason why they are losing ground to solid-state devices: they have moving parts. This means in they have to have the tightest of tolerances while working at [...]
February 16th 2010
If viruses evolved as quickly as USB hard drive docks, mankind would be but a rotted pile of bones littered with the occasional green bottle of NyQuil.
The $80 Sharkoon SATA QuickPort Duo is a…
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Tags: Docks, Hard Drive, Mankind, Pile Of Bones, Sharkoon, Usb Drive, Usb Peripherals, Viruses
February 15th 2010
Lotsa people are having serious memory leak problems with Aperture 3—even our Wilson, who woke up this morning to find that Aperture had eaten his entire hard drive, using it all for virtual…
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Tags: Aperture, Crazy People, Hard Drive, Hard Drives, Lotsa, Mdash, Memory Leak Problems, Memory Problems
February 5th 2010
If the gadget paparazzi at the FCC were hoping for photos of something unique on the netbook front, the LG X20 isn’t quite it. Luckily, our undaunted government testers don’t let yet another netbook model get them down, so we’ve got information on the new device, courtesy of Liliputing.
The X20 offers the same internals as most new [...]
February 5th 2010
Upgrading your laptop’s storage device from a hard disk drive to a solid-state drive is one of the best things you can to do increase performance. With SSD prices dropping and capacities on the rise, it might finally be time to make the move. This guide runs through a painless way to upgrade your [...]
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February 4th 2010
So, the HDDBOOST may be ridiculously brilliant. It’s a hard drive bay that offers SATA connections to both a normal hard drive and a solid state drive. Ultimately, it promises the speeds of SSD with…
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Tags: Cheap Pcs, Fuses, Hard Drive, Hdds, Solid State Drive, Ssd
February 3rd 2010
In case your calendar doesn’t show it, today is touch Tablet PC day. First up was Fujitsu with its new T900 and now it’s Toshiba’s turn and the Portégé M780. My very first Tablet PC was a Toshiba M205, so I sort of have a soft spot for this new tabby. Like my old workhorse, [...]
January 28th 2010
Hard drive clocks are a dime a dozen on sites like Etsy, but Hacked Gadgets reader NatureTM went the extra mile and employed an Arduino to control the time and LED light show on the reflective…
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Tags: Arduino, Clocks, Control, Dime A Dozen, Drive Clock, Etsy, Extra Mile, Gadgets, Hard Drive, Led Light
January 27th 2010
Dell offered to loan me a Mini 10 netbook to see what the new Intel Atom N450 platform can do. Of course, I said yes and the device arrived earlier this morning. While the Mini line of netbooks isn’t new, I haven’t had any extended time with Dell’s netbook offerings. This particular unit includes the [...]