March 11th 2010
It is raining 10-inch notebooks at Mobile Tech Manor today as the UPS guy just dropped off the Viliv S10 Blade. The S10 is a notebook from Korea that has some features not found in most netbooks. The convertible screen swings around to convert from notebook to slate tablet, and is augmented by a unique resistive [...]
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 11th 2010
Tags: Mdash, Nbsp, Ocz, Onyx, Ssd, Storage, Wonderful Thing
March 10th 2010
32GB, 64MB cache, and read and write speeds of 25MB/s and 70MB/s aren’t terribly exciting when it comes to a solid state drive, but the OCZ Onyx still caught our eye because it’s among the first SSDs to slip below $100. [Hot Hardware via CrunchGear] More »
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Tags: Cache, Hardware, Ocz, Onyx, Solid [...]
March 4th 2010
Tags: Corsair, Force Series, Solid State Drives, Ssd, Ssds
March 4th 2010
Tags: Corsair, Force Series, Solid State Drives, Ssd, Ssds
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Money, Names, Ssd, Ssds, Storage, Wd, Western Digital
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 11th 2010
Although SSD storage still haven’t achieved the mass market penetration as their churning, analogue counterparts, they are gradually becoming more popular as their storage capacity ramps up, and their costs ramp down.
Now, a team of Japanese researchers have announced a technology that has the potential to finally catapult SSDs to market dominance: they have [...]
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February 11th 2010
Anyone familiar with Moore’s Law will know that over the years, storage has got bigger and cheaper. But the possibility of a 1TB SSD being the size of a postage stamp? Sounds impossible, but not to…
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Tags: 1tb, Moore S Law, Postage Stamp, Sounds, Ssd, Storage
February 10th 2010
A lot of small gadgets come through Mobile Tech Manor but it is rare that one impresses me like the little UMID mbook BZ. My friends at Dynamism sent one of these little laptops for evaluation and I am still trying to figure out how the folks at UMID crammed so much in such a [...]
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
I am a big fan of convertible notebooks, especially those that add multitouch to the mix. Fujitsu has long been a maker of fine Tablet PCs, and the T900 looks to be another fine entry in its product line. The T900 has a 13.3-inch screen and can be configured with several Intel processors, up to [...]
February 3rd 2010
Perhaps you heard that Intel and Micron were teaming up to open a new 25nm NAND flash facility in Lehi, Utah. It’s pretty big news, especially if you are following the SSD market as this should lead to higher capacity SSDs and more affordable products.
Now these are normally closed facilities filled with clean rooms and [...]
February 2nd 2010
UMPCs may not have ever truly caught on the way some of us had hoped, but Fujitsu keeps marching forward in the product category anyway. Pocketables noticed that the Fujitsu America site recently added the LifeBook UH900 to help keep the portable PC dream alive. Ah… but big dreams — and little gadgets — often [...]
February 2nd 2010
Intel and Micron have a joint-venture company called Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) which was created in 2006. The aim of IMFT is to create the best NAND chips for both companies to take advantage of. This week it looks as though the partnership is paying off with IMFT being the first to introduce 25nm [...]
February 1st 2010
Intel and Micron’s IMFT joint venture’s just announced they’ve started producing NAND flash using 25nm transistors—they’re pushing 8GB on a single die—with products shipping sometime this…
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Tags: Intel, Joint Venture, Mdash, Micron, Nand Flash, Ssd, Ssds, Transistors
February 1st 2010
Does anybody else remember those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials? You know, the ones: “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!” Well, even if you never saw them, you probably get the idea. And if not, ExoPC is here with a modern day example of [...]
January 28th 2010
Land a Dell Mini 10 and throw an OCZ Agility SSD in it for killer performance. Celebrate your acquisition and ingenuity by stopping off at DQ for a Blizzard, unless you’re currently stuck in an…
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Tags: Acquisition, Agility, Blizzard, Dell, Dq, Gadget, Ingenuity, Killer Performance, Ssd