Headline: WOW! Great performance in a small package! So recently I was copying my music from my external drive to my notebook and it seemed to take forever. So I investigated a new external drive. My Seagate Slim Black USB 500GB I’ve been very pleased with this drive. It is a physical drive so it […]
Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’
Dell Precision M45oo Review
Sunday, Nov 21st, 2010 by Karl | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, OCZ, SSD, Windows 7
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, OCZ, SSD, Windows 7
Headline: I’m very happy! Details My wife gave her computer to a friend… Her needs were different from the capabilities of that computer. It was a nice computer – a tablet PC with 250 GB hard drive, but no battery life and fairly weak graphics and CPU performance. So she convinced me that I needed […]
My Turbo Boost Is Not Working…
Friday, Oct 29th, 2010 by Karl | 2 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, i7, Intel, Turbo Boost
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, i7, Intel, Turbo Boost
Headline: If you are using PassMark PerformanceTest to test your i7 processor with Turbo Boost, make sure you have the latest version of their software. A bug in versions prior to build 1016 would cause Turbo Boost to stop working once you launched PerformanceTest (at least on a 64-bit machine). Strange but true story… I […]
Entertainment Wins–Hi Resolution Loses
Headline: 1920 x 1200 resolution loses out to 1920 x 1080 (1080p). Not news, but it seems to have gone unnoticed by many. I was thrilled when the higher resolution monitors came out. They were expensive, but I still enjoy my Dell 2407WFP monitory that has 1920 x 1200 native resolution. It rotates to make […]
My SSD Rocks
Saturday, Mar 13th, 2010 by Karl | 2 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, Intel, SSD
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, Intel, SSD
Technorati Tags: Intel,SSD,Dell,Hardware Headline: My new Intel 160 GB X25M SSD (Solid State Drive) is really fast! 200+ MB/sec read and 90+ MB/sec write! Background I sort of smiled when I opened up my new drive this week to see a little sticker that said, “My SSD Rocks!”. You see, I had a SSD before… […]