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Nokia N82, unlike the N95 Battery Life is not an Issue.

Another day, another nice gadget. Now I thought my ASUS EEE PC was handy, and by god it is. Having the freedom to Program, type, or just plain old messing around on the move is great. Yet, now I have another wonderful device, which completes the picture.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Jan 17, 2008 - 08:00 AM Read full article: 'Nokia N82, unlike the N95 Battery Life is not an Issue.' (217 more words)

ASUS EEE PC

On the last day of November I recieved a truely wonderful parcel, within its cheap cardboard packing lay a marvelous peice of computing history: the ASUS eee notebooky thingy.

As you can tell by the time differential between the publishing of this article, either: I have been busy with coursework; the eee has stolen my soul; or someone has sneekily made good use of a 'publish story later' feature in their CMS.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Dec 13, 2007 - 07:20 PM Read full article: 'ASUS EEE PC' (390 more words)

Are Solid-state Drives Ready for Prime Time?

Well, according to Samsung they are. Samsung, along with PQI, are strong advocates of Solid-state drives (SSD), and took the time to talk to DailyTech about the advantages of SSDs. Personally, as you may know, Tech-Rant has been covering SSDs in some detail; as I feel the implementation of these drives in to the mainstream computer will be a turning point in the average system's performance, similar to that of dual core processors.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Nov 24, 2006 - 11:20 PM Read full article: 'Are Solid-state Drives Ready for Prime Time?' (405 more words)

UK copyright laws are outdated

I did not realise until today that, unlike in the States, in the UK we can not make a copy of a CD or DVD for our own personal usage. In fact, the majority of the United Kingdom's populous is breaking the law every single week when they rip music from a CD to their MP3 player.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Oct 31, 2006 - 11:05 AM Read full article: 'UK copyright laws are outdated' (93 more words)

Engineers Brainstorm DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Media

DailyTech has reported that Warner engineers have come up with the idea of a DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Disc and have filed a patent for the media. The design would feature a Blu-Ray layer on top of a HD-DVD layer with the DVD layer on the other side of the disc. The lasers used by the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD formats allow this system to work.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Sep 18, 2006 - 10:03 PM Read full article: 'Engineers Brainstorm DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Media' (246 more words)

TDK Announce Solid State Hard Drive

TDK have developed the smallest solid state NAND flash memory drive. This solid state hard drive is just smaller than your average 2.5 inch laptop hard drive. In addition a solid state hard drive uses considerably less electricity and is less prone to errors than a conventional hard drive.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Sep 16, 2006 - 08:25 AM Read full article: 'TDK Announce Solid State Hard Drive' (131 more words)

32Gb Flash Memory Announced

Samsung have announced their 40nm 32 gigabyte NAND flash memory today. Thanks to a new development called "New Charge Trap Flash" technology, or NCTF for short, it is now possible to produce flash memory devices up to 64GB in size. This should be a significant development as flash memory of this size will rival traditional hard disc technology in many markets.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Sep 11, 2006 - 07:05 PM Read full article: '32Gb Flash Memory Announced' (167 more words)

SLi / CrossFire 'certified' components: a waste of money?

After reading the news on DailyTech and finding out that OCZ have started to release CrossFire certified memeory, it made me think about these certification systems nVidia and ATi are doing.

The whole idea is to create two recognisable brands that systems builders can use to choose quality components, or ones which are good for overclockers. However, when you think about it this might not be advantageous to the consumer.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Sep 09, 2006 - 08:35 PM Read full article: 'SLi / CrossFire 'certified' components: a waste of money?' (134 more words)

Optical Media Eraser: Pointless?

It seems Plextor are to launch an Optical Media Eraser, for those security conscious folks. Now I can not think any computer hardware enthusiast buying this, but it might have its place in the workplace. That is, until you think about it -- there are many more cost effective, and perhaps more importantly more enjoyable, methods of doing this. Hence, I declare this certain piece of hardware 'innovation' pointless.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Aug 04, 2006 - 11:00 AM Read full article: 'Optical Media Eraser: Pointless?' (261 more words)

HD DVD and Blu-Ray encryption already beaten?

Isn't it strange how encryption on hardware and software always claims to be even stronger, yet it always gets cracked in the same short amount of time?

The encryption methods used on the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats were both far superior to the CSS system used on DVDs; yet, it seems the new tougher encryption system AACS has been almost as easy to beat.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Aug 03, 2006 - 03:01 PM Read full article: 'HD DVD and Blu-Ray encryption already beaten?' (250 more words)

Followup on SSD drives

Samsung have given more information about their SSD drives, which I talked about here. It seems the price of the unit, which had previously been reported at around 0 per 4GB unit, was gross over estimate. Samsung state to DailyTech that the units will cost significantly less, perhaps even $100 less. This may mean that the iRam system will be reduced in price to remain competitive.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Jul 27, 2006 - 02:17 PM Read full article: 'Followup on SSD drives' (184 more words)

Flash SSD for Hard Drives

This article on DailyTech, looks particularly interesting. As hard drive speeds are possibly the biggest bottleneck for computers right now. The affordable hard drive has been stuck at 7200 rpm for some time now, and there has been little to improve this. NCQ, bigger caches, SATA, and SATA-300 (or whatever they want to call SATA-II these days), have really done little to improve speeds.

Posted by: NineThreeNine on Jul 26, 2006 - 11:48 AM Read full article: 'Flash SSD for Hard Drives' (277 more words)

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