Posts Filed Under — Computers

[ August 28th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

DIY Solid State Disk: 8GB RAID USB SSD in an FDD Shell

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If you tend to hoard your old PC parts with the hopes of one day cannibalizing them and producing something great, then this [...]

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[ August 26th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Crayola EZ Type Keyboard Looks Goofy, Lacks Many Useful Keys

When I start to teach my boy to use a computer, it won’t be on a Crayola EZ Type. I started my computer life pretty well as young as it is feasible and the chunkified clicky off-white keyboards of yore did just fine. I am a firm believer in not dumbing down technology for kids, [...]

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[ August 22nd, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

USB 3.0 Gets a Speed Test From Fresco Logic

USB 3.0 is fast, very fast, and that is exciting. It is exciting more for what can be accomplished using USB than the speeds that it achieves. At 4.8Gbit/s (maximum theoretical) or 600 MB/S (maximum achieved) it would seem plenty fast enough to handle just about any task that you can throw at it (including [...]

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[ August 20th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase to Make Travel Slightly Less Excruciating

The Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase is pretty much just a laptop bag, but it is designed with security checkpoints in mind. The manufacturer claims that it requires only three-seconds of preparation for the checkpoint procedure.
If you travel with a laptop then you are no doubt aware that things can be a bit of [...]

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[ August 19th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Intel SSDs Hit the Market

Intel’s SATA solid state drive (SSD) looks set to hit the market, which is reasonably exciting news when you consider the fact that another big player in the market is likely to drive prices the way that we want them. The Intel SSDs will come in both 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch flavors. Sizes that have been [...]

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