Friday July 25, 2008 16:55
Amid complaints that Windows Vista is hurting the development of solid state drives, SanDisk now says it is working with Microsoft to optimize SSDs for "the Windows experience." But the company refused to provide details of Vista's problem, and Microsoft...
Tuesday July 22, 2008 16:59
SanDisk has blamed Windows Vista for the poor performance of its solid-state drives. Speaking during the company's second-quarter earnings conference call, chairman and chief executive officer, Eli Harari, said Vista wasn't exploiting the full potential...
Thursday May 15, 2008 09:21
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware
It's not AMD's fault. Multiple fingers are pointing to a key OEM that may have taken a lazy way out. As with any patch/service pack, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP has not been without its hiccups. This is more or less standard, as Microsoft can't test...
Tuesday April 22, 2008 15:45
ASUS Eee PC 4G pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP is available immediately in selected Best Buy retail stores in the United States. The wide availability in Best Buy retail stores will provide a hands-on experience for potential users to explore this...
Monday March 31, 2008 16:27
Early friday morning Creative decided to release a notice to Daniel_K on the Creative forum: Daniel_K: We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that...
Saturday March 22, 2008 16:22
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware
Swiss board vendor Digital-Logic has announced a Celeron M or Pentium M based processor module small enough for use on PC/104-format carrier boards. The MSM855 is based on an Intel 855GME chipset, and targets Windows-based navigation, telecommunications,...
Monday March 10, 2008 16:11
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware, Tips and Tricks, Windows
In the long list of odious chores, defragmenting your hard drive is right up there with flossing your teeth and washing your dog--or flossing your dog's teeth, for that matter. There is little agreement on how much--or even whether--defragmenting...
Monday March 3, 2008 16:30
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware
Intel announced that "Atom" will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. The company...
QSI has introduced an in-cab computer based on Windows CE 5.0. Intended for fleet management, dispatching, and mapping applications, the Treq-L has an 800 x 480 touchscreen display, optional 802.11b/g wireless networking, an integrated GPS receiver, and a...
Sunday March 2, 2008 11:30
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware
Kinston Technology, a leading supplier of memory modules, demonstrated on Thursday its ability to overclock its HyperX DDR3 memory modules to unprecedented clock-speed with the help of a mainboard running Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation core-logic...
Thursday February 21, 2008 09:00
Posted by BSchwarz as Hardware
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released the source code aimed at making it easier to build media applications for x86 multicore processors. The AMD Performance Library, which is now called Framewave, is available on SourceForge The framework...
Friday February 8, 2008 09:49
Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology developed by one of its professors. Back in...
About a week ago, we quoted a report that said memory prices were finally on their way back up after last year's downward spiral. The report said it was likely that pricing for 512Mb DDR2 memory chips would climb back from around $0.94 to over the $1...