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Sandisk SSD vs Seagate HD
Grant Gochnauer sent along another cool benchmarking article showing how the Sandisk 32GB SSD (solid state drive) stacks up against a Seagate 160GB HD in a laptop. The bottom lines are: Read-speed is impressive and very consistent Write-speed is surprisingly disappointing Seek-speed and load times are insanely high (programs “instantly” load, Windows boots 9secs faster) Price is ridiculous for SSD [...]
Continue reading...How Important is Fast Memory?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]
Continue reading...Dell Allows Users to Skip Bloatware
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Looks like Dell will begin allowing users to check a box during the computer order form process that will skip the installation of many many trial-ware pieces of software that vendors pay Dell hundreds for to allow them to get on the new PCs, hoping to get new consumers signed up. For most folks, this will [...]
Continue reading...1986 Mac vs 2007 AMD Dual Core
Thursday, May 31, 2007
This is pretty unbelievable. HubPages has put together this great “productivity comparison” between the original Mac Plus and a brand new AMD Dual Core machine. The idea being not the overall functionality, but the productivity boost doing the most common office-based tasks (Saving, editing, copy-paste, etc.) and seeing the performance differences between the machines. Even though [...]
Continue reading...New Vista Laptops Take Ages to Boot
Friday, April 6, 2007
The Wall Street Journal did a piece on a new Sony Vaio that the author got with Windows Vista on it and how sluggish the laptop is overall. My favorite quote from the article is: I also was shocked at how long this machine took to restart and to do a cold start after being completely [...]
Continue reading...What Software Programs Slow Down Your PC The Most?
Friday, January 26, 2007
Very cool article by thepcspy. The site is getting hammered right now, so check out the Google Cache of the results page. Also in the comments section of Digg folks posted their favorite utilities for cleaning garbage off your computer, it’s a great reference. Just for reference I duped the final results here, this is straight [...]
Continue reading...I Hate Laptop Manufacturers
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
This Christmas brought different laptops to some family members that I ended up helping setup and over all, looking at everything from a brand new Sony, to a new HP, to a new ThinkPad I have to say that I hate Laptop Manufacturers. There are three reasons for this: They all think creating their own utilities to [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Speed Downgraded, Again
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
If you think back to when the PS3 was first announced and it was going to have 8 cell processors or something like that, then that got downgraded to 6, where 1 of them is dormant and will act as a backup incase of a failure (who pre-bundles CPUs incase of failure? What other device [...]
Continue reading...PostgreSQL compared to MySQL 4.1 and 5.0
Monday, August 21, 2006
Ran across a fairly good tabular comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.1/5.0. I’ve personally always held the belief that a good way to determine which one you should use is to ask yourself: Do you want Oracle or MS SQL Server without the commercial prices? NO: Using MySQL is fine YES: Use PostgreSQL Do you plan on coding all [...]
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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