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24 Samsung SSD RAID Array – 2 GB/sec
In a brilliant marketing move, Samsung sent 24 SSDs to a group to play with/benchmark and this is what they ended up doing with it: Building a dual, quad-core monster box With a 24-disk SSD RAID array The machine at it’s peak performance gets around 2 GB/sec (not gigaBIT, but gigaBYTE). To show off what that really means [...]
Continue reading...Lenovo Uses Samsung SSDs in ThinkPads – Safe From Performance Problems
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I currently have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 — I got it a little over 2 years ago and have loved it. Lenovo support, while crumby at first, really came through the other time I needed them — calling to schedule a repair on a Saturday morning in order to get my repaired laptop back to [...]
Continue reading...Open Source DRM Solution, Marlin, Ready for Distribution
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Marlin Developer Community claims to have ready the first Open Source DRM solution that is ready for rollout. The co-chairman of the Marlin Developer Community claims the open-source system is far less oppressive than those from rivals such as Apple and Microsoft, allowing users to share content between any Marlin-enabled device in the home rather than [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Instinct, the iPhone’s Closest Competitor
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
On June 20th Sprint is set to announce the iPhone’s closest competitor: The Samsung Instinct. The Instinct offers the same approach to a phone device that the iPhone made popular: slapping a myriad of features into a “slab” touch-screen design but wrapping all that functionality with an intuitive design. The Instinct is bringing all the usual suspects [...]
Continue reading...UPDATE: Samsung LNT-xx71f Dead Pixel Panel Replacement
Monday, June 16, 2008
You might have caught our coverage at the end of May of the seeming problem Samsung was having with their LNT-xx71f (LNT-5271F specifically) panels having dead pixels popup out of the clear blue after a few months of use. One of the readers, TiVoHD, pointed out that it’s a known issue and referred to as “delamination”. [...]
Continue reading...Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Momail has announced support for the upcoming 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia releases. For the folks fuzzy on what Momail does, it more or less acts as a super mobile-mail-service in that all the receiving, delivery and sending of mail is optimized around the “mobile device” environment you are on. That includes respecting multiple sender addresses [...]
Continue reading...Samsung L870 – Symbian OS + Safari Mobile Browser
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Details have popped up showing that the Samsung L870 is actually a Symbian S60 smartphone, slider form factor using (get this) the Apple Safari Mobile Browser. Yea… not WebKit, but specifically Safari Mobile… go figure. Here are the specs for anyone waiting on a new slider that want the “real web” on a 2.4″ QVGA screen [...]
Continue reading...Samsung LNT5271F – Rows of Dead Pixels… Twice
Thursday, May 29, 2008
I wouldn’t normally post about LCD HDTVs having dead pixels, it happens. The issue here is that Chris Hunkele sent in news that the Samsung LNT5271F he bought from Amazon is having problems… again. A few months ago Chris bought the Samsung LNT5271F from Amazon (still one of the highest rated HDTVs on there) when it [...]
Continue reading...New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]
Continue reading...Samsung 40″ 1080p (0.4 Thick) LCD TV
Monday, October 22, 2007
Engadget has the scoop on Samsung’s newest “omfgkthxbaibbq” entry into the LCD market. It goes on display at FPD in Japan next week, but until then let’s swoon over the stats: 10-mm (0.39-inch) thin 40-inch LED-backlit 1080p Resolution Covers 92% of the NTSC color gamut Consumes less than 90 watts of power So *this* is what is going to happen to [...]
Continue reading...JD Power HDTV Awards
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Winners are: Sony BRAVIA: LCD Category Pioneer: Plasma Category Samsung: DLP Category I’d say my additions to that list are: Sharp AQUOS: LCD Category Panasonic: Plasma Category Mitsubishi/Sony: DLP Category Keeping in mind that the JD Power and Associates award is based on usage and user satisfaction ratings as they responded to the survey. So these are good things. Sort of like a [...]
Continue reading...Sharp LC-52D92U or Samsung LN-T5265F
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
OR For anyone in the market for a new HDTV, and has zeroed in on getting an LCD TV you are likely having this connundrum right now… do you get the Sharp LC-52D92U or the Samsung LN-T5265F? If you decide to start your search by Googling for all Sharp reviews, then all Samsung reviews you [...]
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Monday, March 9, 2009
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