Friday, April 11th, 2008
It's not only mission-critical business information that should be backed up. The data on your home PC needs to be backed up as well. But how should you choose between the traditional method of saving files on storage media yourself and a newer method of storing your data offsite with ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Intel has quietly begun shipping its hottest quad core desktop processor ever, the Core 2 Extreme QX9770. We built a PC, to see just how fast the 3.2-GHz, 45-nm chip, complete with a 1600-MHz front-side bus, really is.
Our previous project, where we put together a system last fall with Intel's ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
When people buy computers, they're told they're getting a hard drive of a certain size--80 gigabytes, perhaps. But when they check the computer they find only 74GB. Where did the other 6GB go? This is the difference between marketing and math. As far as marketers are concerned, 80 billion bytes ...
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