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ASUS Eee PC Origami laptop concept

Luc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:25 +0000

A sneek preview of what mite be the new laptop Asus release in the next years.

Custom PC Build – Part 1

lucroy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:09:38 +0000

After seeing all those game previews lately (mostly SC2 and Diablo 3), I thought to myself it was time to upgrade my old PC. First of all I gave my old PC to my dad, great upgrade for him. It was a AMD 64 3000+ / 1gig of ram / 160 hard drive / ati radeon x800 pro / etc… To get things straight, I’m not building the top of the line machine here. I started shopping around for good prices and to give me an idea of the new technologies that came out since I built my old machine. I got some ideas of what I want but any suggestions are appreciated. I started by ordering a Thermaltake® Armor Jr mid size case. I thought it was nice looking and wasn’t to much expensive, cost me around 100$ CA. Also got a OCZ GameXStream 850W PSU, should provide me plenty of power of what I’m looking for (150$ CA).

Those two items were at my door today. The case is well built, steal frame with a bit of aluminum in front. The only thing I found a bit cheaply made was the hard drive cage. Overall the case looks awesome and will do for what I need. The OCZ GameXStream PSU in other hands is a monster. It as plenty of connectors and as a 120mm fan to keep it cooled.

I also ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz,EVGA nForce 750i SLI Socket 775 Motherboard and Thermaltake Silent 775D CPU Fan. I’m supposed to get those itesm next week. I will continue to review my build next week with the new pieces.

Amazon EC2 Running Windows Server

Luc — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:31 +0000

I just came across this link a few minutes ago.

http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

From Amazon,

Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be able to use SQL Server as another option within Amazon EC2 for running relational databases.

Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazon’s proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.

Our goal is to support any and all of the programming models, operating systems and database servers that you need for building applications on our cloud computing platform. The ability to run a Windows environment within Amazon EC2 has been one of our most requested features, and we are excited to be able to provide this capability. We are currently operating a private beta of Amazon EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server.

This is great news for windows programmers.

Unboxing Australias first Microsoft Surface table

Luc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:50:34 +0000

The first Microsoft Surface table has been shiped outside the US. These crates are heavy. Around 125kg each. You don’t see a piece of hardware shipped on a skid wrapped in wood very often. I can see the day when i need a crow bar to open my desktop ordered. I wounder if you will see these tables floating around in public areas. I still don’t see the use for them except for entertainment.

What Ram is right for you – DDR2 vs. DDR3

lucroy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:55:57 +0000

If your looking to buy some RAM for your computer, make sure you buy the right one for you. This video demonstrate the difference between some DDR2 and the new DDR3 technology.

via youTube

Video Card Review – Visiontek Radeon HD 3870

lucroy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:34:19 +0000

Another good video card review from TigerDirect TV. This review is for the Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 Video Cards. If you are looking for a good card at a good price this one might be for you.

via youTube

OQO

Luc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:07:21 +0000

The oqo is now ready for sales. All the information can be found on the website http://www.oqo.com
They are 4 models to select from with the largest model being on the expensive side. With the only benefit being the solid state drive and losing half the memory. I don’t think it’s worth the money. We will be trying to get one of these to make a full review. Stay tuned.

EVGA GeForce 9600 GSO Video Card – Dual Slot Edition

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:49:19 +0000

Supposedly this is the best bang for your bucks.

via TigerDirect

Indestructible Laptop Review

Johnnyboy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:45:33 +0000

This is a test of the Rugged Laptop and how tuff it really is. They put it through battery of testing you would never put your laptop through. Watch and see how this beast survives every possible test from poring coffee on it, to throwing it to the ground while poring massive amounts of sands on it. Nothing stops the rugged laptop.

via Goverment Technology

Wireless N Adapter for Notebooks

lucroy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:52:47 +0000

If your not satisfied with the performance of your wireless network on your notebook. You should consider a wireless N adapter. Watch the review for more information.

via youTube