After a long break I’ve decided to start posting again to the blog . To start it off here’s a cool (but boring) article on how the Apple Macbook fares against the latest dell Latitude. The choice given to this seing as I’m planning on getting a Macbook REAL soon : In the end, it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Hardware'
Apple Macbook vs. Dell Latitude (temperature wise)
July 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
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Turn Your Floppy Drive Into An RC Car
October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Generation5 has a nice HOWTO on how to hack that old floppy drive you have lying around into an RC car: The idea for this project was born from an unfinished website which had some important details missing. In essence the idea of converting a floppy disk drive into a small vehicle which could be [...]
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Shitload Of Vintage Computers For Sale On Ebay
October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Engadget reports that some dude is selling a shitload of old computer equipment on ebay: There’s no other way to put it; this is just about the sickest collection of gear we’ve ever seen available on eBay. The Freeman PC museum is currently auctioning off a collection of 441(!) vintage computers, hundreds of accessories and [...]
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Notebook Screen Guide
September 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Notebook Review has written a decent overview about all things to do with laptop screens: Notebook screens! Notebooks…have screens. And we usually don’t give them too much of a passing thought when we go buying; by and large when I went notebook shopping I just assumed “well, it has one, and it sure looks pretty” [...]
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Control Your Computer With A Laser Pen, A Web Cam & A Wall……
September 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
This is definatley one of the coolest hacks I’ve seen lately. Here’s some comments from the Hax0r himself: “I wanted to be able to control my music player, xmms, using a laser pointer and a wall. I drew the symbols for rewind, stop, play, forward on paper sheets using fluorescent ink so it looks cool [...]
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System Requirements For Windows Vista To Be Steep
September 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Microsoft
Bi-tech.net has written a piece on confirmed minimum hardware specs for Windows Vista. It comes down to the following: Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in [...]
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iBook Sale Causes Stampede
August 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
Why is it that Apples always brings up strong emotions up in everyone they come into contact with? At a recent iBook sale an actual stampede was caused: No, you aren’t reading The Onion. Yes, there really was a stampede. No one was seriously injured, but this morning’s $50 iBook sale was an insane mob [...]
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Out With The Clock Speed, In With The Watts
August 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Intel
Seeing the recent trend in processors (what with dual core and all) Intel thinks (righty so) that the time of measuring a chips speed by its clock speed is over. They now want to measure it by performance per watt: Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor [...]
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Build Your Own PBX
August 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Telephony
This guy has built his own PBX. Nothing special you might say, but this guy did it like a man’s man. Not just using an old computer and a certain popular PBX software, but with his bare hands: I’ve been fascinated with telecommunications from an early age. When I was twelve or so I had [...]
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The Ultimate Linux Based Car PC
August 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cars & Tuning, Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Somebody has built The Ultimate Linux Car PC: I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating [...]
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