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I recently had the “pleasure” to try a NAS device, more specific a QNAP TS-410, which is handy little box which takes 4 harddrives (each upto 2TB), 2 Gigabit network ports, a few USB ports, and a 2 eSATA ports.
Very neat, but it’s let down but the lack of a decent CPU (Marvell [...]
So I have this MacMini as a mediacenter PC, which is working and I don’t really have any problems with it, except that once in a while I want to be able to surf the web, or write an email without having to get out of the sofa.
For years I’ve used US keyboards, and [...]
There have been quite a buzz about the Netbook syndrome, there is Asus, MSI, Acer, Dell, and possible other brands which have come up with a notebook which is build around the Intel ATOM processor and ~1GB ram, and eiter a SSD or a harddriver. The screen is ~9 – 10″ with a resolution of [...]
Not that I can see any reason for it, but it’s pretty cool to watch…
So you’re asking yourself; what is he on about this time. Well if you don’t have either a Apple Cinema Display (ACD monitor) or an Apple iMac you will never understand….
Steve Jobs in his wisdom, have decided that you do not need a button to switch off the monitor… it is enough to switch [...]
After almost 3 years, I have ordered a new Notebook, my Macbook Pro (CD 2GHz) is not happy running Lightroom2, PhotoShop, Groupwise8, Groupwise Messenger, Adium, Thunderbird 3, and Firefox at the same time…. and it does not help if I switch Lightroom2 and PhotoShop with VMware Fusion…..
In about 4 weeks (I hope) I should [...]
There are a few things I really do not like, some of them does not have to do with computers, and some of them does.
As a notebook use, with a frequent use of a external monitor, I’ve gotten around to live with the mess of cables on my desk, but on I cannot live [...]
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