Sometimes, the best interviews come from private suites rather than the show floor. Mushkin was at CES in their own private suite. The company has memory in all kinds of the products that we use everyday, but they focus on higher end video game systems. This year they have 4 new products to showcase. All […]
The Dell XPS laptop series continues to impress. Dell keeps innovating and learning what the customer wants, then puts out a laptop that can deliver. The XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop they debuted at CES 2017 is no different. About the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 Laptop “We made the product a little thinner, a little bit […]
Today I look at the Pavilion x360 13 inch 4 in 1 laptop, which you can purchase here. This converts to a laptop, tablet, tent and stand for use in different situations. PRO The Pavillion x360 comes in multiple varieties. This is great because you can get the machine that will fit your need – […]
In this second part of the HP Storage Tech Day, we learn more about StoreAll, Express Query and Storage Research at HP Labs. Richard Jacobik started us off with StoreAll and Express Query. Richard talks about how much unstructured data is out on the Internet. He notes that unstructured data is 85% of world’s data […]
On July 29, 2013 – HP’s Calvin Zito offered a storage day in Anaheim CA before the Nth Generation Symposium. We spent the morning of the Tech Day deep diving into 3PAR StoreServ. The first 30 minutes is from Calvin as he talks a little about his life at HP. Pretty amazing how he grew […]
Lenovo shows off their Ultrabooks at CES in the Thinkpad Helix. This is an 11.6 inch notebook with i7 processor. Helix also has 8 GB RAM, 1080p display and 256 GB SSD. The Ultrabook Helix is also a tablet. Detach the keyboard and go mobile. In notebook mode Lenovo Thinkpad Helix has 4 hours of […]
This year, I thought I would do some searching and find you some great deals that will help you with your Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green Tuesday shopping. These are all technology-related items. If you want weird geeky items, check out the Dorkazine Black Friday deals. If you want Podcast items, check out How […]
Whiptail is a complete solid state storage arrays. They have two versions – Accela and Invicta. With a flash storage array, they put together a software solution to some key deficiencies to NAND flash. Whiptail works with Micron to help make the array. Totally optimized storage solution with software, especially the write experience. These two […]
Kingston was at VMWorld 2012 talking about their SSDNow E100 line of Solid State Drives (SSD). The race for SSD is on, especially in a virtual environment. Being able to rely on SSD drives as they switch from one virtual project to another can be crucial. I talk with Mike from Kingston about these technologies. […]
It is difficult to do a one-size-fits-all review of the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G. Without getting into a huge amount of technical minutia, which can actually be misleading will call this drive “middle of the road” in terms of performance. Whether it is the right drive for you, or not depends on factors outlined […]
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If you are a home theater expert, you know a good projector can really make your theater system shine. That is what BryteWerks does – they make movie theater projectors at consumer prices. Bryteworks Model One is an all-in-one PC/Projector. With an internal processor and SSD drive, you can project video right from the machine, or […]
Samsung is showing off their sleek and sexy series 9 notebooks. Todd is in the Samsung booth talking to Andrew about this new notebook. It is the worlds thinnest notebook PC. There is a 31.3″ and 15″ notebook at just a half an inch thick. Extremely portable, lightweight and very useful. 100% aluminum (called Duralumin) […]
While at CES, we stopped and talked with Kingston. They have been a big part of computer memory for many years – I remember when I bought my first Megabyte of RAM (at $40 a stick!). It only makes sense they would be expanding to SSD technology. We saw them at Digital Experience, and they […]
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HP unveiled the Envy 14 Spectre at CES, a new 14 inch Ultrabook. The Spectre comes with either Core i5 or Core i7 processor, 128 GB or 256 GB SSD, 4 or 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, Mini DisplayPort, USB 3.0, and more. The screen is made of Gorilla Glass to be a durable machine. The […]
Motion creates scanners and tablets for those in the commercial and industrial areas. Rugged devices for the construction workers, medical professionals and those who need a mobile solution in their jobs can use these tablets to keep up with the work. The CL900 is one of those tablets. The 2.1 lb tablet contains a 1.5 […]
Larry O’Connor fo Other World Computing (OWC) joins Andy on the TPN Live CES coverage. OWC has Solid State Drives (SSD) for computers. We interviewed OWC with Todd and talked about performance. They stopped by and we had some free time, so Larry talked about replacing your existing hard drive with a OWC SSD. Based […]
USB 3.0 hard drives and other devices are coming out. LaCie is no different. Philip talked about the latest USB 3.0 devices from LaCie; the new high-speed FastKey USB 3.0 SSD memory stick. This device comes in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB sizes. The prices start from $149, with the 120 GB being $474. It’s amazing what we can […]
Grant Dahlke joined Todd at the TPN Live CES coverage. Other World Computing introduced the Sandforce processor-based high capacity, high-performance SSD (solid state drive). These drives are up to three times larger and up to 22% faster. They also have a line of drives for older IDE and ATA machines, which enables much better performance […]
Todd was walking through the Toshiba booth when they saw this shake test. Basically the station was shaking a SSD and HDD at the same time. The idea was to show how data works when the hard drive moves. Moreover, how the SSD drive performs better in this situation. If you have a notebook with […]
Motion creates scanners and tablets for those in the commercial and industrial areas. Rugged devices for the construction workers, medical professionals and those who need a mobile solution in their jobs can use these tablets to keep up with the work. The CL900 is one of those tablets. The 2.1 lb tablet contains a 1.5 […]
While at Dell OEM day, we got to see Scott Hanson’s new Dell Inspiron Duo notebook / tablet. A pretty nice idea – flip the screen and turn the notebook into a touchscreen device. But the question is if it’s a functional device. The machine we looked at had a ATOM Duo 1.4 GHz N550 […]
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CES videos are up and now it’s time to focus on other things. Got the 6th song done for FAWM, putting together a new client website and working with another on updates. Sportazine is now in production. We are giving away another copy of Diskeeper 2010. Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Day […]
Did you want a Netbook with a Touch screen? The Asus EeePC Touch Netbook will be for you. Last year we stopped at the ASUS booth and became impressed with their touch screen technologies in smaller computers. Well, this netbook will definitely continue the trend. The Touch Netbook has an ATOM z520 – 1.33 GHz […]
I remember seeing server farms sitting in temperature controlled rooms. I had a RAID array in my basement – 6 drives in a case weighing 80 lbs. It was loud, it ran hot and it only did 100 GB. But those days are long gone. I cannot wait until I have a SSD farm in […]