Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Why the fuss on ‘iPhone Optimised’ web sites?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

In these times of web standards advocates speaking the message of cross browser compatibility and not tying site to specific browsers or devices, why, why, WHY, are people suddenly busying themselves with making iPhone optimised versions of their services?
37signals have been doing it (in fact, I find that fairly hypocritical of them, and have stopped [...]

I agree…

Monday, July 4th, 2005

…Dell Sucks
I had so many problems with them over a server I bought last year, that I truely never want to deal with them again, and I always advise people not to buy from them. The response I got was along the lines of “screw you”, but obviously in much more polite terms. [...]

Scoble on why Apple go x86

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

[quote]To understand why Steve Jobs fired IBM you need to look no further than the Lenovo Thinkpad T41 Tablet PC.[/quote]
[quote]But, it all comes down to performance. This new [Lenovo] machine is using a very fast Intel processor that uses very little power, and generates very little heat.
That’s something that IBM wasn’t able to give Steve [...]

Apple & Intel

Monday, June 6th, 2005

From Kottke

a number of people worried about … Apple losing out on future hardware sales when OS X can run on a $300 PC available at Wal-Mart.

And that’s a problem because?

RAM Monsters

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Whenever people ask me about buying new PC’s these days, I always recommend they get at least 512MB RAM to be able to run things properly.
Last night, on my PC which currently has 1GB RAM, I noticed, that while not doing anything terribly strenuos, it was using something like 800MB, according to take manager.
So I [...]

My new toy

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Got me a new toy yesterday, a lovely 19″ flat screen Belinea monitor.

So, I’m now running that, and the 17″ Iiyama CRT which has served me well for the last couple of years. The TV card I got for christmas is now being used properly so I can have full screen digital TV while [...]

Dell uses Intel because of kickback surprise!

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

I’ve never been a fan of Dell, primarily for the purely personal reason that, since they released the K6 processor, AMD have been pushing Intel all the way, yet Dell refuse to use AMD CPU’s.
Why? Well, yesterday The Inquirer told us The real reasons why .