Category Archives: hardware

Computerworld has an article on how the Computer History Museum is charting the rise of the hard drive, noting 1 terabyte of storage would have cost about a trillion bucks in the 1950s, had it even been technically feasible at … Continue reading →

Intel and AMD plan to drop support for VGA in favor of DisplayPort and HDMI by 2015. This is going to be a pain; for years after 2015, people will be showing up with VGA-equipped laptops and wondering why that … Continue reading →

Apparently, any laptops running Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS will come without a Caps Lock key. On the one hand, this is a little creepy on Google’s part. On the other hand, the Caps Lock key is a holdover from the … Continue reading →

I acquired an Amazon Kindle 3 this weekend, one of the wireless-only models, and I have to say, I am extremely impressed with the device so far. I looked at one of the original Kindles a few years ago, and … Continue reading →

This is why I always do most of my work on a desktop computer. -JM

A while back, AMD bought ATI, and today AMD announced that they’re dropping the ATI brand name at the end of the year. Henceforth, any AMD graphic adapters will be known as “Radeon” or “FirePro”. End of an age. Still, … Continue reading →

From a post on the Instapundit blog, an Instapundit reader writes about his experiences with HP: I am in charge of supporting a remote sales force. The single biggest technical problem I encounter is printers, and the main culprit is … Continue reading →

It seems that Mark Hurd, the CEO of HP, is getting ousted for sexual harassment. Specifically, he falsified records so that his girlfriend, a contractor, would get paid for work she hadn’t done. Like, was she hired to write printer … Continue reading →