Archive for 'Hardware'
Intel is issuing software to upgrade codes to safely unlock and overclock processor frequency via Intel upgrade service program. Each upgrade would cost USD 50, which is sold via scratch card, once the proper code is given, the software does couple of simple things, Unlock the cache (increase cache memory Unlock multiple to increase [...]
Microsoft will offer Free XBOX 360 to students who would purchase a Windows 7 PC costing USD 699 or above. Offer valid for US / Canada and France. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2011/05/12/students-we-ve-got-you-covered.aspx
When you proceed to install Windows 7 on a clean hard disk, at the time of creating new partition, Windows 7 installation would create a 100MB or 200MB system reserved and hidden partition to store certain Windows restoration features. To some advance users, the extra partition is waste of system resources and to some its [...]
Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton have no intention of creating a tech museum but his personal hobby of collecting technological devices is giving us a tour in past via his 35 year old collection to allow us to view how the technological market evolved, and how certain devices got popular while other ideas went extinct. His [...]
Some may have predicted that NetBook market would soon die infront of the raising market demands of the tablets like iPAD (Apple iOS) or motorola XOOM (Android). However due to their low end pricing and powerful hardware, NetBooks are far from being phased out. HP recently came up with a 1.3kg (3 lbs) netbook with [...]
Microsoft has launched a new advertisement campaign against Apple MAC. Aiming towards the upcoming summer sessions, this campaign offers an in-depth comparison of a MAC (all the range) with similar PC counterparts to show the price and configuration difference and available options on the PC platform. Starting from 11″ MacBook Air to the highest end [...]
G-Form, a little known extreme sports safety gear development and manufacturing company from USA came up with a notebook / laptop casing, which can protect your computer from some extreme condition, such as drop from balcony, or even from a height of 500ft. The products are around USD 80 and the company is now accepting [...]
You have a swimming pool full money ? You want the best no matter you dont know what to do with the best ? You have 3/4 Stewart always ready to serve you and travel with you where ever you go ? Then this is the product you must have.. Weighting a whooping 6-8 kg, [...]
SLI was only possible with Intel processors since nVidia never allowed AMD to bundle this technology with their chipset running AMD processors. This action meant that if a gamer chooses to use AMD processor to built his/her rig, he or she would be forced to use crossfire as that is the only dual graphics card [...]
One of the common problem of Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (NFS HP) 2010 is, some time the game crashes back in / on to desktop when starting a / the first race with error message “need for speed hot pursuit application has stopped working”. Its pretty confusing for the end users since most of [...]
It is common for many of us to have multiple computer (desktop / laptop) in your home or in small office. Often we face the question and need to hook them up in simple network to make sure that we can share a single Internet connection or share files and folders to access them from [...]
Its almost 5 years that BSNL first gave India the test of HighSpeed Internet access via their DataOne ADSL BroadBand service. Starting with 256kbps, soon they went on to provide 2MBPS and then 16MBPS wired highspeed service. Other major players like TATA, Reliance and Bharti (AirTel) followed the same foot step but lack of wired [...]
I doubt, if there is any one in the world, who uses computer and now familiar with the Intel chime. But how many of us knows the story behind it ? First of all to start with, What is Intel Chime ? It is said that this Intel “bong” or music tone gets broadcast somewhere [...]
Has any one ever wondered about it ? That we buy PCs, let it be anything, Intel / AMD / ASUS / HP / Dell / Lenovo / Acer, coming with software and OS. We use these software or even we buy few of our own also. We use these for a year or couple [...]
Rumors were there but it is now confirmed from Intel Press release that Intel has purchased McAfee for USD 7.68 billion. According to Intel, till date, the primary focus of hardware development industry were on two “P”, Power and performance. But with network / connectivity and Internet penetration, one more “P” needs attention, that’s protection. [...]