Hardware

Research Shows: Solid State Drives Are More Difficult to Erase

by Jeff Weisbein February 23, 2011

We have been erasing hard drives and other storage mediums for years now with much success by overwriting the data with zeros and ones several times. However, with the adoption of SSDs that may not be sufficient anymore. According to researches at the University of California at San Diego, “newer solid state disks have a much different [...]

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Acer Gearing Up to Enter the Tablet Market in 2011

by Mike Mansell November 23, 2010

After the success of Apple’s iPad, many people rumored that computer manufacture Acer was working on developing and marketing a tablet PC of their own. While this has only been a rumor for quite some time now, Acer today announced that they are indeed working on tablet PCs and that they plan to have three models on [...]

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New MacBook Air Models Experiencing Kernel Panics and Video Problems

by Jeff Weisbein November 2, 2010

It appears that there is a rising number of complaints from users who purchased the new MacBook Air with regard to kernel panics, video problems, and other issues that could be related to defective logic boards. On Apple’s discussion boards there have been several posts about issues with both the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air [...]

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Intel to Consumers: Want to Get the Most of Your Hardware? That’ll Be $50.

by Mike Mansell September 19, 2010

Any remotely successful salesperson will tell you that “up-selling” – the process in which one convinces a customer to upgrade a package – is a very important skill to have in pretty much every industry.

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Apple 27-inch Cinema Display Now Shipping

by Syndicated Posts September 17, 2010

As we expected a few days ago, Apple is now shipping their brand new 27-inch Cinema Displays. The latest LED display is made of aluminum and glass and is compatible with Apple’s line of Mac desktop computers that have a Mini DisplayPort which include the Mac Pro, Mac mini and iMac. The display also features an [...]

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Mushkin Io 128GB SSD Review

by Jeff Weisbein May 30, 2010

I recently got my first solid state drive (SSD) as a gift from my girlfriend for our 5 year anniversary. I picked out the Mushkin Io 128GB SSD and boy is it fast. You truly don’t realize how much of a bottleneck your hard drive actually is until you have replaced it with a SSD. [...]

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Blue Microphones EyeBall HD Webcam Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein February 10, 2010

As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I went to the Teens In Tech conference this past weekend. Yesterday, I unboxed Blue’s Yeti USB studio microphone. Today, I’m unboxing Blue’s EyeBall 2.0 HD webcam. After plugging in the EyeBall 2.0, the difference in the video quality was immediately noticeable. I will get into [...]

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Blue Microphones Yeti Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein February 9, 2010

This past weekend I attended the Teens In Tech conference and while I was there the conference host (Daniel Brusilovsky) was nice enough to hook me up with Dan Harris of Blue Microphones. Dan gave me Blue’s signature USB microphone which is called the Yeti. Blue’s Yeti is feature-packed. When I told Dan I currently [...]

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Apple Shuts Down Fingerworks. More Apple Tablet Rumors Fly.

by Jeff Weisbein January 11, 2010

Today, Apple has removed all of the content from Fingerworks.com. It has essentially been shut down, five years after Apple purchased the company. According to MacRumors, up until last week, Fingerworks.com retained photographs and details about their multi-touch keyboards and gesture pads they released for Macs years ago. I’m sure you can put two and [...]

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Magic Mouse Review

by Jeff Weisbein November 11, 2009

Apple recently released their latest attempt at a computer mouse and it’s no longer mighty, but rather, it’s magic. The new Apple wireless mouse is known as the Magic Mouse and it is definitely much improved from its predecessor the Mighty Mouse which was just terrible. I purchased the Mighty Mouse this past summer along [...]

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