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Crank Up Your Laptop’s Gaming Power with an External Video Card Dock [DIY]

author-unknown — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 +0000

If your laptop's integrated graphics just aren't cutting it for the games you want to play, you can actually connect a desktop graphics card to your ExpressCard slot with an external dock. More »

It’s Time To Build the Analytical Engine

author-unknown — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:55:00 +0000

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macslocum writes "John Graham-Cumming is launching a project to finish Charles Babbage's dream and build an Analytical Engine for public display. The goal: inspire future generations of scientists to work on their own 100-year leaps."

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Beanbag — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:23:23 +0000

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Beanbag — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:23:23 +0000

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The State of Solid State Hard Drives

Beanbag — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:32:19 +0000

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror has put up a post on his experience with his latest SSD. Sounds promising!

Intel was the only game in town for about a year, but fortunately for us consumers, the competition finally caught up. The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they’re cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!

I picked this model up for $325 plus tax and shipping. And, frankly, I was blown away by the performance difference compared to the 300 GB Velociraptor I had in my system before. That drive is not exactly chopped liver; it’s incredibly fast by magnetic platter drive standards. But it’s beyond slow next to the latest SSDs.

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