Posted 09/20/2009 at 03:28:07pm

As long as the heat issues are equally solved, as these mobo get smaller, the application of these devices will expanded into so many aspects, it will be very interesting to watch.

Given how computers seem to be taking two directions, computational power, and size.  I'd like to see MPC start assessing CPU and MOBO stats for both the ATX and high end CPU's and the Pico, Nano, etc. and the miniaturized low voltage cpu's (but still ranking them based on computational speeds, not just how small or low voltage they can run)

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 07/08/2009 at 12:59:19am

This may be too much information but when I see pictures of an IBM PC I have to reminisce back to my computer camp days in Modus Connecticut.  I spent two sessions (i.e. 4 weeks) at a computer camp when I was early teens.  That computer camp occupied a retreat for a few months that was patronized by dignitary's children from world wide countries.  At that camp we learned to program IBM Basic and Apple Pascal on apple II, II+ and IIe.  What was it...Zork the narrative game of choice back then?  Our camp wrote a game for that as a project.  Lightning did strike a tree right out side of my cabin.  In any case, I may have the original IBM manuals shown in the article in addition to the Lotus manuals from back then.  Ah, childhood days.

Yikes how lame...I even have a fully functional Summit K08 LED digital calculator from 1971 that my dad gave to me.  You turn the dial to increase the significant digits.  And it is rechargeable, even back then. 

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 07/04/2009 at 12:03:39pm

Nice looking, nicely priced.  

Feature suggestion:  I'd like to see one that can also display hard drive capacity usages and s.m.a.r.t. HDD health read outs.  Now that would be sweet. 

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 06/28/2009 at 02:11:46am

Thanks Legacy_gtr, I tried 3 different clicks from your url.  I could not easily find any pricing.  When I hear EMC mentioned, I think expensive.  In the past when we've bought EMC it's in the range of 6-digits costs (e.g. $100,000) for the hardware.  Not really for home use.  

Posted 06/27/2009 at 12:40:47pm

Coincidentally, I was poking around the new Macbook's see what the cost is for a new one.  I thought it was a glitch in their system (or upgrading that much meant new MOBO, etc), but to upgrade from 4 GB to 8 GB is $1000 more to the purchase price.  Now after reading this article, it makes me think it was not a glitch. 

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 06/27/2009 at 12:35:03pm

Right on WD!   

My first thought was this is pretty cool, but if a drive fails you need to send in the unit.  Not true.  I just skimmed through their manual, you can replace a drive yourself.  See: http://www.wdc.com/WDProducts/Library/UM/ENG/4779-705013.pdf

Again I'm not completely sold on the Green drive thing...saves energy, but there is spin up time, slower reads...oh yeah this unit requires WD green drives.

If I may make one wish list comment.  Anything that will be accessed by multiple sources, really should have dual ethernet ports.  As data, video streaming, etc, become more and more prominent, 1G network speeds will become a bottle neck.  Already is in some situations.  ganging them to 2G is a cheap viable solution-- as long as you have enough ports on the router/switch. 

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 06/21/2009 at 09:08:08pm

Dude, that made me LOL!

Although I had to have someone explain that red ring of death thing to me a couple of weeks ago. 

Posted 06/21/2009 at 09:01:15pm

I was an MS partner for a few years.  From someone on the other side (kind of), MSFT is one of the most professional, courteous, partnerships I've ever had.  MS bends over backwards for business relationships.  If you act in good faith, they are your best friend.  Anyone who has operated in Open Source will tell you straight away, versioning is EVERYTHING.  Remember that Apple was anti-open source.  Still are.  Just read one of their user agreements. That said, I think MSFT will dominate if they do go that route, but I wish they would not charge so much and take a cue from Apple.  Cost of development for Apple is significantly cheaper than MSFT.  But something I fear Apple may fall into is the relaxation of code development.  One of the reasons that the iPhone is so successful are the applications tightly controlled by Apple.  MSFT does not require as much.  It is a catch-22.  They want more application options out there, but because of that there are a lot of BAD applications out there.  I fear that apple will fall into that trap when focusing on world domination.  

Thus I tie back to open source.  It has it's uses, but there will be a cost if it's not administered appropriately. Hey didn't Obama appoint a Czar for that yet?

;-) 

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 06/21/2009 at 08:40:02pm

I absolutely support the NSA monitoring, not to say all the other agencies we only hear a whisper about once in a blue moon. I agree, if you're not doing anything illegal, no worries. BUT, and this is a big but, I don't trust the intent or use of that privilege. There is an adage, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have a perfect example: our supreme leader. Transparency? Change? Wha? Firing the Inspector general? Please. Maybe the NSA should make people feel better and say the taps and so forth are done double blind. That way, the misuse of said information becomes very difficult to happen. It would be inefficient (maybe unacceptably so), but none the less your privacy is maintained as long as you're legal.

It truly is sad that we must rule ourcountry to the lowest common denominator.

If you liked the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, you'll love the Endless Universe- Beyond the big bang theory by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok.

Posted 06/21/2009 at 08:38:42pm

I gotta say, i just looked at the pic.  I hope that was a sardonic attempt of NSA type surveillance. Funny!  I bet in reality, there would be one big wall with image recognition software in continuous operation with "eagle eye" at the helm, and one person per monitor.  The general public has no idea what big brother can do (at least I pray that's true), and that is the way it should be.