Jeff Partridge

This is going to be a short mention, but it gives all us a huge resource. It’s a master-level article on the history of PC CPU’s from about 1994 to the present day, along with a BIG chart showing every CPU and it’s specs. It comes to 111 chips and covers all their individual differences.
I [...]

I think that I’ll use this title for a number of posts as I find resources for hardware subjects on the web. They’ll be varied and none of them fits any of the list of subjects for this channel.
Okay, here we go.
Have you ever wondered where to get some guidance about your network, wired or [...]

In a move that signals more internal problems at Intel fab plants, plans to introduce dual-core processors have been pushed back to “2006″-
Intel to Ship Dual-Core Xeon in 2006
Company denies the chip has been delayed, but many had expected it sooner
Intel plans to ship its first Xeon processors based on a new dual-core architecture in [...]

Motherboard chip sets don’t normally excite much attention in the security world, but Nvidia’s NForce 4 could turn out to be the exception.
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Better known for its graphics chips, Nvidia has become the first to release a motherboard controller that makes it possible to build a hardware firewall within a PC itself.
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“Chip designer ClearSpeed has put 96 computing cores onto a single semiconductor, as the race to secure a niche in the emerging market for co-processors heats up.
Code-named Avebury, the company’s upcoming chip contains 96 separate internal units tuned for doing particular types of math problems. Inserted into Intel- or Advanced Micro Device-based servers, Avebury [...]

“Toshiba plans to begin commercial production of its 0.85-inch hard drive before the end of this year, the company says.
The drive, which was first unveiled earlier this year, is about the same size as an SD (Secure Digital) memory card. Target applications include a new generation of smaller digital music players and other portable multimedia [...]

Burned by a series of production missteps and canceled products, the company lets AMD get out in front on multicore product announcements.
By Aaron Ricadela
Intel is shifting its product-development budget from traditional methods for increasing computer chips’ performance to new “multicore” designs that will debut next year, president Paul Otellini said in a keynote address [...]

I subscribe to any number of tech-oriented newsletters. Some are published by one-man operations and some by media giants. This is a tale of one of them.
I read every copy of Steve Bass’s Home Office newsletter. Not because I think it necessarily has any astounding revelation about home offices, but because he often has things [...]

This is meant as a follow-up entry to Matt’s SeaTools post-
For those of you who might want a little more brand-focused software helper, consider Maxtor’s PowerMax utility. You can grab it (or any of their other software) from their site.

Advanced Micro Devices has begun to incorporate a form of strained silicon into its chips, a design twist that will let the company increase the performance of its processors.

The Keyboard That Adds Productivity and Style to Your Desktop
Zoom in for a closer look at pictures, maps, pdfs, documents, and Web pages. Featuring easy access to favorite Web sites, Mail, Web, and Messenger, it also provides enhanced F keys for a faster way to perform tasks. This value pack combines the Multimedia Keyboard Black [...]

Well, I’ve now used this unti for long enough to have it bite my butt if it was going to. Fortunately for my blood pressure, that hasn’t happened. I outlined my frustrating experience with Visioneer some time ago, so I was quite willing to believe the worst of anything connected to a scanner.
The Lexmark X1150 [...]