Hardware

Here’s one for someone without enough bling - a 24 karat gold plated Mac Book Pro with diamonds as the Apple logo - only $9499:
The specs are vague as most items are customizable, but the base (!) model comes with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics, a 15.4″ TFT [...]

In this press release from the Intel Developer Forum, Intel, HP, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments Incorporated have formed the USB 3.0 Promoter Group to develop a USB 3.0 standard expected to be over ten times faster than the current USB 2.0 standard. The proposed 3.0 standard will be backwards [...]

nbsp;iphonesimfree.com has announced that they have broken the iPhone’s lock to AT&T’s cellular service. They cite these benefits:
* Chose the provider you want, use any SIM card from any network provider in any country
* No more outrageous roaming charges. When traveling simply pick the local provider of your choice and [...]

Canada isn’t worth marketing to? Well - Canada has roughly the same population as California - is California not worth marketing to?
“A former Hewlett-Packard worker who could barely wait for their non-disclosure agreement to end so they could spill company secrets to The Consumerist has more, along with clarifications about what was posted yesterday.”
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“A former Hewlett-Packard worker could barely wait for their non-disclosure-agreement to end so they could spill 14 company secrets to The Consumerist.”
1: Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won’t work. This resides in the a transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer [...]

IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
International Business Machines Corp. said Wednesday that its new memory technology will help unclog [...]

ASUS has released a pink leather notebook with some pretty decent specs: Intel Core Duo L2400 1.66GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, and a two year warranty in Canada and the U.S. It comes with XP Pro and ASUS claims increased battery life of up to 25% beyond that of [...]

According to this report, gamers who have installed Vista are having multiple problems, including slow running games and crashes. If it were me, I wouldn’t even think of installing Vista as XP is much less taxing on the computer’s hardware. Many nVidia graphics card users in particular are experiencing problems and are reporting [...]

Can you imagine 800 GB or 1.6 TB storage per disc? It’s a reality! According to this story, price is still a limiting factor - $120 - $150 per disc and ~$24,000 per drive - but remember when Panasonic was the only company to sell a CD burner and the price was in the [...]

Two reports today on new hard drive technologies: the first is from Robert X. Cringely, a pseudonym for someone who writes a technology column on the PBS website. Those of you who have read my posts on the Lockergnome website and in their newsletters have seen me mention his name often - I [...]

Are you a small computer repair person and builder? I build maybe six computers a year for customers. Until I found this link, I thought that I couldn’t offer the discounted or free upgrades to Windows Vista that the big boys do. Here’s what you do: Go to the Microsoft Partner [...]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have made ultrathin silicon transistors that operate more than 50 times faster than previous flexible-silicon devices. The advance could help make possible flexible high-end electronics that would be useful in a variety of applications, from computers to communication. Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering and [...]