The Serial ATA International Organization has made its third generation of the SATA standard official. SATA 3 boasts a 6Gbps theoretical transfer rate from the storage controller to the storage device. Hardware manufacturers have already implemented some of the draft versions of the standard, so real world support should be …
Converts from Windows Vista to XP may be getting a bit of a taste of what it has been like to be a Linux user. I heard a story from an acquaintance the other day of how his laptop didn’t run Windows Vista very well, so he decided to downgrade …
Quite often we read about how small things are so much more complicated on Linux than on Windows. I set out on a journey today to add a printer via USB to my Ubuntu desktop and share it out to my MacBook at my new apartment. If there’s one thing …
Yesterday I took a look at a ridiculous study sponsored by Microsoft which supposedly showed how PCs had a much lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Macs. The study was completely unfair towards the Mac, but there’s another factor that wasn’t taken into consideration either: how well the computers …
Microsoft is revving up its FUD engine once again. This time in the form of a whitepaper that supposedly outlines some of the TCO differences between Macs and PCs. The comparison was done by a Microsoft consultant and is laughably flawed in its comparison. There’s several flaws, including the absence …