Archive for the tag 'UMPC’s'

Dec 03 2007

Craig Pringle reviews the HTC Shift

Published by Guy under Community, Hardware, Ultra Mobile PC's

I have been watching the press closely when it comes to the Shift. I have considered the dual operating system device as my next laptop or tablet PC in conjunction with a desktop computer I use at work, on this basis I want to get to know the Shift as best possible.
If like me you are interested in [...]

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Nov 13 2007

Advantages of SSD over normal hard drives

Published by Guy under Hardware

We all know the theory of the SSD (solid-state drive), its flash or DRAM based drive and has no moving parts, which largely eliminates seek time, latency and failures associated with a conventional hard disk drive.
Not only is the performance of a SSD based device increased due to the faster read/write speeds but also the battery [...]

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Oct 04 2007

Via Mobile-ITX

Published by Guy under Hardware

I’ve been meaning to post about this for some time and Bjorns recent post over at Ultra Mobile Life has brought it back to my attention.
For those that don’t know Via have a new prototype mobile platform which has the potential to change the way we work and use UMPC’s, PDA’s and smartphones.
Its a credit [...]

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Aug 29 2007

Do we need another variant of Vista?

Apologies for the late manner of this post but I have been busy over the bank holiday period.
I read James Kendricks post on the performance issues with Vista a few days ago and it got me thinking about a few things. I have never really suffered any real issues with Vista and I think its [...]

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