Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category

Tom Cruise interface

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

Remember Minority Report where Tom Cruise handles some futuristic computer interface swinging things around using his both hands? That’s the first thing that popped into my mind when I first watched Tactiva’s tactapad in action :) (thanks Peter ;)). Not as futuristic as in the movie, but very cool nevertheless!

Centrino cores explained

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

I never really got the difference between all the centrino cores. Within a few weeks, I’ll be having a centrino laptop at work, so it’s nice to know something about it ;).

Microsoft makes deals with hardware vendors

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

or so it seems ;). They really seem to be pushing new technology with Windows Vista. Of course, Windows Vista is far from released. An interesting read anyway about Windows Vista’s hardware requirements. Particularly, I wasn’t aware of Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which is standard in S-ATA 2 drives, and which will be (ab)used by Windows Vista.