Archive for July, 2004

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

Now Hard Disks with 5 year warranty!

The last time I bought a hard disk, I was offered a 3 year for some extra bucks. Now Seagate has announced a 5 year warranty! Which is a must have..
In the past Samsung and IBM hard disks have failed on me. Lets hope Seagate is more reliable.

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Friday, July 16th, 2004

Pentium M or Celeron M ?

Without much fanfare, Intel has released Celeron M which is based on the Centrino (Pentium M) core. It runs much cooler than the Pentium 4 Core based systems.
As per Tom’s Hardware guide:
This is good enough of most users and you can save a few hundred dollars.

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

Wide Screen Notebooks/Laptops comparison

I have been looking at Wide Screen Notebooks as a desktop replacement. Here is a comparison.

Model
Compaq X1000
HP ZD 7000
HP ZT 3000
Dell 8600
Acer Aspire 2000
Acer Aspire 2020
Toshiba Satellite P 25
Toshiba Satellite M30
Sony A170

CPU

PM 1.5
P4 2.8 Ghz
PM 1.5
PM 1.5
PM 1.5
PM 1.8
P4 2.8 Ghz
PM 1.5
P M 1.7

Memory

512 MB
512 MB
512 MB
512 [...]

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Sunday, July 4th, 2004

Does Microsoft really does charity?

From this article:
Australian Democrats IT spokesperson Brian Greig has lashed out at Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates over local charity contributions Gates announced as part of his visit to Australia yesterday.
Interesting Part:
OSIA alleged that Gates, in addressing the question of software piracy in China, said:
“As long as they are going [...]

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