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25 Nov 2009

LaCie has introduced another one of those monolithic looking external hard drive with the “in style” Blue LED and what not. But the LaCie Lacinema Classic HD has HDMI outputs, 1080p playback and a remote control.

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Measuring USB 3.0 against SATA, Firewire and USB 2.0

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11 Nov 2009

With USB 3.0 coming out very soon, it is expected all that had preceded it (USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 for instance) will be destroyed by how fast it can access other USB 3.0 enabled devices. Tweaktown puts an early chipset through its paces against Firewire 400, Firewire 800, eSATA, SATA and USB 2.0 of course with varying results.

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LaCie Portable DVD±RW Design by Sam Hecht

17 Sep 2009

LaCie comes out with a Sam Hecht design for a Portable DVD±RW drive that promises to not cause too much of a bulge in almost the slimmest of slim notebook bags out there.

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Kingston Technology pulls out the 256gb USB Flash Drive

In: Computer|Gadgets|Hardware|PC

20 Jul 2009

Well, Kingston just takes what’s out there, even the recently announced 128gb USB Flash drive and shoves that aside with their newer, over $900 256gb USB Flash drive. That’s 54 DVD’s worth of storage. That’s 10 whole Blu-Ray movies worth of space… wow.

MagicJack, The “One Year Later” Review

31 Oct 2008

Despite its flaws, I like the magicJack. It’s not perfect, it’s not for all, and I review it one year later. And for the record, I renewed for a second year.

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VIA quits motherboard chipset business

In: Computer|PC|VIA

11 Aug 2008

After seeing the VIA Nano versus Intel Atom video, where the VIA Nano basically destroys an Intel Atom, albeit at a slightly higher wattage rating… you’d think that things at VIA were going better than great. They even have the VIA Nano, which looks to be a killer low-watt CPU, they have the Pico-ITX platform [...]

New FireWire Standard To Run At 3.2Gbit/s

3 Aug 2008

By Luke Anderson I remember back when FireWire was first introduced (yes, it’s actually called IEEE 1394, but I’m an old-school Mac guy, so it’s FireWire) and it had some incredible speed to it. Of course USB 2.0 eventually came along and became the more widely used standard. FireWire 800 came out a little while [...]