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Archive for April, 2007

Dell planning return to retail

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April, 2007 ()
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ArsTechnica:
“For a long time, Dell was an unrivaled success story among PC manufacturers. But in April 2006, Dell’s expansion hit its first significant speed bump, as its growth rate began to lag the overall PC market for the first time. Since that time, it has seen its market share plunge, as HP moved back into [...]

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DivX and Vista: Quirky

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April, 2007 (, , , )
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Note: This post is outdated.
In this broadband-enabled era, more and more people turn to the full digitalization of their beloved DVD-based movie-collections. This enables centralization and streaming it to media boxes like Windows Media Center (also: XBOX360 as a Media Extender and in the future other Media Extenders), Apple TV and other platforms.
Throughout the years [...]

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Solid State Glory

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April, 2007 ()
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Wikipedia:
“A solid state drive (SSD, also called solid state disk) is a data storage device that uses non-volatile memory (NAND) such as flash, or volatile memory such as SDRAM, to store data, instead of the spinning platters found in conventional hard disk drives. While not technically “disks” in any sense, these devices are so named [...]

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