A quick look at Western Digital's latest My Book NAS
While enthusiasts may be comfortable rolling their own home file servers, network-attached storage devices make more sense for mainstream users. We take WD's latest My Book NAS for a spin to see what it's like.
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Eee PC 1005HA has 10.5-hour battery, costs $390
What, did you expect Asus' netbook team to go on vacation early? Nonsense. They've been keeping busy with the launch of the Eee PC 1005HA, a new 10-inch system that has a thinner profile, less weight, and a longer-lasting battery than its forebears. Looking at the 1005HA's spec sheet might feel...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday ExtremeTech's Lloyd Case pens the last column Ars Technica reports hospital confirms Steve Jobs liver transplant Apple's Jobs has "excellent prognosis" after transplant At this rate, Microsoft won't need Yahoo at all ...
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MSI's X-Slim X340 ultraportable notebook
The X-Slim X340 is a shiny, black, and thin, with a nifty new Intel Core 2 Solo processor and a modern chipset. One or two steps up from a netbook, it may just be the ultimate in stylish ultraportability--for well under a grand.
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Intel, Nokia announce partnership
The world's biggest cell phone maker is working on some Atom-based devices. That's the message we've gathered from Intel and Nokia's artfully vague joint announcement, in which the two companies talk of a "long-term partnership" around the development of a "new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and...
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OTOY shown in action on cell phone
We already caught a glimpse of OTOY's cloud rendering technology running on a MacBook Pro last week. Today, the folks at TechCrunch have nabbed a video that shows OTOY tech in action on a cell phone. The video looks to be an official clip originating from the company...
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Apple provides fix for half-speed SATA issue
Well, that didn't take long. Exactly a week ago, we spotted several reports that said Apple's newest MacBook Pros were running with Serial ATA at half speed—150MB/s, just like first-gen SATA. Today, we see Apple has issued a firmware update that addresses the problem. There's a twist, though. Here's...
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Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday Big Download reports Ziff Davis to shut down ExtremeTech.com Apple CEO Jobs at work on Monday: witness [OC]ModShop: Will the next great tech CEO please stand up? Harris Interactive: While HDTV resides in...
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Windows XP just won't die, may stay available until 2011
Windows 7 is only four months away from release, and Vista has been out for over three years, but Windows XP apparently has plenty of life left in it still. ComputerWorld reports that Microsoft has postponed the OS's retirement once again, saying it now plans to offer XP downgrades...
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Etc.
I hope you all had a good Father's Day weekend. Made my way over to the Sprint store this weekend to check out a Palm Pre in person for the first time. Was a bit surreal because I'm a former Sprint customer and current iPhone owner who had...
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Firefox 3.5 release candidate is out
With Safari 4, Chrome 2, and Internet Explorer 8 now out, what's happening with the next major revision of Firefox? It's not quite ready yet, but Firefox 3.5 has now reached the release candidate stage. In other words, you can already sample the near-final version, and the full release...
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Monday Shortbread
Monday C|Net: Apple's $30 apology for iPhone activation delays? T-Mobile to sell new Google phone in August iSuppli: Global PC shipments plunge at historic rate in the first quarter Ultra-thin notebooks could take...
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Steve Jobs may have had a liver transplant
The batteries inside new MacBook Pros might not be removable, but it sounds like doctors had no trouble pulling out Steve Jobs' liver. Good thing, too. Quoting the Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider says the pancreatic tumor for which Jobs was treated in 2004 ended up metastasizing to his liver,...
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Father's Day Shortbread
Father's Day Apple boss Steve Jobs has liver transplant (thanks spartus4) Survival rate after liver transplant is high Smaller crowds greet new iPhone Rapid Repair's iPhone 3G S repair guide C|Net: Gasping for air, Nortel to sell off wireless tech Will Julius Genachowski bring WiMax broadband to...
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Saturday science subject: Memory creation pictured
You need look no further than Wikipedia to see diagrams of how flash memory works. But what about human memory? As ScienceDaily reports, a team of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, and UCLA have grabbed an actual image of the long-term-memory storage process in...
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