IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 2/9/2015

Seagate Thunderbolt Drives Are No More
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Thunderbolt (formerly known as Lightpeak before Apple "reinvented" it) is an interesting technology that does all sorts of things that USB 3.0 doesn't do. For starters, it has a whole ton more bandwidth, it's able to be daisy chained, and it can even be used to connect monitors and other devices. It showed a lot of promise, but the premium price and limited availability (plus support on systems), made it mainly a Mac users next "Firewire". Well, it turns out that Seagate thinks it's Firewire all over again too. They have just ended support for both the interface and …
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Less Than Five Percent Return Rate in Response to GTX 970 "Memory-Gate"
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You may recall that a few days ago, we reported on an issue regarding the advertised memory onboard NVIDIA GTX 970 GPUs. In a nutshell, the memory advertised was 4GBs, but only 3.5GBs on it ran at full speed. Any attempts to access the remaining 512MBs by the GPU, would result in a massive performance drop in certain circumstances, which included high resolutions and large textures. While the initial outcry even resulted in a US petition for NVIDIA to provide refunds for the affected GPUs, it appears that the number of people dissatisfied with the performance of the affected …
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Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD Review
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Having a laptop or other type of mobile computer can sometimes hamper productivity, especially when it comes to external peripherals and the need to attach more devices. Typically, laptops or netbooks are limited to their external ports, such as a couple of USB ports, perhaps a Mini PCIe Express port and even one external video port. Perhaps you are looking to do a more minimalist type setup and forgo those large desktops.
In my particular situation, I have 2 Windows-based desktops sitting on top of my computer desk and they both take up a large amount of desk real estate. …
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IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 2/9/2015

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