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Thinking about buying 27″ iMac Core i7

Mar06
2011 Written by Mauldor

iMac 27 Inch

Until recently, I had not really looked into buying any sort of apple computer mainly because my current system does everything I want and I do have the ability to run OSX on either a hackintosh if needed or a Virtual machine. I had passed a 21.5″ iMac in the local ‘Comet’ Store and it looked very clear and glossy and it got me thinking. I looked on Apple refurbished site and saw various models of the 27″ with £200 to £400 off. At this point we start to drop into the world of which version is worth the money, if any.

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VMWare vSphere Hypervisor ESXi

Mar03
2011 Written by Mauldor

VMWare produce various pieces of software that allows you to run a virtual machine and in the case of VMWare Workstation for example, this allows you to run Windows inside a Linux Box or the other way around. IN effect then it allows many different operating systems to run without you have to reformat your machine every time. At the other end of the scale is VMWare vSphere Hypervisor ESXi – this is a bare metal (i.e. wipes your hard drive) installation and allows many virtual machines to run at the same time on a headerless (no monitor) box – often servers.  I thought I would take an existing desktop machine and see how this ran – let is begin my journey into ESXi.

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iPortable–bootable Mac USB Drive

Feb06
2011 Written by Mauldor

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It is quite hard to turn your average PC into something that runs Mac OS X and normally requires you have the right motherboard and other parts to make it even get to the install stage. What if you could make a USB stick that boots a safe version of OS X (no graphic or sound drivers) and generally works without wiping your present drives – great right? I shall document what I have done so far and what the outcome was in regards this amazing program – iPortable.

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Intel Promises Big Performance With Sandy Bridge

Oct14
2010 Written by Mauldor

We know that the next big thing to come from Intel is Sandy Bridge, which will be the biggest CPU overhaul since Nehalem.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini made mention of the upcoming processor generation, saying that it’ll be the biggest leap the company’s made yet in terms of processing power.

While Intel would never encourage prospective customers to hold off on a new PC – especially leading up to the hot holiday buying season – the CEO’s enthusiasm for Sandy Bridge could give reason to wait until 2011.

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Multi Boot with the IcyBox

May18
2010 Written by Mauldor

If you recall, I bought myself the Icy Box External SATA holder and for most part I used this as a means to add extra drives as required (mostly 2.5″ models) for storing data. As this device operates with eSATA (as well as USB) – this means it can be as fast as a normal internal harddrive. I pondered on the thought of having various operating systems per drive and by selecting this on bootup – I can indeed boot into another OS without ditrubing my present system

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Intel Pushes Atom CPU to Drive Storage Devices

Mar08
2010 Written by Mauldor

While Intel’s Atom has a near-monopoly on the netbook market, that’s not the only place the processor will be practicing its power-miserly ways. Intel launched at CeBit its first Atom processor-based platform optimized for networked home and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices.

The energy-efficient platform consists of the Atom processor D410 single-core or D510 dual-core and the 82801IR I/O Controller to run network-attached storage (NAS) devices that organize, manage, protect and share documents, photos, videos and music.

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Multimedia PC Medion AKOYA E4355 D

Jan28
2010 Written by Mauldor

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On the 4th Feb 2010 ALDI have a special deal on a desktop PC for the price of £399.99. This is a Core i3-530 CPU running at 2.93Ghz, 3 GIG ram, 1TB HD and so forth. As is always the case with anything at ALDI, once it has gone, you won’t see it again – so be quick to get this deal.

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Core i7 – Turbo Boost

Jan10
2010 Written by Mauldor

intel_core_i7One of the new and often unknown features of the Intel Core i7 along with Hyper threading (which gives 4 Virtual Cores extra to the 4 that are already there) is Turbo Boost. It is activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest CPU Performance state (P0).

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Are Netbooks for you?

Jan09
2010 Written by Mauldor

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In 2009 there was a big movement in providing a cut down laptop which featured a 8.9” Screen, Intel Atom Processor and even some running from Solid state drives. The goal of these were highly portable computers that you could just chuck in your bag with long battery life and of course cheaper then a full blown laptop. Many people looked at these and fancied buying one thinking they could use them while out and about seen as they were so light and small but do they suit every need? Let us break it down.

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Is Windows 7 Much better?

Aug29
2009 Written by Mauldor

windows-7As Windows 7 Looms Closer to been released – 22nd October 2009 to be exact, is it a big jump from Vista before it or is it just more of the same? Read on for my very own view on a brand new machine.

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