Category Archives: Hardware

HTC Evo 4G: How to turn off the Sense UI

Sprint's HTC Evo 4G is my first Android phone, and it's been a fantastic experience so far. But as fancy as the Sense UI is, I actually like the vanilla Android look. It also helps improve battery time a little … Continue reading

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My Computer is Still Fast!

The MHz race is so over. In the recent years, CPU speed really hasn't increased much, has it? In 2007 I bought a L1N64-SLI board with 2 x FX-74 (3GHz) CPUs and 8GB RAM. Dual core CPUs were already popular at that … Continue reading

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New PC

I hadn't built a PC in a while. The last one I put together in 2007 was a rather expensive beast (at around $1600) and consisted of 2 x Athlon FX-74 on a ASUS L1N64-SLI WS, GeForce 8800GTX (which was a $600 space … Continue reading

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HP Mini 1000 - Where is the VGA Adapter?

I've been eying netbooks for a while now. In particular, the HP Mini 1000 seems to be a good candidate. I've seen it in person and I like it. It has a decent keyboard, full size right-hand shift key, it's … Continue reading

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