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Change is hard, yes, but worth it The arrival of the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop was sort of serendipitous when you consider that I've been speaking and writing about transitions a lot lately. As a writer, I spend a lot of time with my hands on a keyboard, and for my regular marathon...

Included in the web I've linked to is a video showing the Microsoft Surface being frozen, cooked, used as a skateboard, showered with wine and general abused. See if it survived here: Surface survives heat and cold, but not wine, in torture test

A new Microsoft manufactured machine is now due to make a splash and initial interest has been high. Does the Surface stand up to inspection though? Here are a few reviews to set the scene. Microsoft's website for it's new Surface can be found here: Link Removed Reviews: Link Removed...

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SSDs are fast, but do they last? | ZDNet

Have you ever heard the terms, head crash or stiction? Better yet, have you ever experienced either of them? These terms are just two of the unhappy occurrences associated with mechanical disks. What if disks didn't spin? What if there were a way to create rewriteable storage in such a way that...

Most people considering a hotel look at amenities such as swimming pools, spa services and gourmet restaurants -- not the power of the toilets. However, a clogged-up toilet is the sort of thing that people talk about on the, er, back end, according to Richard Senechal, the senior vice...

March 2, 2010 Corsair releases its fastest USB Flash Drive. Flash Voyager GTR family of USB Flash Drives. Its maxium read speed will be up to 34 MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 28 MB/sec.. The gizmo will offer the best features of a USB flash drive and the performance of an external hard...

I would appreciate some recommendations on the purchase of a new SATA internal DVD burner. Not a google search, not from the Windows7 Hardware Compatability List, and not something you read in consumer reports....I'm going to be purchasing two new ones soon, a sort of small Christmas present to...

I was interested to find out how people are looking after their SSD drive. For example, do you just move your browsers cache to another drive, or move as many writes off it as you can, or do you just do nothing? Are you concerned about the number of writes to your SSD and how long it will last...