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Acer Revo R3600 and other dual core Atom 330 NVidia Ion nettops

October 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The new Acer AspireRevo R3600 (Acer AspireRevo R3610-U9012) that combines a dual core Atom 330 processor with the Nvidia Ion platform was introduced at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin in September. It is just one of several interesting new nettops coming out now that will offer significantly more processing power, especially for video [...]

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Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · software

Memory upgrades for Lenovo S10e, Aspire M5201, eMachines T6212

October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Last month my Gateway GT4014j suddenly died and I replaced it with an Acer Aspire M5201, which came with 2 GB of memory installed. That was less than the 3 GB I had in the Gateway and it affected some very memory hungry apps I use. So three weeks later I did a memory upgrade [...]

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Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · electronics

IPv6 with DD-WRT router and Hurricane Electric

May 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Last weekend I got IPv6 working on my US$60 router, allowing all my machines here to talk IPv6 to the outside world. That includes an Ubuntu Linux server, 4 PCs and one Mac.
The biggest incentive for upgrading to IPv6 is the fact that at the current pace we’ll run out of (IPv4) IP addresses in [...]

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Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · electronics · software

Windows 7 versus Linux on netbooks

January 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments

“Does Linux stand a chance now that Windows 7 will run on netbooks?”, Shane O’Neill asks in an article in ComputerWorld on 15 January 2009 that overall sounds fairly optimistic on Microsoft’s prospects. However it largely avoids one crucial subject that matters for Microsoft in the struggle over market share in the booming nettop market: [...]

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Tags: Computers · Linux · Windows 7 · Windows Vista · Windows XP · software