Sunday, January 25th, 2009
So this would be an epic battle between Acer Aspire One Netbook Vs Asus Eee PC Netbook Vs Hp Mini Netbook. So time to choose which is the smartest netbooks of them all.
Acer Aspire One
Asus Eee PC
HP Mini
Lets start with Acer aspire one, this netbook has a speed of 1.6GHz and it has with it the Intel Atom technology so which means this is much faster than my Pentium 4 PC “winks”.
Next we have Asus Eee PC Netbook and inside it is a speed of 900MHz, and it’s a Celeron. Which means my Pentium 3 PC is faster than this thing. I know its sad but compare to Acer’s Aspire One this thing doesn’t stand a chance. Asus Eee PC has the same price range with Acer’s Aspire, with $349.99
Last but not the least HP Mini Netbook. HP Mini Netbook is an Intel Atom Processor and has 1.6GHz Processor Speed. So HP mini and Acer’s has the same processor.
Now with the hard drive type and size
Acer has 160GB with Serial ATA or SATA
Asus has 120GB with Serial ATA or SATA
HP has 16GB SSD or Solid State Drive (Same type as Mac’s Air)
So as with hard drives Acer won the contest with 160GB but HP it has 16GB HD space but what makes it special? SSD or solid state drives are much faster tan ATA drives cause it doesn’t have to spin, so it is much faster on startup and file access.
As with the weight Acer Aspire One and HP mini is the lightest with 2.4 lbs.
So if you are buying a new Netbook you know what to buy. If you are going to ask me if which one to buy? Then it would be Acer Aspire One, just to be practical.
so hope this review helps you alot on your shopping. see you on my next review!
Tags: Acer, Acer Aspire One, Asus, Asus Eee PC, Hp, Hp 1000, Hp Mini, intel atom, Notebook, notebook review, SERENADE MY HEART, Solid State Drive, SSD
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
I had a crazy long Christmas vacation trying a lot of things with my new system, yeah I’m a geek! Well anyway I bought a new box with Core2Dou E7300 2.66GHz and 2GB DDR2 667 ram and mount everything in a MSI 945GCM7-L Motherboard. it has Intel® 945GC chipset. Intel® 945GC is 100% working in kalyway’s Mac OSX 10.5.2 and MSI 945GCM7 is under $50 so that how cheap it is if Mac will just sell OSX in a PC system. So I got a new box for just below $250, isnt that reasonable for a New Box?
MSI 945GCM7-L intel 945GC
Now I have a PC system runs a Mac OSX 10.5.2 plus I plug in a 512MB 8500GT PCI-E man believe me. It’s like having a real Mac Pro. I rather run a Mac OSX on a PC system compared running a Windows Vista which is so annoying with 30% of my pc power is on anti-virus.
I hope Mac will distribute their product separate with the system so that we can go crazy in customizing cheap Mac systems. I hope someday my prayers will be answered.
Tags: 945GCM7, Core2dou, E7200, kalyway, kalyway MacOSX 10.5.2, MSI
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
USB Cables Max Length
unversal serial bus
The USB specification limits the length of a cable between full speed (or high speed) devices to 5 meters (16 feet 5 inches) and for low speed devices the limit is 3 meters (9 feet 10 inches). This means you can’t just connect a bunch of extension cable together and run them 30 feet to another room but you can say connect a 6 foot and 10 foot cable for a total of 16 feet.
Most USB products are full speed (or high speed USB 2.0) and have the 5 meter limit. Low speed devices are generally keyboards and mice. If you would like more information on the technical side of USB you can search the internet for information on the USB specification (sorry eBay does not allow links in guides otherwise I would include one).
In order to go beyond these limits you need to use USB hubs, USB active extension cables or USB over Ethernet products.
USB Hubs:
You can use extension cables and up to 5 USB hubs connected together to extend USB’s range up to 30 meters (up to 27 meters for low speed devices). The distance between each hub can be no more than 5 meters.
Active Extension Cables:
USB active extension cables contain electronics which regenerate the USB signal. These cables are essentially 1 port USB hubs and will allow you to go up to 30 meters (up to 27 meters for low speed devices) buy connecting up to five active extension cables together (4 cables if you are connected to a USB hub).
USB Over Ethernet:
There are USB Over Ethernet hubs but I was to find very little documentation or other information on them that was useful. What did stand out about these devices is that they are hard to find, expensive and you are still generally limited to a maximum of 30 meters.
Tags: universal serial bus, usb length limitations, usb max lenght, usb wire limitation
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