Hey all,
Finally have an update here after quite a while. Today we take a brief look at the Harmony 650 remote and unbox it, compare it to a previous harmony model and take it for a spin! Take a look at the vid below:
Episode 2:
We are at it again, your end user source for all your technology info cravings. We discuss some usefull tips for your SSD, the future of television as we know it, Microsoft SteadyState, mixed with more discussion of Apple vs. Microsoft. And also a long history of our notebooks we have owned and what we liked about each of them. Show notes Below:
(1:15 – 5:30) eXoid Quick Tip
We give you some tips on optimizing windows OS for SSD
We also discuss a few apple iPhone tips.
(5:45 – 11:45) The new Samsung LED TVs
(12:00 – 20:45) Future of Television
Discusion ensues about Hulu Desktop, the future of advertising in television, and the DTV changeover that occurred.
(20:45 – 37:45) Microsoft Steadystate and another classic Apple vs Microsoft Debate.
(38:00 – End) Discussion about our long history with notebooks and our preferences in a mobile computer.
eXoid.com Technology Podcast
According to some sources; Apple is at it again, and may release a new device to their lineup of phones, ipods and computers. Some speculate that apple will release some sort of iTablet device; whether this will be a fully featured tablet running on an intel processor remains to be seen. It is entirely possible that the new device (if it indeed exists) will utilize the Arm Cortex A8 processor on a larger device than the iPhone. We mentioned some more details on our podcast earlier this week. Give it a listen.
The bottom line in my opinion is that it is about time that Apple does release some sort of tablet device. So much of Apple’s company is tied into the desktop computing market and with their prowess with touch interfaces; It makes perfect sense to combine the two. Not to mention the success of the iPhone and iPod Touch which both make excellent use of touch. The marriage of the two into a tablet like device could be a winner. Especially after seeing the success of “netbooks” if apple released something similar with a touch interface that worked well, they might be onto something very profitable. Either way, we will have to wait till Apple’s press conference to find out.
Everyone knows that Intel shocked the tech market when it released it’s x25-m SSD which outperformed by an incredible margin all current SSDs on the market. Since then, other manufactuers have released SSDs that closed the performance gap, but most people and reviewers agreed that the Intel SSD was still the better drive.
Intel is now launching new 34nm (nanometer) SSDs as a new product, apparently even though this is a completely new product on a new manufacturing process, intel is keeping the model number the same: X25-M. (Editor’s Note: Way to go intel, you provide thousands of confusing model names for your CPUs, yet can’t pony up a new name for a completely new product….)
Despite the confusing naming that will most likely create confusion for consumers wanting to buy the new product, and will cause thousands to get screwed on ebay; The new product looks promising! It offers better write performance, some say it ‘doubles the write speed’ (I’ll wait for the benchmarks on that one..)
The new SSDs even comes in at a lower price. (Smaller nanonmeter processes usually provide more units per production run and make things cheaper.) Therefore the new 80GB x25-M is geared to come in at $220 which is very reasonable! especially since most likely it is the quickest thing on the market!
There is still no word of larger capacity drives from intel (wouldn’t a 320GB X25-M be awesome!) but these puppies are expected to be available starting today.
UPDATE: Riot! Riot! It appears that INTEL has announced TRIM support for the newer 34nm drives, yet states that the older x25-M versions won’t be given the TRIM goodness! It appears that there isn’t any real reason they can’t give the older x25-m SSD drives TRIM support other than they just don’t feel like it. They feel like you should buy one of the new ones…. Grrrr… Rabble Rabble.
P.S. Voice your opinion in the forums. 
I’m very impressed with the ASUS N10 “notebook”
It has everything:
-802.11N
-Bluetooth
-xpress slot
-Card reader
-Built in 1.3 megapixel Camera
-Stereo Microphone
-Nvidia Mobile Graphics
-fingerprint reader
-face recognition
-6-cell battery
-Great Build Quailty / cooling
-As light as an eee 1000
I have the N10J-A1 version and I’m very happy with it. Here is my video review of this great device:
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I find myself making more and more video reviews, I guess its just a lot easier than making a writeup with a bunch of pictures. My latest video review is of the Patriot Warp V2 64GB solid state drive. The drive is quick, light, and for a SSD, very affordable!.
With Pricing at 179.99 at newegg.com right now, these SSDs are a STEAL!
Here’s the video review:
I just received the Patriot Warp 64GB SSD
Here are some performance numbers:
Practical Performance Comparison between the hard drive and SSD versions of the EEE 1000. I found that the SSD on the 1000 was actually slower than the EEE 1000H on performing any task that significantly utilized writes to the storage system.
Here’s the kicker too… The SSD had 2GB of ram installed, and the 1000H had 1GB!
This isnt to discredit all SSD drives, just the ones that come with the Eee PCs, which are very sub-par SSDs compared to the HDD replacements that are sold.
Here is a little micro review comparing a few popular small notebooks
UPDATE:
Project completed! Here is the Youtube video of it in action:
You can still view the worklog(more pictures and guide to building NES PC!) here:
http://www.exoid.com/ephpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1220
Here are two pictures of my next project:
Can you guess what I’m going to do with these goodies?
That’s right, I will be building a retro gaming computer using my favorite mini-itx board the D201GLY2, and my trusty companion that has been in the family for longer than most of my brothers and sisters. The goal with this build is going to be complete sleeper looks. What I mean by that is that the NES will be absolutely indistinguishable from a stock NES, completely stealth. I have seen a lot of NES’s built into computers on the web, but none have a completely stock look. In fact the majority look like frankenstein hack jobs. Hopefully mine will only look like that if you open the case. I have some original ideas that will make this build very unique and hopefully pretty gosh dang awesome.
If you want to see the worklog, please sign up and visit the forums by following this link:
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