25 fun things to do with a Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi, the bargain micro PC released earlier this year, has fertilised the imaginations of the public, bringing with it a boom in inventive approaches to computing not seen since the good old...
View ArticleHow to benchmark like a pro
There’s a joke in the hardware community that the only thing a performance computer is good for is running benchmarks. This dis at benchmarking suggests that such performance measures are pointless. We...
View ArticleBuild your own small Steam Box PC using Valve’s Big Picture Mode
As PC gamers, we’re big fans of Valve Software’s Steam service and can’t imagine life without it. We’ve got a huge library of installed games, all of our friends are on it, and almost every AAA...
View ArticleAvast 8 Adds Creature Comforts, Better Sandbox Protection
The newest version of Avast is better suited for touchscreen displays. The march of technology is inevitable, and not just on the hardware side. As luck would have it, no sooner did we finish our...
View ArticleChip maker not concerned about Nvidia’s in-house Tegra 4 benchmark results
Qualcomm and Nvidia are taking turns at dissing each other’s next-gen SoCs. In the latest round of this entertaining battle, we have Qualcomm’s Senior VP of Product Management, Raj Talluri,...
View ArticleSolid State Drives for CAD Workstations
Hard drives, and SA-SCSI drives especially, face growing competition from a new breed of storage device: the solid-state drive (SSD). An SSD stores data in solid-state memory — that is, SRAM chips —...
View ArticleDell Thinnest/Lightest Mobile Workstation Plus Highest Resolution UltraSharp...
Dell Precision M3800 – “Create at the Speed of Light” with the Thinnest & Lightest Workstation Ever The Dell Precision M3800, a brand new form factor, is the first mobile workstation that is less...
View ArticleAutodesk Point Layout Construction Software
Autodesk, has completed the acquisition of technology assets from Colorado-based Get The Point, LLC and today introduced Autodesk Point Layout, new software for layout at construction sites. The move...
View ArticleSpecifying CAD Workstations, Demystified
Overview Processor: Spec Xeon over I5/I7 chips… Ram: More is always better but look at the speed, it makes a difference. Also get ECC no matter what… Hard Drive: Get SDD if you can along with SATA 3.0...
View ArticleAutodesk announces ‘Spark’ open software platform for 3D printing
Autodesk announced Wednesday an open software platform for 3-D printing called Spark, which will be open and freely licensable to manufacturers and others. The 3-D design and simulation software...
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