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10 flawed products that are really bad

February 7, 2012 4:53am PST

Certain well-known software and hardware products simply aren't very good — in fact some are barely usable, says Jack Wallen.

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Cracking Open: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

February 9, 2012 1:05pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Inside the Android tablet, he found hardware from Nvidia, Elpida, Kingston, and others.

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Cracking Open the Nokia Lumia 800

January 25, 2012 10:46am PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nokia Lumia 800. Inside the Windows Phone 7.5 handset, he found hardware from Qualcomm, Hynix, Broadcom and others.

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Cracking Open the Asus Zenbook UX21 ultrabook

February 15, 2012 1:49pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus Zenbook UX21. Inside the Windows ultrabook, he finds hardware from Intel, ADATA, AzureWave, Elpida, and more.

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Cracking Open the Motorola Xyboard 10.1

January 19, 2012 1:46pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Motorola Xyboard 10.1. Inside the Android tablet, he found hardware from Motorola, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others.

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10 warning signs that your IT landscape needs to change

January 31, 2012 1:17pm PST

Is your shop burdened with old hardware, expired support contracts, an arthritic network, and pre-Columbian software? Sooner or later, something's gotta give.

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Cracking Open: Nokia Lumia 800

January 25, 2012 7:55am PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Nokia Lumia 800, discusses the hardware he finds inside, and explains why buyers (particularly in the U.S.) should skip the 800 and wait for the Lumia 900.

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Cracking Open: Asus Zenbook UX21

February 15, 2012 11:12am PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus Zenbook UX21. Inside the ultrabook, he found hardware from Intel, Elpida, ADATA, AzureWave, and others. He also discovered that the Zenbook's internal design is...

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Cracking Open: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

February 9, 2012 6:20am PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Inside the Android tablet, he found hardware from Nvidia, Elpida, Kingston, and others. For a detailed analysis of the teardown, check...

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An argument against the new secure boot feature in Windows 8

January 25, 2012 1:47pm PST

Donovan Colbert argues that settling for mandatory, walled gardens is giving away the liberty to use your hardware as you see fit.

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Motorola Xyboard 10.1 Teardown: Overpriced, soon to be outdated

January 19, 2012 2:00pm PST

The Motorola Xyboard 10.1's excellent build quality and decent hardware are overshadowed by its high price and quad-core tablet competitors.

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Microsoft shouldn't try to be a hardware company

January 17, 2012 11:47am PST

Deb Shinder would prefer to see Microsoft focus on making better software and letting companies with more experience worry about the hardware.

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DIY: Quick and easy Samba print server setup

January 18, 2012 10:15am PST

Jack Wallen describes how to use Linux, Samba, and CUPS to set up a print server with hardware you probably already have in your shop.

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Hottest Cracking Open teardowns of 2011

December 26, 2011 1:33pm PST

Bill Detwiler counts down the top five Cracking Open hardware teardowns of 2011.

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CES 2012: Ultrabooks and quad-core mobile devices likely to take center stage

January 3, 2012 8:43am PST

Bill Detwiler shares his thoughts on the hardware trends that you should be watching for at CES 2012.

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Tablet relevance in comparison to the netbook timeline

January 3, 2012 6:40am PST

Similar to the fate of netbooks, Patrick Gray thinks that tablets might be done with hardware breakthroughs, but writing them off entirely is premature.

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why won't my old desktop and laptop read my flashdrives?

December 26, 2011 8:09am PST

why won't my old desktop and laptop read my flashdrives? I have a compaq 5310 us with a 5 port 2.0 usb card and a laptop with 2.0 usb ports ....so why don't either of these machines read new 2.0...

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RAID 0? SBS 2011

January 14, 2012 1:59pm PST

RAID 0? SBS 2011 I have an SBS Server 2011. I configured 2 identical disks in a hardware raid. For some reason the mobo reset to default settings and turned off the RAID controller. When I turn...

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Upgrading 4 computers.

January 15, 2012 7:35pm PST

Upgrading 4 computers. I need the cost, hardware, software,and labor estimate for four computers. The upgrade will be multiprocessing operating system. Communicating with customers using e-mail to...

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One IT pro's predictions for virtualization in 2012

December 29, 2011 8:30am PST

One IT pro's predictions for virtualization in 2012 article root You'll always have some hardware devices... For example, high-volume environments probably won't be able to virtualize their...

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