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Nortel claims that it is siphoning network customers away from Cisco
Nortel is positioning itself up as a "green" networking vendor that has the right history and products to take market share from Cisco Systems, and Nortel has a new research study and a group of converted customers that it's using to help spread the message. Let's take...
Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Customer, Cisco Systems Inc., Energy Efficiency, Performance Gain, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-05-20
3Com tops list of green network switches in energy efficiency
Switches made by 3Com topped a survey by In-Stat in terms of energy efficiency. This is so for fixed-configuration 24- and 48-port switches. According to the study, results vary in Gbps gigabits per second per Watts of 0.5 Gbps/Watts to 3Gbps/Watt, or more than 600% difference. ...
Tags: Networking Switch, Network, 3Com Corp., Energy Efficiency, Routers & Switches, Networking, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-05-19
Where is AMD's Intel-killer Barcelona?
Back in May when speculation on AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core CPU was still running rampant, I wrote that "AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel" if high clock speeds at sufficient yields could be produced in a timely manner.  AMD needed to hit 2.5 GHz to reclaim the performance crown and release...
Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
Blog posts 2007-07-03
Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition
It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer.  The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...
Tags: Energy efficiency, AMD, Storage, Desktop, Consumer electronics, Servers, Vista, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff
Blog posts 2007-06-13
Three motherboards for Intel and AMD CPUs: June 2007
It's June 2007 and we have a whole new generation of motherboards for AMD and Intel.  If you're looking to buy or build a new computer, you'll want to read on.  See more images of these motherboards at higher resolution.Intel 3-Series ChipsetIntel launched a new set of motherboard chipsets called...
Tags: Processors, Desktop, Vista, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Intel, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Consumer electronics, AMD
Blog posts 2007-06-12
ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase
ASUS and Intel have actually created an alternative for Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC One Laptop Per Child called the "Eee PC".  The difference here is that the ASUS Eee PC is actually something that looks usable and perhaps even desirable for everyday use as a super cheap UMPC Ultra Mobile PC. The...
Tags: News, Mobile/Wireless, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics
Blog posts 2007-06-06
Solving the network storage dilemma
Ive had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Before I begin to answer that...
Tags: Consumer electronics, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop
Blog posts 2007-05-09
Setting up the 2.5 TB hot-swap array
Continuing from yesterdays blog where I introduced you to the cheap 2.5 TB storage array, were going to look at how this is installed in to the PC. Once all the drives are attached, youll need to toggle on all of the drives using a paper clip. This...
Tags: Storage, Servers, Security, Networking, Intel, Infrastructure, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Desktop, AMD
Blog posts 2007-05-01
Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print
Theres been hearing a lot of hype lately coming from AMD about Barcelona and its been regurgitated throughout the web. Even though no actual benchmarks were released, some of the following outrageous promises are being made."We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by...
Tags: Servers, Processors, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Desktop, AMD
Blog posts 2007-04-25
The dream of the universal power connector becoming a reality
Ive dreamed of a universal power connector for small electronic devices for years but Ive come to the conclusion that it will never happen because there is simply too much money to be made in selling proprietary power adapters. But in a strange turn of events, I may be...
Tags: Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Infrastructure, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Consumer electronics
Blog posts 2007-04-11
Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-core
As AMD finally celebrates their symbolic victory over last years Intel dual-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processor, Intel and Apple is moving on with quad-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processors. Apple with its exclusive partnership with Intel gets to be the first to launch Intels 3 GHz...
Tags: Servers, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Apple, AMD
Blog posts 2007-04-04
Build a premium Vista PC - step by step
Late last year I wrote Build your dream PC and not get ripped off and it was basically a component guide for a high to super high-end gaming PC. Some readers asked for a mainstream business, graphics design, or regular home computer. Well this article should answer that...
Tags: Desktop, Energy efficiency, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, Processors, Security, Virtualization, Vista
Blog posts 2007-02-23
Living with Windows Vista: Week one report card
Its been one week that Ive not used Windows XP on my main computer and actually living with Windows Vista so here is my progress report. As some of my readers know, Ive was having stability problems with my main computer as well as a number of other annoying...
Tags: ABIT, CPU, Desktop, Energy efficiency, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Intel, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Security, Vista, voltage, watt
Blog posts 2007-02-20
Apple TV might obsolete the x86 appliance market
This may surprise you, but Im going to order an AppleTV as soon as I can. Some of you might be wondering "who are you and what have you done with George" but no, I didnt get kidnapped at last weeks MacWorld and I am the real George Ou....
Tags: Apple, Apple Computer Inc., AppleTV, Energy efficiency, entertainment system.Convert AppleTV, Ethernet, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Infrastructure, Intel, Intel x86, Networking, Processors, Security, Servers, TV, VoIP
Blog posts 2007-01-15
XP Power Management group policy tool
Microsoft Vista will have new centralized group policies for managing power save mode that can save companies a lot of money in their electric bill. Windows XP users have some ability to do this too with command line tools in Group Policy but it isnt easy...
Tags: Desktop, Energy efficiency, group policy, Hardware, Microsoft Windows XP, tool
Blog posts 2006-12-05
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU
All the reviews are in for AMDs new "4x4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We basically see two FX-74 3.0 GHz processors getting slaughtered by...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Desktop, Energy efficiency, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Intel Corp., Intel QX6700, power supply
Blog posts 2006-11-30
Windows XP gets wrongly blamed for $25 billion in energy
After watching Digg pump the article "How Windows XP wasted $25 billion of energy" from the treehugger website and seeing what fellow blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes had to say, I decided to set some facts straight on PC energy consumption with this article on TechRepublic. ...
Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
Blog posts 2006-11-28
Who has the upper hand on Energy Efficiency? AMD or Intel?
Who has the most Energy Efficient CPU???If you are going to focus an article on energy efficiency, then why ignore AMD's line of EE processors??? The Tom's Hardware article referenced in the "CPU TDP" link is from July. Look at a more current on
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., cpu, energy efficiency, hardware, IAM.CA, Intel Corp., processor
Discussion threads 2006-10-17
Who has the upper hand on Energy Efficiency? AMD or Intel?
AMD has dominated the Energy Efficiency debate on the desktop and server platforms for the last 2 years until Intel opened up a significant lead with its Core 2 desktop and server products. The only thing in dispute is the size of Intels performance and energy...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., air conditioner, CPU, desktop, energy efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Intel Corp., server
Blog posts 2006-10-16
Performance is cool: Exploring processors and energy efficiency
Bring on your questions and opinions! This special week-long conversation (October 16-20, 2006) will include Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. Jump in an
Tags: CPU, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, george_ou@..., hardware, intel, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., it management, networking, performance, processor, processors
Discussion threads 2006-10-13


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