Protecting Data, Ahead of the Curve
13.01.10
“It is one of the fastest-growing categories of statistics storage, but most consumers still haven’t heard of NAS,” said Seema Lindskog, head of product marketing at Western Digital , a hard journey manufacturer that also sells NAS products. “Most people are still using exterior hard drives for backup.”
For the uninitiated, NAS provides a middle hard drive on which you can store, share and back up all files from multiple computers in the household. The NAS constrain connects via an Ethernet cable to a wireless home-network router, which enables laptops and other devices equipped with Wi-Fi networking to use the effort wirelessly.
Unlike an external hard drive, an NAS widget has a processor and uses its own operating system for storing and sharing photos, music, video and derogatory files.
A NAS drive costs about $75 to $100 more than an exotic hard drive with the same storage capacity. “But the value goes up when you have multiple computers in the as a gift — that’s where NAS drives prove their worth,” said Ross Rubin, big cheese of industry analysis for the NPD Group, a market research house. “It enables all PCs to access and store files on the scenic route without having to physically plug in a drive to each computer.”
Source: New York Times
Intel's Core Mobile CPUs debut in Asus' K42F notebook
04.01.10
Before. You grasp, the one that starts with some statistics about growth in the mobile market. Laptops are outselling desktops, in event you haven't heard already. They've been doing so for a while, and netbooks have been a big part of the story. You be familiar with this already, not because I'm guilty of writing variations of this intro a couple of times before, but because you've seen the burgeoning movable market first hand. Even if the rising popularity of portable PCs hasn't begun to put your own harem of systems, you've no doubt seen the growing supremacy of notebooks among friends, family, and the cluster of bearded hipsters at your shire coffee shop.
The mobile market is growing and evolving quickly. That fact is certainly not lost on Intel, which today launches its first Westmere-based Marrow i5 and i3 desktop processors code-named Clarkdale. As one might envisage from a Nehalem-derived design with dual Hyper-Threaded, Turbo-Boosted cores, Clarkdale is all kinds of imposing. It's also not the only new CPU family launching today. Clarkdale has a mobile pair otherwise known as Arrandale.
Source: The Tech Report, LLC
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