Archive for the 'Hardware' Category


Dell to Recall Laptop Batteries

Remember the incidents that took place few months back when a Dell laptop caught on fire due to overheating. Dell reports that there has been six such incidents of fire with a particular kind of Sony branded lithium ion batteries. There has been no reported damages to property or to anybody through these fires. These […]

Windows Servers better than Linux Servers

There has been a lot of comparison between OS X and Windows off late but when it comes to servers, OS X is out of question and in comes Linux. Linux is regarded as one of the most commonly used OS on servers due to its stability, reliability and its price.
Although I am a […]

Vista Hardware Need

This is Microsoft’s hardware recommendation for Vista :
- 512MB RAM (1GB for Premium)
- A modern processor (at least 800MHz)”, which later becomes more specific for “Vista Premium” as 1GHz x86 or x64 processor
- A graphics processor that can run DirectX 9 with support for WDDM, Pixel Shader 2 and 32-bits per pixel as well with […]