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You can add storage. The guys selling the knock-off versions of the Intel stick even say they can get units with more RAM added, quoting $80 for 8GB.

I don't think Marvell makes a bad SATA controller, but I've only used them in simple SATA mode. I'm more inclined go Handy's route and use an LSI-based card for SAS and expander card support. Oh and high-density cabling, though I suspect that's not a problem for anybody else on SF. Is anybody...

Toss up whether this belongs in the Crap Laptops or the Media Appliances thread, but I clicked this one first so... Intel has moved in to the PC on a Stick form factor. Broadwell-based Atom CPU, 32GB internal storage, Windows 8.1 Bing Edition, 2GB RAM, uSD slot.

Interesting. I've not found a situation where the copy completely failed in that fashion.

Windows NT needed mind-boggling hardware for the early 1990s, sed. Requirements for NT 3.1 were 12MB to boot and 16MB to be functional, probably $3000 worth of just RAM at the time. If you had a PC expensive enough to have that kind of horsepower, it almost certainly had exotic 7200rpm SCSI2...

I just had a user try to describe their computer issue to me. They managed to use the word "Download" as four different parts of speech and in place of at least three different nouns in a single sentence. As near as I can tell, "download" is both the name of the device that they look at and/or...

See my post, above. TrueImage (and most other Windows tools that do the same thing) can clone bigger to smaller, but only if all or at least most user data (or whatever is taking up space) has been moved off the drive. Depending on the PC in question, one process may be faster than the other. I...

I just set it to 8GB on pretty much everything. The way I see it, if the machine actually needs more swap space than that, it needs more RAM or better hardware that can support more RAM. I have one server that occasionally uses more than the 32GB it has, but since the machine will probably be...

Given the age of the drive and the fact that it apparently still has useful data, I wonder if it was pulled from some kind of non-PC equipment. One of my customers has a (photographic) film printing system that runs an operating system called ROX that originally used early-90s era x86 hardware...

It would be useful to plug it straight in to something that natively supports IDE. Maybe you have an old Pentium4 or AthlonXP sitting around? We don't really know if the problem is the USB bridge or the drive itself, so just the fact that no file systems are detected MIGHT not be the end of...

I left mine without, though I wasn't terribly aggressive with overclocking. My 5930k is in an NZXT Source 220, which is pretty well ventilated all by itself.

That's the story of dev tools and really at that point you're talking less about a laptop and more about a portable workstation. Whose hardware is it? HP? Lenovo? Apple?

I spent the better part of the afternoon refurbishing my old T61p. I upgraded it to 8GB RAM and installed a 240GB M100 and a new battery. I'm probably cheating because of the SSD, but it was pretty funny to watch it smoke a brand new i3-based Satellite C55 in terms of startup/browser load time...

I'm not as fond of Samsung's tablets as its phones, but for $250, a Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is a pretty solid compromise device. It has a 2560x1440 IPS screen, 2GB RAM and a 128GB-capable uSD slot. Only 16GB internal storage, but it only weighs 311g. Seems like a pretty solid choice.

They're neck and neck for desktop applications, but Lunar's specific needs are almost all content creation-related. That stuff eats extra cores and better memory bandwidth for breakfast. The pricing difference on DDR4 will go away soon enough. There's definitely a case to be made for the less...

Even that can be a trick. I've run in to boards that won't update if the flash drive is over a certain size or pukes if the drive isn't formatted with exFAT.

1366 motherboards are UNBELIEVABLY primitive by current standards. It was always a niche interface and those boards were only made for, what? 24 months? With zero consumer refreshes and maybe one Server/Workstation lineup refresh. If you're even thinking about going back for another round of...

All I want is something more than 1080 vertical pixels to become the standard. I absolutely cringe when I run in to vomit machines with less than 800 vertical pixels, but at this point that is the norm. It feels like desktop display technology is moving backwards, especially since it's well...

I have a huge amount of storage space. It's used for storing everything I want to store. Some of it is porn. Most of it is not. It's also used and enjoyed by anyone who has access to it (predominantly through Plex), not just for myself.

Why do panel makers hate vertical pixels?

Intel controllers can do RAID0 with SSDs. Who knows what that guy is doing? There's no explicit mention of RAID there. Maybe he just owns every single game and needs a place to put them all.

Maybe he's doing a crap-ton of work in a content creation app that can take advantage of CUDA? Honestly, when I see a gamer with a ridiculous monster system now, I mostly just question why the hell they spent the money. MAYBE he's gaming in 4k and just has stupid amounts of money but hopefully...

"Check out my awesome Minecraft Battle Station!"

OF all the stupid reasons to have to completely un-do a build, today I learned that none of the rear USB3 ports on my X99-UD4 actually work. It's not that they're negotiating to lower speeds and they are definitely detected and installed by the OS. They just don't do anything when I plug in a...

Merry New Year Evemas to Americans and Happy New Year to the rest of you fine folks. :) Apparently I'm celebrating the new year with the gift of being designated driver. yay.

It's a kick in the balls to suggest Acer, but I've seen Acer's FHD Chromebook for $219. That screen will break if you breathe on it since that's what Acer screens do, but given the battery life and form factor, a Chromebook might be the best option. Low-end x86 right now isn't even worth...

You're pretty much going to have to connect a 4k screen via Displayport I think. 2 port KVM models are affordable. 4 port models cost more than a decent laptop.

You're lucky that you missed out on the dumbest update. The 8 --> 8.1 update is a 3.3GB download plus about 40 minutes of install even with a Core i and an SSD. That's an insane deal. I bought a couple $130 Celeron NUCs a few months back (when the Xmas deal crap first started) that didn't have...

You could wait another two weeks and see what reviews on the 8TB Seagate drive are like. I'm probably going to buy a couple as near-line backup targets, so I suspect I'll have something to say about them soon enough. Hitachi drives in general handle heat beautifully. It's absolutely the last...

I have TrueImage 11 and can make you an ISO, but if you can take the machine offline for any length of time you should be able to make a .TIB that can be read and converted to a VHD or VMDK.

I usually buy Canon scanners. I like the small footprint. Scan speed is comparable to Epson and HP models made in the last five years You're better off scanning negatives if possible, but there's so much variability in photo prints that I don't think the subjective quality of the scanner's...

NT4 would leave you stuck on something derived from Gecko 2.0 like Kmeleon or else whatever misbegotten Opera release.

I have a fancy Boccia watch that I wear about once every three years. I don't like typing with an extra lump around my wrist and I'm at a keyboard almost all day, so for the most part a watch would be more of an annoyance in the first place. The appealing things for me are being able to look at...

"Into the Woods" was... more straightforward of an adaptation than it should have been (Red Riding Hood should have been played by a teenager, not a little girl - the stage version is not particularly subtle about what the Big Bad Wolf is singing about) and at times the lines weren't sung with...

I've been alternating between Saturnalia and Kwanzaa all week but have a happy whichever of those is most appealing. Unless you're on the bottom of the Saturnalia sandwich, in which case all I can say is go slow and use lots of lube.

It's been my experience with Intel, Tyan and Supermicro server products that if it's not specifically compatible, it's a crapshoot, especially if you're thinking about mix and match with something else or filling every bank with it. Not to say I wouldn't try it, but make sure the return/restock...

For looks, I'd probably go with the Moto 360 (round face) or Asus Zenwatch (rectangular face). The Pebble Steel is too thick for me, but it's the clear winner when it comes to battery life. Pebble isn't Android and therefore may or may not be the best choice for software compatibility, but it...

I see a Sony phone as more of an MDMA user's choice. Really, the iphone 6 (but not the 6+) is the perfect accessory to a coke habit. Yes, if you like a Sony phone, you'll probably also dig bright lights and Ecstasy. And that's an official Android tip.

Both. The scam is incredibly common, international in scope and I suspect they scam less savvy people for at least hundreds of dollars on a regular basis. I probably hear from one or two people a week who get those calls.

Was he asking if you had those programs installed? Was he trying to get you to install them? I've never gotten one of those calls but I know probably dozens of people who have. At least here in the US, the common pattern seems to be that people who get the calls tend to be over 60 and well off...

There have at times been open identification schemes that aren't tied to somebody's walled garden, but of course none of them took off. But the whole point of the internet should not be "Require everyone to make a Facebook account" or even "Require everyone on the internet to use their real name...

I halfway have a new cat. New in that she's only 3 years old and halfway because she technically belongs to my friend and occasional roommate. Her name is Sugar and she's completely white and very, very sweet. Gracie does not like Sugar at all, so there is a definite feline personality conflict...

Also very handy for doing lines of coke.

Third party authentication is a mess all its own and to be honest I'm not sure that doesn't just obscure the problems rather than correct them. Not everyone wants to trust Google, Microsoft or Facebook.

You don't reverse the hash. You apply a transform along with a "fudge factor" so there's no constant value in the stored hash.

LotR is better off without Tom Bombadil and Tauriel at the very least does no harm to the Hobbit. Her part gives life to an otherwise nondescript Dwarf. Also, her leitmotif in the score ("Feast of Starlight") is a favorite of mine. If all that was filmed was what Tolkien wrote, we'd have six...

I've run in to that one as well. I have a live Windows 7 thumb drive that I had been using to access hosed machines, but I've found that it's basically nonfunctional on modern laptops. The builtin Windows backup has always needed to be the same version as files to do restores, but 8.1 is a...

I was impressed with the Noctua D14. Mounting is straightforward and the fans come on and off easily.

OK, last Hobbit movie. Two words, which should say all that need be said: Bear Paratroopers. Either that's awesome and totally sells the film, or it's a disgrace to the world that Tolkien created. In the book, if I remember right, the battle of the Five Armies was dispensed with in something...

Likewise on the lack of 10Gbit hardware, though I've been watching prices for entry level equipment fall. Hopefully we'll be able to get eight ports for $100 sometime next year. I'm disappointed that I can't get a 1TB M.2 drive yet. I'm not going to whine that I can "only" get 500GB of high...