Archive : Hardware

The world these days is getting “smarter,” as well as in no small thanks to the lot of mobile phones that do just about everything for the consumer except breathe. Together with Internet access and a wide selection of downloadable applications, smart phones can now add printing capabilities to their ever-growing list of functions.There are many ways for intelligent phones to connect to [...]

If you need a printer to share between multiple users, Samsung’s ML-3310ND could be a good option. It’s an A4, black-and-white laser printer that provides both Ethernet and USB online connectivity, so you are able to either connect this directly to a single PC or even plug it into your system so that all the computers in your home can access it. The ML-3310ND expenses about £160 [...]

iPad 2 – The newly improved iPad When Apple first launched the original iPad, we were quite skeptical; but over the year, it has proven to be a success. Apple has got it right with an iPad whereas other companies attempt at tablet computing has failed. While other companies such as Motorola and Samsung are struggling to catch up to Apple’s success on tablet computing, Apple has already moved [...]

You must be aware that contrast ratio and dynamic contrast ratio are two properties considered very important while buying a HDTV or a monitor. This article will tell you how important these properties really are and how much weightage they should be given while purchasing a HDTV or monitor. Meaning: To start with, let us define the two terms we are dealing with. When we say just contrast ratio, it [...]

Computers are rapidly changing the way we do things. For a technology that is still relatively new, their impact on the business and consumer sector has been incomprehensible. In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that many people could see no useful application for computers in homes, much less for every individual. How times have changed. As if it was not sufficient to own one computer, so many [...]

Are you the kind of person who gets excited on seeing ’1 GB graphic card’ or ‘ 1 GB dedicated premium graphics’ on a laptop with a relatively low cost? Do you even ask the model number of the graphic card or just blindly consider it a good deal? In this article i will tell you how much graphic card memory really matters and that it is not the deciding factor when it comes to [...]

You must have heard of overclocking components such as processor, graphic card, and RAM(not recommended) but maybe not of underclocking. First about Overclocking: Overclocking a component involves increase the clock speed of the component. Overclocking improves the performance but also increases power consumption and heat dissipation of the component, thus increasing its temperature too. The performance [...]

OK,so you have decided that its time you stop upgrading components of your PC one by one and go for a gaming laptop which will keep you satisfied for a few years at least. Firstly, it is important to realise that gaming laptops are generally the heaviest and most expensive laptops available in the market. They can perform only as well as a desktop PCs which cost around 60-70% of that laptop. They are [...]

NVIDIA came out with the GTS 360M for laptops a few months ago.This got the gamers excited and many users purchased laptops having this mobile graphic card without researching about its performance and specifications, just considering its model number. But they could not bear their frustration on realising the fact that GTS 360M is just a rebranded,or renamed GT240. But this was not a first,but just [...]

Seagate confirmed that they are in process of developing a hard disk that would provide a massive 3 TB drive space. But unfortunately for most users,this disk would require a 64-bit operating system.Older operating system may find only upto 2.1 TB of usable space out of this 3 TB due to difference in LBA.There is more..Computers will at least need to support United EFI Forum’s firmware to be [...]