Month: September 2012
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Computer Upgrade Plan [2]
Well doing the specs and it looks like the lowest spec CPU is going to be a Core i3. It looks like SLAT (which Intel calls Extended Page Tables or EPT) is part of VT-x by default now, but I will have to do some more research on that. The cheapest of this CPU is…
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Computer Upgrade Plan, Mobile Phone Plan
OK so now I have decided at last what I am going to do upgrade-wise, and it will be implemented over the rest of this year, I hope. The plan is simply to upgrade in that Foxconn TS001 chassis by replacing the mainboard, CPU and RAM. I will possibly buy a SSD and maybe replace…
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Meanwhile, here’s Windows 8…
While I haven’t yet figured out whether to buy a new computer or whatever, the old one is getting packed to the gills with everything I can do with it to make it more useful. So, today, I decided I could make it dual boot Windows 7 with Windows 8, just until I figure out…
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New computer or slate or phone or … ?
About three weeks ago I wrote that I planned to build up a new computer. Since then a few other options have come to the fore. Windows 8 and the Surface RT slate are being released at the end of October and Windows Phone 8 is being released shortly thereafter. This brings up the options…