Tag: operating system

Sep 24 2010

If You’re Computer Won’t Sleep Then Check Your Drivers

Part and parcel of building your own computer is that you need to look after driver upgrades yourself which can either be part a fun part of the ongoing tweaking process or an absolute pain. It can be particularly annoying when your machine just doesn’t behave the way you intended. For instance, my computer has …

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Aug 13 2010

Desktop Operating Systems Don’t Belong on Tablets

Another quick one for tonight. Over the last decade and a bit, we have seen Microsoft attempt to get the tablet form factor to be a success in the marketplace but a Windows tablet just didn’t get any legs. I believe this is due to three reasons: Computing power at the time was insufficient for …

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Apr 07 2010

64-bit or Bust – Don’t Settle For Less

Casting my mind back over the last decade with regard to the development of 64-bit computing, I’ve realised that it really has taken a while for 64-bit platforms to become the mainstream. Certainly from the perspective of x86 (which is the instruction set architecture that many desktop and servers systems have used for just over …

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