Computers

By Jonas – LiveDigitally

The humble flash memory card quietly provides the storage for today’s electronic devices. Handheld computers, iPods and other portable music players, digital cameras, and even some cellphones and camcorders utilize flash cards. These cards are available in more varieties than Baskin Robbins ice cream flavors, and there’s always some new smaller card that just came out with some reported advantage. Thankfully, selecting a memory card format to invest in is not as random as selecting a roulette number at Vegas, and the key is putting the house advantage in your favor. This article reviews the current cards on the market with their potential advantages and uses, and highlights some future directions. No one likes choosing a dying standard, and I’ll point out the likely winners of this high wager business. After all, no one needs a drawer full of expensive, but outdated and useless memory cards.

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(Schio, Italy) After the great worldwide success of Virginia Tech’s Big Mac , a new Macintosh cluster has took everybody in the Mac community by storm.

A supercomputer formed of a cluster of 4 Macintosh Mini has not scored high in the list of the world’s fastest clusters, but its performance could still improve, according to the system’s architect.

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Graeme Wearden
ZDNet UK

There’s still no sign of the long-awaited PowerBook G5, but Apple fans can console themselves with the G4’s new features.

Apple has lifted the lid on the latest range of G4 PowerBooks on Monday. They incorporate faster drives and a slew of new technologies, but there is still no sign of the much-rumoured G5 version.

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By: Sander Sassen

I was at a computer convention a few weeks ago talking to some of my colleagues when the editor in chief of a leading printed publication walked up to me and asked whether I own an iPod. I hesitated to reply for a moment as we were in the middle of a conversation which he interrupted. I paused for a moment longer to look at him once more; he didn’t strike me as a stereotype iPod user that you see on MTV, he simply lacked the bling-bling and he was not in his teens or twenties anymore. I then proceeded to tell him, with the eyes of my fellow journalists fixed on me in a gaze, that I do not own an iPod as I simply have no use for it. ‘You don’t have a use for it?’ he blurted out, his eyebrows raised as if he was puzzled why someone that intimate with computers would not want to own something as hip and fashionable as an iPod. He laughed and walked off to join his friends at their table and kept glancing our way when he told them that I don’t own an iPod as I have no use for it.

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