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vCharter Pro review
Reviews Having done this, we occasionally received alerts reporting that one of the VMs was actively using 88 percent of its memory, so we raised the RAM allocation to that VM. We tested vCharter Pro by installing it on a workstation fitted with 2GB of RAM...
[July 3, 2008, 9:11]
i-mate's latest handhelds review
Reviews Its Intel PXA 270 processor runs at 520MHz, and it is equipped with 256MB of ROM and 128MB of RAM. Like the 8150, the Ultimate 6150 comes with 256MB of ROM and 128MB of RAM. The JAMA 101 is powered by a 300MHz Samsung processor and comes with 128MB...
[December 14, 2007, 8:32]
Hi-Grade Ultinote M6500-2000 review
Reviews The M6500’s 2GHz Pentium 4 processor is supported by a generous 512MB of DDR RAM and SiS’s 650 chipset, whose integrated graphics module appropriates 32MB of system memory for its purposes. In fact, Hi-Grade is now selling this configuration for...
[June 25, 2002, 16:08]
Palm’s new Tungstens: a first look review
Reviews However, Palm’s Web browser will have to be installed to RAM -- of the 64MB complement that Palm provides, 52MB is available to the user. It comes with 64MB of RAM. One of the new Tungstens is positioned towards the lower end of the market, while...
[October 1, 2003, 8:05]
Intel sharpens its memory
News But SRAM (static RAM) cells currently used to make cache memory are not as dense as Intel would like, with six transistors needed to build a cell and store one bit of information. But one technology that fits the bill — embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM...
[December 12, 2006, 7:40]
HP unveils new spring PC fashions
News For $649 (£454), it includes a 1.3GHz Intel Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive and a CD-rewritable drive, but it does not include a monitor. Meanwhile, HP's new AMD-based Pavilion 521n offers an Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz) processor...
[April 19, 2002, 9:26]
IBM readies Opteron workstation
News One of the main advantages of stepping up to 64 bits is that it allows a computer to use more than 4GB of RAM (random access memory), the current limit on 32-bit machines. Thus, the step up to the IntelliStation A Pro and 16GB of RAM makes sense...
[March 16, 2004, 8:00]
Warp 4 to ship in October
News Without OS/2's voice support, the system will run happily on a 33MHz 486DX with 16Mb RAM, IBM said. With speech enabled, the basic requirement is a 90MHz Pentium with 16Mb or 24Mb RAM. The company said today that the ability to run Java app-lets...
[September 26, 1996, 10:56]
Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron review
Reviews The system has two 2.7GHz Shanghai Opteron 2384 processors with 16GB RAM. Comparison systems were a Mac Pro with two 2.8GHz quad-core Xeon E5462 'Harpertown' processors and 16GB of RAM, and an Intel four-processor board with the 7300 'Caneland...
[November 20, 2008, 12:46]
Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner
Downloads Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner can improve system performance by tuning internet and file cache settings, implementing ram disks, and cleaning out various cached and stale data.sLCC includes tools to help optimize files and memory.sLCC can recover...
[December 22, 2009, 14:50]
HP Compaq t5720 Thin Client review
Reviews As well as the new processor, the t5720 comes with either 256MB or 512MB of DDR RAM (bear in mind that most applications will be run remotely, so huge amounts of RAM aren’t needed) plus a further 512MB of flash memory to hold the system settings...
[April 18, 2006, 11:00]
Windows XP - a hit or a miss?
News He installed the new operating system, which was released almost three weeks ago, on a Compaq Computer 1700 Series notebook with an 800MHz Pentium III processor, 14.1-inch display, 256MB of RAM and 20GB hard drive.
[November 14, 2001, 8:57]
Compaq to unveil "Evo" for business PCs
News The entry-level N400c model comes with a 700MHz Pentium III processor, 12.1-inch TFT display with a maximum resolution of 1024 pixels x 768 pixels, 128MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive and 8MB of video memory.
[May 21, 2001, 11:45]
Dell OptiPlex GX260 review
Reviews The processor is supported by the aforementioned 845G chipset and 128MB of 266MHz PC2100 SDRAM -- the system's pair of DIMM slots supports a maximum of 1GB of RAM. This borrows up to 32MB of system RAM for its purposes (64MB if 256MB or more is...
[July 9, 2002, 11:24]
Tiny MediaBook Extreme review
Reviews The basic specification is impressive, however, the 933MHz processor being supported by 184MB of RAM in our review system, with a maximum RAM capacity of 256MB. The flip-chip Pentium III is normally a desktop part, and as such lacks the SpeedStep...
[October 13, 2000, 0:00]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback When using 50% of the RAM it has already paged out 27% of the RAM. The main reason is the whopping amounts of RAM Windows uses and most of the server software (Exchange, SQL Server, etc.use lots of RAM too.
[July 9, 2004, 0:57]
Five years ago: DVD-ROM is here
News Hitachi's Sundby added DVD-RAM drives will sample at the end of this year, depending on when the DVD-RAM working group fixes the specification. The first disks will have a capacity of 2.6Gb, and the current DVD-ROM drives should be able to read...
[January 22, 2002, 6:01]
Why DVDs have been a desktop dud
News That will happen, he said, once DVD-RAM hits the market -- although no one can say for certain when that might be. DVD-RAM allows people to write onto DVD-ROM discs, which is what some people consider the missing element to the DVD technology.
[August 25, 2000, 9:13]
Fifteen years of ThinkPad highs and lows
News On that date, IBM announced price cuts for the 133MHz Pentium-based ThinkPad 760ED with 16MB RAM and a 12.1-inch TFT screen, sliced from £5,449 to a bargain £4,509 (VAT excluded). A year later, IBM was showing off its prototype of a wearable...
[July 20, 2007, 14:56]
Apple Power Macintosh G4 review
Reviews Furthermore, the systems use PC133 RAM chips rather than the PC100 chips of the previous generation. However, both the 500MHz and 733MHz systems had 256MB of RAM, in contrast to the 867MHz model's 128MB, and Photoshop performance is generally more...
[November 22, 2001, 23:00]
