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HP t5730w Thin Client review
Reviews There are also four USB sockets and two PS/2 sockets for keyboard and mouse, plus a serial port, a 12V power socket and two monitor outputs — VGA and DVI-I. An AMD Sempron 2100+ running at 1GHz and 1GB of RAM power the main engine, and another 2GB...
[September 3, 2009, 16:19]
Dell PowerEdge 1850 review
Reviews Processors with either 1MB or 2MB of cache can also be specified and, with six DIMM sockets, the 1850 can be configured with an impressive 12GB of DDR2 system memory. Each provides room for two expansion slots with one 64-bit/133MHz and one 64-bit...
[April 5, 2005, 15:15]
Creative Labs Inspire 5.1 5100 review
Reviews The plugs on the cable are colour coded, as are the sockets on the sub. There are five phono sockets to connect the satellites. This isn't an optional component -- you have to have the volume control plugged in for the speakers to work, since the...
[February 17, 2003, 10:59]
Sun Fire X4270/4275 review
Reviews Bear in mind too that, in common with all Xeon 5500 systems, both processor sockets need to be occupied in order to be able to use a full complement of RAM. Sun's motherboard (also used on the 1U model), has two banks of nine DIMMs flanking the two...
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
3Com: Four ports in every socket
News 3Com is bringing to the UK a network jack with a difference; it multiplies sockets by four. The J95 jack has been on sale in the US for a year, but has only just been made in a shape which fits UK standard wall sockets.
[January 16, 2003, 11:49]
Sun launches Shanghai-based servers
News The Sun Fire X6400 M2 is a server scaling from two to eight sockets and supporting up to 256GB of main system memory, with pricing starting at $12,595. The Sun Fire X4140 can scale from one to two sockets and comes with 16 Dimm slots and 128GB of...
[December 9, 2008, 16:41]
BT, broadband and electromagnetic noise
Blog Anyway, BT is trialling a cheap piece of kit it says will mitigate the electromagnetic noise issue for many people - essentially a self-install interstitial plate called the i-Plate (they're confident they won't be sued by Apple) that can be...
[March 12, 2008, 15:51]
Itanium suffers setback despite server progress
News One part of that commitment will appear on 18 January when HP brings new top-end Itanium processors to midrange Integrity servers with eight or 16 processor sockets and to its high-end Integrity Superdome line with 32 or 64 sockets.
[January 6, 2005, 8:00]
ViewSonic VX2435wm review
Reviews The piano-black surround, silvery finish to the stand and the curved menu buttons provide the style, while around the back you'll find VGA and HDMI inputs, along with audio and video component RCA sockets.
[August 31, 2007, 12:08]
Dell PowerEdge 1950 review
Reviews The Intel motherboard takes up only a fraction of the space inside the chassis, with two prominent sockets for the 64-bit Xeon processors. There are eight DIMM sockets on the PE 1950, which can accommodate up to 32GB of DDR2, fully buffered, DRAM...
[February 22, 2007, 12:20]
Council flats get broadband via power line
News Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull are to get free or subsidised broadband through their three-pin power sockets. On Wednesday, the wide area networking company CI-Net announced that it was the technology partner for...
[May 21, 2008, 16:26]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Plug a drive into one of those three sockets. Plug in a power supply for the drive. The gizmo usually has an external power supply for the drive since a USB port can't run most IDE or SATA drives. You could get a USB/SATA/PATA interface gizmo.
[September 5, 2009, 3:34]
Future Power jumps up Celerons
News The motherboard, called the ABIT BP6, integrates two 370-pin sockets for pin-grid array Celeron chips. It has a partnership with Daewoo Telecom, a subsidiary of Daewoo Group, which makes a number of the components used in Future Power PCs.
[August 25, 1999, 8:32]
Electronics and Circuit Analysis Quick Study Guide. FREE first chapter in the trial
Downloads Electronic ComponentsPassive components: Fuse | Capacitors | Inductors | Magnetic amplifier | Crystal Oscillator | Polyswitch | Resistors | Varistor | Transformer | SwitchActive solid-state components: Semiconductor devices | Semiconductor...
[July 24, 2007, 8:00]
Electronics and Circuit Analysis Quick Study Guide. FREE first chapter in the trial
Downloads Electronic ComponentsPassive components: Fuse | Capacitors | Inductors | Magnetic amplifier | Crystal Oscillator | Polyswitch | Resistors | Varistor | Transformer | SwitchActive solid-state components: Semiconductor devices | Semiconductor...
[July 24, 2007, 8:00]
Electronics and Circuit Analysis Quick Study Guide. FREE first chapter in the trial
Downloads Electronic ComponentsPassive components: Fuse | Capacitors | Inductors | Magnetic amplifier | Crystal Oscillator | Polyswitch | Resistors | Varistor | Transformer | SwitchActive solid-state components: Semiconductor devices | Semiconductor...
[July 24, 2007, 8:00]
ViewSonic VP231wb review
Reviews The 1,920-by-1,200-resolution VP231wb features a fast 16ms pixel response time, analogue and digital inputs, one upstream and four downstream USB sockets, and a power socket at the rear. There are five inconspicuous buttons on the front of the...
[August 17, 2005, 10:30]
Polyspan ViaVideo review
Reviews The USB and power sockets also live at the rear. Power comes from a 12-volt supply roughly two-thirds the size of the camera. First the software uploads a program to the camera (which takes a few seconds), and in less than perfect lighting the...
[February 25, 2001, 23:00]
Cisco Aironet 350 Series Access Point review
Reviews The power gets onto the cable either through a supplied power injector -- a power supply and connector block with two RJ-45 sockets -- or through one of Cisco's other power injection devices. Power is provided via the access point's Ethernet port...
[April 4, 2002, 0:00]
Poles Apart
Blog Sure, manufacturers have to design kit to accept 230V AC at 50Hz when 180V at 120Hz may have suited their design better, but as a result their market is the whole country, not just those with sockets able to supply their peculiar power requirements.
[February 23, 2009, 20:02]
