Subscribe by EmailMonday morning links serving: The June 22nd edition
June 22, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 1 comment
-From IBM with Love: Inside the World’s Greatest Keyboard
From the satisfying click of its keys to its no-nonsense layout and solid steel underpinnings, IBM’s 24-year-old Model M is the standard by which all other keyboards must be judged.
-Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features
Integrated Ubiquity! Geo-location! Dynamic Color Profiles! YES!
-Wireless power: Nokia phone recharges without wires
It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.
-Why Laptop Battery Claims Are So Useless
It’s one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone’s using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don’t plan on stopping.
-Solid State Disk Vs. Hard Disk Drive
A performance and price comparison may have you wondering why anyone would spend so much more for an SSD.
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I find it funny that the laptop battery thing is trying to make the case that battery life is overstated. Mine’s rated for 2 hours. A year later, it still gets 2.5 hours.