So today let's look at how far had drives have come. Let's start with some traditional spinny hard drives with sequential reads: 2006: This is a ThinkPad T60. 100 MB/s. This is my Dell Dimension from 2005. 125 MB/s. Let's fast forward to early SSDs: 2012! Here is 3 Intel X25-Ms in Raid 0 configuration to get max speed. 724MB/ s which was at the upper edge of speed for the time. More typical was my OCZ SSD from ...
I know I've done benchmarks on my various machines in the past but I had no idea how far the rabbit hole goes... Let's start with back in 2003: Benchmarking Dell XPS and Lenovo Thinkpads (littletinyfrogs.com) Device Description Score Frog 2003 Decent Dell Dimension for its time. 132 Turtle 2006 My ThinkPad T60 for business trips in 2006. 150 Turtle 2007 ThinkPad T61 replacing T60, good 2007 laptop. 286 Frog 2007 Dell XPS 710 work desktop, quad core, RA...
M$ is bringing ads to W10. With W11 barely scraping 30% of PC users, the reason they're doing this is all too clear: More fish in the W10 pond, and 0Patch will extend W10 another five years at least, maybe more. phantomofearth spotted this first and posted on X: "The Start menu account manager from recent Windows 11 updates is being backported to Windows 10. (present in Beta/RP build 19045.4842, disabled by default.) pic.twitter.com/34Ub68flCt" — phantomofearth 🌳 (@phantomo...
"Perhaps looking at the upcoming change in 24H2 as well as the boot bug, Microsoft has now added a bunch of new guides to its official website regarding BitLocker device encryption. In particular, two of them are certainly the most useful ones which walk users through finding their BitLocker recovery key and backing up the said key. " - Sayan Sen, Neowin The Neowin article describes two ways to access the Bitlocker key: via your MS account and via work/school account. I recommend ...
Why don't they leave well enough alone? Answer: They can't. So, thank heavens there's a Stardock and a Start11. So, MS wants the turn the programs on the start menu into tiles in the "All Apps" view...o.k. MS also wants to categorize your apps to help you. Thanks but no thanks. It seems their definition of similar apps differs from what you might want. Again o.k. as long as you can modify that. Also, the program names are missing. This is being tested in the lates...
Not to be confused with Edge's Workspaces. "Here's how it works. To get started, you open up all the apps you want to use at the same time for a specific Workspace. Then, arrange them as you'd like - this includes putting them in halves or corners of monitor space. Once you're done, tell Workspace to take a snapshot of which apps are open and their arrangement." - Simon Batt, XDA The snapshot can be activated anytime you wish...and you'll also be able to make as many Workspaces as y...
Concept creator Abdi, a.k.a. AR4789 has given us amazing videos of W12 , W13 , XP , and W7 2024 editions now gives us W10 2024 Edition. Here's the video: I have to admit, I want it. Now Yesterday. Why hasn't MS hired him, yet?! Just look at W10 2024 Ed.'s appearance and functionality! Have mercy on us, Abdi. Head over to https://betanews.com/2024/08/11/windows-10-2024-edition/ for the screenies. Here's a screen capture from the video showing Wind...
This is AI, as well as computing...so, I found this while cruising and figured you all (or at least a lot of you) would be interested in it. It isn't every day that scifi becomes reality, although it does seem that a good deal of scifi is doing just that. "In the quest to train robots for real-world tasks, researchers have created “Holodeck,” an AI system capable of generating detailed, customizable 3D environments on demand, inspired by Star Trek’s holodeck technology. Thi...
Sorry about the picture, I can't figure out how to rotate it properly. I'm running Windows 10 Home. As you can see on my taskbar there is this "News And Weather" widget. I don't want it there. I have tried the right click menu on the taskbar and turned it off. After a few hours in sleep mode it turns itself back on. The widget always turns itself back on after a reboot. I've tried everything I know of to get the widget to stay turned off. Any ideas?
Some seriously good news for those whose computers won't support upgrade to W11. 0Patch which supports at present Windows7 will support W10 until 2030. That's 200 million W10 devices granted a pardon. Martin Brinkmann brings us this good news at gHacks: "Come October 2025, owners of Windows 10 devices will have these five options, if they want to keep on using their devices: Upgrade to Windows 11 -- only available if the device is supported officially. Yes, there are...
There's a serious privacy and control problem with MS. They are positive your computer is really theirs to do with as they wish. The latest is now Windows 11 has altered whichever settings you determined in your backup preferences for OneDrive. I'm not against backing up data, as all here know, I am however against MS determining and acting, without obtaining your permission, to determine what you must back up from your privately owned computer. The article linked above informs yo...
Moment 5's now available for download. Neowin published a great guide at the external link above for W11 systems fulfilling MS's official requirements as well as those which don't. They also provided a link to explain M5's new features . When it comes to updates, I've learned to be shall we say...cautious. I'm not advocating "force updating" simply because I figure there will be many changes and "hiccups" before the mandatory update appears...and even then I tend to put things off a bit t...
For a deep dive into the expected changes to Windows 11, here's an excellent article sent to me by my trusty source Hankers of the Frozen North. Thanks, buddy. You've inspired me in many ways, and have been a great mentor. I expanded on your tip because of the appearance of subsequent additional important articles quoted here. The Windows 11's 24H2 Update will require hardware that supports POPCNT (SSE4.2 or SSE4a) . I remember predicting in a prior article regarding W12, just this kind ...
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I can't. I don't know if it's true, but I expected this. Just like W11...which W12 will be, or 24H2, Hudson Valley or Next Valley...a rose by any other name. New chip and RAM requirements. Apparently 16 GBs of RAM for your CoPilot, a new keyboard with a CoPilot key, Lunar Lake chips as Meteor Lake chips have too few operations per second for AI: "For reference, the current Intel Meteor Lake CPUs run at 34 TOPS, making them ineligible to power...