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Review – Lenovo X230
Shortly after starting my new job it became apparent that I’d need a new laptop. As most of the other CohesiveFT team use Macs (and iWork) I was very tempted by the 11″ Macbook Air, but its limited memory and need for dongles to connect to things like VGA and network dissuaded me. I may come to […]
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Tags: lenovo, review, ssd, X230
Lenovo S206 – first impressions
First the really good news – Lenovo (or more specifically their fulfilment partner Digital River) managed to take an order from me and ship (on time) without some major disaster happening (as I’ve suffered before, repeatedly). They seem to have entirely given up on supplying order tracking information, which is little change in practice to […]
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Tags: 11.6", ACHI, AMD, APU, benchmark, driver, E1200, E1800, lenovo, performance, review, S206, ssd, x121e
Netbook mort?
Over the past few days I’ve seen a few articles about netbooks. One was declaring that 2012 was the year the Netbook Died, another saying the netbook isn’t dead — it’s just resting (with perhaps an even more interesting Hacker News comments thread). So what’s really going on? A couple of years ago I wrote that […]
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Tags: AMD, ARM, Chromebook, Intel, Microsoft, netbook, ssd
NoSQL as a governance arbitrage
I got into a conversation earlier in the week with a techie friend about the merits of SSDs, which we both use these days for our main machines. It look a odd left turn when he said: Funny part for me is that I truly believe the SSD revolution will result in a swing back […]
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Tags: dba, enterprise, governance, nosql, rdb, rdbms, ssd
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