Something has occurred in the laptop industry that should make the consumer angry. We are being sold PCIe 4.0 laptops and ultrabooks that aren’t truly PCIe 4.0. Don’t get me wrong. You may be considering a purchase, or have purchased a brand new Ryzen 5 or Intel Tiger Lake that is just that but you have to ask… Have I …
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AIS 2012: Longer Ultrabook Battery Life
Ultrabooks haven’t been the smashing commercial success that Intel and it’s partners might have hoped for, but they’re still popular, and represent a big chunk of growth in the PC industry. We stopped by Kent Smith’s (of LSI SandForce fame) session on Ultrabooks and flash technology here at AIS to see about the future of those portables from a storage …
Read More »Benefits Of A Solid State Drive – An SSD Primer
Laptop computers are now sporting a new option that is going to amaze most as a result of the visible speed improvement and many will never really understand why. Some will boast of how quick their new laptop starts while others will read the fine print to see that there is this new thing called a solid state drive which …
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