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IBM’s 3D RAM Will Make Your 2D RAM Irrelevant

6:08AM December 7, 2011 | Adrian Covert

3D transistors? Ugh. Dude, that’s so 2011. IBM’s new design for RAM, employing a 3D manufacturing process, is where the real future magic lies. More »

Computing

How Can I Make Sure My New PC Isn’t A Dud?

10:30AM November 2, 2011 | Adam Dachis

I just bought a new computer and, seeing as hardware failure rates are pretty high these days, I want to make sure it isn’t going to suddenly die on me in the middle of an important project. Is there anything I can do to ensure it isn’t a dud? Sincerely, Paranoid Computer Buyer More »

Computing

Memory Buyer’s Guide: The Best RAM For Your PC

8:30AM September 2, 2011 | Paul Escallier - MaximumPC

RAM. How much do you need? How fast should it be? Are latencies important? Today, we’ll be covering everything you need to know to get the right RAM for your system. More »

Computing

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible By 100 Years Of IBM

3:03AM June 16, 2011 | Adrian Covert

IBM’s Centennial anniversary is fast approaching, and their 100 years of hard work shouldn’t go unnoticed. Behind every major technological advance, you’re likely to find IBM’s name floating around somewhere. Here are nine of our favourite IBM-aided innovations. More »

Computing

Take Control Of Your Mac’s Memory Usage

1:40AM June 4, 2011 | Matthew Rogers

Mac OS X is a slick, powerful operating system, but there’s a cost to all that gloss. Most users don’t ever bother to check, but many of the apps they use every day are notorious RAM-gobblers, eating up huge amounts of system memory and making even brand new Macs feel like they’re running slowly. Here’s a look at why you should keep an eye on your Mac’s memory usage, how to monitor it, and which apps are the worst offenders when it comes to memory drain. More »

Computing

Does The iPad 2 Really Only Have 256MB Of RAM?

8:15AM March 3, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

One of guys demoing the iPad 2 in London stoked our worst fears about why Apple’s not being too open with the amount of RAM in the iPad 2: He said it’s only got 256MB. The same as in the first iPad. Ouch. More »

Software

Speed Up Firefox By Moving Your Cache To RAM

12:20AM November 13, 2010 | Whitson Gordon

We’ve talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on. More »

Flash Memory May Be 10,000 Times Faster In Just 3 Years

12:49AM October 14, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Most mobile devices today use NAND flash memory. It’s fast! But ReRAM – a joint project of Sharp and Elipa – promises to be 10,000 times faster. And they say they can commercialise it by 2013. What’s that mean for you? More »

This Nitrogen-Cooled Memory Block Broke The World’s Speed Record

12:40AM September 9, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

These are memory sticks, two 1GB Corsair Dominator GTX6 DDR3 RAM modules. They usually run at 2625MHz, but these zoom at the new world’s speed record: 3078MHz. All thanks to the special nitrogen freezer plugged onto the heat sinks: More »

Mobile

iPhone 4 To Double iPad’s RAM With 512MB

6:13AM June 18, 2010 | Brian Barrett

MacRumors is reporting that iPhone 4 will pack 512MB of RAM, twice that of the 3GS and the iPad and on par with competitors like the Evo 4G. That’s huge, for you and developers both. More »