Memory Module
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Toshiba is taking back bad memory
News PC maker is offering to replace memory modules in 27 notebook models sold worldwide. Lockups, blue screens among problems' effects.
Tags: Memory
Oki C5200n
Reviews Oki's C5200n joins the ranks of low-cost, network-enabled business colour printers. Black text is high-quality but slow, while colour output is poor-quality but fast.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-R1
Reviews This lightweight but very durable notebook delivers impressive battery life. Although it has drawbacks (including a cramped keypad and no port replicator), many buyers will find that the Toughbook's good points outweigh the bad.
Google: Computer memory flakier than expected
News After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds that computer memory failures are much more common than expected and debunks some other myths.
Tags: Memory, Error Rate, Google Inc., Error, Memory Module, Computer, Operating System, Envisioneering Group, University of Toronto, Error Correction Code
Micron module promises to boost server memory
News Company says its new DDR3 memory module will significantly increase the amount of memory available on servers.
Tags: Processors, SAP AG, CPU, Motherboard, Memory Chip, Chip, Memory, memory capacity, Server, processor
Memory health check
Insight Learn how to use Microsoft's free RAM diagnostic utility.
HP drops eight-processor Xeon servers
News Top seller of servers using x86 processors follows rival Dell with a decision to retreat from selling models using eight processors.
Tags: Servers
Intel inside again for new Google servers
News Resurgent chipmaker has reclaimed an exacting and prestigious customer that had chosen AMD-based x86 servers for the last year.
Tags: Processors, Servers
Toshiba Tecra M9L-12K
Reviews The Tecra M9L-12K is a nicely designed thin-and-light notebook whose fingerprint sensor will appeal to the security conscious. The lid section is a touch flimsy, and another USB port would be handy. The integrated graphics may be a bottleneck for some applications, too.
HP says no to Intel's Turbo Memory
News Company says its notebooks will not include Intel's flash memory module, claiming users would do better to increase their RAM or use external media.
Tags: Processors, Notebooks and tablets
Rambus revs up chip speed
News The memory chip maker says it will increase the clock speed of its RDRAM chips from 800MHz to 1.2GHz by 2005. It hopes to crack the mainstream PC market.
Microsoft denies Sony's Vista hardware claims
News Software giant insists that the current release of Windows Vista does support hybrid drives and Intel's Turbo Memory, but Sony stands firm as it elaborates on its claims.
Tags: Memory, Notebooks and tablets, Microsoft Windows
Few buyers at patent auction
News A few hundred people show up at the Ocean Tomo patent auction, but only a fraction turn out to be buyers.
Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way
News MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server. And it's got a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it.
Tags: Memory, Servers, Processors
PC memory prices soar
News A confusing mix of facts and rumors is causing a steep hike in memory chip prices, bringing some needed relief to beleaguered manufacturers but threatening to put the brakes on falling PC prices.
