Holy terabytes Batman!

phil@itnow.net — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

If I’d asked anyone what a thousand gigabytes is called 10 years ago, they’d look at my like I was crazy. No one could even fathom that much storage.

A few months ago, Seagate announced the worlds largest desktop hard drive, 1.5 TB. That TB means terabytes, otherwise known as 1,500 gigabytes, 1,500,000 megabytes, 1,500,000,000 kilobytes, you get the idea. [...]

When Should I Replace My Computer

craig@itnow.net — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

As computers progress and get cheaper, it is often easier and cheaper to replace a computer than it is to fix it. Some of our clients aren’t used to this approach. Many have been using computers since they cost $5,000 and are accustomed to maximizing the investment by getting as much use as possible out of the computer. Here are some of the reasons I give when I tell clients their money would be better spent replacing a problematic PC older than 3 years:

Productivity. Almost ev [...]

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Holy terabytes Batman!

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