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Is a byte really a single unit of digital storage, though, Tom's? I'm fairly certain a byte is 8 bits

@memadmax methinks you missed the purpose of this product entirely. me also thinks that you don't truly understand what an ULTRABOOK is... good luck out there, though and happy shopping :) lol

it's not "fake", it's a mobile processor.. mobile i5 CPUs and half of the lower-end i7 CPUs have always been 2 cores with hyperthreading.. as far back as Sandybridge. all i5s and i7s were 2C/4T in the Westmere gen.

A) major improvements of the Haswell series of CPUs is mainly reserved for iGPU (integrated graphics). Supposedly, you can somewhat game on integrated graphics now but I don't see dedicated graphics going away anytime soon. Secondly, the thermal design of the chip has changed, obviously, due to...

I have been working my way up in performance over the past few months, switching out various components, and am ready to finally upgrade my CPU. My build started out as an HPE h8-1010.. I've since transplanted the guts into a Cooler Master CM 690 II advanced, replaced the original optical drive...

Bought an MSI Z68A-G45 barebones kit (link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2311915&CatId=333) and have run into a problem almost immediately. The case this particular kit comes with (an MSI Raptor Mid Tower) has front and rear USB 3.0 ports. The...

I recently added a third HDD to my desktop.. the motherboard (Intel Carmel) supported the addition, as it has 4 SATA connectors (two currently used for existing HDDs and one for my optical drive), but the HDD bay only fits two 3.5" devices. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I could secure the...

Ok well that clears up most of my questions. Both. The new drive will have a partition at the beginning, to be used for storage of all non-system files and folders, and also a partition at the end to have my OS backups in order to store them on a separate physical drive, for obvious reasons...

I am due to recieve my new Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive today and have a few questions about methods regarding the transferring of files.. My PC (an HPE h8-1010) currently has the factory installed HDD, which my primary OS (Windows 7) runs from, and a 500GB secondary HDD that I run Linux...

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