Archive for 'Hardware' Category
Toshiba support around the world
21 October 2007About a month ago, the hard drive in my good old iBook died. I was quite sure the problem was with the hardrive. I went to the support service of Apple, and they wanted to charge me around 200€ for the HD and the service, so I end up with a 10€ “electronic screwdriver set”, […]
Teaser: IDE vs FW vs USB
9 July 2007I recently bought an external HD for my ibook with dual interface (USB and Firewire). Some of you may ask… why the hell did you buy a slower and more expensive interface? (USB is advertised as 480Mbit/sec, and FW as 400).
Yeah, well, this is far to be the complete test, but I’ve got some remarcable […]