Category «Hardware»
What’s New at TwinBytes: YouTube Videos and More
From creating new YouTube Videos to expanding our services, TwinBytes has been busy this summer! We’re committed to providing customers with the tools you need to solve your computer and networking problems. YouTube Videos TwinBytes has recently started uploading some new YouTube tutorials and other helpful videos to our channel to help customers with common …
Problems with thin notebooks
People are buying into the idea that thinner and lighter is better. Sure light weight helps when you’re carrying around a notebook/laptop all day, however to make it lighter you are giving up a few features such as now having a smaller screen, smaller battery, no DVD drive, and a thin screen. So you’re probably …
Speed Up your computer with SSD
First off, if you don’t know what it means, SSD stands for Solid State Drive. The biggest bottleneck in any computer these days is your hard drive. We have fast CPU’s, lots of RAM, and the other technical terms you might not understand are all increased. But hard drives still spin at a maximum 7,200 RPM …
Quality of Computers
Many people when purchasing just about anything, including items other than computers or electronics, are so focused on the price, that they don’t truly look at what they are getting for the price. Sometimes I hear “I could get a new computer for that price”. I say “what kind of computer would you get for that …
What hard drive do I have installed?
If you want to know how to find out what hard drive you have installed in your computer system, we’ll show you how you can find out, assuming your running a Windows operating system. You might assume if you bought a DELL computer it is all DELL parts; same whether it’s HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, …
Alert Shirt – 4D sensory technology
Technology is getting cooler but is it getting out of hand? This below linked Video from Bloomberg shows an example of a product that takes our sensory experience to the next level. We have 3D movies and 3D televisions, but now we’re looking at 4th dimensional experiences watching TV. Really! If you’ve seen the movie, …
Planning budget for computer replacement
Computers can only be expected to last 3-5 years and 5 years is the maximum support life Microsoft gives to their software, plus 5 years extended support for resellers, so in total, the maximum support life for any given computer you can expect is 10 years. Let’s break this down in an example for you. …
The maximum RAM memory supported for Windows 8
As an update to the maximum RAM supported for Windows 7, here’s my updated list I pulled from Microsoft’s website documented below on what the maximum memory is for the various Windows 8 editions. Any 32bit version has a maximum memory of 4GB, but almost all systems you find now will be 64 bit, but …
PC’s versus tablets
Is the PC industry going down? More and more people are buying tablets and can do just about everything on a tablet as on a PC with the exception of a few tasks. As the link below shows some more detail with a nice chart, Microsoft seems to have screwed up with Windows and causing …