By all accounts, Apple’s MacBook Pro with the Retina Display is an elegant, capable machine with a dazzling screen. That beauty, it turns out, is only skin deep. If you crack open the case, you’ll discover like iFixit did, that the laptop’s innards are a disaster for people that like to repair and upgrade their own computers. […]
Archives for June 2012
Green IT tips for small businesses
Between keeping customers happy and balancing the books, the electric bill is usually the last thing on a small business owners’ mind. Until it arrives each month, that is. There’s little you can do about it if you use manufacturing equipment, for instance. But your PCs can help lessen your overall energy use with a […]
Dell delivers shot in the ARM server ecosystem
Looks like ARM-based servers in the data center are inching ever closer to reality. Last week, Dell took the wraps off Copper, an ARM server platform based on the computer maker’s PowerEdge C5000 microserver architecture. Instead of run-of-the-mill Intel Xeon chips, each blade-like “sled” contains four 1.6 GHz Marvell Armada XP ARM-based processors, each of […]
