I used to make fun of Apple users for a long time – for overpaying for their computers (especially hardware upgrades) and for not being able to plug in HDMI cables, needing to make use of […]
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All images sourced from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. What is a workstation? Wikipedia’s definition starts with A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single […]
Computers don’t age as fast as they used to. My first computer, bought in 1993, was a 386 DX 40 with 4MB RAM and 170MB harddisk. It was replaced six years later with a Pentium III […]
I’ve used a Keychron K8 Pro keyboard for a couple of years now, and for a while I’ve been considering getting another one for my desktop PC, especially considering that I plan on getting a new […]
When the first computers with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 „Strix Halo“ were announced, they were advertised as being ideally suited to AI workloads, especially large language models, due to their maximum of 128GB of „unified“ […]
Project DIGITS NVIDIA caused a bit of a stir at CES 2025 when it announced Project DIGITS, a tiny computer for AI development. It combines a 20-core ARM CPU with a Blackwell-generation GPU/AI accelerator and 128 […]
I recently needed a new laptop as backup system. Compared to my HP ZBook it could be a more low-end computer. I just wanted a 15/16″ screen and a display port-enabled USB-C port for my external […]
I’ve long considered getting a small low-power Linux PC as intranet database and web server and for testing Linux applications. Intel’s N100 processor has been a bit of game-changer in this segment, employing four efficiency cores […]
With a move coming up I started thinking about network requirements for the new house. Based upon past experience and future plans, I arrived at the following set of requirements, in no particular order: Wireguard VPN […]