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 […]
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Het is een bijverschijnsel van ouder worden dat je vaker terugdenkt aan vroeger. Dus toen ik recent een nieuwe rekencomputer aan het samenstellen was, moest ik terugdenken aan mijn eerste PC. Deze heb ik in 1993 […]
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 […]