Recent content by ThomasDM

First tried an in-place upgrade to Windows 8 on a Windows 7 laptop to see if it would work but that turned out to be a disaster. The install took over 2 hours and there seemed to be a compatibility issue that resulted in very slow booting, sluggish performance and error messages. I didn't...

I know of a firm here in Belgium called Umicore that recycles metals like gold, platinum, palladium and copper from old cell phones. There's a lot more gold in one ton of cell phones than gold in one ton of gold ore :p

I recently did a few benchmarks and found that the Super Talent 200x USB drive increases performance by 6.16% in PCMark05 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with 2GB RAM memory. However, when you take a look at the subtests you can see that while the overall score is much higher, the performance actually...

Idd many news sites, like Joystiq and a few others, didn't notice Wired talks about 300 terabit and not 300 terabyte.