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TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Amped Wireless AP600EX
Mar 5th
This week’s Deal-of-the-Week is the Amped Wireless AP600EX Access Point.
This is most definitely NOT your run of the mill Wireless Access Point, with a range of 1.5 miles, available from the vendor at $179.99.
Suitable for both indoors and outdoors use, and able to be used as a wireless network bridge, it is well worth checking out!
Mushkin Callisto 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
Jan 21st
So last weekend I put and Mushkin Enhanced Chronos (MKNSSDCR120GB) 120GB SSD ($150) in my personal PC here at home and saw some amazing results. I posted about it here. Later that weekend, I was talking to the Worship Guy at our church and he had seen the post as ask if I thought an SSD drive could speed up the PC the church uses for video production. It is a Dell XPS 630i with (Core 2 Duo Quad Core, E8200, 2.66, 6MB Wolfdale, 65W) but came into our hands with a 500GB OS spinning drive and just 3GB of RAM. Of course my answer was YES and how fast can we get one in! He smiled.
Later the next day a Mushkin Callisto 120GB SATA II 2.5” drive was ordered from Newegg.com and shipped with 8GB of new RAM ($100). Since the PC does a lot of video rendering, more RAM is always better.
Mushkin Chronos 120GB SSD Install and Performance Specs
Jan 14th
I recently purchased a Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) from Newegg. It can be found here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236
I purchased it to replace a Western Digital 1 TB WD10EACS Green Drive that will be moved into my storage pool on the Window Home Server (where it belonged in the first place). It was also a bit slow at times. See the stats below:
The box with the new drive arrived this week and I couldn’t wait to get it installed on the weekend. After installing Windows 7 Ultimate from scratch (very fast install), updating all the software (even faster) and installing all the regular apps, I ran another ATTO Disk Benchmark with amazing results. How did I ever live with a spinning drive? Well worth the $150 upgrade!
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–AMD AM3+ CPU
Oct 15th
This weeks Deal of the Week is the AMD AM3+ 8-core CPU’s from NewEgg.com
AMD are the first CPU manufacturer to bring an 8-core processor to market – check it out over at NewEgg
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–E3 Sparkplugs
Sep 9th
This weeks Deal of the Week is the E3 Spark Plug, which in real-driving conditions has shown an improvement of 4mpg in a Chevy Suburban!
Check them out at www.e3sparkplugs.com
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Build your own RAID 5-0 box
Sep 4th
Match this card up with some SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 2TB hard disks from NewEgg.com, and the sky’s the limit for your new storage array.
HP TouchPad / WebOS: 28 Day Experiment – Day 14
Aug 21st
I had no idea when I started this series of posts two weeks ago, that the events of this weekend around HP and the WebOS would cause this much upheaval. At the end of my last post (Day 11) I came to the conclusion that if the price of the TouchPad dropped to below $200, it was worth buying. I had no idea of what was to come.
By Saturday AM, I awoke to a bunch of emails and tweets (some from you all) alerting me to the fact that some retailers had dropped the price of the 16GB Touch Pad to $99 and the 32GB to $149 here in the US. The race was on! I looked online but found that most sites were already out of stock. There were some rumors that local stores had some in stock and so I headed out to find them. No luck there either! I gave it about an hour of searching and figured the hunt was over. What was there, had already been taken.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid 2.5” Hard Disk
Aug 19th
This weeks’ Deal of the Week, is the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5” Hybrid drive from NewEgg.com, a worthwhile upgrade at $89.99. The drive is larger than an SSD, with improved performance over a regular drive.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–Antec Unbeatable Notebook Cooler 200
Jul 25th
For those of you who are looking for a Notebook Cooler, look no further than the Antec Unbeatable Notebook Cooler 200 from Amazon.com
A great buy at $48.97, which is a 46% saving on the regular price
TAG Tech Deal of the Week – LIAN LI Black Aluminum PC-C33B ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
Jun 17th
This weeks’ Deal-of-the-Week is the Lian-Li Black Aluminium PC-C37B Micro AT Media Center / HTPC Case from NewEgg,com for $169.99.
A great case for those of you who have an HTPC in a normal PC case. Not only does it look like it belongs in the entertainment unit, but it also has great cooling and will take a wide range of motherboards and drives.
