The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Hardware

  • Intel NUCs…

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    For the past five years or so, Intel Corporation has been building what they term the Next Unit of Computing or NUC for short. What is a NUC? It’s effectively a stripped down ultrabook computer that is housed within a small cube like box – think back to when Apple had their cube like tissue…

  • Dell Venue 8 Pro Docking Solution

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    If you happen to have bought, received or won a Dell Venue 8 Pro then you’re probably familiar with some of the pain points when it comes to trying to use the micro USB port for anything other than charging. Our friends over at Plugable seem to have put together a solution in their Pro…

  • Microsoft Surface before Google Tablet…

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    Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet Details Leak in Full Only Days Before I/O? Who else is willing to bet that part of the reason that Microsoft held their press conference last week (6/18/2012) to show off their Surface tablet to get a little bit of market share before Google has their IO conference this week (6/27-29/2012).…

  • Lenovo W510

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    So my Lenovo W510 showed up before the July 4 holiday weekend and I have to say that I’m definitely pleased to have waited on the FHD screen – it’s phenomenal. Why did I buy a W510 after buying a Lenovo T410? Easy, the W510 is a workhorse with it’s quad core i7 820QM processor…

  • Home Lab Needs Replacing…

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    So this evening I decided to hook up my second monitor to my Dell Dimension E520 that has a Q6600 processor and 8 GB of DDR2 RAM and 1 TB of hard drive space spread out across two drives.  Things seemed to be working nicely with Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 edition running as the…