Rocket Silence

Continuing with the recent string of laptop related posts, I thought I should post a few of the disassembly photos I took of the Lenovo X200. Taking the laptop apart is rather simple – just remove the screws on the the laptop (depending on what you want to remove, you only have to unscrew certain [...]

“I missed you too” – on Flickr by süńdāyx

I’m disappointed with Apple. I’ve been using their machines since I was four years old and have been buying them personally for the past seven. It has been my preferred platform of choice and I’ve never been unhappy with the hardware choices available to me until now. [...]

There has been a huge amount of hype and misinformation in the solid-state drive debate as of late and whether it’s a technology that’s ready for primetime; I recently purchased one with my newest computer and want to offer some real-world tests. The drive in question is a Samsung 64GB SATA SSD (1.8″, Model No. [...]

Have you ever needed to install Windows on a computer that doesn’t have an optical drive? I ran into this issue recently when I needed to install Windows Vista on my newest laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X200, and thought it would be useful to share the rather simple process here. You can do it from [...]