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Blu-ray burner 12X with four interfaces

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:19:53 +0000

Other World Computing has expanded its offer with an external Blu-ray Mercury Pro 12X, compatible with both PC and Mac.

The device has up to four interfaces: USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA. They are equipped in the 8MB cache. You can record a speed of 12X drives for BD-R drives, 2X for BD-RE. DVD-R / + R are fired at a rate of 16X, DVD + R / + R DL and DVD + RW – 8X, DVD-RW – 6X, DVD-RAM – 5X, CD-R – 40X, and CD-RW — 24X

Mercury Pro 12X DVD recorder included with the software Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro costs $ 450. The cost of purchasing the device itself is $ 350. In both cases, the buyer receives two plates 4X 25GB BD-R.

It is not perfect MacBook Air

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:59 +0000

Apple has officially acknowledged that the latest product MacBook Air has a serious structural defects.
The manufacturer advises that when the closed notebook is connected an external monitor is rapidly declining coverage and transfer-in Wi-Fi in the 2.4 GHz band. The same problem occurs when your computer is working simultaneously with multiple devices. Most likely the problem is due to too low intensity of the current supplied to the Wi-Fi system in the above-mentioned situations.
Another problem is the Remote Disc software included in the MacBook Air. The idea is to allow it to remotely “sharing” optical drives of other computers running the Apple operating system Mac OS or Microsoft Windows. As it turns out a variety of wireless routers do not allow the use of such a possibility. Apparently sometimes helps to update the firmware on the router.

This means that if necessary, read the disc (eg installation of another operating system) computer user will have to connect an optical drive via USB. It is worth mentioning that the MacBook Air has only one such slot. As it turns out Microsoft Windows in general can not be installed via Remote Disc, it is necessary to purchase an external drive. Otherwise, the application Boot Camp (for installing other systems on the Mac) will not work correctly.

When the system hangs ..

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:13 +0000

Any person who ever served the computer knows that such equipment is to himself that it is often suspended or even excluded. This is normal, but such situations happen all too often it becomes inconvenient for the user’s PC and what prevents him from more efficient and effective work on the computer.

This behavior causes the computer can be many, but most often such situations occur by two factors. The first one is that the computer will simply be overheating, which usually takes place in the summer because high temperatures prevailing at the court house and not a positive impact on your computer and makes ventilation. In this case, it is best to check the radiators, and windmills coolery inside the computer, and if they are not fully operational, it is best to replace them. Otherwise may cause overheating of the badly burned cooled component.

The second most common cause is having too many components and at the same time too weak power supply, so it is advisable in this case stronger buying power.