General Hardware

Art's picture

No more Abit mobos after this year.

Submitted by Art on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 23:42

Looks like Abit's parent company, Universal Scientific Industrial (I love that name!), is shutting Abit's doors on December 31 due to a reorginazation of the company. At first they were just going to get out of the mobo business and focus on consumer electronics, but the decision was made to give the company the axe altogether.

 

Art's picture

Happy birthday to the mouse!

Submitted by Art on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 13:19

Wow, I don’t know how we missed it in our computer history segment for the week’s podcast (to be released tomorrow), but today is the 40th birthday of the computer mouse.

So, let’s all give a toast to the computer mouse!

Hear hear!

Mike's picture

What is eSATA?

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:57

eSATA is a External Serial ATA interface. Serial ATA (SATA) is a commonly used interface for internal Hard Drives, and eSATA is an extension of that specification to be used with external devices.

If you're using a USB or Firewire external drive, what you're really using is a ATA or Serial ATA hard drive, and an external enclosure. The enclosure has a controller in it which translates the ATA or SATA protocol to USB or Firewire.

This translation causes some delay and there is also some overhead involved in the translations.

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