Should you swap your laptop hard drive for an SSD?

By tim, on September 15th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just been briefed by Kingston on the merits of its SSD Drives. Sandisk also has a range. Solid-state storage, capacity typically 128GB but larger is possible, lower power consumption (so longer battery life), better reliability (nearly drop-proof), and faster.

Kingston gave a demo showing how an SSD-equipped Toshiba laptop booted more quickly and

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September 15th, 2009 | Category: green computing, sandisk | 5 comments

Mobile phone wastage

By tim, on October 24th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

According to a release today from Moneysupermarket.com, promoting its recycling service, two-thirds of us (in the UK) don’t recycle old handsets. The worrying aspect of this is that handsets include some nasty chemicals (mostly in batteries) which should be disposed of safely. Many people either don’t know or don’t care about the regulations and

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October 24th, 2008 | Category: green computing, mobile | One comment