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Xbox One –Why I want one

pcdoc — Sat, 25 May 2013 07:22:57 +0000

Background For years I have been attracted to PC gaming and never cared much about the Xbox. There were many reasons for this but primarily because I preferred the controls of a PC, the graphics resolution of a PC, and I was completely uncoordinated with the Xbox controller. In addition, it did not allow me [...]

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Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook

pcdoc — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:54:01 +0000

Here is a quick view of my new Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook. The performance you see here is after the SSD and memory upgrades. Other than slightly lower battery life than I would like, this is an awesome device for this price range. Samsung Series 5 with Corsair SSD Upgrade The first thing [...]

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Plex Media-A New Way to Stream

pcdoc — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:53:26 +0000

If you are like me you love to stream your content to other devices both inside and outside your network. The issue is the typically convoluted and unstable packages such as Twonky, tVersity, or PlayOn. There are obviously solutions like Windows Media Center or XBMC but they do not stream or transcode to mobile devices. [...]

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Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard on the Surface

pcdoc — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:55:52 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the Microsoft store in San Diego California. I was wondering around looking at the different laptops and testing out the type cover for the Surface. In the process I ran across the new Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard. I had seen pictures of this before however this was the [...]

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rtRemote-iTunes Remote for the Surface RT

pcdoc — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:48:34 +0000

As many of you have seen by now, the app selection for Windows 8/RT is growing in availability, but not necessarily in quality yet. There are still tons of third party developers that are releasing garbage apps which is making it hard to sort through and get something worthwhile. In my recent search, I came [...]

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Going From Physical to Virtual Machines at Home

pcdoc — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:43:29 +0000

A topic I have struggled with for a long, long time has been the use of virtual machines in an actual home environment. In the past VM’s where limited to enthusiast but now that Hyper-V is bundled with Windows 8, I wanted to revisit the practicality of using a VM in a home environment to [...]

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Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse

pcdoc — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:06:12 +0000

As we move toward the public release of Windows 8, we are beginning to see more and more hardware available for it. Here is a quick view of the new Wedge Mouse from Microsoft. It is a Bluetooth based device that requires that you computer have some sort of transmitter. Setup and Installation [...]

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Server 2012 Storage Spaces-Testing the RTM Version

pcdoc — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:02:53 +0000

Intro and Test Setup Following in the tradition of testing each release, here is a summary of the testing I did on the RTM version of Server 2012 Storage Spaces. Since this has the final code, the hope was that it was tuned and tweaked to provide the maximum performance and stability. Issues Right [...]

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Using Windows 8 on an 11.6 Inch Tablet

pcdoc — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:50:08 +0000

I had a chance to test a Samsung 11.6 inch tablet running Windows 8 Pro RTM at the Microsoft store. Retail price was a bit steep at around $1299 but this unit had a 1366 x 768display, Core I5-XX, 4 Gigs of Ram and a 128 Gig SSD. The experience was very fast and smooth [...]

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Storage Spaces-Server Essentials RC

pcdoc — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:30:43 +0000

In following tradition, below are the updated benchmarks of the Release Candidate of Server Essentials. As you can see from the benchmarks below, things have not improved in terms of performance. In fact, some tests were a bit slower. I am using the same hardware in the same configuration as before for the testing. I [...]

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