Posts by Luben Solev

Pint-sized PCIe powerhouse: Intel NUC5i5RYK

Monitor support is the issue for me..

My 30" 2560x1600 monitor only supports dual link DVI-D whilst NUC's only have HDMI and DisplayPort. And all the active DisplayPort to dual DVI-D converters on the market are costly (over £60) and have mediocre reviews.

I love the space saving nature of the NUC and am happy to pay extra for it, but I don't want to have to change monitors as well.

The competition is not much better in this regard. Asus Brix also does not offer dual DVI-D, whilst Zotac only appears to offer it on it's older/slower/lower-spec boxes. And Zotac's prices seem to be even more eye-watering than those of the NUC.

Decisions, decisions....

WikiLeaks slips out YET MORE Sony SECRETS

... can find nothing incriminating

The only thing worse than bad publicity......is no publicity! :-)

Huawei: There'll be BLOOD spilled in the smartphone sector soon

This is in contrast to the ascertion of other Reg stories..

...where the thought that local phone suppliers would begin to make inroads into the market share of established brands.

Which one is right nobody knows. Maybe it is the middle ground that gets killed with people either going for global brands like Samsung or for very local ones.

WD mixes flash-disk cocktail in Vegas, lets clients feel up models

How about use in RAID systems?

Can Hybrid drives be used in RAID systems (such as RAID 5)? How about the newer generation SSD drives for that matter? When I built my last PC I was told that putting SSDs in a RAID array will make them fail very quickly indeed.

Ten unlikely iPhone insurance claims

"I dropped it in a food blender"

But does it blend?