Category: Reviews

A Review is a critique or evaluation of something. We review things like computer hardware, computer software and technology books.


Samsung NC10 Netbook Review

Author: Joe Kelly

After months of pining and researching, I finally bit the bullet and bought a netbook. During my research, I checked out the netbook offerings of Samsung, Dell, HP, Acer and Asus. In the end, I went with the Samsung NC10 (model code NP-NC10-KA05CA). In this nerdboys.com exclusive, I’ll review my new “Sammy” netbook. …Continue reading » Samsung NC10 Netbook Review

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November 3rd, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Reviews | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post |
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Acer Aspire One AOD-250 First Impressions

Author: Jonathan Ng

As we posted earlier, the nerdboys recently went shopping for some netbooks.  We debated the pros and cons of each.  In the end, Jonathan ended up getting the Acer model (AOD-250).  Here are some first impressions:

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October 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Reviews | One comment | Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post |
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Netbook shopping

Author: Jonathan Ng

Though both “nerdboys” have been out of school for quite some time we still marvel at “back to school” sales.  Back in the day of course, “back to school sale” meant purely new pens, pencils and binders.  (Back in the day, we also had to walk 5 miles to school, uphill both ways….)
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October 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Reviews | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post |
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Review of the Asus P5N-MX (LGA775) mainboard for use as a Linux File Server

Author: Jonathan Ng

Picture of ASUS P5N-MX motherboardI’m kind of an odd person. In my house, I have a closet that serves as the central hub for all my networking. It’s sort of an odd hybrid of cheap IKEA utility shelves coupled with some rack mounted equipment.

I put “servers” in this closet too and serve files from this closet. Back in my university days, it was the “geek” thing to do: in fact it helped me tremendously during an advanced networking course as it meant I had my own in-house lab. Nowadays, it is more of a carry-over tradition. I have gone from a huge network of many servers to an array of embedded devices (WRT54GLs running OpenWRT) and one/two PCs running Linux. …Continue reading » Review of the Asus P5N-MX (LGA775) mainboard for use as a Linux File Server

March 17th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Reviews | 7 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post |
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