Nowadays, we’re all concerned about reducing our power usage and carbon footprint. As I’ve previously blogged, faster computers use more power. What you may not realise is that busy computers do as well; most modern computers (laptops especially) are good …
Every watt of electricity that goes in to a computer will end up being converted into heat somewhere along the line. As computer chips get smaller, the internal wiring is thinner and packed more densely, so they become more sensitive …
It’s an inescapable law of physics that anything which has moving parts will fail eventually. So, it’s no surprise that the things which fail most often in computer hardware are the parts that move: hard disks and fans (which I …