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Microsoft offers cheap hard drives to handle Xbox dashboard upgrade

October 14, 2008, 12:00 pm by Simon Munk 2 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: Hard drive, Microsoft Xbox 360, New Xbox Experience, X360, Xbox Arcade, Xbox Live

When the New Xbox Experience (Microsoft’s fancy name for its avatars/dashboard combo) launches on November 19, owners of cut-price Xbox 360s without any hard drive storage are in for some money-saving news.

Play PS3 games without the disc

August 27, 2008, 9:30 am by Stephen Ebert Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Gaming, hack, Hard drive, PS3

If you’re too lazy to walk over to your PlayStation 3 game collection, open a box and insert the disc into your console help is at hand. A hacker, known as AOTC has discovered a way to play PS3 games without the disc.

Hard disk Acer Aspire One coming on Monday!

August 15, 2008, 12:30 pm by Will Head Leave your comment

Filed under Laptops Tags: Acer, Aspire One, hard disk, Hard drive, HD

It’s been available to pre-order for aaaaaages now, but finally it looks like there’s a proper date in sight for the HD version of Acer’s titchy Aspire One. Amazon is listing Monday 18 August as the day it’ll start sending them out.

Eee PC hard drives getting slower?

July 28, 2008, 12:30 pm by Will Head Leave your comment

Filed under Laptops Tags: 16GB, Asus, Eee PC, Eee PC 900, Hard drive

Size isn’t everything - there’s apparently even a video of Mini Me doing the rounds to prove it. But when it comes to the Eee PC hard drive, if you opt for a larger model, you could end up with a slower one. Warning: geek graphs lie ahead.

Acer Aspire One gets a DIY hard drive overhaul

July 23, 2008, 12:30 pm by Will Head Leave your comment

Filed under Laptops Tags: Acer, Aspire One, Hard drive, modding, upgrade

Some users have apparently been complaining that the internal flash drive in the Acer Aspire One is a little on the slow side - which means it’s laptop makeover time again.

Sony considers hard drive for PSP movies

July 17, 2008, 10:30 am by Stephen Ebert Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Console, E3, Gaming, Hard drive, PSP, Sony

If the words coming out of Sony are true, the PSP could be heading for a little memory makeover. PSPs with a built-in hard drive? Possibly.

Add extra storage to your Eee PC

July 16, 2008, 3:30 pm by Will Head Leave your comment

Filed under Laptops, Videos Tags: Asus, Eee PC, Hard drive, SSD, upgrade

Not content with coaxing an Eee PC 901 into running Vista, JKKMobile has now turned his attention to its insides and bumped up its onboard storage by shoehorning in an extra hard drive. All on video, of course. Ace.

LaCie serves up titchy Terabyte hard disk

June 17, 2008, 1:19 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Storage Tags: backup, Hard drive, lacie

Perfect for backing up oodles of videos, music and photos, LaCie just gave us a peep at their new Little Big Disk Quadra 1TB. It’s small enough to sit in your palm, but room enough for any files you care to throw at it.