Toshiba laptops aren’t like most laptops where you can remove the BIOS battery and let it sit for a few hours to reset the BIOS. So what do you do? There are three forms of BIOS password removal being used currently by Toshiba: 1. Parallel port wraparound connector 2. Shorting a jump...
After going through similar non-gaming laptops for almost a decade, I finally made the switch to a desktop, as I wanted the extra oomph that my laptops were unable to provide. And I haven't looked back ever since. What about you? What was the laptop that kickstarted your journey into ...
The flash-memory chip, plane electrode and bonding wires are embedded in a resin using a technique called over-molded thin package (OMTP). This allows everything to be integrated into a single package without the need for soldering. The OMTP module is glued to a base card to create the ...
s cool and useful in many contexts, but I suspect that the Copilot button that will be available on keyboards won't always be popular. The Start menu button stuck around, but Copilot's own button gives the same vibes as Toshiba did when it tried adding a Cortana button to its laptops...
HDMI technology and high-definition televisions are now ubiquitous, but that wasn't always the case. Before the development of HDTVs, most TVs displayed pictures in what people refer to as standard definition. The picture was roughly square, with an aspect ratio of 4:3. Its resolution, or ...
priced at $500 and the very basic Apple laptops at $1000, Chromebook notebooks are reasonably priced. From low-end Chromebooks can go upwards to more high-end Chromebooks with better hardware. The average price of a top of the line Chromebook is at $300 (Toshiba Chromebook 2 for $289)....
, such as those with a PCIe serial port card. A PCIe-connected SSD does not require network host bus adapters to relay commands, which speeds the performance of storage. These devices include theU.2 SSDsthat are generally considered the eventual replacement for drives used in thin laptops....
Today, there are five major manufacturers of 3D NAND flash devices: Kioxia, spun off from Toshiba. Micron Technology using the Crucial brand. Samsung, the original 3D NAND manufacturer. SK Hynix using the Klevv brand and now controlling Intel flash market share. Western Digital using the SanDisk...
Bluetooth effectively allows devices to create a little network called a piconet. One device is the “central” device, and others are “peripheral” devices, with eight devices able to interact simultaneously — one central device and seven peripheral devices. The central device coordinates every...
A traditional LCD screen has a backlight (called a cold-cathode fluorescent light, or CCFL) which is uniform across the entire back of the screen. In an OLED TV display, the pixels themselves are the things producing the light, and so when they need to be black they are able to turn ...