After about a decade of faithful daily all-day service, one of the switches in my trusty trackball Kensington Slimblade has started sticking, so it was dragging more than it was…
Category: hardware
It was about time. My old Xi was probably 8 years old. It was starting to not boot up because of low fan speed. And fans are easy to replace,…
One of my early memories from getting started in engineering and CAD was those super-cool gizmos on the desks of the old Unigraphics workstations. The very first Spaceballs I remember…
I finally got my hands on a Microsoft Surface. I tried to get one on release day, and no dice. I tried again the next week, still no love. Finally,…
I’ve long been a fan of spaceball type products. I’ve owned several, from the old 2000 and 3000 series, and what I have to review today is the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse…
When I was first asked to review the AMD FirePro W7000 video card, I was eager to compare it against my existing ATI FirePro V4800. It’s clearly not fair comparing…
Specs The Xi PowerGo XT The Xi PowerGo XT is a 17.3” portable workstation that weighs nearly 9 pounds. A machine like this is not for everyone. For professionals who…
My quest for the perfect CAD input device has taken me through many strange and foreign lands. Although there are a lot of fun-looking gaming mice out there, I don’t…
This past summer I bought a long-overdue new desktop. Specs at the link, but the main idea was that it was an i7 3820 3.6 ghz overclocked to 4.5. I…
This article also ran on CADdigest. This computer was sent to me by Lenovo for evaluation purposes. The base price is $1104.15, and as-tested price is $2592.99. Detailed specs listed…