Last summer, shortly after it first shipped, I got a Google/Asus Nexus 7. I liked it a lot. It came with a charger and micro-USB cable. The charger puts out 2 amps or 10 watts, and the Nexus 7 charges fast on it. After a week or two, I hooked the cable that came with the Nexus 7 … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE, part 4
Here’s what I take from my week-long effort to get the T7600 working. Dell shipped a combination of hardware and software that couldn’t possibly work together. I don’t think they should allow you to configure those combinations when you order a system. I’m sure it wasn’t … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE, part 3
The AMD/ATI V4900 arrived lickety-split from Amazon. I unpacked it, saw that there was no driver CD, and went to the AMD (no trace of ATI anymore) site and looked for the driver. You’d think that would be easy. You would be mistaken. The problem is that the AMD web site makes … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE, part 2
The Dell tech sent me an email with the news that Windows 7 doesn’t support more than 192 GB of RAM. Bummer. Should Dell have told me that before they took the order? Maybe so, but, back in the 32-bit OS days, they never said that if you ordered a 4GB machine you could only use … [Read more...]
Dell T7600 OOBE
I needed a computer to run Matlab image processing programs. Matlab needs a lot of memory, and my 48GB T7500 wasn’t cutting it. Why does Matlab gobble memory like that? Part of it is data representation. You can represent image pixels as one or two byte unsigned integers, like … [Read more...]
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