Category Archives: hardware

Fake ECOO E04 battery alert

Posted on July 16, 2015 by cmexonat

Recently I’ve got replacement battery for my new ECOO E04 smartphone. It seemed as original at the first glance. But capacity was too low. It was 1700mAh instead of 3000mAh as listed and not even 2000-2500mAh as it was reported … Continue reading →

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ECOO E04 Plus Aurora cheating camera specs

Posted on June 8, 2015 by cmexonat

As you maybe know the new hot model of chines smartphone by the name ECOO E04 Plus Aurora has been faced as equipped with good 16 megapixel back camera and 8 megapixel front cam. But there were some doubts in … Continue reading →

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Don’t throw away your old 775 motherboard, or to put Xeon into 775 socket

Posted on January 15, 2015 by cmexonat

Lately I’ve noticed interesting way to upgrade my old box with LGA775 system. It has Core2Duo E7300 processor and 8GB of RAM. So I saw somewhere on the web that one can use Xeon processors (771 socket) in 775 socket … Continue reading →

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Computeruniverse – beware of B-ware!

Posted on July 24, 2014 by cmexonat

Lately I’ve purchased some staff from Computeruniverse.com, Germany. Everything’s great as usual, but this time there was some “B-ware” item. Ok, I really didn’t have in mind to grab some cheaper staff, the only reason B-ware item was purchased is … Continue reading →

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Wacom Driver lag on startup

Posted on April 25, 2013 by cmexonat

Today I managed to get rid of the annoying issue with Wacom Intuos Tablet driver loading on reboot/sleep. Well, I have Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and Wacom driver of version 6.3.5-3 that is up to date to the moment. When I … Continue reading →

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Installing Win7 on mSATA SSD drive

Posted on April 12, 2013 by cmexonat

Some time ago I managed to move Win7 to mSATA SSD drive. As I posted before to do this I pulled off HDD drive to make mSATA SSD drive the only one in the system. After that installation goes as … Continue reading →

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Booting up on battery issue

Posted on April 12, 2013 by cmexonat

I had no time to share with you this issue I noticed on my Dell M4500 laptop. Since I installed Win7 onto mSATA SSD disk once I tried to boot on the battery I failed to do this. After I … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade DELL Precision M4500 up to 16GB RAM

Posted on March 21, 2013 by cmexonat

Disclaimer! AFAIK You may install 16GB of RAM for QuadCore system only! If you have DualCore processor it’s limited to 8GB. Yesterday I have got my upgrade kit from Germany, the 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Surprisingly, parcel arrived in two … Continue reading →

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mSATA SSD arrived!

Posted on March 15, 2013 by cmexonat

Hi there! Today I’ve got 128GB SATA minicard for my Dell Precision M4500 laptop. As you may remember I posted about this SSD drive here. I’ve ordered it month ago from Hong Kong ebayer, this is the link to the item. Firstly … Continue reading →

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Make It Habitable

Posted on March 13, 2013 by cmexonat

Hi, I’m moving forward in making laptop habitable, if I would allowed to say so  🙂 Keyboard led lighting is so pleasing in the night time. For even more comfortable working it lacks the most powerfull processor, which was build … Continue reading →

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