Articles by Harald Thon | Tom's Hardware

Quo Vadis, Hard Drive? The 50th Anniversary of the HDD

By Harald Thon published 14 September 06

Let's look 50 years ahead in time! Tom's Hardware Guide asked Seagate's Senior Field Applications Engineer Henrique Atzkern what he thinks the future holds for the hard disk drive.

AMD's Dual Core Laptops Have Arrived: Introducing the Turion 64 X2

By Harald Thon published 22 August 06

AMD's mobile 64 bit dual core CPU 64 X2 is neck and neck with Intel competitor Core Duo - at least in some areas. Is there enough here to convince you to opt for a Turion 64 X2 laptop?

Big Bytes to Go: Maxtor's OneTouch III Mini Edition

By Harald Thon published 31 July 06

Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response?

By Harald Thon published 16 January 06

Aeneon: Cheap memory or an alternative for white boxes and retail?

By Harald Thon published 8 December 05

Connecting With Skype's Phone Service

By Harald Thon published 23 September 05

FirstWare Recover Pro 2004: System Recovery in Seconds

By Harald Thon published 20 June 05

Intel's Yonah dual-core processor to get 'Smart Cache'

By Harald Thon published 2 June 05

Building Your Dream Notebook

By Harald Thon published 4 May 05

Gigabyte 3D Cooler Pro

By Harald Thon published 12 February 04

With its 3D cooler the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer got a foot in the door in this hard-fought cooler market. Will the new design of the GH-PCU21-VG establish itself in practice?

Three Red-Hot Boxed Cooler Alternatives for the Athlon XP3200+

By Harald Thon published 17 September 03

Portable, Plug & Play, High-Performance Water Cooling: The Corsair Hydrocool200

By Harald Thon published 16 June 03

How Good Are AMD's Bundled Coolers For The Athlon XP ?

By Harald Thon published 4 April 03

A Comparison of 34 Coolers for the AMD Athlon XP

By Harald Thon published 13 January 03

Third Generation: Iomega ZIP-750 MB

By Harald Thon published 19 December 02

With the new ZIP 750 MB drives, Iomega not only succeeds in catching up with the standard CD capacity, but surpasses it by about 100 MB as well.

Speedomania: 48x/16x/48x-Burner from LG

By Harald Thon published 13 December 02

High Speed Burning via USB2.0 - Waitec FrisbyII

By Harald Thon published 31 October 02

Waitec's FrisbyII may be small, but when it comes to writing to CD-R, this USB 2.0 CD burner is up there with the fastest. In our test it even marginally outpaced the 44x model.

Portable CD Tattoos with Yamaha's CRW-F1UX USB 2.0 Burner

By Harald Thon published 10 October 02

A Cool Bunch: How To Put A Lid On The Die Temperature Of Your Athlon

By Harald Thon published 16 September 02

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