_{Jamie Balfour's}Articles

The other day, I was asked why the Pentium 4 was considered a lousy processor when discussing clock frequencies given that it had such a high clock frequency. I explained that the longer pipelines were the issue. In this article, I'm going to discuss what this means.

The Post Office Horizon scandal is an absolute disgrace. As an IT issue, I felt the need to describe this in more detail and why this kind of thing should never happen.

It's an ongoing debate that seems to crop up everywhere. SATA was once the world's fastest and most popular technology for internal storage, and even at one point the fastest external interconnect. But it's since been replaced by so many technologies. So is it dead?

I love Macs and have used them for so long, but I also hate them for what they are. But moving back to a Windows machine as my daily driver is not an easy task.

The UK's TV License is an expensive yet very dated idea that needs to be looked at. In this article I take a look at the problems with the TV license as well as the difficulties that are faced with bringing in a replacement.

The world of computing processors is shifting. More and more users, particularly those building custom PCs such as myself, are moving away from Intel. As someone who has shares in both Intel and AMD, I am often faced with the difficult choice as to who to put more of my money into these days.

In this post I am discussing how serial communication overtook parallel communication as the main method of communication in computer systems.