The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) is an inexpensive 7 inch tablet with a decent screen, a relatively zippy 1 GHz dual core processor, and Android 4.0 operating system. But if you want to get even more performance out of this $249 tablet and don’t mind voiding your warranty (and possibly breaking something in the process), there’s a way to…
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The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. But if that’s not fast enough for you, it turns out the chip can easily support higher clock speeds. HP originally shipped the tablet with webOS software, and webOS hackers have built custom kernels that allow you to set the CPU speed as high as 1.7 GHz….
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The HP TouchPad tablet has a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It’s one of the fastest mobile processors available, so you’d think think the device would feel pretty zippy — but apparently you’d be wrong. While I haven’t played with the tablet, one of the top complaints I’ve seen from reviewers is that it feels sluggish and unresponsive at…
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The NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor which powers most tablets running Google Android 3.x Honeycomb normally runs at 1 GHz. But hackers have been overclocking the dual core chip to run at 1.5 GHz or even higher speeds. You sacrifice a little battery life when you run the chip at speeds exceeding 1 GHz, but you get speedier performance. That means…
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As Android tablets continue to hit the streets, I could probably start a full time blog doing nothing but covering tablet hacks. Every day someone has figured out how to root a new device, create a custom ROM, or overclock a processor. Here are three of the latest. (And no, I don’t plan to cover every single hack, but these…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color hacking continues. Shortly after the 7 inch color eBook Reader running Google Android was released, hackers figured out how to root it, install third party apps, and overclock it. Now there’s a new utility designed to make hacking the NOOK Color even easier. The app is called NOOK Color Tweaks, and it’s available as…
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The Motorola XOOM is already one of the fastest Android tablets on the market thanks to a speedy 1 GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra processor with support for 3D graphics acceleration and HD video output. But some people just like to push the limits. The developer of the SetCPU app for Android has managed to use the app to overclock…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is turning out to be an Android tablet hacker’s dream. While the $250 tablet is sold as a color eBook reader, it turns out you can root the Android operating system, install third party apps, update the Android OS, and even install Ubuntu Linux. Now it looks like you can also overclock the NOOKcolor to…
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Like other Asus Eee PC series notebooks, the Asus Eee PC 1101HA comes with the company’s Super Hybrid Engine software. This lets you underclock and overclock the CPU to boost performance or prolong battery life depending on your needs at the moment. But there’s one thing that makes the Eee PC 1101HA different – you can tweak a BIOS setting…
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Computer World has put together a list of 5 ways to overclock many netbooks with Intel Atom processors. I’ve covered many of these tips and tools before, including Eeectl and GMABooster. But it’s nice to find them all in one place, and more importantly, I’m a sucker for people who actually take the time to interview me before quoting me…
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The Asus Eee PC 1101HA 11.6 inch laptop gives users more control over the clock speed of the Intel Atom Z520 CPU than any other Eee PC model. Not only can users adjust the clock speed using the Super Hybrid Engine in Windows, but there’s a BIOS setting that lets you tweak the overclock value from between 15% and 32%….
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Asus has been shipping a program called the Super Hybrid Engine with all of its Intel Atom powered netbooks since day one. The utility lets users overclock or underclock their machines to provide better battery life or a performance boost depending on their needs. The 11.6 inch Eee PC 1101HA is the first one that lets you customize the overclock…
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