There are plenty of thin and light laptops on the market these days. But for years it’s been hard to beat the LG Gram lineup if you want really lightweight notebooks with big displays. The current lineup includes a 17 inch notebook that weighs less than 3 pounds, a 2.5 pound model with a 15.6 […]
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Overclock a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) to 1.3 GHz
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 […]
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Custom kernels let you overclock the Amazon Kindle Fire
Developers have started to release custom kernels for the Amazon Kindle Fire which allow you to make a few nifty changes to the tablet. For instance, you can overclock the CPU or GPU when using the first custom kernels. Right now the top clock speed is 1.2 GHz, but it could go even higher. Out […]
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Overclocked Asus Eee Pad Transformer hits 1.6 GHz
You know how a few days ago hackers managed to install a custom kernel on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and get the Android tablet to run at up to 1.4 GHz? You know how the tablet wasn’t particularly stable at that speed, but ran OK at 1.2 GHz? Well, nevermind all that… because now […]
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Overclocking the Asus Eee Pad Transformer with a custom kernel
We’ve already seen a number of Android tablets with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips hacked with custom software kernels which support overclocking. So it’s no surprise that the Asus Eee Pad Transformer can be overclocked. But it’s still nice to see it happen. Xda-developers forum member netarchy has posted a custom kernel for the Transformer which […]