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Solution to a problem
2008-02-22My situation was an odd one. I had a motherboard that had a 9 pin USB connection. A rectangle box with a row of 5 pins and a row of 4 pins. I had to look it up on the Internet to find out what each pin represented, but basicaly you have a ground on one end and power on the other with communication on the center two pins. The 5th pin on the 5 pin row ends up being another ground. I wanted to add a Cables To Go 4 port USB hub, which mounts in the floppy drive hole, but it only has a regular USB type A plug. This is where this item came in handy. I unscrewed one of the cables from the metal plate and it plugged right into the 5 pin row. You have to make sure you know which is the ground and which is the power end, so consult your mother board documentation, but the cable end that plugs into the the motherboard is brown for the extra ground, black for the standard ground, and red for the hot lead. This gave the the female type a USB port I needed, and my USB hub is working great. Well done Cables To Go!
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The New User's Guide for iPod
Got a new iPod? This handy guide will help you do the following things:
Install iTunes
Connect and set up your iPod
Fill your iPod and iTunes with Music
Disconnect your iPod
Play your iPod
Learn more
Troubleshoot iTunes and iPod
Also see: Related information
1. Install iTunes
Before you connect your iPod to your Mac or PC computer or use it, you must install the latest iTunes software.
Installing iTunes software
The New User's Guide for iTunes
2. Connect and Set Up your iPod
Charge your battery by connecting it to an Apple iPod Power Adapter or connect your iPod to a high-power USB port —one that's located directly on your computer—to ensure that your computer charges your iPod battery. (If your computer doesn't seem to recognize your connected iPod, wait about 30 minutes to allow the iPod battery to charge before going further.)
Charging your iPod battery through a computer or optional power adapter
3. Fill your iPod and iTunes with Music
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Core 2 Duo Scaling
Laptop Scaling
Intel's Core 2 Duo is easily the best mobile processor on the market today, boasting sky-high performance and low power consumption. But which CPU is for you: the super expensive T7600, the bargain-priced T5500, or something in between?
This article will first take a look at the various versions of Core 2 Duo that Intel has to offer. We will compare Core 2 Duo clocked at four speed grades: 2.33GHz, 2.16GHz, 2GHz, and 1.83GHz in a variety of benchmarks and let you know how to get your best bang for the buck.
Note: We will refer to a Core 2 Duo “T7000�multiple times in this article. We were unable to get a Merom sample with 2MB L2 cache, thus we lowered the clock speed of our 4MB L2 model to 1.83GHz to perform near that of the T5600 (1.83GHz, 2MB L2 cache), resulting in our unofficial “T7000�nomenclature.
The Core 2 Duo Processor
Intel has two lines of Core 2 Duo processors: notebook and desktop. Core 2 Duo for notebooks is codenamed Merom, while Core ...