Friday, October 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 30/10/2009


InsideHW
Tegra-based eBook reader
After recent rumors of Asus Eee book reader, it looks like that MSI had a similar line of thinking, and that they will come out with eBook reader of their own. In this absolute flood of eBook readers, what keeps us excited is possible usage of Tegra platform. After our review of Zune HD, we are well aware of this platform strengths, and it just strike us as overkill to use this kind of power horse for regular e-ink based reader.
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32GB USB/eSATA Combo SSD
Verbatim is doing his best to penetrate new fields of IT market, and it can be seen on this 'solid state drive' boasting both USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity. The combo drive measures 80 (L) x 23 (W) x 9 (H) mm and weights 19 grams, has 32GB of storage space, a sliding mechanism for accessing its connectors, and offers read/write speeds of up to 60/25 MB/s via eSATA and 26/15 MB/s through the USB port.
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2GB RAM for new Atomآ’s?
With Pine Trail Atoms pushed to the beginning of next year instead of Q4 this year, every piece of good news is more than welcome. Atom based netbooks had a very big problem with Intel imposed limit of 1GB RAM to be used in this system.
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Android 2.0 and free, turn-by-turn navigation
Android 2.0 (Eclair) has been officially unveiled by Google, and it includes a good set of new features. The platform brings a much improved approach to mail that allows both for multiple accounts and native Microsoft Exchange support. The web browser has similarly been upgraded and is only the second HTML5-capable mobile browser outside of Safari; it further brings some of the earliest multi-touch support and recognizes double-tap zooms.
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i7 920 will be replaced with 930
When Intel launched their new line of Core i7 (LGA 1366) CPUs, there was not many of us expecting that slowest of three introduced will be one to have the longest market life. On the contrary, as it is common in IT industry, slowest one often dies first. Despite all odds, combination of good price, performance and OC potential made i7 920 best-selling i7 CPU.
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Very affordable SSD from Kingston
Kingston has now added a new, low-capacity model to its entry-level line of solid state drives, the SSDNow V (Value) series. It isn’t intended as primary storage but rather as a system drive that speeds up the operating system as well as key apps. It's billed as inexpensive enough that it can be mated with a second, much larger rotating hard drive that would handle less critical apps and storage.
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Loves shadows
Today, Logitech announced the Logitech Harmony IR Extender System, which makes it easy to control your devices while they’re conveniently hidden away inside a closed cabinet. The Harmony IR Extender System doesn’t require any programming, so it will be up and running in no time.
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ASUS K50IN
When it comes to notebook sales figures, home entertainment models are in majority. Because of demand for such models, many home entertainment models exist on the market today, so users that search for one of these are presented with huge variety of models. ASUS positioned their new K50 series in that category, and we decided to take a look at K50IN model and see how it matches against ferocious competition.
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LED Umbrella
Umbrellas are supposed to keep you dry during a rainy day, but most of the time they are not so good in doing its job. Since you’re going to be wet anyways, why not give the LED Umbrella a go to be cool even when everyone else are cursing the weather gods for extremely whacked out weather patterns.
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20 GB transfer for 70 sec.
Asus announced a range of enhanced motherboard solutions that deliver USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s data throughput performance. Asus said this technologies delivers ten times faster USB 3.0 throughput compared to the previous USB 2.0 standard. The expansion bridge increases hard disk read and write speeds by up to 50%, so, as the company said, transferring a 20GB HD movie takes less than 70 seconds, while a 4MB song requires less than 0.01sec.
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