Sunday, November 1, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 11/1/09


InsideHW
LG W2486L
For an average user, question of monitor backlight is, in most cases, a trivial one. Most users simply don’t like to see too much backlight breach along edges along with bright or smudgy black areas. And that’s it, for an average user. In case you do need good display, and do pay attention to small details, you expect much more from your monitor’s backlight. LED (Light Emitting Diode) backlight is often mentioned as better and more energy efficient solution, but only in case RGB LED technology is correctly implemented. Changing neon backlight for an LED does sound like a simple task in theory, but this can also present some new problems. Since LG W2486L does have LED backlight, and we will check out how LG did its homework.
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Out of nowhere
Hyundai in the past had some success with display manufacturing, but for the best part for past few years it was almost non-existent on the markets beside Asia. Like a blast from the past, Hyundai IT is currently readying the introduction of a new Full HD LCD monitor in Europe, that of the 24-inch W243D.
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DataTraveler 102 and mini10
Kingston has discontinued the DataTraveler 150 and DataTraveler 120, but offered new DataTraveler mini and 102 USB drives. New mini10 is everything we have expected - it is new, colorful, mini-sized DataTraveler® mini10 flash drive. As expected, new capless flash drive is small, not so fast and most affordable with capacity from 4GB up to 32GB.
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Sony introduces Signature Collection
Already quite amazing Sony Vaio X series now got addition in a form of Signature Collection. New look featuring sexy gold paint is main difference, but upgraded 128GB SSD won’t hurt either. It is available now, in limited quantities, with price tag starting from$1499.
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Radio without any buttons
Q2 Cube Radio is not covered in useful knobs, but instead it allows for you to control it by how you move the cube itself. If you like having things to toy with, this radio might be enough to keep you entertained. In order to change the volume or radio stations, you just tilt or rotate the small cube.
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Water-cooled Radeon HD 5870 with Dirt 2
As announced a bit earlier, PowerColor is releasing a water-cooling-ready Radeon HD 5870 equipped with a waterblock from EK. Officially dubbed LCS HD5870, the card has been announced today and, as you can see, it's looking good.
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Silverstone Grandia Series GD04
It obviously sits in the same product range as GD03 and indeed is similar in many ways, but we still felt it was differed enough for a dedicated review. LINK (http://metku.net/index.html?path=reviews/silverstone-gd04/index_eng)
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Steelseries Siberia v2 Headset
The V2 should be able to put all this right as well as a few other bits and pieces. So can the Siberia headset be transformed from a good headset to a great one? LINK (http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/headsets/steelseries-siberia-v2/)
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Samsung UN55B8000 55 inch LED TV
The first thing to mention and the distinguishing feature is the 1.2 inch depth profile. There is no consumer grade TV this side of perhaps an OLED display that at the time of this review is as thin as this model. LINK (http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/samsung_un55b8000_led_tv_review/)
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