Super tough Casio EX-G1
This beauty is 12.1 megapixel camera, just .78 inches thick, with a 2.5″ LCD, and a 3X zoom, and yet it still manages to be super tough. It can survive drops of 7 feet and is both dustproof as well as waterproof at depths of up to 10 feet for up to an hour. Winter travelers can also use it as it operates in temperatures as low as 14F (-10C).
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Ferrari ONE, best AMD netbook?
Acer Japan just announced their new netbook Ferrari ONE. This red beauty has a very attractive design in line with previous Acer Ferrari models, but the specs are also good. Specially designed as ACER is the official sponsor of Ferrari in F1 Race, all the minor details have been meticulously worked out in collaboration with Ferrari Team: from the Royal Red color, the red hinges to the real (not painted) vaulting horse badge, even the impact absorber rubber at rear side of the chassis is made to look like Ferrari Racing Car tires.
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USB security, Kingston way
Kingston has introduced the DataTraveler Locker+ family of flash drives which feature 256-bit hardware-based AES encryption for extra security. These new drives measure 65.76 x 17.98 x 10.7 mm, are waterproof, have a USB 2.0 connection interface, and are backed by a five-year warranty. They are also very secure - drive locks down and reformats after 10 intrusion attempts.
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Colossus 3.5-inch SSD is up to 1TB
Almost six months after their first sighting, OCZ formally launched the Colossus, its first solid-state drive line aimed primarily at the desktop. The 3.5-inch SATA II disks are designed to fit directly into desktops without a mounting kit. The 120GB, 250GB, 500GB and 1TB drives have an aluminum casing and feature MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory chips, internal RAID, two controllers and 128MB of cache memory, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF (mean time before failure) of 1.5 million hours.
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AMD Radeon HD 5970
The performance gains going from the HD 5870 to the HD 5970 in our 7680x1600 testing range from 30% up to 40% depending on the gaming title. I think one of the limits we are seeing in these tests is that a 1GB framebuffer is just not enough to hold 7680x1600 resolution images, textures, handle AA, etc and thus we might actually see a bigger boost with a 2GB buffer instead. LINK (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=820 type=expert pid=1) Physically, the card is just as monstrous as its characteristics. It measures 28 cm and exceed the most ATX motherboards. Its heat sink occupies two slots. LINK (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcinpact.com%2Farticles%2Fradeon-hd-5870-rv870-dx11%2F373-1.htm sl=fr tl=en hl=en ie=UTF-8) Even though this is a dual-GPU-card it only draws about 42W of power when in idle mode. AMD has managed this by improving their power saving method “ATI Powerplay” so that it puts one of the GPU’s in sleep mode when it is not needed. LINK (http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1738) Today AMD is launching the 5970, their dual-GPU card that finishes building out AMD’s technical domination of the high-end market. With it AMD delivers the absolute victory over NVIDIA’s GTX 295 that the Radeon 5870 couldn’t quite achieve and at the same time sets the new high water mark for single-card performance. LINK (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3679) We are not impressed with the MSRP of $599. It is questionable as to what value it brings in current games. Future games maybe, but right now? We are also not impressed with driver issues that keep cropping up in recent games, and what seems like a lack of focus on features and performance in brand new game titles as soon as they hit the shelves. LINK (http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/11/18/amd_ati_radeon_hd_5970_video_card_review) The result of this is that AMD has had to bring its dual-chip cards to market simply to compete with nVidia's top-end single chip cards (not to mention nVidia's dual-chip cards as well). However, this time around we have a slightly different situation. While the HD 5870 still isn't the out and out fastest card - the nVidia GeForce GTX 295 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 (both dual-chip cards) still trade places for top spot with it - it's the clear choice of the three due to its support of DirectX 11, its lower power consumption, and better compatibility thanks to its single chip (while CrossFire/SLI support is getting ever better, some games still have issues with these dual-chip solutions). LINK (http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2009/11/18/AMD-ATI-Radeon-HD-5970/p1) The Radeon HD 5970 packs two AMD Cypress GPUs with 1600 stream processors each (total 3200), and holds 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface per GPU (total 2 GB of memory on board, across a 2x 256-bit wide memory interface). LINK (http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/EAH5970/)
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Corsair Obsidian Series 800D enclosure
Rather than thinking way outside the box, the new features Corsair has brought to the table with the 800D are much more subtle and sensible. And with a classic, monolithic exterior, the Obsidian stands a better chance of staying aesthetically appealing over the long haul. LINK (http://techreport.com/articles.x/17852)
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Samsung Spinpoint F3 Hard Drive
After we reviewed previous, fairly successful, series of Samsung hard drives in our Hard Drive Roundup (Reviews/Storage/Hard-Drive-Roundup.html) we were surprised by new F3 series that should queer competitors pitch and possibly take a larger piece of storage market pie. Samsung Spinpoint F1 and EcoGreen F2 series offered good performance rates accompanied with low noise rates, and as such, found themselves in many desktop configurations. We got in our test lab newest Spinpoint F3 series HDD which combines the best features of previous series: speed from F1 and low noise levels from F2 series.
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Crises is gone in 2010
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to total $226 billion in 2009, an 11.4 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $255 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. It’s somewhat better from the latest Gartner’s forecast that semiconductor revenue to decline 17 percent in 2009. The good news is, according to Gartner, that Semiconductor revenue in 2010 is expected to bounce back to the same revenue level as 2008 at $255 billion, a 13 percent increase from 2009.
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HAF 932, the AMD way
Cooler Master has taken the wraps off its HAF 932 AMD Limited Edition, a re-branded version of its popular HAF 932 chassis. The new-look tower, has been designed in collaboration with AMD and sports a racing red front face and AMD's Fusion dragon on an acrylic side panel.
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