Tuesday, February 2, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 02/02/2010


InsideHW
Core i3: The Most Affordable Nehalem
Intel continues the tradition of releasing of weaker models of their current CPU generation right after a serie of the most representative models, so now we finally have Core i3, the weakest but the most attractive CPU of the Nehalem architecture. As before, when after a serie of expensive Core 2 processors, we got a serie of weakened models for the masses, now we have the latest derivatives which differ significantly from the strongest i7 series, but are perfect for most needs of an average customer.
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Xilence to release two more XQ series PSUs
Xilence Technology has just announced that it will be expanding the XQ family of power supplies with two new low-power models, the SPS-XP350.XQ (350W) and SPS-XP400.XQ (400W).
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Nokia Ovi Store hits 1 million downloads per day
Nokia states that the Ovi Store, application store for its mobile phones, is now seeing 1 million downloads per day, a strong milestone for the service that opened to criticism last year for its sloppy launch. Nokia VP of Product, Media George Linardos said earlier this month that the company was looking to re-do the store, and that a V2 should be available by the Spring.
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Michael Dell demonstrates Mini 5 Android tablet
The guys from TechCrunch have managed to meet Dell’s head man himself right on the street and this was the meeting they’ll be glad not to have missed: it turned out that Michael Dell had a nice little goodie packed in his coat for the world to see – the Mini 5 Android tablet.
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Radeon HD 5450 specifications leaked
Next month, AMD is going to introduce more cards supporting DX11, namely the Cedar GPU-powered Radeon HD 5500 series and HD 5450. The lowest end card in this already low-end line, the Radeon HD 5450, will feature, as ati-forum.de (http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/news/34-amdati-grafikkarten/1000-exklusiv-spezifikationen-der-hd5450) is reporting, 80 Stream Processors, a GPU clock of 650 MHz, a 64-bit memory interface, and 1GB of GDDR3 memory set at 1600 MHz.
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Asus confirms Eee Pad
Apple's iPad is sure to have a lot of competition this year, among the challengers being the Eee Pad from Taiwanese heavyweight Asus. Confirmed by Asus vice-president, the Eee Pad is said to be an affordable tablet based around Nvidia's Tegra 2 SoC (System-on-a-chip) which was announced earlier this month at CES 2010.
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Alienware's M11x compact gaming laptop
Unveiled at CES 2010 as the most powerful sub 12 gaming laptop in the universe, the Alienware M11x is still not released but at least its base price was exposed, and it's $799, 200 bucks lower than the initial rumor.
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OCZ Vertex LE SSD coming next week
While the Vertex 2 Pro has recently been doing the rounds around the Internet, it seems that the first SandForce-based solid state drive from OCZ to become available is actually the Vertex LE, where LE stands for Limited Edition. Found listed with February 5th as its estimated time of arrival, the Vertex LE has a 2.5-inch form factor (6.4 mm thick), 100GB and 200GB capacities, a SATA 3G interface, MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chip, TRIM supports and and delivers maximum read and write speeds of 270 MB/s and 250 MB/s, respectively (235 MB/s sustained writing).
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MSI bundles NVIDIA cards with GPU-accelerated video editing software
MSI announced the free 30-day trial bundle of Super LoiLoScope, the world’s first video editing software directly decoded by GPU, for all MSI NVIDIA GeForce series products. Super LoiLoScope creates movie files up to 10 times faster than CPU powered encoder and allows users to easily play and edit HD movies. With MSI N-series products and supporting Dual Stream Decode technology, Super LoiLoScope even allows users view overlapping multiple videos in real time.
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