Monday, March 1, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 01/03/2010


TechConnect Magazine
Techconnect Review Round-up 27/2/10
CPU & Motherboard

- ASRock H55DE3 Motherboard @ motherboards.org

Storage

- OWC Mercury Extreme SSD - First Look at a 50GB SandForce Drive @ AnandTech
- Imation M-Class 128GB SSD @ HardwareLogic
- Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB (SNVP325-S2/128GB ) @ Bjorn3d
- Toshiba HG2 43nm 256GB Solid State Drive @ Legit Reviews

Enclosures & PSUs

- Thermaltake TR2 RX 750W Modular Power Supply @ Tweaknews
- Huntkey Balance King 4500 450 W Power Supply @ Hardware Secrets

Cooling and modding

- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus and TX3 Refresh @ PureOC
- Akasa Freedom Tower CPU Cooler @ bit-tech

Peripherals

- Microsoft Arc Keyboard @ TrustedReviews

Sound

- Boston Acoustics VS 344 speakers @ Digital Trends
- Mionix Keid 20 Gaming Headphones @ Dragon Steel Mods

Other

- UNITEK 2 Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card @ Test Freaks
- Soundgraph FingerVU 706 @ techPowerUp
- Gunnar Optiks Wi-FIVE Digital Performance Eyewear @ Legit Reviews



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Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 up for grabs
The Ubuntu devs have let loose a third alpha version of the upcoming Linux distro codenamed Lucid Lynx aka Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support). Released for testing purposes, the Alpha 3 has Yahoo! as its default search engine - a change announced one month ago, and features the latest GNOME desktop environment (Kubuntu includes KDE SC 4.4), the 2.6.32-14.20 kernel, the Nouveau video driver for Nvidia GPUs, an updated version (5.4) of the likewise-open package which provides Active Directory authentication and server support for Linux, integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and other social networks, and more.

To download the Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 check out this page. The final version of the OS is scheduled for an April 29 release.



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