Tuesday, April 6, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 06/04/2010


InsideHW
MSI Big Bang Fuzion: With a Little Help From a Hardware Friend
Lucid presented their Hydra chip two years ago, a supposed solution to making two graphics cards work together on the same motherboard, regardless of the manufacturer of their GPUs. This technology drew much attention to itself at the time, and Lucid made it very clear that they had been making major efforts to combine the “uncombinable”, since neither AMD nor Nvidia provide any support in order to combine their cards with those made by the competing manufacturer. These companies spend enough resources as it is trying to improve the interoperability of their own SLI and CrossFire modes, so it seemed that this kind of a task would be too much for a company left on its own.
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SlimX3 low-profile coolers coming from Thermaltake
Catering to the cooling needs of HTPC (home theater PC) users, Thermaltake has introduced a new, low-profile CPU cooler named SlimX3. Seen below, the new cooling solution measures 92 x 99 x 36 mm, weights 180 grams, and has an aluminum base, two 6mm copper heatpipes, and an 80mm fan that works at 1200 to 2400 RPM and boasts a maximum sound output of 26.9 dBA.
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Samsung announces U250 and U200 all-in-ones
Samsung signaled their entry into the British Desktop PC markets, with the launch of two all new fully touchscreen all-in-one desktops - the 23 U250 and the 20 U200. The machines are claimed to boast HD screens, supporting up to 1600 x 900 resolution and offering an unparalleled experience , supporting multi-touch functionality via the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
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Google Maps & Books now available in 3D
Google has started embracing the current 3D trend and added this capability to the Street View in Google Maps and also in Google Books. To see the world online in technologically-augmented 3D you'll need to go intro Street View, put on a pair of red-cyan glasses and click on the newly-added icon on the left - the orange guy with the glasses.
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About 300,000 iPads sold in one day
An early estimate on Saturday reveals that Apple may have sold between 600,000 and 700,000 iPads on just its first day. He had originally predicted no more than 300,000 shipped but more than doubled his predictions based on long queues at the 5th Avenue Apple store in New York, where about 730 people lined up before the 9:00AM launch. By comparison, the iPhone 3G lineup peaked at 540 in line, indicating a record turnout.
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