Thursday, April 8, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 08/04/2010



Cypress goes professional aboard the FirePro V8800
A little over seven months after the Radeon HD 5870's arrival, AMD has introduced a new workstation-class graphics card based on the very same DirectX 11 graphics processor. The FirePro V8800 has 1600 stream processors and Eyefinity capabilities, just like the 5870, and it marries those features with...
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New Lenovo all-in-one sports next-gen Ion graphics
Nvidia's next-generation Ion graphics processor isn't just finding a home in netbooks. As Engadget reports, Lenovo has introduced a new all-in-one nettop that couples Intel Atom processors with the latest Ion chip—as an option, at least. The Lenovo C200 has an 18.5" 16:9 display and, judging from the photos...
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No Housework Day Shortbread
No Housework Day MSNBC on 13 glaring iPad shortcomings TUAW reports iPad tech specs reveal Cortex A8, 256MB RAM, PowerVR SGX 535 DailyTech reports internal company slides compare hp Slate to Apple iPad and Verizon CEO still wants the iPhone, has expressed interest to Apple TUAW reports...
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3.2GHz Athlon II X3 may debut next quarter
Look for two new Athlon II X3 processors on store shelves in the not-too-distant future. According to Fudzilla, AMD is cooking up an Athlon II X3 445 and an Athlon II X3 450, and the latter is primed for a launch in the third quarter of this year. The...
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Flash Player 10.1 release candidate arrives
The first version of Adobe's ubiquitous Flash player with GPU acceleration is getting close to completion. Adobe has now rolled out the first Flash 10.1 release candidate, which could end up being the first complete, official release if no show-stopping issues come to light. Just like the betas, you can...
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Corsair whips up 24GB DDR3-1600 memory kit
In spite of the recent rise in memory prices, Corsair has seen it fit to expand its Dominator memory family with two jumbo-sized, high-speed DDR3 kits. These newcomers have eye-popping capacities of 16GB and 24GB, which they pair with fairly peppy 1600MHz speed ratings. The 16GB kit includes four 4GB...
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Corsair's Flash Padlock 2 USB thumb drive
Corsair's latest USB thumb drive boasts 256-bit encryption, a PIN code locking mechanism, and a purportedly rugged enclosure. Is it all it's cracked up to be? And can it survive a trip through the washing machine?
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Core i3-powered Asus U30Jc listed stateside
That didn't take long. Barely a day after the launch of Asus' Core i3- and Nvidia Optimus-powered U30Jc ultraportable, the system has already popped up in Newegg's listings—and exactly at the suggested retail price of $899.99. This listing sheds a little more light into the system's specifications. We already...
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National Student-Athlete Day Shortbread
National Student-Athlete Day iSuppli: iPad sales to hit 7 million in 2010 and triple by 2012 Engadget: iPad 'Spirit' jailbreak demonstrated by MuscleNerd (video) and Apple holding iPhone OS 4 event on April 8th ...
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Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive
Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters a market teeming with SSDs whose split-millisecond access times blunt its previously formidable spindle speed advantage. Can the new Raptor keep up?
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HP Slate details slip out
What a surprise... mere days after the release of Apple's iPad, fresh details about HP's competing slate device have suddenly made their way onto the web. Engadget has posted "what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation given to cool down some of the iPad hype amongst HP employees;" said...
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Report: Nehalem-powered MacBooks coming this month
With the iPad now out, Apple is gearing up to refresh its family of regular notebooks with Intel's new Nehalem-based mobile processors. So says Taiwan's Apple Daily, adding that "short supply" of mobile Core i5 CPUs caused Apple to postpone the refresh from March to April. Apple Daily talks of...
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Serious Sam HD demo arrives on Steam
A few months back, we told you about Croteam's high-definition remake of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, which subsequently hit Steam and Xbox Live Arcade with a price tag of around $15. Well, at long last, those of you who just don't have that kind of money (or just...
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