ViewSonic ships CULV nettops
ViewSonic has started shipping a new mini PC, but the company insists it's not a nettop and there is a very good reason for this. The VOT125 is not powered by Intel's cheap and underpowered Atom processors. It is based on CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) chips, which are usually reserved for thin and light notebooks. Basically it's a nettop on steroids, as it can be equipped with SU743, SU2300, SU4100 or SU7300 processors.
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MSI releases GeForce 310M-equpped CX623
MSI has introduced its 15.6-inch CX623 notebook, which includes NVIDIA's GeForce 310M dedicated graphics chipset with 1GB of RAM. The multimedia notebook is powered by unspecified Intel CPUs, and will ship with either a 320GB or 500GB hard drive. MSI's Eco Engine feature is built-in, letting users pick from one of five power management levels, depending on what the computer is being used for. They include Game, Film, Presentation, Word Processing and Turbo Battery, each of which changes settings like image brightness and sleep mode settings to strike a balance between performance and battery life.
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Intel ships 8 GB flash memory chips
Intel began shipping its new 25-nanometer flash memory on a large scale. The 8GB NAND chip is smaller than a 34nm chip, even with twice the capacity, and should provide for much more storage without affecting space. Each chip can stack and may be especially valuable for smartphones and media players.
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Plastic MacBook is real, gets 10-hour battery
As hinted several days earlier, Apple has updated the plastic MacBook with its first update since its redesign. The new version has the same 10-hour battery as the 13-inch MacBook Pro and also includes its faster GeForce 320M integrated graphics. A faster 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo (up from 2.26GHz) represents its other major change.
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Sceptre X270W-1080P: A Value 27" That Delivers
Sceptre’s 27” X270W-1080P LCD is targeted primarily at PC gamers and desktop productivity segments of the market. To that extent, it packs a TN panel for higher refresh rate and lower processing lag (we’ve shown in previous tests that, for whatever reason, S-PVA panels show a significant amount of input lag), and for meeting that relatively low price point. There are caveats we’ve repeated time and time over about the TN choice, but it actually makes sense here; Sceptre wants a fast panel for gamers that likely don’t care about super accurate color tracking, and they want it to meet gamers’ budgets. LINK (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3728/sceptre-x270w-1080p-review-value-27-that-delivers)
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AMD Athlon II X4 640/X2 260 Processors and the MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard
The Athlon II X4 620 was truly a groundbreaking quad core processor, not so much in design, but that it could attain a $99 price point at introduction. The Athlon II X2 250 also broke some barriers as it had 2 MB of L2 cache along with a 3 GHz clockspeed, which made it a terrific budget desktop performer and gaming CPU, all for around $76. Between these were the Athlon II X3s which split the difference in price and performance. LINK (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=920)
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Zalman ZM-M215W 3D Monitor
With the third dimension picking up speed in the movie theaters, for games and Blu-Rays, it is obvious that we will see actual 3D monitors on the market nowadays. Zalman showed off the technology quite some time ago - well before such a feature really caught on, but now that it has they are releasing updated models of their LCDs. The new line-up is available in 21.5 and 24 . Both of them are 16:9 so that you should not have any black bars when watching modern clips in 3D. LINK (http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zalman/ZM-M215W/)
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Corsair Force F200 and OCZ Agility 2 and Vertex 2 SSDs
As we've learned over the past few years, a solid-state drive's destiny is determined largely by its underlying storage controller. Some controllers, like JMicron's JMF602, were doomed from the beginning. The JMicron was plagued by severe stuttering issues when it was first released, dragging down a whole wave of SSDs based on the chip. A new revision and updated firmware attempted to address the issue, but problems persisted, and the damage was done. Even today, SSDs based on new JMicron controllers are viewed with a healthy—and prudent—dose of skepticism. LINK (http://techreport.com/articles.x/18864)
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