Saturday, June 5, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 05/06/2010


InsideHW
Galaxy uses vapor chamber technology for GeForce GTX 480
It looks like Vapor chambers are quite appealing these days, with several companies including Galaxy revealing plans to utilize this cooling technology. Galaxy's vapor chamber debut will be made with a GeForce GTX 480, currently Nvidia's highest-end DirectX 11 offer.
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IBM and Lenovo tops in reliability report, Apple now third
Apple has fallen to the third position in Rescuecom's latest computer reliability report, after maintaining the highest overall score in 2009. Each of the top five companies showed improvements in scores, with IBM and Lenovo representing the strongest growth as both companies share the top spot for the first quarter in 2010. The Rescuecom report placed Asus in the second position, while Toshiba fell behind Apple. HP and Compaq shared the last spot in the top five.
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PowerColor readies HD 5770 Low Profile with Arctic cooler
For HTPC owners looking to enter the DirectX 11 era, PowerColor has developed a low-profile Radeon HD 5770. On display at PowerColor's Computex booth, the half-height card offers DVI and HDMI outputs and is equipped with a dual-fan cooler from Arctic Cooling.
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HP still plans webOS smartphones
HP in a brief update promised that smartphones from Palm would still exist and would just be part of a larger strategy, which would include newer or more unusual devices such as tablets and printers. The PC builder just intended to use its scale to go beyond, it said.
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HP Mini 210 Vivienne Tam Edition: The Game of Lover Butterflies
The legend of Zhu’s and Liang’s love (take a look at the box) has found its place on film, in opera, theatre, TV series, cartoons, songs, and this spring, on a netbook computer, designed by the famed Chinese-American designer Vivienne Tam. The netbook itself is gold both from the outside and on the inside, with lover butterflies on the lid. Windows 7’s start menu was also designed (or should we say redesigned) in this spirit, since it has a butterfly instead of the typical start button, which flies away to the other end of the screen when clicked.
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Seagate Momentus XT Hard Drive
When Windows Vista arrived more than three years ago, Microsoft's then-flagship desktop operating system brought with it a number of new technologies designed to improve performance. SuperFetch promised to deliver performance gains by caching frequently access data in unused portions of main memory. ReadyBoost took a similar approach, but rather than filling free memory opportunistically, it tapped the unused capacity of USB flash drives. Then there was ReadyDrive, which offered support for hybrid hard drives that combined flash memory with traditional mechanical platters. LINK ( http://techreport.com/articles.x/18989)
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Hitachi 500Gb Portable Drive External USB 2.0 HDD
Hitachi has a nice looking product line-up of external 2.5 inch drives, we take a look at their 500Gb Portable Drive which comes with a fancy Carbon Fibre finish. Is it up to the task of backing up our vital data? Let us find out... LINK (http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle articID=1008)
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Gigabyte R585OC Video Card
The Gigabyte R585OC offers a new generation of inclined cooling fans, Ultra Durable components, and higher GPU frequencies. We test against a stock clock Radeon HD 5850 and a GeForce GTX 470 in Splinter Cell Conviction, Metro 2033, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and Aliens vs. Predator. LINK (http://hardocp.com/article/2010/06/01/gigabyte_r585oc_video_card_review)
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