DDR3-packing Eee PC 1015PD gets detailed :: Posted by THRASHER2
As revealed by its own Eee site, Asus is readying for release yet another Seashell netbook, the Eee PC 1015PD which is based on the Pine Trail platform, has a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) LED-backlit screen, and makes use of the DDR3-supporting Atom N455 (1.66 GHz) and N475 (1.83 GHz) processors.
Coming in black, white and blue, the new netbook weights between 1.1 and 1.25kg, and packs 1GB of DDR3 memory, a 160GB, 250GB or 320GB hard drive, GMA 3150 integrated graphics, a 0.3 megapixel webcam, 10/100 LAN, 802.11 b/g/n, optional Bluetooth 3.0, three USB ports (all three USB 2.0 or two USB 3.0 and one 2.0, depending on SKU), and a 3- or 6-cell battery for up to 13 hours of operation.
The Eee PC 1015PD comes with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed and the Express Gate instant-on OS. Pricing and availability are unfortunately unknown.
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Ballmer on tablets and smartphones - We're coming full guns :: Posted by THRASHER2
Speaking at the company's annual financial analyst meeting, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his staff was working round the clock to ensure that Windows-based tablets and Windows Phone 7 devices get to market as soon as possible to counter products from arch-rivals Apple and Google.
Ballmer said that Apple sold more iPads than he would have liked them to sell and that only puts more pressure on delivering competitive devices that run Windows and are powered by Intel processors (sorry ARM fans). The first such hardware should arrive later this year although the real wave is expected in 2011.
The phone front seems a little more alive as Microsoft has quite a few big partners lined up to deliver Windows Phone 7-based models this autumn, in time for the busy holiday season. It's an uphill struggle for Microsoft to catch up but Ballmer seems confident that it can happen - not overnight though.
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Copia readies $99 color e-book reader :: Posted by THRASHER2
If you think the $139 Kindle is cheap then think again as DMC WorldWide-owned Copia is planning to go big this fall by introducing an ebook reader priced under $100. The $99 device, which could be named Ocean5 or Wave5, has a 5-inch color (yes color) LCD screen and makes use of the Copia platform.
Copia's e-reader ecosystem combines social networking with the 'usual' e-commerce solution, the latter providing some 400,000 ebooks (plus public domain works) in the Epub format.
Beside the $99 model, Copia is going to release six other e-readers with screen sizes going from 6" to 9" which are expected to cost between $199 and $299.
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Kid-oriented Eee PC 1001PQ hitting European stores :: Posted by THRASHER2
Unveiled at CeBIT 2010 in March, the Eee PC 1001PQ netbook, which is focused on providing a simple and safe computing experience for kids, has now started to become available in Europe, just in time for the parental nightmare that is the back-to-school shopping season.
The new Pine Trail-based machine has a Flame Purple or Vibrant Gold finish, comes with stickers for extra customization, the Inspirus preteen-friendly interface (on top of Windows 7 Starter), built-in parental controls, and packs a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) display, a 1.66 GHz Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, integrated graphics, a 0.3 megapixel webcam, and a 3- or 6-cell battery.
The Eee PC 1001PQ can be found here and costs €299.
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Kingston DataTraveler G3 flash drives make their EU debut :: Posted by THRASHER2
Kingston Technology has just announced the European release of its newest DataTraveler series flash drives, the G3 (Generation 3) models that feature a USB 2.0 interface and a come in five capacities - 2GB (orange), 4GB (gray), 8GB (yellow), 16GB (blue) and 32GB (red).
Kingston's drives measure 65.68 x 10.66 x 22.37 mm, have a plastic casing, offer read and write speeds of up to 16 MB/s and 5 MB/s, respectively and re backed by a five-year warranty.
The DataTraveler G3s are currently available priced at €5.85 (2GB), €7.11 (4GB), €11.98 (8GB), €25.42 (16GB) and €52.10 (32GB).
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PowerColor officially unveils its single-slot Radeon HD 5770 :: Posted by THRASHER2
TUL Corp. has just announced a new addition to its PowerColor-branded graphics card offering, a custom Radeon HD 5770 which comes equipped with a single-slot cooler, making it an interesting choice for people building a compact, DirectX 11-ready system.
The upcoming Juniper-powered card packs 800 Stream Processors, and has a GPU clock of 850 MHz, a 128-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 4800 MHz, CrossFireX support, and DVI, HDMI, plus DisplayPort outputs.
"The HD5770 single slot design offers a unique option in performance for our product lineup," says Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation. "We can fulfill the endless desire for performance and multi-function when space is a premium."
The PowerColor HD 5770 Single Slot is expected to become available as of August 13.
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Samsung X180 & X430 laptops announced in Korea :: Posted by THRASHER2
This week Samsung unveiled in its home market (South Korea) a couple of new X Series laptops powered by Intel's Calpella mobile platform, the 11.6-inch X180 and 14-inch X430. Both machines have LED-backlit displays and are claimed to last up to 8 hours per battery charge.
The X180 packs a 1.20 GHz Core i3 330UM processor, Intel integrated graphics and 3GB of RAM, while the X430 comes with the same CPU but is equipped with 4GB of memory and a GeForce 310M discrete graphics card.
No word on international availability but we're hopeful.
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Gainward develops overclockerd GeForce GTX 460 with 2GB :: Posted by THRASHER2
Palit-owned add-in board maker Gainward is out to impress and thus has announced a new GeForce GTX 460 which not only has a custom PCB and cooler, but is also factory-overclocked and packs 2GB of GDDR5 memory, double the amount found on 'regular' models.
Seen below, the Gainward GTX 460 2GB Golden Sample, is powered by the GF104 40nm GPU, includes a dual-slot cooler with an 80mm fan and two 6mm copper heatpipes, 336 CUDA Cores, a GPU clock of 700 MHz (675 MHz stock), a shader frequency of 1400 MHz, a 256-bit memory interface, and a VRAM clock of 3600 MHz.
The 2GB card features D-Sub, dual-DVI and HDMI outputs, and also provides support for 2-way SLI, CUDA, PhysX and 3D Vision Surround. Gainward didn't mention the cost of this model but it's likely it will cost over €210.
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Lexar Media adds 16GB Gaming series Memory Stick Pro Duo :: Posted by THRASHER2
Lexar Media today announced the introduction of a new product to its Gaming-oriented memory card line-up, a Memory Stick Pro Duo model that provides PlayStation Portable and/or PlayStation 3 users with an extra 16GB of storage space for game data and multimedia files.
There's not much to say about the 16GB card expect that it is backed by a five-year warranty and has a recommended price tag of €64.99.
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Thermaltake intros the Toughpower Ultra Slim 95W :: Posted by THRASHER2
Thermaltake is bringing more Toughpower to the people, this time, for individuals who own and frequently use a laptop and other mobile devices, under the form a slim universal power adapter which can constantly provide 95W and peaks at 120W, if and when needed.
Seen below, the adapter measures 17.1 (H) x 145 (D) x 71 (W) mm, has a MTBF (mean time before failure) of over 100,000 hours, has multiple protection systems, and comes with nine interchangeable DC output tips enabling support for a wide range of laptops, as well as with a USB power port for charging phones and portable media players.
The Toughpower Ultra Slim 95W is bundled with a carry bag and has a recommended price tag of $59.99.
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Catalyst 10.7a driver available, enables forced AA :: Posted by THRASHER2
Catching up to Nvidia, AMD has released a new driver that lets users of its Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000 and HD 5000 series (desktop or mobile) cards to enable anti-aliasing via the Control Center and make Blizzard's Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty look a bit better.
Beside smoothening out Jim Raynor the driver is said to improve performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX for Eyefinity supported configurations.
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ATI releases Catalyst 10.7 drivers :: Posted by THRASHER2
GPU enhanced VLC, new Eyefinity features
ATI has released its anticipated new Catalyst drivers for all of us who were unfortunate enough to get stuck at work rather than on a Mediterranean beach.
As we wrote previously, the 10.7 release offers several interesting features, including GPU acceleration for H.264 content in VLC Player 1.1.1 Player. The pull-down detection algorithm has also been overhauled so it should deliver superior quality on certain types of video content, but itÂ’s only supported by new Radeon HD 5000 Series cards.
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250 workers from Foxconn India poisoned :: Posted by THRASHER2
“Routine spraying of pesticide”
The company that just canÂ’t seem to catch a break from all the negative karma thatÂ’s looming over its factories, Foxconn, has had another unfortunate incident with a somewhat less tragic outcome this time around.
The company had to shut down its Chennai factory in India after 250 workers ended up in hospital due to pesticide poisoning. The workers apparently experienced giddiness and nausea and the main culprit is “routine spraying of pesticide” last Friday.
Out of 250 workers, 28 are still under observation in hospital and weÂ’re yet to see what Foxconn has to say about this.
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XFX HD 5670 1GB tested :: Posted by THRASHER2
Nvidia launched Geforce GTX 460 on 12th of July and weÂ’re talking about a card based on GF104, which is much smaller and rakes in more profit than the GF100, but Nvidia still has no answer for the budget market. As you couldÂ’ve guessed already, our todayÂ’s card belongs in the budget market segment, whereas NvidiaÂ’s more affordable Geforce DX11 cards wonÂ’t be ready before the end of august or back-to-school period.
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Here comes the “BEAST”, GTX 460 running at 850 MHz :: Posted by THRASHER2
Tradition continues
We have great news from TGT, the company that is doing overclocking for Point of View. Last week they rolled out its GTX460-768MB Ultra Charged Core (820 MHz / Memory 4000 MHz), but the real winner of overclocking contest is GTX 460 BEAST with its GPU running at 850 MHz.
There will be tree levels of overclocking Charged, Ultra Charged and BEAST. For GTX 460 core speed that means, 780 MHz Charged, 820 MHz Ultra Charged and 850 MHz „BEAST“.
Some people like Wolfram simply cannot settle down. Guys in his team have broad experience and we like the fact that TGT is now pressing all other partners to do their best in order to compete with new Point of View.
All cards are shipping today, except the BEAST that will come one week later.
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2GB GTX 460 possible and coming :: Posted by THRASHER2
Sparkle leads the way
The GTX 460 is a somewhat strage beast, as it is available with 192-bit and 256-bit memory interfaces and, as a result of this, with 768MB and 1048MB of memory.
However, some partners are gearing up to introduce 2GB versions of the new card and this could make things even more interesting, or confusing. Sparkle has announced a 2GB card shortly after the GTX 460 launch. The card's designation is SXX4602048D5NM. It's reference clocked and we can't say that it has a catchy name, but we believe other vendors will offer some overclocked models as well.
Of course, it's worth noting that the extra memory won't deliver a massive performance boost in many titles. Despite this, vendors simply like to include a bit more memory in the package as it sounds good for marketing.
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Microsoft will compete with Apple's iPad :: Posted by THRASHER2
Ballmer promises
Shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve “sound of one hand clapping” Ballmer has announced that Microsoft will compete with Apple in the iPad market after all.
For those who have short memories, Microsoft had a really good looking tablet which would have made the industry stand up and take notice called the Courier. However it was mysteriously never released, the team was disbanded and Microsoft handed the entire market over to Apple.
Well now it seems that Ballmer wants back in. He said that Microsoft was working with software partners such as HP, Lenovo, Asus, Dell and Toshiba to develop a tablet-style computer. Speaking at a financial analysts at a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle, Ballmer told the world that “We” have to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates.
“It is job one urgency around here, nobody’s sleeping at the switch. We’ve got to push right now – right now – with our hardware partners. As soon as they’re ready, they’ll be shipping. We want to deliver products
that people really want to buy,” he said. Ballmer added that he was impressed by the iPad, which ended up selling more than he expected.
It looks to us that Microsoft wanted to see if the iPad tanked before it came up with a budget machine that did the same thing. However he should have done this a long time ago.
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Big Blue buys Storwize :: Posted by THRASHER2
All your data compression are belong to us
IBM has written a cheque to buy the data compression technology company Storwize.
It is not clear how many zero's will be on the cheque but IBM said the deal will close in the third quarter of this year. Storwize provides technology that compresses files and other types of data in real-time in multiple computing environments.
The good thing about Storwize's data compression technology is that it does not degrade system or application performance, and creates space to store more data in IT environments.
Big Blue said that the technology will scan more historical data for analysis without the need for extra storage. One of the biggest problems for IBM is making sense of massive amounts of data in order to provide new services. Storwize's Random Access Compression Engine is based on an industry-standard compression algorithm. IBM offers database software including DB2 and analytics software to uncover and analyze information from multiple sources.
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