Tuesday, September 7, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 06/09/2010

TechConnect Magazine

GeForce GTS 450 listed in Europe @ €150
It's supposed to come out next week but the GeForce GTS 450 has already been fully exposed and has began to be put up for pre-order in various markets. In Europe for example, you can find a stock GTS 450 made by Colorful for €150, about the same as certain overclocked Radeon HD 5770s.


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AMD Radeon HD 6300 card pictured too, apparently
Going from the Cayman XT leak earlier, some more or less undercover enthusiasts in China have also posted a couple of pictures of what they claim is an AMD Radeon HD 6300 series card, a low-end DX11 solution powered by the Caicos 40nm GPU.


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Asus launches EU web shop, sells accessories and warranty extensions
Without any kind of official fuss, Taiwanese heavyweight Asus has went ahead and open up a web shop that, for starters, sells accessories like peripherals, adapters, batteries, chargers, bags, and extended warranties for its Eee line and notebooks.


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Leadtek develops quad-chip SpursEngine image processing card
Leadtek is really going all-out with the use of the Toshiba SpursEngine coprocessor based on the Cell architecture and as proof of that we have the WinFast HPVC1111, a PCI-Express card for video processing that features no less than four SpursEngine chips.


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Alleged Cayman XT (Radeon HD 6800/6900) card looking large, still has ATI logo
AMD's Southern Islands-based Radeon family (Radeon HD 6000 series) is closing reasonably fast so it comes to no surprise that we're starting to see leaks claiming to be the real deal of what we'll be seeing in stores in Q4.


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Cooler Master details its HAF 912 mid-tower chassis
Cooler Master's new HAF 912 mid-tower gamer/enthusiast-targeting case has practically been made official, with its maker spilling the whole bean regarding it. This budget-minded chassis has support for the latest and/or longest graphics cards and provides multiple air and liquid cooling.


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Fujitsu LifeBook T580 tablet PC coming with four-finger multi-touch
Fujitsu has recently confirmed the existence of the LifeBook T580 10.1-inch tablet PC (convertible tablet) but said it will be coming earlier than rumored, as soon as November to be exact, with pre-orders going up from October 1st.


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LG claims easy DLNA sharing with Optimus 7 smartphone
LG Electronics is currently showing off at the IFA trade show in Berlin some of its newest smartphones, including the Optimus 7 which features a new multimedia sharing technology that enables users to quickly send files to DLNA compliant devices.


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Efika MX Smartbook up for order, costs $349
Got $349 and an adversity towards yesterday's, today's and like tomorrow's trend of Atom-powered 10-inch portable machines? Then you might be interesting in the Efika MX Smartbook which makes use of a 800 MHz Freescale i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8-based).


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AMD Geode-powered Asus Eee PC 1201K selling in Italy
Exposed three months ago, Asus' first, and from our knowledge, only Asus Eee PC to be equipped with an AMD Geode (wannabe) low-power processor, the Eee PC 1201K, has actually made it into stores, selling in Italy for €329.


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Nvidia Inspector 1.92 available for download
A new version of the Nvidia Inspector tool providing graphics card information, temp/clock monitoring, and overclocking, has now been released and is awaiting download, use and abuse.


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VIA said to be prepping quad-core CPU, DX11 IGP for 2011
VIA, the smallest company with an x86 license, is not giving up the microprocessor fight despite taking a NT$1.44 billion net loss in the first half of this year. According to reports, the Taiwanese company is moving ahead with its manufacturing transitions and is working on new chips for 2011.


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Samsung Galaxy Tab to cost up to $300 in the US
To counter the iPad as much as possible, Samsung has decided on selling its newly-announced Galaxy Tab only subsidized, together with a mobile internet plan. This will enable the South Korean giant to ask between $200 to $300 per tablet, at least $200 less that what Apple wants for the iPad.


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Asus Eee PC 1215N priced $499 in the US
Set to ship in Europe later this month, the Eee PC 1215N 12-inch netbook based on Nvidia's NG-ION aka ION 2 platform, has become available for pre-order in the US too, in silver and black versions (there should be a red model coming) priced at $499.


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