Samsung 9 Series ultra-thin laptops coming soon
Announced in January at CES 2011, Samsung's MacBook Air killer laptops known as the 9 Series are ready to make their debut, with South Korea set to get the first in the next few days, while other markets will need to wait until March to receive their shipments. The 9 Series machines have Duralumin enclosure with a 0.64 inch profile, and will be available in two basic versions - 11.6-inch based on Intel's Calpella mobile platform, and 13.3-inch powered by the new Sandy Bridge setup. According to current listings, the 11.6-inch model will start at $1,149 and feature a 1.33 GHz Core i3-380UM processor, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB solid state drive, and integrated graphics.
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GeForce GTX 590 scheduled for March
It looks like NVIDIA's dual-chip GeForce GTX 590 has been pushed out by at least a few weeks. Video card makers said the February timing has been pushed back to mid-March at the earliest , but now it's not clear from some Internet rumors what would have triggered the short but noticeable delay. AMD would ship its own equivalent, the Radeon HD 6990, about a month afterwards.
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New MacBook Pros faster than some recent Mac Pros
Some of the early benchmarks of Apple's new MacBook Pros have shown them fast enough to outperform some Mac Pro workstations. Geekbench scores for the new 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz quad Core i7 processors are producing better integer and floating point scores than Apple's pro towers from a year or two ago. Some results, such as one test for a 2.2GHz MacBook Pro, are outperforming the 3.2GHz and 3.33GHz quad-core Xeons from Mac Pros in 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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OCZ introduces SATA 6Gbps Vertex SSDs
OCZ Technology has introduced two new Vertex-series SSDs claimed to take advantage of 6Gb/s transfer speeds supported by SATA III interfaces. Performance is said to be doubled from the previous generation, with a new SandForce processor that reaches 550MB/s read transfer rates, 500MB/s write rates, and up to 60,000 IOPS.
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