Kingston SSDNow V/V+ 100: A Different Approach
The SSD market is still relatively new, device prices are slowly descending into the plebs, but the entire process still seems excruciatingly slow, which means that it’ll take additional time for SSDs to truly become an ordinary feat in today’s computers. Speeds are increasing with each successive generation, but even if there are devices on the market already with mindboggling speeds and throughput, the same adjective applies to their price. This is best supported by OCZ’s PCI-Express SSD which we had the chance to see at this year’s CeBIT - its declared reading/writing speeds are just under 2 GB/s (not Gb/s, but GB/s, together with 200.000 IOPS). Kingston has been synonymous with the sweet spot on the market as far as the price/performance ratio is concerned, whether it’s their memory, flash disks or SSDs in question. This time, the V series has been refreshed with V 100 models, which are a generational step ahead, but also propose an entirely new approach.
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Windows 8 alpha leaked on the Internet
Early build of Windows 8 is floating around the Internet last few days, packaged and labeled as Microsoft.Windows.8.Build.7850-x86-iND. Please note this is not even in beta stage – it’s Milestone 1 build 7850, so if you actually find it on the underground websites, don’t use it as your main OS. It's only good for trying out and testing.
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 officially released
Yet another GeForce 500 series card has been added to NVIDIA's portfolio, but it's a low-end product. GeForce GT 520 by default comes with a low-profile design and a single-slot cooler which makes it suitable for HTPC-like purposes.
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Microsoft outs Internet Explorer 10 platform preview
Internet Explorer 9 is certainly a major improvement over its predecessors and a decent competitor in the browser market, but it's also old news for Microsoft who yesterday made available a platform preview version of Internet Explorer 10. Unveiled at MIX11 in Las Vegas, IE10 brings support for more HTML5 features like CSS3 Gradients on background images and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout, and can run both on x86-compatible chips and ARM-based processors (under Windows 8).
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Sapphire makes Xtreme versions of Radeon HD 5830 & 5850
The Radeon HD 5800 series cards are not ready for retirement yet, courtesy of Sapphire who decided to release two new cards which are based on the very popular Cypress 40nm GPU and feature custom cooling solutions, the HD 5850 Xtreme and HD 5830 Xtreme. The Xtreme HD 5850 has 1440 Stream Processors, a GPU clock of 725 MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 memory set to 4000 MHz, while the HD 5830 packs 1120 SPs, and GPU/memory clocks 800/4000 MHz (that is, all-stock frequencies).
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HTC presents its newest flagship phone Sensation
After months of leaks, HTC Sensation (Sensation 4G in the US) has finally been announced and deemed ready to take on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S II and the LG Optimus 2X as of later this quarter. The Sensation measures 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm, weights 148 grams, features an aluminum unibody, and runs Android 2.3 "Gingerbread". A new version of the Sense UI is also preinstalled and brings a customizable active lockscreen, plus sharper graphics, vibrant animations and new widgets.
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