Samsung introduces solar-charged netbook for African market
Samsung has launched a solar-powered netbook, aimed at the African market. The NC215S is now available in Kenya, and the target market is the hundreds of thousands of consumers that are not connected to the national power grid. Furthermore, the device is aimed at the thousands of consumers who are connected, but have sporadic outages.
The device will cost 35000 Kenyan shillings which is around $370 USD and gets up to 15 hours of battery life. Weighing in at just 2.8 pounds, the entire design is slim including the solar panel on the top. Samsung says the netbook will launch later this month in US, Russia, Europe and South Korea, as well.
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Club3D makes GeForce GTX 560 Ti Green Edition
Dutch add-in board maker Club 3D has introduced a new graphics card powered by Nvidia's GF114 GPU, one GeForce GTX 560 Ti Green Edition model featuring a custom design allowing for a power efficiency 10% higher than that of reference cards.
Club 3D's GTX 560 Ti also has a custom, dual-slot cooler - a newly-designed CoolStream fansink, 384 CUDA Cores, GPU/shader clocks of 822/1645 MHz (NVIDIA stock clocks, that is), a 256-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5 memory set to 4000 MHz, 2-way SLI support, and three display outputs - two DVI and one mini HDMI. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti Green Edition should become available later this month.
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NEC releases LaVie Touch Windows 7 tablet
NEC Japan announced its fall/winter PC release plan which includes five new products: two laptops, two all-in-one desktops and a tablet PC named LaVie Touch, which runs Windows 7 Home Premium and is based on Intel's Oak Trail platform.
NEC's tablet measures 263 x 183 x 15.8 mm, weights 729 grams and has a 10.1-inch 1280x800 IPS touchscreen, a 1.5 GHz Atom Z670 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, integrated graphics, an SDHC card slot, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, two USB 2.0 ports, a HDMI output, and a battery enabling up to 10.6 hours of operation. The LaVie Touch will debut in Japan on October 6th.
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AMD FX-Series CPUs listed online
We're still a few good weeks away from Q4, which is the new release estimate for the desktop Bulldozers, but AMD's long-awaited FX-Series (codename Zambezi) processors have started to appear in store listings, providing us with hope and a more or less vague idea regarding their official pricing.
The Zambezi models found on preorder are the hexa-core FX-6100 and the octo-core FX-8120 and FX-8150. The FX-6100 carries a price tag of $188.32 and has a core clock of 3.3 GHz (3.9 GHz in Turbo mode), 6MB of L2 cache, 8MB of L3 cache, a TDP of 95W, and a DDR3-1866 memory controller. The FX-8120 is priced at $221.73 and comes with a clock frequency of 3.1 GHz (4 GHz Turbo), 16MB of cache (8MB L2 and 8MB L3), and a TDP of 125W. The FX-8150 has similar specs but is clocked at 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) and costs $266.28. All three CPUs have an unlocked multiplier, come in an AM3+ package, and should end up a little cheaper once they are officially released.
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