AMD Announces Turks Based FirePro V4900
For the last couple of years AMD has been pretty consistent about cascading their GPUs through their entire product line. Nowhere is this more evident than their professional graphics lineup, where consumer desktop video cards have transitioned over to professional products at almost 6 months on the dot. In May of this year we saw the introduction of the Cayman based FirePro V7900 and V5900, and now just a bit over 6 months after the Turks based Radeon 6570 and 6670 launched, Turks is getting the professional graphics treatment with the FirePro V4900.
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Seagate Introduces New 1TB-Per-Platter Barracuda, Solid State Hybrid Version Coming
The new Barracuda lineup is top-to-bottom 7200RPM. Seagate makes up for the extra power required to spin at 7200RPM (vs 5900RPM for the Green drives) by moving to 1TB platters and a faster cache. Increasing platter density has been the preferred route of increasing performance in hard drives over the past decade, causing spindle speeds to stagnate but sequential transfer rates to increase steadily. The new 1TB-per-platter Barracuda disks are no exception. Despite not carrying the XT label, the new 3TB drive is capable of noticeably higher sequential read/write speeds compared to the outgoing Barracuda XT.
Seagate's 1TB-per-platter Barracuda Lineup | ||||
Model Number | Capacity | MSRP | ||
ST3000DM001 | 3TB | $179.99 | ||
ST2000DM001 | 2TB | $105.99 | ||
ST1500DM001 | 1.5TB | $83.99 | ||
ST1000DM003 | 1TB | $71.99 | ||
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Apple iPhone 4S: Thoroughly Reviewed
History loves to repeat itself, and even Apple isn’t immune to the yearly cycle of rumor and release. Leading to each year’s iPhone refresh, excitement, rumors, and hype build to a fever pitch, features and designs are added into an increasingly unrealistic combination, and finally everyone is silenced at the device’s eventual unveiling.
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AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Driver Package
In addition to the Battlefield 3-related enhancements highlighted in the 11.10 beta release, five-display Eyefinity configurations (of a maximum resolution of up to 16000 x 16000 pixels) are now supported, and a new "bezel compensation" feature can adjust for Eyefinity-linked displays with different pixel densities.
We also get some fixes, most of them under Windows 7 - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Lost Planet 2, F1 2010, Dirt 2, Google Earth, and Mafia II are among the games and programs that have crashing or corruption issues fixed, as well as a display corruption issue that I myself have noticed when running multiple monitors with Aero enabled. For the full list of changes and fixes, the release notes are linked below.
The driver package supports most of AMD's DirectX 10 and DirectX 11-capable Radeon cards. As always, the new drivers can be downloaded from AMD's web site, through the Catalyst software's automatic updater, or via Steam.
Source: AMD
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LaCie Little Big Disk (2TB) Review: More Affordable Thunderbolt Storage
Thunderbolt is the absolute fastest consumer interface available for users who want high-speed external storage. We proved this in our Pegasus R6 review where we sustained transfer rates of 1GB/s (8Gbps) from an array of five SF-2281 SSDs. There are just two problems with Thunderbolt today: 1) It's practically only available on Macs, and 2) the Promise Pegasus is extremely expensive.
In its cheapest configuration, the 4TB Pegasus R4 with four 1TB 3.5" HDDs will set you back a cool grand. Want the 6-bay version? That'll be $1500. And the top of the line 12TB model is priced at $2000. Less than $500 of that $2K bill is the retail cost of the hard drives, the rest is all chassis, controller hardware and of course manufacturer profit. As great as the Pegasus is for professionals who need the storage and performance, it's priced too high for most consumers who also want fast external storage.
LaCie hopes to offer an alternative for those who want more affordable Thunderbolt storage. Note that I said more affordable, and not just affordable.
Read on for our review of LaCie's Little Big Disk.
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Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid: AT&T's First LTE Phones Launch Nov. 6
As if we didn't have enough phones to review, AT&T, HTC and Samsung announced today the first LTE phones to launch on AT&T's newly rolled out network. The five initial markets (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio) will be joined by four new markets (Boston, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Athens, Georgia) on November 6th and these phones will join the 4G modems that are already available. Launching these phones alongside an already packed list of Android phones you'd expect these LTE devices to sport premium prices, much like Verizon's LTE offerings; that doesn't seem to be the case though, with HTC's offering coming in at just $199. So what do AT&T's first LTE handsets look like? Let's dig in.
The HTC Vivid takes the Evo 3D recipe, swaps the WiMax baseband for LTE (likely the MDM9600 we've seen before), deletes the 3D camera and stretches the whole thing out to 4.5" while retaining the qHD display. The 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm
If you sprung for AT&T's first Galaxy S II variant, you might be kicking yourself right now. For just a $50 premium over the non-LTE variant, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket brings the LTE baseband and 1.5 GHz dual-core SoC of the international SGSII LTE, along with a larger 4.5" display, though retaining the WVGA resolution. As with the other SGSII variants, Super AMOLED Plus is on tap, bringing its delightful RGB stripe along with the rich blacks, saturated colors and excellent viewing angles from Samsung's other AMOLED displays. The look of the phone is similar to AT&T's other SGSII variant, just stretched out and without the textured back. On-board storage is 16 GB with microSD expansion up to 32 GB and you'll be able to fill it up with shots from that 8MP/1080p shooter we've seen before. We're waiting for confirmation on the SoC and the baseband, but at just $249 this could be a tough phone to pass up.
The fall release schedule gets more and more crowded, and we're working as hard as we can to cull the field for you all. With any luck, these manufacturers will take a break, so we can get ahead. But we're not holding our breath. Stay tuned.
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Lian Li PC-TU200: On the Road With Lian Li
More and more lately, mini-ITX boards are becoming very feature rich and users are needing fewer expansion cards in their desktop systems. Where once upon a time we'd need a wireless card, a video card, maybe an eSATA card and/or a sound card, now modern mini-ITX boards can cover just about all of these bases short of the GPU. TV tuner cards aren't even what they used to be with vendor lock-in by cable companies. All of that means that in many cases (no pun intended), all the end user is really going to need is the single PCI Express x16 the board provides.
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AMD Video Cards Now Support 16000x16000 Resolution
Battlefield 3 fixes included
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Obama Administration Agrees to Romney's Request of "Green" Auto Loan Review
All DOE loans, including Fisker and Tesla loans will be reviewed
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Chevrolet Volt Heads to Europe Wearing Opel Livery
Volt to be called Opel Ampera in Europe
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Microsoft Echoes Rambus, Transmeta in Defense of Android Lawsuits
Google is "standing on the shoulders" of others -- Horacio Gutiérrez, Microsoft General Counsel
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10/31/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday
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Fertility Chip Measures Sperm in Home Test Accurately
Chip will lead to very accurate at home fertility testing
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Reducing Vehicle Friction Helps Automakers Meet CAFE Standards
Friction reduction brings tiny mpg improvements
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U.S. Suspects Chinese Involvement in Satellite Hacks; China Denies Accusations
China denied the accusations that it hacked the Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1 satellites
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Taiwan Earnings Report: Foxconn, ASUSTek, and HTC Warn of Falling Sales
Top Taiwanese firms forecast dropping demand
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Panasonic Loses $5.5B in Latest Quarter
Panasonic's loss is the largest in a decade
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AT&T Announces New LTE Markets, Two New LTE Phones
AT&T soldiers on with LTE deployments
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Motorola Mobility Expects to Pay $31 Million as a Result of 800 Job Cuts
The pretax costs are $27 million in severance and $4 million for closing facilities
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Britain's Metropolitan Police Tracking Mobile Phones with New Surveillance System
Critics say the new system is not proportionate under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)
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