Published on Sunday, July 11, 2010 by admin The world’s leading innovator and provider of digital storage products, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has officially announced the launch of its new high-performance, powerful Hitachi LifeStudio external hard drive portfolio, which the company claims as the first all-in-one external drives that able to automatically find and organize photos, videos, m...

Published on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by admin One of the global market leaders for hard disk drives, Seagate has expanded the FreeAgent GoFlex family with the launch of its new high-capacity 3 terabyte FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external desktop drive, which the company claims as the world’s first 3TB external hard drive, capable of storing up to 120 high-definition movies, thousands of photos or 1500 video...

Published on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by admin It is time for HTPC enthusiasts to rejoice! Videolan announced the availability of VLC 1.1.0 a couple of days back. VLC's popularity soared in the mid-2000s when standard definition videos were all the craze, and CPUs were powerful enough to easily decode them. Over the last few years, many people have built up a big library of high definition videos, and one of ...

Published on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by admin Hitachi Data Systems is updating its Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 line to reduce data-center costs through consolidation and allow up to a full petabyte on a single floor tile. Hitachi said Fibre Channel and iSCSI ports allow customers to protect their storage system investment. Hitachi's SAS disk option allows high-density consolidation. Hitachi Data Systems i...

Published on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by admin While Nvidia developers see a 100x speed increase, Intel only sees 14x with some kernels using CUDA. ZoomA recent paper written by Intel and presented to the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in France claims that Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280 GPU is only 14x faster than its Core i7 960 processor. The paper attempts to debunk claims made by Nvidia dev...

Published on Saturday, June 26, 2010 by admin Samsung and Seagate are each offering new high-capacity drives that strive to cram tons of data into a 3.5" form factor. Today's battle is the eco-friendly Spinpoint against the nearline Constellation, low power against business-class. Which one is best? Samsung may be the challenger and Seagate the 800-pound incumbent, but both companies are very serious about...

Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by admin Toshiba A505D-S6987 brings us to an interesting crossroads. In recent years Toshiba has made a habit of producing fairly well-rounded and inexpensive notebooks—good values overall. The A505D we have on hand adds an AMD Turion II Ultra to the equation, specifically the M600 that exists near the top of AMD's mobile line (or did until the Phenom II refresh that's ...

Published on Friday, June 25, 2010 by admin With a TDP of around 61W, Sapphire is reaching an upper limit on what passive cooling can do in a still-air environment. Any more, such as a passive cooler on the 5750 (86W TDP as standard), would require significant engineering of the cooler and heatpipes to keep it passive - such as the dual slot Gigabyte HD5750 Silent Cell, which is a passive 5750, but has a m...

Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by admin Wireless SDHC standard is not something new and if you recall, Eye-Fi technology has been in the consumer market since three years ago. As one of the major players in this industry, Toshiba Corp in collaboration with Trek 2000, a Singapore based company has officially launched an industry forum known as ‘Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding W...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by admin Lenovo is launching their IdeaPad Y560d today, which will be the company's first 3D enabled laptop. The display in question is a 15.6" 16:9 panel with a rather low 1366x768 resolution. To provide the 3D experience, Lenovo provides their "TriDef" technology that consists of the display, the glasses, and the software. The latter is of particular interest as Lenovo ...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by admin SeaMicro has unveiled an Internet-optimized x86 server based on 512 Intel Atom processors usually found in mobile devices. The SeaMicro SM10000 is described as the "ultimate rethink of the volume server" using a quarter of the power and space. The SeaMicro SM10000 has a throughput of 1.28 terabits and uses off-the-shelf OSes and software. A Silicon Valley startup...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by admin If you are looking for a brand new hard drive for your computer, maybe, this new Samsung Spinpoint F4 HDD can be a perfect choice. Its a 3.5-inch dektop HDD which has a 320GB capacity on a single disk platter with 7,200rpm and 10% faster than other Samsung’s 320GB HDD. [ad#300x250_image_ads] The Spinpoint F4 HDD also has 70% fewer moving parts with a sing...

Published on Sunday, June 13, 2010 by admin The fastest single GPU can be made even faster Just about everyone knows that Nvidia’s hot new Fermi graphics chip is literally hot. So, when Asus bundled its new ENGTX480 card with a custom voltage tweaker for overclocking, we wondered if it was such a good idea. After all, do you really need the card to run hotter? And with the speed of the ENGTX480, you p...

Published on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by admin Ferrari. The name itself evokes images of supercars and racecars bearing the famed prancing horse logo, of glorious V12 exhaust notes, and red. Oh yes, Rosso Scuderia, quite possibly the most instantly recognizable color in the automotive world. So when Acer set out to create its latest Ferrari-branded laptop, it naturally decided to make the lid bright red...

Published on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by admin We get the feeling that there will be lots more details on this whole announcement during Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming press event, but for now, all we know is that HP’s next generation of web connected printers will have something that no other consumer printer has had before: an email address to call their own. As the need for printing declines with the...

Published on Sunday, June 6, 2010 by admin After launching an uninspiring range of budget LCDs a couple of weeks ago, HP has just launched a series of displays featuring richer colors thanks to BrightView panels, with HDMI connectivity and integrated speakers. The four new models are the 2010i, 2210m, 2310m and 2710m which come in at 20” 21.5” 23” and 27” respectively. [ad#300x250_image_ads]...

Published on Sunday, June 6, 2010 by admin ASRock's current X58 line-up consist of the SuperComputer ($275), Deluxe3 ($225), Deluxe, and the Extreme3's predecessor, the Extreme. The Extreme3 is available today for $190.  Other products in this price range that the Extreme3 is competing with are the Gigabyte EX58-UD3R at $189, the MSI Pro-E for $190, the MSI Pro-E USB3 for $200, and the Foxconn Flami...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by admin ASUS has launched its fourth generation Eee PC netbooks, the Eee PC 1018, 1016 and 1015. They will all offer 10.1” displays in a slightly different chassis. The 1018 offers a premium experience with an aluminum finish, while the 1015 goes with a "soft touch" matte surface. The new range of netbooks feature instantaneous web access to ASUS’ cloud friendly ...

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by admin The LCD market continues to be one of the frequently updated segments in the consumer electronics segment, as OEMs and vendors alike are eager to bundle their high-end, high performance displays with professional workstations. The ZR30w belongs to that same pro market, offering a 10-bit panel with 1.07 billion colors - for an advertised 99 percent coverage of the...

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by admin Intel’s graphics offerings have traditionally been a little lackluster, but that could be about to change. Intel has reportedly informed its corporate partners that the new Sandy Bridge CPUs will be available by year’s end, and will pack a significant graphics performance increase. Intel is claiming as much as a doubling of performance. A “doubling...

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by admin Asus latest notebook G-series has been announced Computex 2010 today. There are two new models offered, the G73JW and G53. Those two Asus laptop are claimed to be world’s first notebok that already supported by WirelessHD technology and integrating SiBEAM’s advanced wireless video network chips which can be connected with display mini-card (DMC) modules....

Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by admin PCIe based SSDs have been reserved for enterprise use ever since their introduction. Generally limited by pricing, even OCZ's own forays into the PCIe SSD market have been targeted at enterprise customers. That may all change with today's announcement. Meet the RevoDrive: [ad#300x250_image_ads] This PCIe x4 card takes a pair of SF-1200 controllers and RAI...

Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by admin In recent years it’s become customary to have 3-4 high-end cards on the market at the same time using the same GPU. For the GTX 200 series we had the GTX 260, GTX 275, and GTX 285, while for the Radeon HD 5000 series we have the 5830, 5850, and 5870. With the launch of NVIDIA’s GTX 400 series last month NVIDIA filled in the first 2 spots in their lineup with ...

Published on Monday, May 31, 2010 by admin Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest beta drivers. This struck us as a bit of an odd reversal of positions from NVIDIA, and now that we've had a chance to chat with them we finally know what's going on. As a quick ...