Hardware
HP 550 Budget Business Notebook Unveiled
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled the HP 550 15.4-inch business notebook, featuring Intel’s budget mobile processors, such as lower-end Core 2 Duos and Celerons.
The 550, which is a successor of the affordable HP 530, has the Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics, up to 4GB of memory, up to 250GB of hard drive storage, a Combo optical drive [...]
Panasonic 8x BD-R burner debuting September
Panasonic has just announced a new internal SATA Blu-ray Disc burner that hits 8x speed when writing to BD-R single layer and dual layer discs. The new unit, dubbed the LF-PB371JD, will launch in Japan on September 13th.
AMD officially intros the 790GX chip
Building on the attractiveness of the 780G AMD has now released the AMD 790GX chipset with integrated graphics. Paired up with the SB750 southbridge, the 790GX comes to offer the power of the Radeon HD 3300 integrated graphics solution and unlock the overclocking potential of Phenom processors via the Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC) system. Locked [...]
BluetoothView 1.04
BluetoothView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices around you. For each detected Bluetooth device, it displays the following information: Device Name, Bluetooth Address, Major Device Type, Minor Device Type, First Detection Time, Last Detection Time, and more.
Seagate begins shipping first 1TB SAS hard drives
Data-encrypting fishermen at Seagate have now begun shipping the first 1TB hard drive to feature a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. The new drive is part of the enterprise-prone Barracuda ES.2 family and it promises to deliver both top-notch performance, reliability, sufficient storage space and low power consumption, the latter being assured by the PowerTrim [...]
Intel to Ship Six-Core Proc in Second Half of ‘08
Intel announced Monday that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel’s new 45 nanometer (nm) technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager [...]
AMD announces new DisplayPort-equipped FireMV card
RV770-designer, AMD has now announced a brand new graphics card for the financial and corporate marketplaces. Nicknamed FireMV 2260, the card is said to help maximize productivity while running cool and consuming little power.
Coming with support for Windows Vista, the new FireMV 2260 also offers the ability to view 2D and 3D live video feeds, [...]
GeForce 9800 GTX priced at $299 to $349
In under two weeks Nvidia’s update machine will let loose yet another G92 card, the second one of the GeForce 9 family. The GeForce 9800 GTX is set to replace the 8800 GTS 512 and will come 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 2200 MHz, 128 stream processors set to 1688 MHz and a [...]
OCZ intros high-speed SATA II solid state drive
OCZ Technology today unveiled ultra-fast OCZ SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drive, designed to “stay abreast of the performance features of high-end notebooks, and is ideal for energy-efficient mobile computing.” According to the firm, with blazing access times combined with excellent reliability, the OCZ SATA II 2.5″ SSD is the answer for enthusiasts demanding the [...]
Acer intros 1080p Gemstone Blue notebooks
Acer on Wednesday launched a radical overhaul of its Aspire notebook line targeted at the high-end notebook market. Nicknamed the Gemstone Blue, the new design centers around a deluxe media console known as the CineDash.
The two systems being released today are also the first notebooks anywhere to ship with a true 16:9 ratio display. Both [...]
