DELL MIGHT NOT be the first brand you think of when it comes to printers, but the company has been selling its own brand printers for quite some time. However, its latest models stand out from the crown as not only are they using LED technology rather than a laser, but even the most basic models offer full colour support at up to 10 pages per minute.
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CONSIDERING THE SCANDALS revolving around HP’s last CEO, Mark Hurd, we’re hoping that HP has made a wiser choice choosing Léo Apotheker as its new CEO and President. Mr Apotheker joins HP from SAP which he joined in 1988 where he’s been a member of the board of directors since 2002 and has served as both deputy CEO and co-CEO.
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GOOGLE TV HAS as yet to launch, but the expected sales numbers are already making their way onto the interweb, despite the fact that no-one has even had time to play with the final product outside of Google. As interesting as Google TV is, it’s going to require quite a lot of consumer convincing from Google’s side to become a product that your average consumer will be willing to spend money on.
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IT’S VERY HARD to differentiate yourself as a graphics card manufacturer these days, but it looks like Galaxy has come up with a way to do just that. The company is readying a custom designed GTX 460 card with an onboard WHDI solution which will allow you to stream 1080p HD video to the supplied receiver which can be placed up to 30 meters (100 feet) away from the PC into which the card is fitted.
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TI WAS SHOWING off a bunch of USB3 goodies at IDF, with hubs, cards and a re-transmission chip on the, err, cards. Some are USB certified, others will be soon.
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INPHI WAS SHOWING off working 32GB LRDIMMs at IDF this year, upping maxing the memory of a Nehalem-EP system with only 2/3rds of the slots filled. If you want more than a mere 384GB in your box, you can up that to up that to 8TB of DRAM with an 8-way Beckton box.
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NOT TOO LONG ago it was almost impossible to find an ultra-portable consumer notebook and now it seems like there are almost too many of them competing for a fairly small, but growing market. It’s beginning to look like the netbook book is dead as a market segment the last two years, as the 11.6-inch notebooks are coming from above and tablets from below which means the humble netbook is going to end up being a niche product in the not so very distant future.
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GIGABYTE HAS BEEN trying very hard to differentiate itself from other notebook manufacturers and it all started with the original BookTop, the M1022 which came with a vertical dock. This was later followed up with the M1305 and M1405, both of which featured a regular horizontal dock, but with a standard desktop graphics card fitted inside it.
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IF A SPEC sheet leaked onto the internet proves to be the real deal, then it looks like AMD is about to turn the world of graphics cards up-side-down, as the new 67×0-series looks set to be almost as good as the current 58×0-series, while being expected to sell for a similar price as the current 57×0-series. This would cause some serious headache for Nvidia, but we’ll just have to wait and see how AMD price the new cards.
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GIGABYTE’S GO OC 2010 took place in Taipei, Taiwan this weekend and it was 4.5 hours of fierce competition between 15 of the world’s top overclockers. The event took place in the Hua-shan creative park in Taipei and the competition was open to the public with exhibitions, events and lucky draws. Besides Gigabyte; Adata, Seagate and Envision were on location demoing products.
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KINGSTON WAS SHOWING off three goodies at IDF, a USB3 SSD, the final version of water cooled DRAMs, and last, but not least, a USB3 memory stick. If you don’t think USB3 is worth it, read on.
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FRESCO LOGIC HAS issued a press release stating that it is the first USB 3.0 host controller manufacturer to meet the xHCI 1.0 standard with the introduction of its new FL1009 USB 3.0 host controller. At the same time, the company has given an indication as to what kind of performance to expect of this new controller and it’s quite impressive.
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IT’S STARTING TO become difficult to keep track of all of Intel’s various Atom spinoffs and the new embedded processors in the E600-series appears to have started to ship out to customers. Eurotech appears to be the first with a product and in this case we’re talking about an industrial PC level piece of kit in a COM module that goes under the name of Catalyst TC. Interestingly it appears to have a chipset version that we can’t find any specific reference to.
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IT LOOKS LIKE ATI’s, sorry AMD’s, 6870 is on track and doing quite well. Early word from AMD central has two big thumbs up.
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WE’VE SEEN A fair few netbooks targeting kids from both Asus and Dell to mention a couple of companies that have tried to cash in on the educational market, but it now looks like Toshiba has decided to one-up everyone with a laptop for children. We’re not quite sure what makes it specific for children, but the press release claims that it has been made “for children aged five to 10”.
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