Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
The highly anticipated U.S. release date for the ultramobile Eee PC 900 has been announced by ASUS.
You can expect to see it in stores here in the states starting on May 12th 2008.
This higher end ASUS Eee PC features 20GB of storage space and it is available with your choice of Linux or Windows XP.
The screen is larger than the Eee PC 701’s at 8.9″ and it also has a multi-touch trackpad.
This Eee PC 900 has already been released overseas and it is expected to be just as popular as the Eee PC 701. (more…)
After numerous mishaps in various parts of their processor business in 2007, AMD was struggling to compete with Intel. Between Intel’s new Penryn processors and their performance on Wall Street, keeping up with Intel hasn’t been easy for AMD.
AMD has finally pushed out some new processors, including the new Phenom Quad Core chips and they are on a new road map to get back on track. (more…)
The MacBook Pro is slated to get a major overhaul after many years of the same design. The changes are going to be made on the surface, and under the hood for better performance according to MacNN.
On the surface we can expect to see the fresh Aluminum look from the MacBook Air with a touch of black, to give Apple’s notebooks a more consistent look. On the inside, it is likely that the new MacBook will feature Intel’s Centrino 2 platform with their new Core 2 Duo processors. (more…)
Bill Gates was speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank when he said “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version” of Windows, aka Windows 7.
Although many people thought he was referring to a final release version, he was actually referring to an alpha or beta version of Windows 7.
Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista, which has underperformed in comparison to previous versions of Windows. (more…)
When it comes to high performance gaming laptops, these 10 have what it takes to have you fraggin’ away right out of the box. Most of these laptops can outperform a lot of desktops.
Take a look at all 10 below, listed in no particular order because I wouldn’t mind having any one of them.
- Alienware Area-51 m9750 Creative/Pro
The Alienware m9750 Creative/Pro is packed with Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT graphics cards and a 17″ WideUXGA display with a max resolution 1920×1200. It is packed with 200GB of Raid 1 storage space and 4GB of DDR2 RAM.
- ASUS G2Sg-A1
This gaming laptop is powered by a 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 and has built in Wireless N support. The G2Sg-A1 scored nearly “4800″ points in 3DMark. It has a 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive and the Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT graphic card.
- M-TECH D900C
Although the monitor is only 17″, its resolution goes all the way to 1680 x 1050. This model has dual SLI Nvidia 8800 GTX’s with 1GB of video RAM. The newest model even has an option for Intel Quad Core chips. (more…)
This new solid state drive is Toshiba’s first SSD on the market, and it is twice the size of the smaller 64GB SSDs most companies are selling.
It also features a read speed of 100MB/sec and a write speed of 40MB/sec which makes it faster than most 2.5″ mobile hard drives. (more…)
These computers are so fast that the lowest ranked super computer on this list is still over thousands of times as fast as your average desktop PC.
7 Of the top 10, are located right here in the United States. The only other countries with a machine that ranks in the top 10 are Germany, India and Sweden.
- Blue Gene/L by IBM (USA)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Terascale Simulation Facility uses this IBM Blue Gene/L super computer for advanced scientific simulations. It was recently upgraded and now has 73,728 GB of memory and a peak speed of 596 teraFlops. This is the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
- JUGENE by IBM (Germany)
Jugene is among the newest members of the BlueGene/P family by IBM. Housed in the Forschungszentrum Juelich research facility in Juelich, Germany, it runs at a peak speed of 223 teraFlops via a grand total of 65,500 processors.
- Altix ICE 8200 by SGI (USA)
The SGI Altix ICE 8200 uses Intel Xeon (Clovertown) 3000 MHz Processors and is housed at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center. It has a peak speed of 172 teraFlops. (more…)
The newest super thin laptop on the block, the Lenovo Thinkpad X300 Ultraportable, is even shown on an envelope similar to the manila one that Steve Jobs pulled the MacBook Air out of back at MacWorld.
This super slim laptop by Lenovo will reportedly come packed with a DVD-RW drive, a 64GB SSD, and optional GPS/WWAN capability. (more…)
Apple has released the 7.4.1 update for their Quicktime software to patch an existing security vulnerability.
Quicktime is commonly used to play media on the web, and the vulnerability could be exploited when a user simply visits a malicious website designed to take advantage of earlier versions of the Quicktime software. (more…)
Both Apple and Dell are getting ready to launch notebook computers powered by Intel’s faster Penryn processors around the same time according to MacNN.
The 45nm Penryn processor uses less power than existing 65nm processors while performing at higher clock speeds. (more…)
