64-Tech: Feb 9, 2009

Psystar Wins Legal Round Against Apple

In an interesting twist, Computer World is reporting that a federal judge ruled last week that the Mac clone maker Psystar can continue its countersuit against computer maker and Mac OS developer Apple Corporation.
Psystar is (in)famous for legally battling Apple for the last seven months, calling them out for breaking antitrust laws, and the Judge hinted that if Psystar can prove its allegations, other manufacturers may be able to sell computers with Mac OS X pre-installed. This is bad news for Apple, as currently they are the only company legally allowed to sell computers with Mac OS X, but many people criticize them for charging an “Apple tax”. On the contrary, if other companies can sell Mac OS X, it may lead to a decline in Mac sales, but it could lead to an increase in Apple’s OS market share.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Neowin

Rumor Control: Intel And AMD To Design Future Console GPUs?

Even though next-generation consoles are still years ahead of us (or so we are lead to believe), a number of rumors have surfaced regarding the graphics processing units that these will carry.
Sony may be struggling with the PS3, but that doesn’t mean they are giving up on its successor. The latest rumor is that the PlayStation 4 will be using an Intel GPU as opposed to Nvidia’s. Even though Intel has yet to prove themselves as a decent contender in hardware-accelerated graphics, Sony has apparently been tempted by their next-generation architecture “Larrabee”, which Intel has been sampling for a short period. Could Sony be willing to drop IBM’s highly touted Cell technology all of a sudden?

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechSpot

Dell’s Mini 9 Selling For Just $249 - Who Needs A Subsidy?

If you thought last month’s $99 Mini 9 was just too cheap (unlikely), or were scared off by the two year contract that came along with the offer (rather more likely), check out Dell’s latest deal. The company is selling its lowest-spec Mini 9n, offering 512MB of memory and Ubuntu installed on a 4GB SSD, for just $249. That’s $100 less one went for for last September.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Engadget

Colby MP3 Audio

The Smart Technology audio player plays music from his iPod® or MP3 player through two built-in 2-watt speakers. Three recessed compartments in its top keep his desk or dresser organized.

Source: 7Gadgets

Samsung Syncmaster 2243BW 22-Inch LCD Display Review

All widescreen LCD monitors are not created equal, and unfortunately this leads to pretty confused looking consumers as they try to understand why identical screen sizes can differ in price by hundreds of dollars. Put simply, the LCD technology behind the screen size is the reason. The most common LCD panel technology is called TFT/TN, for Twisted Nematic. It’s economical to manufacture and has a quick pixel response time, but suffers from shallow viewing angles and often limited colour gamut. The trade off with widescreen TFT/TN based LCD displays is that while the are very affordable, sometimes looking at the center of the screen places you at an angle steeper than that supported by the display.

World First 128 Megabit FeRAM Announced By Toshiba

FeRAM or nonvolatile RAM is for many the holly grail of computing, 100,000x faster than EEPROM and consuming way less energy, FeRAM will drastically change our computing habit, and Today, Toshiba announced their largest (128 Megabit) and fastest (1.6GB/s) FeRAM module.
Just imagine for a second all the speed and advantage of your average RAM mix with your HDD or SSD behavior (Keeping data even if the module is powered off or not connected to any source of energy), This will definitively make your average HDD or even SSD quite useless.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AkihabaraNews

Samsung Ultra Touch S8300, Official Announcement

Samsung just sent us an email with the latest information on their S8300 Ultra Touch mobile phone. Our 3G Wonder (HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE/GPRS), feature a 2.8” WQVGA AMOLED Screen touch screen, a 8Mpix Camera Module with LED Flash with AF, Face Detection, Smile Detection and GeoTagging, Support DviX, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV9 and MPEG4 video plus 30fps VGA video recording mode, FM Radio with RDS, an Audio Player compatible with MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA files, Bluetooth A2DP, a A-GPS module and 80MB of internal memory with upgrade of microSDHC slot up to 16GB…. All of these little wonders in just 110×51.5×12.7mm.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AkihabaraNews

Asus P5E3 Premium/Wifi-Ap.N Motherboard Review

When a new Intel chipset launches the initial motherboards are often mainstream offerings. It’s then only a matter of time till a board that really stands out from the crowd is released. Who can forget the ASUS’ 945/espresso maker? Or ECS’s legendary PF88 combo board that ran both Intel socket 775 and AMD K8 CPUs!? Such is the case with Intel’s X48 Express based ASUS P5E3 Premium/Wifi-AP.N motherboard. The name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but this board has many features that certainly aren’t found on typical Intel X48 platforms. For starters, the ASUS P5E3 Premium has a class-N wireless network card integrated into the motherboard’s design that pulls double duty as a Wireless access point, in addition to a pair of wired gigabit LAN ports.

Roll Up Keyboard Packing Tape Design

What wondeful creativity was imagined in this roll up keyboard packing tape design. Although it is for a completely different purpose and does not actually play music, it still reminds me of the huge midi music keyboard seen in the movie Big.
This roll up keyboard FFFFound at ReubenMiller is a wonderful designer packing tape that is clearly too pretty for simple packing when you move. I could actually see it on the walls of a musical prodigy child more than the tan cardboard boxes, but I wonder if someone will put it for such use.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ WalYou

Review: Clarion MiNd Mobile Internet Navigation

The Clarion MiND appears to be a GPS navigation device at heart, but expanded into a special type of mobile internet hybrid device packed with connectivity and applications bringing dangerously close to a mobile PC, but just not quite. The mobile device has many addition features such as an internet browser, YouTube viewer, media player, file storage, weather, news, maps and of course navigation but runs its own type of hard-wired OS that leaves little for customizations.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ SlipperyBrick

Samsung’s YP-VP1 Voice Recorder With Voicepix Photo Tagging

Here’s something we don’t see everyday, a sexy voice recorder with a built-in digital camera. Samsung’s YP-VP1 made its first appearance at CES, apparently, and now sees its official Korean launch. The 2GB / 4GB recorder features a directional mic that records up to 30 hours in 192kbps max quality with support for MP3 / WMA playback (up to 50 hours) tossed in for grins.

Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Engadget

Meet Socket AM3: AMD Phenom II X4 810 CPU Review

AMD announced the first CPUs in Socket AM3 form-factor. Let’s see how Phenom II processors can benefit from the use of DDR3 memory and meet another quad-core CPU from the company that stands for maximizing price-to-performance ratio.

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