Haier’s offerings are always an adventure, and this year at MWC they didn’t disappoint. They were showing off an interesting assortment of MIDs, confusingly dubbed “NetBooks,” including a mini-laptop of sorts (left) that falls somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, we’re totally short on specs, release dates or other sorts of relevant informations, so what you see is pretty much what you get. On a similar note, Haier had two Android-based devices at the show, dubbed the G1 and the G2, along with a BlackBerry 8900 look-alike we didn’t see, and another phone that even the PR person wasn’t sure what it was. These two “Googlephones” (their word) were sadly out of battery when we went for a demo, but one of them bore more than a passing resemblance to the BlackBerry Storm, though it happens to be lighter, smaller and runs a new OS… maybe RIM can call up Haier for some pointers.
Source : Engadget
Haier Shows Off Mysterious Netbooks, Android Phones
Leaked Photo Indicates Next-Gen Mac Mini With Mini Displayport
Appleinsider has today reported a photo leak showing the rear of supposedly the new Mac Mini with revamped ports. Among the clues we can glean, assuming this image is legit, is that it supports early claim of DVI port to be replaced with Mini DisplayPort and Mini DVI to support newer Cinema Display. It also replaces the FireWire 400 port with a FireWire 800 jack and gains an additional USB port. Can this be a real McCoy? Appleinisder said they don’t vouch for its authenticity but this is the 2nd picture they have gathered showing similar design. Although it seems out of fashion for Apple to equip an entry-level Mac mini with a FW 800, but nothing is certain until it’s official.
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Toshiba Satellite A350/A355/A355D 16″ Laptops
Toshiba’s Satellite A350/A355/A355D Series are the company’s first laptops with a 16-inch display. Toshiba currently sells the Satellite A350-ST3601 model, while select online retailers offer various A355 and A355D configurations. The Satellite A350/A355 include Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor, whereas the A335D has AMD’s Turion X2. The laptops have up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, up to 400GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner. The screen on the entertainment-oriented laptops has a resolution of 1366×768 pixels and a movie-friendly aspect ratio of 16:9.
The A350-ST3601 comes with the Intel GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics and a VGA output only, while the A355-S6935, for example, features the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512MB dedicated GPU and HDMI, S-Video, and VGA ports. The A355D-S6921 includes the Radeon 3100 integrated video chip and VGA and S-Video outputs.
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3DFusion Debuts A Broadcast Ready, Glasses Free 3D Display
The 3D experience from Super Bowl 2009 did disappoint most viewers, but the current 3D technology is much further than what these ColorCode glasses offer. 3DFusion is exhibited an auto stereoscopic display at the Digital Signage Expo, Las Vegas next week they call broadcast ready.
Built upon the Philips 3D Solutions, 2D Plus Depth format, the 3DF IP enhances and augments the 3D advancements to the point of achieving the first 3D Broadcast Ready, picture perfect standard for stereoscopic Glasses Free 3D displays. 3DFusion has taken the newly released Philips 3D Solutions WOWvx Media Player and built a high quality 3D display system for kiosk use.
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Hands On: Old Macbook Pro Vs New Macbook
I bought a new MacBook. I couldn’t help it. Three days spent in and out of the press room at the MWC in Barcelona meant three days of seeing the tiny 13” package over and over (these unibody MacBooks seem to be popular). Worse, I was seeing the svelte new carcass alongside my old-model MacBook Pro.
It’s a truism of Apple design that every product looks amazing until the next revision is unveiled. Then, what looked great yesterday suddenly looks old and tired. So I did it. I bought a new laptop to replace one barely eight months old.
What follows is a comparison of the two in use, consisting of the first impressions that will quickly fade from memory. For an in depth review, including all the number crunching you might like, see our official Gadget Lab review of the new MacBooks. If you want to find out how the new consumer MacBook stacks up against the old Pro, and why you might think twice about buying one if you are a photographer, keep reading.
First, a few numbers. The old Pro is a 2.4GHz machine with the Santa Rosa chipset. It is loaded with 4GB RAM but is otherwise completely stock. The new, young whippersnapper is also 2.4GHz and is running on just 2GB RAM until four gigs on order from Crucial turns up. I also picked up a Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to hook it up to an external monitor.
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Cooler Master HAF 922 To Debut On CeBIT 2009
Cooler Master confirmed its presence on CeBIT 2009 and by this occasion announced several brand new products and showcasing of some products that we are all familiar with. Soon-to-be released HAF 922, the mid-tower sibling of the popular full-tower HAF 932 ( HAF 932 InsideHW review ), is armed with the notorious High Air Flow structure and aims to blow away the rivalry. HAF 922 carries on the prestige of invincible cooling solution and ferocious exterior design. Another exciting new chassis is Gladiator 600 that features excellent airflow design, roomy interior, and a LED control switch.
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MSI Plans New Gtx260 With 1.8gb Of Ram
Looks like MSI will be flogging a newly redesigned and supped-up GTX260.
The new card (that will sport a huge 1.8GB or GDDR3) will go by the name of N260GTX Lightning. In addition to the vast amount of RAM the Lightning will have a custom dual-slot, two-fan, five-heatpipe cooler 8+2 phase power and 5000 hour capacitors.
There is no mention of price or clock speeds but MSI will be releasing a the Lightning with a bundled AirFore panel for easy overclocking.
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Lucidlogix’s Hydra Renders Objects, Not Frames
The guys over at Fudzilla have been talking to the people over at Lucidlogix.
LucidLogix, if you did not already know, is the maker of the very highly anticipated Hydra Chip. They asked questions about ELSA Japan’s recent usage of the Hydra Chip and were told that ELSA is not using it for graphic performance but as more of a PCI-Control Chip for GPGPU functions.
In Graphics Performance Mode the Hydra changes the traditional way that multiple GPUs deal with rendering. In traditional SLI or CrossfireX setups the GPUs share the rendering burden by rendering alternate items; this is usually broken up in to frames, (AFR) Tiles, and in older SLI cases lines. With Hydra the Hydra Chip controls the rendering, it is capable of sending commands to the GPUs telling them which objects to render in a give frame and then it assembles the distributed objects and send that data to the monitor.
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Zotac Ships Its High-Performance Geforce 9300-Itx Wifi Mini-Itx Platform
ZOTAC International, an award-winning manufacturer of NVIDIA-based motherboards and graphics cards, today announced its high-performance mini-ITX platform - the ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi - is now shipping to retailers and distributors across the globe. The ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi made its debut during the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show and received great praise and interest. Joining the power of a NVIDIA CUDA-ready GeForce 9300 graphics with socket LGA775 Intel processors into a miniature mini-ITX form factor, the ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi delivers unprecedented performance to mini-ITX small form factor systems.
The integrated GeForce 9300 graphics processor features 16 screaming-fast stream processors for high-performance in the latest DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1 and NVIDIA CUDA based 3D games and applications. If more graphics power is desired, the ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi packs a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot for high-performance graphics upgrades.
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SilverStone NightJar 450W Review
SilverStone Technology is especially well regarded for their unique computer cases from their micro-ATX Sugo series to their HTPC-oriented Lascala line-up to their flagship Temjin series. SilverStone though does not only pride itself upon designing some of the best (also the most expensive) cases on the market, but they have several lines of performance-oriented power supplies. We have looked at SilverStone’s Strider, Decathlon, Zeus, and Olympia lines before, but never had we looked at a SilverStone NightJar power supply. The NightJar series is SilverStone’s line-up of fan-less power supplies. While there may be no fans so that the power supply can operate silently, the NightJar power supplies are far from being low-end.
The body of the SilverStone NightJar 450W power supply is made of aluminum, but it is not a solid surface. The sides are essentially just a sturdy honeycomb mesh while the surface at the top of the power supply is grated and thicker, but still designed for effective heat dissipation. While fan-less, the power supply looks like a normal power supply besides all of the grated surfaces for providing extra airflow. Unlike some other fan-less power supplies we previously have looked at, the NightJar does not depend upon any heatpipes, is not larger to accommodate a greater heat dissipation area, nor does anything protrude from the rear side for offering greater heat dissipation.
Foxconn X58 Flaming Blade Pictured
Over the course of the last year, Foxconn’s channel division emerged as a mature, seasoned and determined player in the high-end PC motherboard industry. For Intel’s new Core i7 platform, Foxconn started off with an enthusiast-grade motherboard called the X58 Blood Rage, and a premium X58 Renaissance model. Over time, the X58 Blood Rage became a series of motherboards based on the scaling-down of its feature-set. The first variant to emerge out of it was the Blood Rage GTI, and now a newer “value” offering: the Blood Rage Flaming Blade.
Pictured by Japanese AKIBA PC Hotline, the Flaming Blade shows a distinct scaling-down of Blood Rage’s feature-set, beyond that of the GTI variant, with a remodeled PCB, rearranged components and colour-theme. To begin with the CPU is powered by standard ferrite-core chokes as against the PWM circuitry on the original Blood Rage, and the semi-digital circuitry on the GTI variant.
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