The new Ultra Max Plus 1TB hard drive from Iomega is clearly designed with the Mac user in mind. Its sleek metal finish, angular curves and perforated vents make it a perfect match for the PowerMac or Mac Pro, and it would also look right at home next to an aluminium iMac.
It’s preformatted as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive so there’s no need to go through the tedious reformatting procedure demanded by some high-capacity drives, unless of course you wish to change the RAID option.
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Iomega Ultramax Plus 1TB Review
Data Robotics Drobo FW800 Review
When we looked at the first iteration of the Drobo FW800, in April 2008, we had two main criticisms. It was sluggish and expensive.
It’s still as expensive – in fact at the time of writing, the cheapest online price from a reputable dealer is £57 more than the first generation – but at least there’s the promise of speed, thanks to a meatier processor and the inclusion of FireWire 800 rather than just USB 2.0.
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Shuttle D’VO D1000 Gets Its Touch On with a 7″ LCD Panel
The Shuttle D’VO D1000 isn’t your ordinary media PC, nor is it your typical Shuttle PC. It’s sporting a 7 inch touch screen panel so that you can control your media center right from the front of the case. Or you could use the included remote to access your media as well.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ ChipChick
Asus Eee PC T91 Gets Pre-Production Hands-On
There’s a lot of people eagerly anticipating the ASUS Eee PC T91 convertible netbook-tablet, and bit-tech’s early hands-on with a pre-production prototype certainly won’t do anything to staunch that interest. The 8.9-inch touchscreen netbook will get a new, chiclet keyboard like the Eee PC 1000HE before it ships, and unfortunately has a non-removable battery, but there’s still plenty of good news to tide us over.
Of course, being a prototype there’s room for improvement. bit-tech take issue with the touchpad, which is less responsive than on other Eee PCs, and the display is a fingerprint magnet. On the positive side, the inclusion of a DVB-T TV tuner, 3G data card and GPS functionality all make for a very capable netbook, especially if ASUS can bring it in between their guide price bracket of £360 to £420 ($524 to $611).
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LG Xcanvas LH70 Series LCD HDTV With Bluetooth
LG announces in Korea the new XCanvas LH70 series LCD HDTV that comes with integrated Bluetooth support. With Bluetooth, users can connect their Bluetooth-enabled devices such as cellphones, headphones, laptops to the LH70 series for directing video/audio streaming.
Available in 42-inch and 47-inch screen sizes, the LG Xcanvas LH70 Series features 100,000:1 contrast ratio, 120Hz refresh rate, 2ms response time, Color Decanting and EYEQ Green. They have a USB port for connecting external storage media.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ ItechNews
DDR3 Round-Up: Memory Performance With The Core i7 Review
Since the great DRAM price plummet of 2007, memory prices continue to be extremely low. It’s currently possible to pick up high capacity memory modules for very respectable prices. As the DRAM market is highly volatile, however, it’s possible that we could see prices jump within the next month, week, or even by the day. However, it has been about a year since prices dropped, and things have yet to “recover”, allowing prices to remain low. Regardless, continues to be a fairly good time to buy system memory.
The majority of the really good deals are for DDR2 memory, which has completely flooded the market and is available for ultra low prices (under $30 for 4 GB in some cases). With virtually no money to be made in DDR2 anymore, beyond high-end enthusiast modules, memory manufacturers are pinning their hopes on DDR3 to revive the market. Not that the situation is much better there, as 4 GB of solid DDR3-1333 memory can be had for about $70 on the low-end.
Palit Puts 2GB Of Memory In New Geforce GTX 285
Earlier this year Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA released its latest GeForce graphics cards, built on its new 55nm GT200 GPUs. Coming in the form of the GTX 285 and the GTX 295 models, these new cards have enabled the company’s partners to come out with some new designs using NVIDIA’s fastest GPU to date.
One of the latest arrivals comes from Palit, a graphics card maker that has just released a 2GB-equipped version of NVDIA’s single-core flagship GeForce card, the GTX 285.
As expected, the new video board has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of all those computer and gaming enthusiasts. The card itself comes with a reference clock speed, but Palit has decided to equip this GeForce GTX 285 with a dual-slot, custom cooling solution, featuring two fans and four heatpipes, for an optimum cooling factor. In addition, users will be able to choose if they want to go for the 1GB or the 2GB model, depending on budget or requirements.
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ASUS Launches Phenom II-Ready M4 Series Motherboards
Aside from being one of the top leading vendors of netbook computer systems, ASUS is also known for its high-end motherboards, including the gaming-oriented Rampage series. On that note, the company has announced today the introduction of a new series of motherboards designed to provide users with support for the latest AMD Phenom II processors. Part of the new M4 series, the AMD-supporting motherboards will enables ASUS fans to combine Phenom II processors with DDR3 memory, for improved performance.
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Turn A 3-Core AMD Phenom 2 Into A 4-Core
We received word that a Korean hardware review site has managed to turn a triple-core Phenom II X3 710 into a 4 core CPU. Apparently, the quick switcheroo requires a Biostar motherboard says the site, but customers boards that have the same BIOS options can try the same technique out. The BIOS option to enable the 4th core is called Advanced Clock Calibration, and when set to Auto, turns on the 4th core.
From our experience, when AMD or Intel ships a processor with a core disabled at manufacturing, it’s because the disabled core isn’t performing up to snuff with the other core(s). We’d be interested in knowing if users experience any bugs with the 4th core enabled.
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ARM Cortex-M0 Processor: Smallest, Most Efficient For Soc
ARM have announced their latest processor, the ARM Cortex-M0, which the company is describing as their smallest, lowest power and most energy efficient processor to date. The Cortex-M0 consumes as little as 85 microwatts/MHz (0.085 milliwatts) and is intended for ultra low-power MCU and SoC applications like gaming accessories, ZigBee and Z-Wave wireless devices, and smart-home products.
The Cortex-M0 offers, according to ARM, 32-bit performance in a 16-bit footprint, with integrated sleep modes. Since it can handle both analog and digital devices simultaneously, the ARM Cortex-M0 is also being targeted at intelligent sensors and actuators; NXP Semiconductors and Triad Semiconductor have both licensed the new processor technology.
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