We have been talking about NVIDIA's Ion since late last year when news first broke of the ultra small form factor platform. At the time, NVIDIA's tiny Atom-powered prototype system wasn't even called Ion yet, but images of the miniscule motherboard that would eventually be used in the reference platform had already surfaced and the community was buzzing with interest. One of the major concerns with most netbooks and nettops was their relatively weak integrated graphics solutions, and Ion would potentially address that concern.
Around the time when Ion was first announced, there was some scuttlebutt that Intel "disapproved" of the platform and that the company wouldn't sell OEMs Atom processors separately, without pairing them to an accompanying Intel chipset. Those rumors were soon squashed, however, because Intel does in fact sell Atom processors independent of a chipset. Although, we think it's still pretty safe to say Intel isn't exactly thrilled with Ion's existence.
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Acer Aspire Revo SFF NVIDIA Ion PC Review
AMD's $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU launched, reviewed
AMD already showed us yesterday what kind of graphical prowess could be crammed into a sub-$100 GPU, and today it's attempting to pull the same kind of stunt on the CPU front. The Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition -- a 2.8GHz chip with 2MB of L3 cache and loads of overclocking potential -- has just been loosed, and with a downright stunning $69 MSRP, we'd say it'll have budget gamers across the nation paying attention. Reviewers across the web voiced their appreciation for the low price, and while the processor didn't burn any barns down along the way, it did manage to garner a sufficient amount of praise while on the bench.
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OWC USB to DVI/HDMI/VGA Display Adapter
OWC intrdouces the new USB to DVI/HDMI/VGA display adapter (model: OWCVIDU2DVIA). The device turns any USB 2.0 port to DVI or (VGA/HDMI via adapter) and supports up to 1680×1200/1680×1050 resolution (sorry, no 1920×1080).
Priced at $99, the package includes a USB to DVI adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter and a DVI to HDMI swivel adapter as well as a 4ft USB 2.0 Cable. It works with Windows XP and Vista and supports Vista’a Aero effect.
Source : ITechNews
TG5V (TG7) Quick Review... Nice add-ons but still need works on Videos
Earlier this month, Sony introduced to the world its latest upgrade of ACVHD Camcorder the TG5V, the TG1 big brother that we had the chance to review too last year Sony Handycam HDR-TG1 Review.
Before going down quickly on the review of this new TG5V, we have to stress that the TG5V is just in fact a TG1 in disguise with some minor improvement giving the opportunity to Sony not to propose a brand new product but rather a nice little upgrade.
Do not get us wrong, the TG5V and TG1 are descent Full HD camera, but if you scratch beneath the surface you won’t really see much improvement here.
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Samsung new 1.5TB Data backup solution, the Samsung STORY ™ Station
Here you are a new 1.5TB USB 2 external HDD enclosure fitted in a nicely design case, the Samsung STORY ™ Station. If I have to admit that I am in loved with this external HDD the lack of either eSATA or FireWire800 render this USB2.0 only external HDD less attractive… Don’t know about you but having to store huge video files I can tell you that FireWire800 is really a minimum!
This external HDD is also available in 500GB and 1TB in Korea.
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Vizo Ares II Dual 2.5-inch SATA Drive Adapter Review
You may have noticed that nearly all of the exciting hard drives in the last year have been 2.5 inch drives. The 2.5 inch standard has long dominated the notebook market and is quickly starting to take over the enterprise server market. When Western Digital released the VelociRaptor analysts took notice as it marked the 2.5" invasion into desktop systems. Here we are a year later and solid state drives are all the rage. I know several enthusiasts that are using SSDs in their full towers, most of them with multiple drives in either RAID 0 or RAID 5.
Other than rack mounted servers I have yet to see a desktop system come with an efficient 2.5" mounting system for these drives. Several companies make adapters but most were designed to fit a floppy disk drive into a 5.25" CDROM bay.
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Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard Review
Logitech has a well-deserved reputation for making some of the best gaming peripherals around. All the way from its G5 Gaming Mouse to the recently-reviewed G13 Advanced Gameboard, its G-Series has consistently won TR recommended awards. Today we're looking at the brand-new G19 Gaming Keyboard, the sequel to Logitech's well-regarded G15 Keyboard, which received our highest accolade. Let's find out if the G19 can keep the pedigree intact.
So first of all, what has changed? Obviously the design has been updated to make this keyboard far more streamlined. Basic keyboard layout remains identical, but the multimedia and gaming keys have been moved about and the programmable G-keys have been doubled from six (on the 2007 revision of the G15, not the original which offered 18) to 12. Backlighting has also been reworked, but the single biggest upgrade is to a colour "GamePanel" LCD-screen with a resolution of 320 x 240.
BT Vision Review
Having recently spent some serious time exploring the home movie experience offered by Sky's HD service and the Xbox 360 download platform, today I turn my attention to the BT Vision service. Something I might actually have done some time ago, except for one small problem: I only recently went online with BT's own broadband service.
Whether you like it or not, you have to subscribe to BT Broadband in order to get BT Vision. It's easy to understand BT's commercial thinking with this approach, and I appreciate that it makes the download element of the BT Vision service easier for BT to manage technically. But I also suspect that many of the people who read TrustedReviews might not like the idea that they can't pick separate broadband from this HD home entertainment solution if they so desire.
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285 coming to Macs in June
Mac users -- are you tired of being taunted by your PC friends over their myriad GPU options / killer gaming rigs? Well, here's one less front they can battle you on. We've just received a pic of this nasty piece of work in our inboxes with word that it's due in June. Like the PC version, we're guessing you can expect two things here: it's killer... and it's expensive.
Source : Engadget
Bluetooth V3.0: Bluetooth with a touch of Wi-Fi?
Bluetooth may have originally got off to quite a shaky start, with pretty serious interoperability problems on kit that supported version 1.0 and 1.0b of the standard, as manufacturers struggled to get their devices talking to each other. However, versions 1.1 and 1.2 were big improvements that solved most of these issues and went a long way toward establishing the technology as a must have on mid-range and higher-end mobile phones. Yet, as time went on, Bluetooth's low data rate of 1.1Mbps was becoming an increasing issue as mobile phones became more advanced.
Version 2.0 and 2.1 of the standard tried to address this with the new Enhanced Data Rate that bumped rates up to a theoretical maximum of 3.0Mbps and also added newer, more entertainment focussed features such as support for wireless Bluetooth stereo headsets in the form of A2DP. But, with mobiles boasting cameras with ever higher megapixel counts and more entrainment features such as music playback and video recording, Bluetooth is starting to look quite limited again.
