FeeVoo Laptop Components: 二月 2010

2010年2月26日星期五

MSI this week beefed up its "Classic Series" notebook line

The 16-inch CR600-234US notebook switches gears to a Pentium dual-core T4500, 3GB of DDR2 memory, 320GB hard drive, DVD writer, and Nvidia's GeForce 8200M G graphics. MSI this week beefed up its "Classic Series" notebook line with a trio of new 15.6-inch models built around Intel's Arrandale platform, and one 16-inch model with Nvidia graphics.
The CR620-030US and CR620-033US -- both 15.6 units -- sport a Core i3-330M processor and a 320GB hard drive, while the former also comes with a DVD burner and the latter a Blu-ray reader. The last of the 15.6-inch models -- CR620-031US -- ups the hardware ante with a Core i5 430M CPU and 500GB hard drive, though no Blu-ray option. All three models boast Intel's Arrandale HD graphics and 4GB of DDR3-1066 memory.
It looks like MSI hasn’t had their fill of laptops doning “Turbo” buttons, because their new GX623 and GX633 both pack the crazy feature aimed at boosting performance conveniently.
Both the GX623 and GX633 feature a 15.4-inch display, but they’re fundamentally different just about everywhere else. The GX623 features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and ATI Radeon HD4670 graphics, while the GX633 packs an AMD X2 Turion Ultra processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 130M graphics. They both feature 4GB of RAM, 500GB of storage, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 2-megapixel webcam.

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2010年2月23日星期二

Acer announced plans for an e-Reader

It may be a small market, but perhaps Acer’s decision to pull its e-Reader out may have been influenced by a steady stream of product announcements--including Apple’s iPad. What was a market ripe for entry, with only Amazon’s Kindle offering any serious challenge, rapidly became crowded and intensely competitive. With the bar now higher, perhaps discretion is playing a greater role in Acer’s decision than market size.
What’s the old song: “you put your left foot in, you pull your left foot out”? Same holds true for Acer it seems, but instead of a left foot it’s an e-Reader that Acer put in and has now taken out.
About a month ago Acer announced plans for an e-Reader, which would debut about mid-year. Now it seems Acer’s had a change of heart and has decided an e-Reader is a no-go for it. Acer Chairman Wang Jeng-tang told reporters that Acer is still considering the possibilities, but as the e-Reader market isn’t that big it doesn’t make sense for Acer to step in at this time.
As Kenny Rogers once sang in The Gambler, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to run." It looks like Acer has taken those lyrics to heart and rather than gamble on the e-book market, the second largest PC maker said on Monday it plans to walk away and watch from a distance.
The reason, says Acer chairman Wang Jeng-tang, is because the e-reader market is not yet all that big and there doesn't exist a proven business model. So even though Acer has the hardware ready, the company prefers to sit on the sidelines and see if the public embraces e-readers enough to make it a profitable business.

2010年2月21日星期日

VGA-to-HDMI Adapter Powered Over USB review

This device might come in handy if your looking to use an older laptop, or perhaps even a netbook with an HDTV, but don't expect any magic here we haven't seen before. The output can only ever be as good as the input. Atlona plans to begin shipping the AT-HDVieW by the end of the month.
Ever wanted to convert a VGA signal to HDMI? Well no, neither have I, but just in case you fall into this niche category of users you might be interested to know that Atlona Technologies has just launched a video switch/scaler that will accomplish all the aforementioned feats. The box is powered over USB, and will turn any VGA signal, regardless of its input resolution into full 1080p HD, and will even take care of the audio pass through.
Streaming Netflix, Amazon, and other video on demand services is such a huge waste of time if you own an HDTV. It looks like crap. With so much hi-def content available through cable, satellite and Blu-ray, why would anyone choose such a poor quality video source? When it comes to HD the internet is not ready for prime-time in America.
I'm kind of nitpicking here but when I want to game instead of joining the fam watching movies, they're using the HDMI, which leaves my box crippled. It's Kind of a hassle when I have tons of cables intersecting each other behind the desk. Old boxes that have dated video cards with no HDMI can definitely use this. Still, it's very hard to justify the price.

2010年2月9日星期二

IBM stolen Intel's thunder with its new Power7 chip technology

Power7 has another leg up on Itanium: it is already being used to construct what may be the fastest supercomputer in the world at the renowned National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, a credible claim, considering the center's history--and IBM's, whose chips in the past have powered the world's fastest supercomputers.
The Blue Waters project supercomputer, housed in a special building on the Urbana-Champaign campus, will theoretically be capable of achieving up to 10 petaflops, about 10 times as fast as the fastest supercomputer today. (A petaflop is 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second, a key indicator of supercomputer performance.)
One of the novel ways the University of Illinois is able to cram together the thousands of Power7 chips used in the Blue Waters supercomputer is by tapping a novel memory technology called eDRAM, or embedded dynamic access memory, for the level-3 cache memory.
Although both companies are touting dozens of other features--for example, better thread performance and improved scaling of workloads--IBM is taking a lead in marquee features for the lucrative high-end server market.
"While Intel is talking about a 2x [two-times] performance boost per chip, IBM is talking about almost an 8x [eight-times]," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight64. "IBM has gone from two cores to eight cores per (chip). And each of the cores is roughly twice as fast as the [prior-generation] Power6," according to Brookwood, adding that IBM was already ahead of Intel to begin with.
IBM has stated that the chip's speed--between 3.5GHz and 4GHz--actually has a lower rating than the previous Power6 chip, which ran at 5GHz. "We have gotten performance from other spots, such as the dense eDRAM. We had to back off from the gigahertz in order to get eight of these cores onto the chip and not have it melt," according to McCredie.

2010年2月7日星期日

Acer Aspire One AO532h-2Dr brief information and review

The Aspire One AO532h-2Dr comes with a standard array of connectivity ports. On the left side of the chassis, you’ll find a power port, a VGA-out port, and two USB connectors. The right side sports a flash-card reader, a microphone jack, a headphone jack, another USB port, a lock slot, and an Ethernet jack. The system also features 802.11b/g/n wireless networking, as well as Bluetooth connectivity. There is no SIM-card slot, though, a feature we liked on the Asus Eee PC 1005PE.
The keyboard is 93 percent of full size. The Backspace, Tab, and Caps Lock keys are reduced in size, but the rest of the Chiclet-style letter keys are wide and have a comfortable key plunge. The keyboard flexes visibly during typing, however, which makes it look and feel flimsy. Also, the textured multi-gesture touch pad is small and sits dangerously close to the spacebar, which makes for a cramped feel. A narrow, single seesaw-style mouse button is metallic red and stands out against the glossy black wrist rest, which sits flush with the touch pad. The touch pad’s design and layout are nearly identical to that of the Asus Eee PC 1005PE, but the Asus pad is roomier.
On our benchmark tests, the Acer Aspire One AO532h-2Dr performed better than the average netbook and was just about even with the Asus Eee PC 1005PE and the HP Mini 5102. In our Windows Media Encoder test, the AO532h-2Dr converted a video file in 25 minutes and 39 seconds. Compare that with the HP Mini’s time of 26:30, and the Asus Eee PC 1005PE’s 26:15. While completing our iTunes test (converting 11 MP3 tracks to AAC), the AO532h-2Dr took 19 minutes and 22 seconds, which is just a little slower than the Asus Eee PC 1005PE’s time of 18:35, but cannot compare with the MSI Wind U210’s time of 8:29.
Like its closest competitors, the Aspire One AO532h-2Dr features integrated Intel GMA 3150 graphics. Our 3DMark06 graphics test proved that the AO532h-2Dr, like most other netbooks, is not meant for even light gaming. With its score of 157 at its native resolution of 1,024x600, this unit is about even with the Asus Eee PC 1005PE’s and HP Mini 5102’s showings on this test. When measuring cooperative graphics and CPU performance with our Cinebench 10 test, the AO532h-2Dr yielded a score of 851, over 100 points above the average netbook and a bit higher than the Acer Aspire One AOD250’s score of 815.
The Aspire One AO532h-2Dr comes with Microsoft Works and trial versions of Microsoft Office and McAfee SecurityCenter. The system is also backed by Acer’s one-year limited warranty. While most netbooks offer similar fare, some, such as the HP Mini 5102, come with more extensive software.

2010年2月4日星期四

Samsung showcased a couple of e-book readers with full QWERTY keyboard

The E61 is effectively an E6 with a QWERTY keyboard. A 6-inch screen, removable battery, Bluetooth 2.0, and 802.11b/g WiFi are some of the features common to both the e-readers. There is no word on its release date or price.
Samsung showcased a couple of e-book readers, the $400 E6 and the $700 E101, at last month's Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. Though neither is on the market yet, the company has bolstered its upcoming e-reader lineup by adding the E61, which features a full QWERTY keyboard.
The challenge for Samsung (and everyone else) is that just about everywhere you turn, someone is releasing an e-book reader. To stand out from the crowd, both of Samsung's upcoming units will come with handwriting capabilities, allowing users to write directly on the display with the built-in electromagnetic resonance (EMR) stylus pen.
We don't know when it's going to happen or who's going to do it, but someone's going to kill the Kindle. Or at the very least, many will try. That includes Samsung, who at CES announced two new e-book readers, the 6-inch E6 and 10-inch E10.

2010年2月2日星期二

People don't usually associate IBM with video games

The exhibit--which opened Friday and runs indefinitely--is powered by an IBM Smarter Data Center, part of the company's larger Smarter Planet initiative aimed at marketing green solutions to world problems. The campaign includes creating data centers equipped with highly optimized servers, storage, switches, and smart software to reduce companies' energy costs (up to 25 percent, IBM says).
Data center geeks attending the Epcot exhibit can also go inside the data center to see a demonstration of IBM Cloudburst, a scalable compute model that lets a data center rapidly deploy a workload.
Through one "match" game, guests will discover that more than 2 billion people are using mobile phones to open and use bank accounts for the first time; or that only 11 percent of the United States money supply is cash; or that by unplugging household appliances while not in use homeowners can save cash, up to $286 every year. From the same kiosks, guests can take a poll and compare their answers with those of other visitors.
Another game, called Runtime and created by Disney, lets players personalize their avatars and run, jump, and dance through a computing time line that journeys through the Babbage computer all the way to the Internet, spotlighting IBM's achievements along the way. Guests can also e-mail their personalized version of the game to any computer in case they want to dance through the evolution of the ThinkPad at home.
People don't usually associate IBM with video games, but a couple of interactive games now rigged up at Florida's Epcot theme park have Big Blue's stamp all over them. They're part of the revised "Smarter Planet," an experiential exhibit aimed at highlighting how technology is helping to ease global problems such as road traffic, city crime, and subpar local water supplies.
In addition to powering the Epcot exhibit, the Smarter Data Center will donate unused computing resources to the World Community Grid, a distributed-computing project that harnesses idle computer time to assist research for Muscular Dystrophy, cancer, AIDS, and other medical and environmental causes.

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