hardware

WM311 Bluetooth mouse for notebooks from Dell

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Dell has recently released its new wireless three-button optical mouse, the WM311, with a scroll wheel. The Bluetooth mouse is equipped with a nano USB receiver, which can be stored inside the device and therefore completely hidden. The tracking sensitivity of its optical sensor is 1,000DPI.
No information is available on the type of the battery [...]

Intel’s 6-core Xeons may not be available until June

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Intel has repeatedly told resellers that its 6-core Xeon 5600 chips would not be ready in significant quantities until June, in any way. No further details or reasons have been given, but the lack of 32 nanometer processors that has provoked the current mobile processor shortage seems to affect the Xeon as well.
Such an important [...]

Future Razer peripherals to offer Mac support

Published on: 18th March, 2010

On March 10, 2010, at the Game Developer’s Conference, Razer, the gaming peripherals maker, has announced the launch of drivers which will offer Mac users the possibility to play and enjoy all the company’s upcoming products. Mac drivers will also be backtracked and released for the existing products. In order to validate its statement, Razer [...]

Short supply and high price for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480?

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

As a source from within the graphics field says, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 would only be available in short supply and would have very high prices. A launch was promised on March 26th at PAX East, but it seems that boards based on the new architecture would not sell any ATI-branded graphics and [...]

The first Belkin USB 3.0 products

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Belkin’s product lineup has been recently expanded through various peripherals supporting the new USB 3.0 standard. The line includes two expansion cards: the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-In Card, which is dedicated to desktop computers, and the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, especially designed for notebooks. The SuperSpeed A-B Cable and the SuperSpeed Premium Micro-B [...]

NVIDIA: External notebook graphics may be a solution

Published on: 13th February, 2010

NVIDIA seems to plan the introduction of the company’s first external graphics for notebooks, according to one of NVIDIA’s executives. According to one of the latest Xbitlabs reports, Rene Haas, general manager at NVIDIA notebook GPU division, claims that this would be a perfect opportunity on this type of market. The device will probably come [...]

Quadra Enterprise Class external drives announced by LaCie

Published on: 9th February, 2010

Storage drive maker LaCie has recently announced its Quadra Enterprise Class drives that are meant for the enterprise market. The new range of products includes the d2, 2big and 4big drives, all of them with different form factors. Each device in the line-up sports SATA hard drives and also secures data through 128-bit AES hardware [...]

Other World Computing releases new SSDs – Mercury Extreme Enterprise

Published on: 29th January, 2010

OWC (Other World Computing) has released its first range of solid state devices that it considers the fastest and the mot reliable 2.5-inch SATA SSD in the industry. The Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD can be purchased in three sizes, capacities varying up to 200GB, and is compatible with either PCs or Macs. Thanks to the [...]

IBM to develop 35TB data tape, 39 times denser than current magnetic tapes

Published on: 29th January, 2010

IBM has announced a big step forward in developing a higher density magnetic tape. It has recorded data onto a prototype magnetic tape made of dual-coat barium ferrite, at a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch. This is 39 times denser than any current magnetic tape is capable of. New technologies developed with [...]

Super Talent to release 250Mbps solid-state drives

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Super Talent has rolled out a new series of solid-state drives meant to help those users having very high workloads. Running on a high-speed controller from SandForce delivering a peak read speed of 250Mbps, the new device will be named TeraDrive FT2. What is impressive is that this peak read speed is promised for the [...]

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