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MPC has re branded Intel’s Classmate PC to a wider audience terming it now the TXTbook, the first North American version available for individuals.
The design is not changed much from the second-generation Classmate PC model and is small enough with its 8.9-inch screen to be used comfortably school goers and also is made durable enough to handle jerks, bumping and drops.
The VAIO FW notebook comes in multiple configurations, including a premium and a standard model. The premium model plays Blu-ray Disc high-definition content like movies in full 1080 HD resolution when connected to a compatible HDTV. It can also record, store and play back personal content on high-capacity BD media.Weighing a little over six pounds, the FW notebook features the world’s first 16.4-inch display, which combines the benefits of a slightly larger17-inch widescreen with the smaller “footprint” of a 15.4-inch model. These notebooks will have a 16:9 aspect ratio and comes with a HDMI output connector. These run on Intel Centrino 2 processor and the wireless is 802.11n.
In an educational conference HP have released a quad-core workstation which is inexpensive considering the power packed into it, it starts at just $579, the HP xw4550 uses a latest-generation 2GHz AMD Opteron.
This Quad-core workstation can handle video editing and other heavy-duty tasks and is gonna be durable and tamper-proof. In addition to the more advanced processor, the HP xw4550 is also unique among budget pro systems in having dedicated graphics with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 290 both giving a boost to Windows Vista (XP Professional is preinstalled) and to any 3D. At least 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive are included.
HP is going to sell the system immediately and gives the base model a price of $579. Prices increase up to $1,349 for a model with a 2.8GHz quad-core Opteron, 4GB of memory, a 250GB disk, and an upgraded Quadro FX 570 video card.
ASUS Eee PC 1000 has more than a larger display to its attraction, when it gets showcased tomorrow. One of their model is likely to support up to 2GB memory, the model name is EEE PC 1000H, this will also hold 80GB hard drive in Windows XP form, this has led to removing the flash used in smaller models and providing four times the space of the 8.9-inch model’s 20GB of flash storage.
With the provision for 802.11n Wi-Fi and a relatively long 3.2 to 5 hours of battery life the new versions are improved substantially.
Eee PC 1000 also has a 1.3-megapixel camera, Intel Atom processor, and a card reader. These will be available with Linux.
MSI is going to launch Wind, an ultralow-cost laptop that runs on Intel Corp.’s Atom microprocessor, this June in America. The U.S. edition of Wind will come in two different versions. One will cost $549 and run Windows XP. A few things set Wind apart from competitors, including the 1.6-GHz Atom microprocessor, a larger screen size and a six-cell battery that gives it around six hours of power, according to MSI.
Wind also carries an 80GB hard disk drive instead of a flash memory-based solid-state drive. The second type of Wind will have Novell Inc.’s SUSE Linux operating system and will be priced at $399. (more…)
Believe it or not Toshiba is going to ship below $800 dual-core, DVD-R notebook. The Satellite® A135 Series is economically priced with technology you’ll value. Systems feature the latest in Intel® processors* for optimal performance. There’s big memory* for all your mp3s, work, picture and video files.
All systems feature an 15.4″ diagonal WXGA TruBrite® display* adding the WOW factor to games and movies!
Toshiba’s DVD SuperMulti optical drive* (select models) reads and writes up to 11 formats, including DVD-RAM which acts like an optical HDD! (DVD-RAM media required). High speed wireless LAN* (802.11b/g) lets you work cable free. No more searching for phone jacks, network cables, or plugging in special cards. Connect easily to networks in your home, office, and in wireless LAN hotspots at airports, hotels and coffee shops.
The S4527 is destined for retail stores and doesn’t have a firm price as with many of the company’s online-only systems.
However, expect the system to arrive in larger retailers this week at under $800.
The security and reliability of electronic voting systems continues to worry many election experts and security researchers. During the 2006 midterm elections, a combination of ballot problems and the lack, on e-voting machines, of an obvious warning for voters who failed to vote in a race led to massive undervoting in Sarasota County, Florida, and likely gave the election to Vern Buchanan, a Republican representative. According to Securityfocus.com today
The U.S. federal agency in charge of government technology standards approved on Thursday the accreditation of two laboratories to perform certification of election computers. (more…)
The copy protection seems to be ruined on the latest Blu-Ray and HD DVD technology has been broken, according to a code writer’s post at the Doom9 video enthusiast forums.
Someone on this forum has claimed to have written software, named BackupHDDVD, that bypasses the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) protection found on the new storage formats and allows users to copy data from the otherwise restricted discs to a PC.
Maybe this news is still in its rough form and maybe it is just limited to a handful of HD DVD titles, the program appears to confirm early fears that AACS is too similar to CSS, the encryption scheme used by standard DVDs and famously bypassed by Jon Lech Johansen in 2002.
If validated, this could force a radical revision of copy protection on future discs.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates also finds it easier to “just buy a CD and rip it” than grapple with the copyright protection used by online music stores.
Gates confessed to a round table of prominent bloggers that “no one has done it right” when it comes to Digital Rights Management. This is despite Microsoft recently creating yet another DRM format for it’s new Zune MP3 player.
Gates went on to say Digital Rights Management “causes too much pain for legitimate buyers” trying to distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He declined to elaborate on how Microsoft would address this. (more…)
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, a supplier of computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions made a global launch of the MHX2300BT series of mobile hard disk drives (HDDs).
The newest Fujitsu products feature impressive storage capacities of 250 GB and 300 GB, the first 2.5″ PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) hard disk drives in the industry to attain these high levels of capacity.
The MHX2300BT series will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2007. (more…)
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