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TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Taiwan-based Team Group is going old skool with its new P2 solid state drives as they don't feature sexy SATA 6.0 Gbps or even 3.0 Gbps connectivity, but make use of an IDE interface. The P2 2.5-inch drives come in 32, 64 and 128GB capacities, boast MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory chips, a MTBF of 2 million hours, and deliver read/write speeds of 80/50 MB/s (32GB model) or 60/40 MB/s (64 and...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ever notice how every interior component in cars these days, no matter how cheaply made, appears to have been vetted by a crew of marketing types and focus groups? That's why it's refreshing to see this Maxima's dash. I was scoping the junkyard for interesting stuff when I spotted this '87 Nissan Maxima . I figured I'd check for a Voice Annunciator Phonograph Unit within. It appears that Nissan had...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to figuring out how to frustrate my desires doesn't really want my business. Who'd got a suggestion? I'm looking for something: * small (Nano-sized or smaller), * low-capacity (8GB...
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Misblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our Department of Energy (DOE) 1 is sponsoring a lighting prize ( l-prize ) contest for a more efficient, luminous, and reliable light bulb. Philips Electronics 2 is the first company to submit a candidate lamp (actually thousands of lamps) for rigorous testing against the contest technical criteria 3 : Efficacy of more than 90 lumens per watt, which exceeds the efficiency of all incandescent and most...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jeremy Steig Howlin' for Judy Solid State-Blue Note 2009 Krzysztof Popek Estate Power Brothers 2009 Anne Drummond Like Water Obliqsound 2009 Full-time flutists don't get much respect in the male-dominated, hard-driving jazz culture (certain Latin leaders like Dave Valentin and Maraca Valle excepted). Truth to tell, two of the three flute specialists here don't exert enough pizzazz or subtlety to thwart...
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CrAzY 4 WoRld (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dell has finally confirmed the availability of their latest Adamo XPS laptop, which is claimed to be the world’s thinnest PC laptop. Measuring at just 9.9mm thin, the Dell Adamo XPS is powered by a 1.4GHz Intel ULV processor with a 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 128GB solid state drive (SSD), a 13.4-inch HD display [...]
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InfoWorld (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Chip-maker Intel has promised to supply a fix for a recently released firmware update, which once applied, bricked certain users' SSDs (solid-state drives).
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Tobias S. Buckell Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Recently I purchased a $234 solid state hard drive. I’ve been waiting for almost three months to buy it. Before that, I knew I didn’t have the wiggle room. I knew I wouldn’t have it for another month, unless one of a handful of promised windfalls due to fiction writing would show up. The windfall showed up, I [...]
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Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Whenever stocks fall apart, lawyers (and lawsuits) are sure to follow. Ergo, today we get the first two of what will likely be a a flurry of class-action law firms nosing around for potential wrongdoing by STEC, the solid-state drive manufacturer that lately has been in free fall. In particular, the [...]
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Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Late last month, several owners of Intel's X25-M G2 solid state drives cried foul when a firmware update promising a 40 percent performance boost ended up bricking their drives instead. Oops! That marked the latest in a what's becoming a string of problems plaguing the 34nm SSDs, and once again, Intel says a fix is on the way . "Intel has replicated the issue on 34nm SSDs -- X25-M -- and is working...
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Thomas Net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Protected by IP66 stainless steel housing, Kontron Nano Client 10.4 in. is powered by 45 nm Intel® Atom(TM) Z5xx processor up to 1.6 GHz and integrates Intel System Controller Hub US15W as well as 1024 MB max soldered RAM. Open x86 architecture facilitates variant creation and offers future-proof alternative to RISC-based solutions. Designed to meet highest hygienic requirements, solid-state unit...
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Thomas Net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Incorporating solid-state surge protection technology with response time of 2-5 ns, Minuteman LineGuard(TM) Suppressors protect analog and digital surveillance cameras, DVRs, and network peripherals, including devices using Power over Ethernet. Units clamp surge to ground and automatically reset after low-voltage surge occurs. If catastrophic surge such as lightning does hit data line, LineGuard products...
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Register Hardware (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Says solution a 'high priority' Intel has once again promised a fix for the glitchy firmware update tool it released for its 34nm solid-state drives last month. But it still can't say when the new version will arrive.…
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MacBlender (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Super Talent on Wednesday revealed its new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive lineup, which is up to ten times faster than USB 2.0 drives when transferring data. A system with both USB 3.0 ports and a special USB Attached SCSI driver can transfer at up to 320MB per second, or faster than most solid-state drives; it [...]
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Cheap prices (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
> See More @ Amazon.com Intel Atom Z520 Processor 1.33GHz 1GB DDR2 RAM, 1 x SODIMM Slot, 2GB Max. 16GB Solid State Drive, Plus a Free 16GB SD Card and 20GB Free Eee Storage Windows XP Home Operating System, 8.9-inch Touch LCD Display Comes with the Asus Exclusive TouchSuite: a Finger Friendly and Intuitive Touch User Interface. Free [...]
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