Asus has announced the F70 notebook, which it says is the first model available with a 17.3-inch display. This has LED backlighting, a 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 1,920-x-1,080 to precisely match that a HD video.
The company says that the laptop's design is reminiscent of the Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights), which sets it apart from conventional notebook designs. Not only is it designed to look beautiful -- it serves a highly practical purpose too by offering robustness against surface abrasions and maintaining the superb glossy appearance even after long periods of use.
The F70 notebook also integrates the 'chiclet' keyboard, a new generation of keyboard designed by Asus. The new keyboard features concave keys that fit the user's fingertips and offer a rebounding elasticity -- a design that Asus says eases the strain of typing over longer periods. Smaller spacing between keys also sees greater protection against the gathering of dust.
Other features include Altec Lansing surround sound speakers for HD audio, and an HDMI port for external displays.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
AMD 40W ACP AMD Opteron EE Processor
AMD has introduced the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor with AMD's lowest x86 quad-core server power band. The new 40W ACP processor is designed for very dense data centre environments such as those built for cloud computing, web serving, or other highly dense environments, according to the company.
The Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor adds significant power efficiency improvements over the Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE processor within the same platform with a 13 per cent reduction in platform-level power consumption and up to a 14 per cent reduction in processor power at idle. At the same performance level, the new EE processor delivers up to 62 per cent improved performance-per-watt over the previous generation.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Intel Core 2 Quad
The Intel Core 2 Quad processor blows through processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments and makes the most of highly threaded applications. Whether you're creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies, or running compute-intensive applications at one time, new quad-core processing will change the way you do everything. Pioneer the new world of quad-core and unleash the power of multithreading.
The Intel Core 2 Quad processor is at the center of today’s most interactive and content rich software experiences. The evolving set of threaded multi-media applications, including digital content creation, will shine as users are able to complete tasks faster. Game play can achieve even greater visualization and realism as tasks such as artificial intelligence (AI), physics, and rendering can be distributed across each of the four complete execution cores and run in parallel.
The Intel Core 2 Quad processor is at the center of today’s most interactive and content rich software experiences. The evolving set of threaded multi-media applications, including digital content creation, will shine as users are able to complete tasks faster. Game play can achieve even greater visualization and realism as tasks such as artificial intelligence (AI), physics, and rendering can be distributed across each of the four complete execution cores and run in parallel.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Intel Xeon
At an event at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters, executives introduced the Xeon 5500 as a revolutionary product that serves as a 'future-proof' platform with 'intelligence built in' in the forms of increased speed and power efficiency.
Specifically, the company is pointed to technology within the chip that makes it more flexible while also offering faster speeds and more efficient use of energy. Intel highlighted some performance benchmarks, looked at specific servers, compared the performance against the previous generation chip, and found performance benchmarks that increased by more than 150 percent in some cases.
The company pointed to enhancements in the memory subsystem, as well as the I/O subsystems. It also noted improvements that will enhance virtualisation benchmarks.
Intel also promised the new chip will bring cost savings and significant return-on-investment for datacentres.
As IT departments see budgets and resources shrink, the main job has become management of the datacentre, leaving little time or money for innovation. Intel says the performance of the Xeon 5500 is such that IT departments will see an 90 percent performance improvement, compared to servers with single-core chip, as well as an 18 percent increase in energy efficiency.
On the stage, Intel drove home the point by stacking nine servers next to a single Xeon 5500 server that it said can do the same work better, faster and cheaper.
Already, companies such as IBM, HP, Dell and others are announcing their products built on the Xeon 5500 platform and are pushing many of the same themes: cost-savings, increased energy efficiency and improved performance.
Specifically, the company is pointed to technology within the chip that makes it more flexible while also offering faster speeds and more efficient use of energy. Intel highlighted some performance benchmarks, looked at specific servers, compared the performance against the previous generation chip, and found performance benchmarks that increased by more than 150 percent in some cases.
The company pointed to enhancements in the memory subsystem, as well as the I/O subsystems. It also noted improvements that will enhance virtualisation benchmarks.
Intel also promised the new chip will bring cost savings and significant return-on-investment for datacentres.
As IT departments see budgets and resources shrink, the main job has become management of the datacentre, leaving little time or money for innovation. Intel says the performance of the Xeon 5500 is such that IT departments will see an 90 percent performance improvement, compared to servers with single-core chip, as well as an 18 percent increase in energy efficiency.
On the stage, Intel drove home the point by stacking nine servers next to a single Xeon 5500 server that it said can do the same work better, faster and cheaper.
Already, companies such as IBM, HP, Dell and others are announcing their products built on the Xeon 5500 platform and are pushing many of the same themes: cost-savings, increased energy efficiency and improved performance.
Seagate BlackArmor
There are two network servers in the range: the BlackArmor NAS 420 network server and the BlackArmor NAS 440 network server. The NAS 420, which offers 2TB of storage for $799.99 (£549), has four bays — two empty and two fitted with drives.
The NAS 440 has four bays, all fitted with drives. The 4TB version costs $1,199.99, the 6TB version $1,699.99 and the 8TB version $1,999.99.
The products were most suitable for use in a company with around 50 employees, which puts them at the low end of the SME market. The products support Windows XP and Vista, as well as Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.For security, they have individual file or entire volume encryption with software management for access control at file and folder level with password protection, Seagate said. They also come with a bare metal restore-and-recovery CD to protect against hardware failure.
The drives also have "continuous and automatic backup of business-critical data on up to 50 networked computers", Seagate said, with full-system backup and RAID options for data protection and redundancy.
The NAS 440 has four bays, all fitted with drives. The 4TB version costs $1,199.99, the 6TB version $1,699.99 and the 8TB version $1,999.99.
The products were most suitable for use in a company with around 50 employees, which puts them at the low end of the SME market. The products support Windows XP and Vista, as well as Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.For security, they have individual file or entire volume encryption with software management for access control at file and folder level with password protection, Seagate said. They also come with a bare metal restore-and-recovery CD to protect against hardware failure.
The drives also have "continuous and automatic backup of business-critical data on up to 50 networked computers", Seagate said, with full-system backup and RAID options for data protection and redundancy.
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