When you ask consumers why they buy flash drives, the usual answers received include that they are cheap, portable storage devices, they offer easy backups as well as fast data transfers between computers. With that said, add a bit of complexity or increase the cost of one of these gadgets and it’s usage would go down significantly.
Psystar, the Apple clone maker has successfully completed its corporate restructuring and has returned from filing chapter 11 bankruptcy. In an email newsletter that went out to their subscriber base, the company indicated that they are now ready to “emerge and again battle Goliath.”
A perennial thorn in Apple’s side, the company has already announced the release of new hardware, this time in the form of Open(7) which “brings together OS X and Intel Nehalem Xeon technology.”
The new device supports up to 24GB of RAM and will be available in either a desktop or rackmount version. MSRP for the new unit has been set at $1499.99.
Along with this announcement, Psystar also indicated that they would start using a new bootloader known as the Darwin Universal Boot Loader, which will be made available to the open source community.
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With the recent success of the TomTom turn by turn navigation system designed for the iPhone and reports indicating that the demand for GPS enabled devices will steadily increase in the coming years, Dell has elected to delve into this market of opportunity by offering GPS and Wi-Fi positioning services on their Mini 10 netbook line.
Expected to launch next week in the US, the new service takes advantage of Dell’s “Wireless 700 location solution” which consists of an internal GPS card with Wi-Fi locationing and Dell’s CoPilot navigation software.
We read about identity theft stories all the time. A lot of our personal, medical and financial information are stored in magnetic storage devices such as VHS tapes, audiotapes, data tapes, camcorder tapes, floppy disks, zip disks, internal and external hard drives.
Repetitive stress injuries are a common medical ailment in the office environment due to our dependence upon computers. The continual use of mice that are not ergonomically designed results in carpal tunnel syndrome because of the improper ergonomic position of the hand.
With the Vostro 1220 notebook announcement, Dell has come out with an ultra portable notebook that is lightweight, has a long lasting battery and offers data security, a must for small businesses and the likes.
The lightweight notebook weighs only 3.36 lbs, yet is full featured. It comes with a 12.1 inch screen, 2.2 GHz Intel Celeron processor, 320GB hard drive (or optional solid state drive), 4GB ram and Windows Vista Home Basic.
Rumour has it that upgrading to Microsoft Window 7 will be possible using USB drives. Currently Windows 7 is only available as an upgrade through retail and through download to Microsoft users using either Windows XP or Vista.
Matrox has announced a new multi-display monitor video card, model M9148 LP PCIe. The new graphics card supports 4 LCD displays at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 for each display.
The Matrox video card also includes 1GB of video memory as well as a series of desktop management features that allow the end user to extend the Windows Taskbar across multiple screens and supports independent or stretched modes.
