Western Digital Ultra-slim HDD Upgrades

Western Digital is now shipping an upgraded version of its Scorpio Blue hard drive, which is primarily developed with ultrabooks in mind. The new drive is just 7mm thick and features a maximum capacity of 500GB. The latest generation Scorpio Blue delivers lower power draw, leading Western Digital to claim it’s the ‘most efficient’ spinning [...]

FTC Makes WD Offload HDDs

Consumers are starting to feel the pinch of the hard drive shortages caused by floods in Thailand last year, but the Federal Trade Commission is taking steps to ensure another cause of high prices, namely monopolistic practises, doesn’t add to worldwide storage woes. Western Digital recently bought out Hitachi for $4.5 billion, and now the [...]

Elgato Thunderbolt SSD

Thunderbolt, the high-speed port technology from Intel that so far appears only on Apple computers, just got a shot in the arm from Elgato with new portable solid-state drives. At the CES few weeks back, Elgato announced two models of its new Thunderbolt SSD. The $429.95 120GB model and the $699.95 240GB model will ship [...]

World’s Largest Hard Drive At 4TB

At the moment SSDs can’t rival spinning disks for storage in any affordable sense, and now Seagate has just announced a new 4-terabyte Desktop FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, It’s the world’s first 4TB HDD, and ships with USB3 connectivity. For now it’s only available as an external drive. That’s mainly because most of the current crop [...]

Deal of the Day – HP Pavilion dv6t – $749.99

Now you can get the mighty HP Pavilion dv6t for $749.99 ($1,099.99 – $150 instant discount – extra $200 off coupon code = $749.99 shipped). The HP dv6t features Intel Core i5-430M 2.26GHz; 4GB DDR3; DVD+/-RW with LightScribe, 15.6″ LED BrightView LCD; 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive; Wireless-G; Webcam, 6-ell battery; GeForce G 105M 512MB discrete graphics; Windows 7 64-bit OS.

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Shenzhen manufacturer, Phecda launches 3 CULV based netbooks

Phecda from Shenzhen has launch 3 netbooks that use CULV processors: Phecda P10, Phecda P11 and Phecda P12. All of them sport almost the same features. All of them measure 292 x 225 x 31.6mm and weighs 1.76kg. All have 12.1-inch TFT WXGA display, Intel GL40 + ICH9M Chipset, integrated GMA X4500 graphics, 160GB hard drive, 1GB RAM. Wireless LAN is built-in. It comes with 6-cell 4400mAh Lithium battery which runs pto 2-3 hours. It can run Windows XP/Vista/7 or Linux.

• Phecda P10: Celeron Dual core T1600 (2.0GHz, L2 cache 1MB, front bus 667MHz)
• Phecda P11: Pentium Dual core T4200 (2.0GHz, L2 cache 1MB, front bus 800MHz)
• Phecda P12: Core SU3300 (2.0GHz, L2 cache 3MB, front bus 800MHz)

Giada Slim N10 NVIDIA ION-powered nettop – very sleek and light

New Giada Slim N10 nettop weighs just 0.5kg (1.15 pounds) and is equipped with an Atom 330 processor as well as NVIDIA ION graphics, up to 4GB memory and a 2.5-inch hard drive.

Ports: It has total of 5 USB ports, HDMI output, eSATA and VGA ports, an Ethernet jack as-well-as mic and headphone jacks. No information regarding its dimensions. There are chances that a PC makers might sell it with a different brand name as chances of this slim beauty coming to to US are pretty slim.

LG launches 13-inch CULV notebook

LG has finally jumped into the arena of CULV notebooks. Its first thin-and-light CULV notebook is based on Intel’s SU7300 processor and is just 25mm thick. It weighs 1.89kg, but then it is not a netbook and much bigger frame than a conventional nebtook. It has 4GB of DDR2 RAM, Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, 500GB hard drive and runs Windows 7 home premium.

It has a huge 8-cell battery, which LG claims will give you 10 hours of battery run time. Nothing is known about its pricing.

Acer AspireRevo Nettop upgraded to Windows 7

Acer AspireRevo nettop will now come with the loaded new Windows 7 OS and fitted with a dual-core Intel Atom 330 CPU. It is equipped with 2GB RAM and full ION graphics.

Specs:-

• 1080p HDMI output
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
• Intel Atom 330 Processor (1.6GHz)
• Integrated NVIDIA® ION Graphics Solution
• 2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory
• 160GB SATA Hard Drive
• Six USB 2.0 Ports (Two Front, Four Back)
• HDMI Port
• eSATA Port
• VGA Port
• Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
• 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wireless
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
• USB Stereo Speakers
• High-Definition Headphone and Microphone Jacks

It will retail for $330 which is really attractive price for an ION-powered nettop

[Acer AspireRevo official webpage]

MenQ Easy PC E102 with RISC CPU – Runs Windows XP

A Netbook with a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)? Yes, this netbook by MenQ uses a RISC CPU. The model name, Easy PC E102 has an 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 4GB SSD or 160GB hard drive, 256MB to 1GB of RAM, WiFi (b/g), 3 USB ports, Ethernet, headphone and mic jacks, S/PDIF, a 1.3MP webcam and a flash card reader. With 3 cell battery that should provide up to 4 hours of run time.

Its keyboard looks exactly like the one found in HP Mini 1000. Even touchpad is similar. MenQ’s site mentions that is able to run the “powerful Windows XP”. This means that the RISC CPU is infact, x86 compatible.