Now this is very surprising. Not much was said when Acer announce their Iconia-series products, the laptop and the tablet. But now Acer has officially launched their new Iconia Tab W500 Windows-based tablet. Can’t they think of more creative names instead of ‘Tab’? Anyway, the pre-order is now up in Europe via several German stores for a price of €499 (about USD686). Just for recap, the Iconia Tab W500 is a 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet with 1280 x 800 touchscreen display, and is powered by the highly anticipated 1GHz AMD C-50 APU processor,with AMD Radeon HD 6250 graphics card, and has up to 2GB RAM, a 32GB SSD, besides a 1.3-megapixel camera, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, an HDMI port, a 3-cell battery and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium OS.
After months of beta testing, Microsoft finally gives the gold status to the uninspiring Service Pack 1 of Windows 7. Oh, also available is Windows Server 2008 R2 service pack 1, for you tech guys out there man-handling those servers.
And they’re apparently budget-friendly. Hopefully you know what that means. No twin-turbo and no honeys, and less sugar too! Their new ‘cheap’ Android tablets are the 8-inch Arnova 8 ($149) and 10.1-inch Arnova 10 ($199).
Both tablets come with a resistive touchscreen display, a very humble 600MHz Rockchip RK2818 processor, a 4GB of storage (Arnova 8), an 8GB of storage (Arnova 10), a microSD card slot, a G-sensor, 720p HD video playback support, WiFi and run on Android 2.1 OS. Now that’s very ‘appealing’. I’ve played around with Toshiba’s Folio 100 before, running Froyo, and it’s not very entertaining to say the least, what’s more if these two new Arnova is running Éclair.
They promised, and it’s here. PROMISE Technology previously showed off their Pegasus Storage Line at Intel’s Thunderbolt event, and now they’ve officially announced the Pegasus high performance hardware RAID solution that adopts the all-new super-blistering-fast Thunderbolt technology.
Designed for media and entertainment customers, the Pegasus offers superior speed and throughput in a form factor small enough for a desktop, and is available in 4-bay and 6-bay aluminium enclosures with up to 12TB of raw storage. PROMISE said that the Thunderbolt technology allows the Pegasus to deliver a blistering 800MB/s of sustained throughput, which is roughly 12x faster than Firewire 800 and 20x faster than USB 2.0.
The Pegasus high performance hardware RAID solution will be available for order from the Apple Store (www.apple.com) and authorized resellers in Q2 2011
Right, here it is, officially. It’s present during Intel’s Thunderbolt event last week, and now LaCie has proudly introduced the world’s first external HDD that supports the blistering fast Thunderbolt technology by Intel.
The speed of this external HDD is a very surreal experience. It supports the ultra-fast 10Gbps data transfer, complete system backup in minutes, and faster content editing than ever before. It also runs two protocols (PCI Express and DisplayPort) simultaneously over a single cable for connectivity to high performance peripherals. The LaCie Little Big Disk is perfect for audio/video pros that require superior speed, mobility and capacity on the road.
It’s powered by and bootable over FireWire making it the ideal candidate for a fully portable editing workstation and companion to Apple PowerBooks. The LaCie Little Big Disk also come a LaCie signature design by Neil Poulton, creator of the original d2 Hard Drive Series; though the shape leaves more to be desired, since it’ll be paired with a MacBook Pro most probably. The LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt technology will be available in Q2 2011.
Sometimes it’s hard to understand the mind of Japanese. A Chinese friend once said something very meaningful, I think it was “台上一分钟，台下十年工”, meaning to say, a one-minute show on the stage may take ten years to train. This march is really spectacular.
Does the screen above look familiar to you? That’s supposedly the famous ‘nine-dot pattern lock option’ of Android, but how come it’s on an iPhone? This thing is supposedly ‘uniquely’ for Android, it’s been there ever since the G1. Apparently the iPhone also has this feature on an app, but only used by Apple internally.
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