HERE’S AN ODD one for you, it seems like Buffalo has noticed that there’s a problem fitting certain SSD’s into notebooks due to the shape. Hence the company came up with a solution, an SSD that mimics a traditional hard drive in terms of shape. It really sounds stranger than it is, but it’ll all make sense once you see the picture of the new SSD past the break.
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A COUPLE OF weeks ago a slide of Gigabyte’s upcoming mini-ITX motherboard leaked on a Taiwanese website, but we can now share with you the exclusive first pictures of the H55N-USB3 motherboard. This is Gigabyte’s first consumer focused mini-ITX board and it’s also the first mini-ITX board to feature USB 3.0 support.
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COMPUTEX IS ONE of the big three trade shows every year and this year Computex is celebrating its 30th anniversary and along with it comes a new, up to date logo among many other things. TAITRA, or the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, held its annual pre-Computex press conference today and it is expecting a much better show this year than last year.
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EARLIER TODAY WE had the opportunity to visit MSI and got a sneak peek at its upcoming all-in-one PC system. We’re seeing more and more all-in-one type systems, although we’re still not convinced that these types of machines are set to replace the humble desktop PC. But it’s possible that MSI is heading in the right direction with its new system as an overall entertainment solution.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GPU roadmaps are being torn up and plan B’s are coming out of the woodwork left and right. The current problem? TSMC’s 28nm process, or lack thereof.
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APPLE HAS RELEASED its latest update for Snow Leopard and its users are hoping it will solve a lot of the glitches that have been plaguing Apple’s most recent incarnation of OS X. The update is said to fix a wide range of issues ranging from problems with Wi-Fi to software bugs in both 32 and 64-bit mode, all the way to better Windows compatibility.
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LAST MAY, we said that GTX480, then called GT300, was going to be hot, slow, big, underperforming, hard to manufacture, and most of all late. Almost a year later, Nvidia can’t even launch PR quantities at the promised spec of 512 shaders.
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CONSIDERING THE COST of Nvidia’s new flagship graphics cards, there’s no wonder that its partners are already looking at ways of reducing the manufacturing costs. Inno3D is the first one to release details of a modified GTX470 PCB and it comes in green rather than black, which is the colour of the first retail cards, although this doesn’t appear to be cost-down version, quite the opposite.
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WE HAD THEM a month ago, now they are cropping up all over. If you know how sites number their pages, you can dig them out with a fair bit of ease.
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WE WERE SLIGHTLY worried that AMD wasn’t too interested in getting OpenGL 4.0 support ready for its cards after the fairly non-descript statement about support from AMD in the Khronos group press release that announced OpenGL 4.0.
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THE FIRST CONFIRMED Fermi GPU graphics card pricing comes courtesy of none other than giant online retailer Amazon and its partner in sales is Zotac. The card carries a couple of small Zotac stickers, but apart from that it seems to be the bog standard reference design.
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INTEL IS PUSHING its Atom processor heavily into every conceivable market and the company is doing a big push towards the small business storage market space with its Bandon platform. Some of these NAS devices can do more than just back up your data which should prove to be a neat bonus to smaller companies.
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DURING THE INTEL Storage Solution Forums yesterday, the company was keen to point out that from next year we’ll see widespread adoption of 10Gbit Ethernet in the server environment. The main reason for this coming uptake in 10Gbit Ethernet according to Intel is that it will launch a transceiver that will be implemented on server motherboards, rather than needing an add-on card.
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DURING THE INTEL Storage Solutions Forums we spotted a company that we weren’t familiar with displaying its products during the showcase and it just so happens that this company had one of the first Jasper Forest motherboards on display.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended the Intel Storage Solutions Forum 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan where Intel was presenting various technologies that it has or is developing that are meant to improve the way we deal with large amounts of data. The products range from home users to small business and all the way to the corporate sector.
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