As reported yesterday, Best Buy will be offering a Windows 7 Acer notebook for $249.99 today online and in-stores. The bargain laptop appears already on the Best Buy homepage, but the link to the product is not working yet.
The 15.4-inch Acer Laptop is only available in limited quantities. To be there first to order it is important. The specifications known so far of the Acer Extensa notebook are a 15.4 inch screen, 160GB HDD, Intel Celeron 900 CPU and 2GB RAM.
Check the Best Buy Homepage now to not miss this early Black Friday deal that beats the Walmart HP Laptop deal from last weekend.
News source: I4U
There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell offers its Adamo XPS notebook with a 256GB SSD; Teradata delivers a data warehouse appliance packed with SSD storage, and IBM has begun to use SSDs in its storage area network systems.
All that and more in just a week. If you just read press releases and headlines about storage systems, you might think SSDs were the mainstream technology and that nothing else mattered.
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Today we see AMD roll out eight new CPUs just in time to make it to a launch party! Here’s the new lineup:
AMD Athlon II X3 435 - 95W TDP - 2.9GHz - $87
AMD Athlon II X3 425 - 95W TDP - 2.7GHz - $76
AMD Athlon II X4 605e - 45W TDP - 2.3GHz - $143
AMD Athlon II X4 600e - 45W TDP - 2.2GHz - $133
AMD Athlon II X3 405e - 45W TDP - 2.3GHz - $102
AMD Athlon II X3 400e - 45W TDP - 2.2GHz - $97
AMD Athlon II X2 240e - 45W TDP - 2.8GHz - $77
AMD Athlon II X2 235e - 45W TDP - 2.7GHz - $69
Note: Prices are for trays of 1,000 units. Street price will be higher.
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AMD is going to make a revolution in the inexpensive processors market by launching their new quad-core Athlon II X4 series that will be selling at very democratic prices. The secret of these processors hides in the new 45 nm Propus core that has no L3 cache memory. But how fast are these babies?
Full review: xbitlabs.com
San Francisco, Calif. AMD has introduced a quad-core processor with a $100 price tag. The Athlon II X4 620 is based on 45nm processor architecture and fully optimized for Windows 7.
"As part of the new desktop platform designed for mainstream consumers, AMD announced the first ever quad-core processor for less than $100 SSBP," the company explained in a statement. "By balancing the power of new Athlon II X4 quad-core processors and the 785G chipset featuring ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics, AMD delivers smooth HD visuals and the foundation for a great Windows 7 experience."
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Thin is in; Microsoft Corp. today announced its thinnest keyboard ever — the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 — made exclusively for Bluetooth notebook and desktop computers. Projections show that over 55 percent of notebook PCs will ship with Bluetooth by the end of 2010.1 With mobile PCs getting more compact, the Microsoft Hardware team created the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 to address consumers’ need for comfortable and portable computing accessories.
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Smartphone maker Nokia on Monday revealed that it will soon deliver its first netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G. This Windows 7-based netbook appears to offer standard netbook parts, but will provide up to 12 hours of battery life and integration with Nokia's other devices and services.
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Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming 12-core chips will draw the same power as existing six-core chips, but will have reduced clock speeds, a company official said Monday.
The company's upcoming 12-core server chips, code-named Magny-Cours, put two six-core chips in one package. The same silicon is used in existing six-core chips, code-named Istanbul, which are part of the Opteron line of server processors. AMD designed Magny-Cours chips to draw the same power as Istanbul chips, said Pat Conway, a member of AMD's technical staff, in a presentation at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University.
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Symwave, one of the first companies to design silicon for USB 3.0, has revealed more details about the performance of its system on a chip (SOC).
USB 3.0, which debuted last November, is designed to provide throughput as high as 5Gbyte/s, up from just 480Mbit/s for USB 2.0. Symwave says its USB 3.0 SOC can be used in external storage devices that ship data as fast as 500Mbyte/s second.
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This firmware update tool provides the latest firmware for the Intel X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 50nm (black case, G1) and 34nm (silver case, G2). This firmware will enable your SSD to deliver the best performance in your PC. Use this update tool to get the latest production firmware.
Before initiating the Intel SSD firmware update, be sure to read and precisely follow the instructions included in the Firmware Update Guideline, Readme and Release Notes. You may wish to print these instructions for easy reference. The Readme.txt file includes the SSD firmware update instructions. The SSD Firmware Update Guideline is available here.
Intel issues firmware fix for 34nm SATA SSD
