Quad Core in laptops, already? Intel’s quad core for the mini market will be dubbed the Core 2 Extreme. Using 45 watts, it is currently unclear whether the architecture of the processor will be based on Penryn or the Nahalem. I wonder how they’re going to cool this thing. It might burn a whole through your laptop.
Image courtesy of NY Times
via PC Magazine
Seems like every time a new standard comes out, everything gets doubled nowadays. The Serial ATA International Organization has announced the almost-done specs and plans for SATA 3.0, and that big companies can start to design products for it. It is expected to be completed in the second half of this year. Furthermore, SATA 3.0 will remain backward compatible with current SATA 2.0 configurations.
via SmallNetBuilder
The AMD 64 2000+ (clocked at 1 GHz) has been found to rip the raved-about Atom processor by Intel, (clocked at 1.6 GHz), beating Intel in power and processing benchmarks. The stellar performance is mostly accredited to the very well designed K8 architecture.
AMD seems to be getting back on track, after having lost market share to Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidias’s graphics cards. AMD now has the HD 4870 X2, which was deemed the “world’s fastest graphics card”. Go AMD!
Specs:
| CPU | Atom | Athlon 64 |
| Power | 4 Watts | 8 Watts |
| Transistors | 47 mm | 122 mm |
| Size | 24.18 mm² | 77.2 mm² |
| Core Voltage | 1.088 V | 0.900 V |
via Tom’s Hardware
As many have noticed, the iPhone’s GPS is a convenient way of looking up maps but is nowhere close to being a replacement for your TomTom. The main features missing are turn by turn instructions as well as the voice system, both of which are very important when on the road. Several big GPS companies are interested in making the software…but they’ll have to wait for Apple’s blessing.
The Wii now no longer needs a modchip to enable DVD playback. The people at Hackmii.com have been working on a DVD Access library. All you need to do is have a homebrew channel and get the installer.dol file in the package. Run it, and follow the onscreen instructions. Running video files off of an SD card is supported, but currently experimental.
via Gizmodo
Nitteo, a forum user at overclock.net, has posted pictures of his 16 rigs with 51 Nvidia 8800 series cards used for Folding@home, a distributed computing project to simulate and record results of protein folding. If proteins do not fold correctly, cancerous cells and other diseases result. Thus, understanding how proteins fold may eventually lead to the development of cures for diseases caused by protein misfolding.
We thank Nitteo for building and donating CPU/GPU power to help with research that can potentially lead to cures one day. Come to think of it, his electric bill is probably through the roof.
For more pictures and info, visit www.overclock.net.
DotSyntax has released the new test build of Digsby, with numerous fixes to memory leaks. On some systems, RAM usage would reach up to 150mb, and the new architecture reduces it by over 50%. Memory usage should now range from 20-50mb.
Menus and buttons now run up to 2-3 times faster, which is a really good. (It used hang my system whenever I hit the menu to change fonts by accident)
Bugs are still being worked out, of course, and a new build for the public will be released very soon. This should build should provide a huge performance gain over previous build. It’s a shame this isn’t out for Mac and Linux yet. (You can, however, sign up to be notified when it is.)
via Digsby Blog
So you’ve been messing around with your panel items such as Applications. And you’ve accidentally deleted some. And you want them back oh so dearly. Well have don’t worry, because the solution is very simple.
To get all your default panel items back, simply open terminal and type in
gconftool-2 –shutdown
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel
And then your panels should be back to their default settings. This should work for all GNOME based desktops, but I personally tried it in Ubuntu (Hardy Heron).
via Ethernal
Image courtesy of Mark Shuttleworth
For all those PS3 players out there that want in on the Home Closed Beta (in the United States and Canada) - download the PlayStation Home theme. Downloading the theme automatically submits an application to the beta for you - existing beta testers need not worry, for they are automatically qualified for the Closed Beta.
For the other players in Europe, the SCEE will pick the gamers, using criteria such as activity on the PlayStation network and store.
Remember to check your email for an invitation!
via Playstation Blog
This brand new wireless mouse from ASUS sports a 1200 dpi resolution, a 2.4GHz USB receiver, and five programmable buttons. Last but not least, it also measures your heart rate! For all you people who have high blood pressure, this might one day save your life.
You’re having a bad day with the wife, you’re really starting to boil, and you’re going on your computer to amend your will…but this baby will tell you to calm down before you do anything unreasonable.
It is currently unclear when the mouse will be released and how much it will cost.
via Engadget
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