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The first monitor with zero-watt consumption on stand-by

RedPepper — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:44:11 +0000

This flat panel LCD monitor from Fujitsu Siemens have a revolutionary technology built-in which reduce power consumption to zero when the monitor goes on stand by. The monitor contains a relay switch that cut the power when is not video signal from PC and switch on when the video signal comes on. With millions of [...]

AMD presents details on future Fusion processor

RedPepper — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:52:06 +0000

AMD’s Fusion is next-generation microprocessor design that combines a GPU and CPU on a single package. Plans to launch the chip were revealed when AMD bought ATI for $5.4 billion in 2006. According to AMD, Fusion will be aimed squarely at the mobile market when it arrives in 2009. The chip will be redesigned and [...]

OSD introduces 7-inch LED-based LCD panel

RedPepper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:14:06 +0000

OSD Displays (OSD) recently announced a 7-inch a-Si TFT LCD panel. The product (OSD-804805-6UFLWB) is capable of full video, offers a digital TTL 18-bit parallel interface, and a form factor common in the market. “The WVGA display has competitive 65/65/55/65 viewing angles and features a 30 chip LED backlight providing 280 nit. The display includes [...]

New high-end ultra mobile PC from OQO

RedPepper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:55:09 +0000

OQO Inc., designer of the world’s smallest fully-functional Windows Vista PC, continues to enlarge its UMPC line with the adding up of a 64GB solid state drive (SSD) option in addition the introduction of a new display technology offering impressive improvement in direct sunlight readability with greater than 50 percent reduction in unwanted reflections. The [...]

Ultralight notebook Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad leaked

RedPepper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:01:45 +0000

Gizmodo have published leaked pictures and specifications for a new ultralight ThinkPad X300 notebook from Lenovo that will be a competitor for the new MacBook Air from Apple. Weighing in at 2.5lbs, the new Thinkpad include a 13.3 inch LED backlit screen, up to 4GB RAM, a 64 GB SSD, and Intel Merom Santa Rosa [...]

Second dual-core Celeron planned to release soon

RedPepper — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:46:49 +0000

According to recent reports, a second CPU in the series, the E1400, will be released by Intel before the second half of this year. It will be quite a bit faster than the existing 1.6GHz E1200 at 2GHz, but will use the same bus speed of 800MHz and feature the same amount of L2 cache. [...]

Acer plans to launch Eee PC competitor

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:51:08 +0000

Acer plans to launch low-cost notebooks available with 8- and 9-inch displays late in the first quarter or early second quarter of this year, with the products aimed at competing directly at similar sized Eee PCs from Asustek Computer, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Prices of Acer’s low-cost notebooks will be as competitive [...]

AT&T to change 17,000 batteries after four incidents

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:36:46 +0000

AT&T has decided to replace backup batteries in 17,000 of its U-verse TV network cabinets across the country after two fires and two explosions in a little over a year. No one was hurt by the malfunctioning batteries, according to AT&T, but there was some property damage. Normally, AT&T would have worked with the vendor [...]

SanDisk Vaulter flash-based solid state disk

RedPepper — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:22:45 +0000

SanDisk had a new way for using solid-state memory (SSD) to get better performance of laptops at a lower cost. The SanDisk Vaulter is an 8 GB to 16 GB flash-memory PCI Express module that would link directly to the motherboard of a laptop and hold only the computer’s operating system. In addition, the laptop [...]

Asus announced its plans with EeePC for 2008

RedPepper — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:46:22 +0000

EeePC is the Assus’s most successful product ever. Assus announced at the conference with Intel and Sprint at CES 2008 in Las Vegas its plans for EeePCs: - different LCD resolutions 7, 8, and 8.9-inches - different colors - Windows XP operating system officially supported/shipped - WiMax connectivity © sciteh.com. All rights reserved.Asus announced its [...]