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2008 was a busy year for solid state drives and 2009 is shaping up in much the same way. So what can we expect to see? According to tom's hardware, Intel along with other manufacturers are looking at ramping up SSD's capacities fast. There's no doubt that SSD drives are improving day to day. One major area that SSD manufacturers are focusing on is drive capacity. Mainstream SSD drives tend to be limited to 80 GB or less for affordability. There are drives that have larger capacities, but the cost is significantly higher than a similar HDD, which is what is keeping SSD drives out of the hands of many at this point.
And speaking of SSD's, A-Data has just launched an XPG Dual SSD 3.5-inch RAID enclosure. For those of you sporting two or more solid-state-storage devices (and who isn’t?), A-Data has released a new RAID-themed enclosure that could help you boost your speeds and eliminate that ugly stack of drives that’s sitting inside your PC. The company’s new XPG Dual SSD 3.5-inch RAID enclosure combines two 2.5-inch SSDs into a single, 3.5-inch form-factor drive cage. You can run each drive independently from the other, or you can have the enclosure slaps your two drives together in one of seven different RAID modes: JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, Span, SAFE33, SAFE50, or GUI.
Acer had the first notebook running Intel’s latest mobile chip, the cheap quad core Q9000. Is Apple about to go down the same road with a 17-inch MacBook Pro running on the Q9000? The rumour doing the rounds at the moment is that Apple could be about ready to launch a 17-inch MacBook Pro running on the Q9000. Apple refreshed the MacBook line a couple of months back and the fact that there was a white space where there should have been a brand spanking new 17-inch MacBook Pro was a little overshadowed by the fancy new aluminium unibody design of the MacBook and the glass trackpad
The rumours about Steve Job's rapidly declining health just won't go away. According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs' keynote cancellation. Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined:
It seems that some internet security experts out of Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States might have worked out how to mimic the digital identity and authority assigned to RapidSSL. According to the Washington Post, E-commerce and banking sites use these certificates in combination with secure sockets layer (SSL) technology. However, RapidSSL uses a flawed cryptographic method, called MD5. All the boffins used a collection of techniques including building a supercomputer of 200 PlayStation 3s to reproduce a virtual clone of the digital signature RapidSSL uses to sign SSL certificates.
Ars Technica has posted an interesting article on legal firms setting up practices devoted to video games. Recently, some big-name firms have started setting up large teams of lawyers specializing in video games, dealing with topics ranging from litigation to intellectual property to mergers. It's not surprising, honestly, as there's plenty of money to be made by representing developers and publishers in court.
Cancer and other diseases beware! Gold Nanoparticles are coming to get you. Gold has fast become one of the most promising materials for building devices on a nanoscale level thanks to a number of favourable properties. Among the applications of gold nanodevices is the use of gold particles to deliver drugs. Gold nanoparticles range from small nanoclusters up to larger, more complex nanostructures.
Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will see a live demonstration of the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 specification. Symwave plans to showcase the new spec at the Consumer Electronics Show, which runs Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas. The semiconductor company said in a statement that the demonstration would highlight "streaming data to and from external storage devices at speeds previously unattainable." The demo is being done in collaboration with test, cable, component, and hard-drive manufacturers.
Few days ago we heard about the leak of Windows 7 beta 1 on to several bit-torrent sites. We then heard that Microsoft was very "unhappy" about the leak, to put it mildly. Today we hear that the leak might have been intentional and the source is none other than Microsoft. Microsoft's Windows 7 beta 1 was not officially intended for release until January. However, the release somehow hit torrent sites this week. Many, including commenters here at DailyTech, suspected the "leak" was really a clever ruse by Microsoft to drum up tech community excitement for its upcoming release.
In the second quarter of this year AMD will launch the Athlon X4 605e at 2.5GHz with 2MB cache that will fit the 65W TDP. If you are after an AMD quad core that will fit the 45W thermal envelope, we have some good news for you. In early Q2 the company will launch the Athlon X4 605e at 2.5GHz with 2MB cache that will fit the 65W TDP. This CPU is based on Propus, K10.5 without L3 cache and of course in AM3.
Microsoft's 30GB Zune players have been hit with an Y2K9 bug. Apparently, around 2:00 AM today, the Zune models either reset, or were already off. Upon when turning on, the thing loads up and... freezes with a full loading bar (as pictured above). I thought my brother was the only one with it, but then it happened to my Zune. Then I checked out the forums and it seems everyone with a 30GB HDD model has had this happen to them
Dell's president of global operations, Mike Cannon and marketing chief Mark Jarvis are reportedly stepping down,as the company undergoes major reorganization thanks to the economic downturn. Dell Inc's president and chief marketing officer are leaving the company as part of reorganization at the No. 2 PC maker, which is facing weak demand during the economic downturn.
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