If you have been around the computer scene for any length of time you might remember one of the first SSDs out. It was a product that used DDR RAM and ran through a normal SATA port.

DDRdrive LLC, has decided to revisit some of that older technology, but this time instead of using the SATA port they are using a PCI-e X1 connection and they are also using a combination of NAND and DDR Memory.

The new product, called DDRdrive X1 can hit an amazing 300,000+ IOPs and seems perfect for I/O intensive tasks. It is not the greatest performer in read/write speed though; as it can only hit a peak of 250 MB/s read and 150MB/s in writes.

Pictures of Acer's new Aspire One 751 hit the internet over the week as did the news that you can grab one of these if you are in Taiwan or over the from a couple of Taiwanese e-tailers.

The Acer Aspire One 751 should have a single core 1.33GHz Atom, an 11.6-inch display capable of 720p HD content (1366x768), 1 GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB HDD, an Intel mobile US15W Express chipset and a Dolby Pro Logic sound system all for $650 US.

That is a pretty hefty price for a netbook if you ask me...

New information from the rumor mill says that Intel will be bringing Lynnfield CPU's to the market up to a full month before the matching, and required, chipset becomes available.

Why Intel would do this makes little sense to anyone, as the new processors will be worthless without the P55 chipset. Intel would surely have some good reasing behind doing such, as half of a platform does Intel no good at all.

Up until now, all of the Radeon HD 4770's have utilized ATI's cheaper reference cooler for the Radeon HD 4770. XFX will now be the first to shoot for the more expensive premium cooler.

For those that aren't aware, ATI offered partners two different designs for the cooler. All but XFX have chosen the cheaper design, probably to make the card more cost-effective for a card that doesn't make much money to begin with.

AMD is celebrating its 40th anniversary today and to say thanks the company is away 80 prizes in all, including processors, video cards, and more.

AMD has two parts to its contest, offering different prizes for each part. The first part challenges you to create a video up to 60 seconds in length wishing AMD a happy 40th Anniversary. AMD wants to see some creativity here and the only requirement is that somewhere in the video is mist say "Happy 40th Anniversary AMD," whether you write it, sing it, etc.

Intel's has a bit of bad luck with their last three attemps at integrated graphics. This time around, they might just get it right.

Most know that the last three chips just didn't do so well. The G965, G35, and G45 all sucked and weren't much good beyond web browsing and typical office functionality.

Micrsoft has been pretty vague as to when Windows 7 will hit the shelves, with information pointing at sometime between late 2009 and early 2010.

However Bobby Watkins, Acer's UK managing director, said, "23rd October is the date the Windows 7 will be available." He also said that there will be a 30 day upgrade period beforehand, allowing consumers to purchase computers leading up to the launch and get a free upgrade once Windows 7 is launched.

I talked about the flaw that allowed Vista to fall in the Pwn2Own competition this year very briefly but I never did get into much detail. But since Adobe has admitted the flaw exists in another Adobe product it is worth bringing up again.

The issue is JavaScript and the way that Acrobat and Flash (the plug-in for Flash and Flash Player) handle it. They just do not do so very well at all. Because of this little problem arbitrary code can be executed by Malicious JavaScript (applets) on a system through these two 3rd party applications. It was this exact flaw in the way JavaScritpt is handled by Flash that allowed Vista to be hacked. It seems that in addition to poor handling it also allows the UAC feature in Vista to be bypassed for code executed by the plug-in and the application.

Adobe, although they have admitted to the flaw, has not given a time line for fixing the affected applications with include Acrobat (Reader as well) 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1 and earlier.

There is more AMD/ATi good news today. We hear that there may be a new chipset hitting the market soon in the form of the 785.

This will up the IGP processor from its current HD 3200 to an HD 4200 adding more processing power for HD content and light gaming but also bringing DX 10.1 support to the chipset as well.

Availability could begin as early as Q3.

The Radeon HD 4770 is looking to be one of the lead cards this year. It is the first Desktop 40nm card available and a great overclocker to boot.

What could be better? Well how about 1GB of GDDR5 memory? That is what XFX is looking to do. It is not secret that more and faster memory means extra eye candy available in your gaming.

So we have a great overclocking GPU and now just after its launch we will see the first of the 1GB GDDR5 cards. The HD4770 is looking to be a very big hit.