Intel prepping 5 P55 based boards
We know the i5 is on the way. The new 1156 socket CPU with dual channel support from Intel should be hitting the streets some time later this year.
But what about the mainboards to support it? We know there are a couple being prepared (Gigabyte and Asus have shown some off) but where is Intel's own offering.
Well have no fear; Intel is prepping no less than five boards for your i5 love. The boards are looking to be all variants on the same theme (powered by a P55 Chipset) and will be called the DP55KG, DP55SB, DP55WB and DP55WG.
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Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 takes a bullet
I am always on the lookout for unusual news and this one fits right in there.
A Forbes' reporter took a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 and decided he was going to find a way to destroy it. Not all at once as there are many things that will kill off even the hardiest of machines but to see exactly how much it could take before dying.
After exhausting the official Panasonic claims they fed it to a Tiger, allowed an Elephant to step on it and finally shot it with a .22.
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PSX4iPhone updated for iPhone 3G S
I have said it before and I will say it again, an iPhone is good but a jailbroken iPhone is better and if this is the iPhone 3G S it is better still.
For those of you that have played around with a jailbroken iPhone you know that there are some pretty impressive games on Cydia, everything from the original Doom to a Pacman like game.
Well then the emulators started showing up and you would play even more games. With the more powerful graphics on the 3G S the third party emulator devs have dived in. One has even come up with an emulator for the Play Station 1 and GameBoy Advanced.
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Zune HD could be out in September
We told you that the New Zune HD will have an nVidia Tegra inside. We showed you confirmation of that (and actually have additional confirmation from Derek Perez).
But we did not know when we would see these potential serious competitors for the iPod. Well now we may have a date for you. According to an article over at Fudzilla we might see the new Zune HD in September.
The capacities will be limited to 16GB and 32GB. This is a shame as a 64 and 128GB model would probably have sold better especially given the "HD" quality video playback.
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Mvix Ultio MX-800 Ready For Launch (Exclusive)
Mvix is gearing up to release their latest Media Player in the next few days and it looks to be quite a promising product.
The Mvix Ultio MX-800 is set to be their most comprehensive Media Player to date. Not only does it support just about any format of audio, video, or picture that you can throw at it including MP4, AVI, FLV, MKV, VOB, H.264, FLAC, OOG, AAC, TIFF, PNG, and much much more.
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Sugar OS now runs from USB stick
Sugar Labs, the open sourcerer which came up with the software for One Laptop per Child's (OLPC) little laptop has now announced it has bunged its OS onto a USB stick which can be used on any old computer. Literally.
Sugar on a stick, as it's being called rather sweetly, can be run directly from a 1GB USB drive, giving kids a veritable candy mountain of collaborative educational software to play with. The stick, unwrapped at the LinuxTag conference in Berlin, aims to sugar coat the market with free software, according to its Sugar Labs developers, who only recently broke off from OLPC.
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Engadget tries out the new HTC Hero
The gang over at Engadget got to play around with the new HTC Hero and so far they are loving it.
The new Hero does feaure Android but it is not a Google branded product. This means you are not going to get loaded down with the Google logo, but it also means that you won't be getting over the air updates also.
There are going to be a host of new features but one of the ones they liked the best was the Teflon outer coating.
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Buffalo Announces 16GB Super Compact Flash Drive
Buffalo has announced that they are refreshing their RUF2-PS line of tiny flash drives, bringing a 16GB model into the mix.
For those that are unfamiliar with the Buffalo RUF2-PS flash drives, they are super compact drives that are just marginally larger than the USB connector itself. The drives fit almost flush with the USB port they are connected to, measuring 18mm x 18mm x 8mm and weigh only 3 grams.
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VIZIO unveils 8 new XVT Series TV's
VIZIO has announced their fall lineup of HDTV options, bringing eight new models between 32" and 55".
The 42", 47", and 55" XVT series TVs operate at 240Hz, two of which VIZIO has incorporated their TruLED and Smart Dimming backlight technology. VIZIO's 32" and 37" displays will operate at 120Hz and are part of their Slim line. All of the new models do full 1080p and have a Mega Dynamic Contrast Ration of up to 2,000,000:1.
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OCZ Official Statement - SSD Warranties(Exclusive)
Yesterday we commented on OCZ extending their warranties on their Vertex and Summit solid state drives and provided some speculation towards their reasoning behind the extra year of warranty.
OCZ reached out to us to provide some additional clarification on the issue and wants everyone to know that the added year of warranty is strictly to offer a better product all around, including the post-sales support of their products. There are NO quality issues with the Vertex and Summit series drives, NO changes have been made to the drives, and those that have purchased the drives prior to OCZ offering the extended warranty are JUST AS ELIGIBLE for those that purchase these drives now that the waranty has been extened.
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