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Asus made silently new serie of LCD displays. It is called PM17, and have response only 3 ms. It contains two models PM17TU and PM17TE. They both contains new technologies which keeps brightness and contrast automatically at level optimal to eye. And there is also very good thing, that if you find bad pixel, display will be replaced. Brightness is 500cd/m2, contrast 600:1, both models have built in two 2,5 Watt speakers.
Although common praxis is ,that companies dont talk about their prepared projects, AMD oficially responsed some questions about their new socket called M2. M2 will be available neyt year, probably between q1 and q2 and it will be for all currently manufactured processors. (conversly, all those processors will be manufactured for M2) Main difference between it, and curent is support of DDR2 memory. (only DDR2, not DDR) working on speed up to 667 mhz, in dual channel mode. (yes, also semprons will in this socket contain dual channel memory controller, so we can expect high rise of raw power.)
Maxtor introduced to market their new external OneTouch III drive with capacity no less than 1 terrabyte. It will exist in two sizes, 600Gb and 1000Gb, made by two drives in external box, which allows to work as raid 0 or 1, by your need. (that means if you want secured data, you will use half of capacity.) It can be connected through USB 2.0, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800. Only problem is price, because of 600 gb model should cost 549$ and 1 terrabyte 899$.
Silent-Pipe II is new way of cooling, made by Gigabyte. It is technology using natural laws to flow air without fan. It works that cool air from outside case is being warmed by heatsink, and then goes up inside. Card have also secondary passive heatsink, all bound together by heatpipes. By Gigabyte this solution should cool card 20oC below standard active cooling and even 45oC below passive fanless cooling. It seems good, but i dont know, if this wouldnt disturb normal airflow in case.
ATi have problems with their new graphical chips designated X1 and number 3,6 or 8. That is known for a pretty long time, but now when they put X1300 onto market, some hoped that X1600 will follow soon. Now we know, it wont hapend. ATi have really problems with manufacturing so complex chips, and they will need some extra time to solve those problems. So, cards with X1600 wont be until december, and maybe later.
By US server Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) must Helwett Packard replace 135 thousands of bateries in their notebooks. Problem with those bateries is, that they heat much during use, and can even melt. Problem have Lithiun ion batteries which have code starting with: GC, IA, L0 or L1. everybody who have notebook with this batery, have get contact with their supplyer, batery will be replaced. (Of course for free.)
