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Worlds Thinnest Laptop by Toshiba

GadgetFreak — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:14:32 +0000

The news of Toshiba tablet CES edition itself has garnered enough attention. The Japanese electronic equipments manufacturer is gearing up to unveil what it claims is going to be the world’s thinnest tablet. The device is set for release at the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show 2012, which will be conducted in the city of Las Vegas later this week.

The new tablet from Toshiba is named as Toshiba Excite and it will take on the already successful Apple iPad 2 and Samsung Tab 7.7.

The tablet is 7.62 mm thick, which is slimmer than Samsung Tab 7.7, the till date slimmest tablet in the world.

Excite also features a 10.1 inch LED backlit LCD display with a WXGA camera at the front and a 5 megapixel camera at the back. The gadget will be powered by a 1.2 Ghz TI OMAP 4430 processor, which will come coupled with a 1GM DDR 2 RAM.

Best Portable Computer Gadgets Reviewed

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:13:57 +0000

Portable computer gadgets have become a necessity these days as these gadgets are useful in carrying data with you always. There are many such gadgets available in the market today. This post gives you details about some of the best portable computer gadgets.

Lexar JumpDrive Mercury Flash Drive

Lexar Jumpdrive Mercury happens to be one amongst the very best portable computer gadgets today, which has even won plethora of awards such as Innovations award at CES 2007.

If you hate checking the free space on your USB flash drive every time, Lexar has got just what the doctor ordered! There’s a capacity meter embedded within the flash drive, which helps you in keeping tracked of used space, as well as the free space available on the drive.

Lexar Jumpdrive is available at Lexar’s online store for $69.99 (1 GB) and $109.99 (2 GB). However, the best price for these flash drives are $36.99 (1 GB) and $55.61 (2 GB) respectively, and you can purchase them on Amazon.

Flipper USB Connector

All of us would have had the experience of craning our necks to connect the flash drive to the USB port at the back of the processor and trying to find out the direction in which the drive has to be fixed; plugging in has become easier with the launch of Flipper USB Connector.

Flipper USB connector lets you to just push in the USB drive without trying. This connector is compatible with the modern USB designs. Each plug includes four different ports.

The website of Flipper can be checked for availability. Owning a flipper USB connector is convenient so that you can carry it along without the need of getting jammed under the desks for connecting the USB drive.

Dualie Portable Hard Drive with iPod Dock

There are many portable flash drives available in the market, but this new portable hard drive is simply amazing. It lets you carry around a whole lot of data just like your computer and is easily portable.

Dualie Portable Hard Drive with iPod dock has a capacity of 500 GB and includes an iPod docking station for your iPhone or iPod. It is also incorporated with a dual port USB hub for charging any device.

This powerhouse package can be purchased for $149.99 on Amazon too!

So, these were some of the best portable computer gadgets; of course the list is endless, and finally the choice is yours – so go ahead any try the ones you feel are worth your time and money!

SanDisk iNAND EFDs Unveiled

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:58:15 +0000

SanDisk has recently come out with the exclusive range of iNAND Embedded Flash Drives (EFDs), which will be an enhancement to the e.MMC 4.4 specifications; here’s an insight.

Looking at what’s new in the iNAND Embedded Flash Drives, you’ll notice an improved system responsiveness, ability to store code in one device, and speeding up the process of implementing consolidated boot, of course without bringing a negative effect on the consumer experience.

So, a separate boot device will not be required anymore, and there will be considerable amount of reduction in power consumption, handset design complexity, as well as scarce board space.

SanDisk iNAND EFDs will be available in vivid range of storage capacities, starting with 2GB, ranging up to a mammoth 64GB storage capacity.

There’s no word on pricing or availability as of now.

Intel Core Bloomfield Processors

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:15:17 +0000

Considering all salient features of the new Intel Core i7 (Bloomfield) processors; let us walk through all the noteworthy stuff in i7 920 processors-

• 4-processing cores
• 256 KB L2 cache per core
• 4 cores sharing a mammoth 8 MB L3 cache
• Addition of 7 new SSE4 instructions
• Integrated triple channel DDR3 memory controller with 6 memory sockets,
• 32GBPS bandwidth and 1333 MHz clock speeds
• Support to simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) facilitating simultaneous processing of as many as 8 different threads
• Every core provided with 32 KB instruction + data L1 cache
• Monolithic processor design
• Manufactured using Intel’s 45 nm high-k fabrication technology

These are the older specs, but quite obviously higher clock frequencies will be on-the-cards for sure. Indeed, this is mere beginning; you can definitely expect to see 2core, 6core as well as 8 core versions of the i7 processors pretty soon.

Summary

Clock frequency - 2.67GHz
Core - Core i7 920
Memory controller - DDR3-1066
Quick path speed -4800 MT/s
Price - $284