ADDONICS IS A COMPANY that makes all sorts of storage related computer accessories and more often than not they have some quirky kit that you can’t really find elsewhere. Its latest addition is the aptly named Compact RAID which is a small box that takes five 2.5-inch SATA drives and RAIDs them.
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THE MAKER OF designer computer accessories – LaCie – has come up with a new device called the Wireless Space which as an intriguing combination of a wireless router and a NAS with a few other features thrown in for good measure. As with most of LaCie’s products, the Wireless Space features a very distinct design and although in this case it happens to be a black brick rather than something a bit more unusual, the plain design is actually quite appealing.
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THERE ARE ALREADY a few USB 3.0 Flash drives on sale, but it looks like we might be getting some more affordable solutions once VLI’s VL750 controller hits the market as in typical VIA fashion, this new controller should be more affordable than what’s currently available. That is, of course, pending USB-IF certification, but hopefully this shouldn’t be too much of a problem for VIA to gain.
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WHAT APPEARS TO be a slide from an AMD presentation about its upcoming GPUs has made its way onto the web once again via Chiphell and it gives away just about everything except the price of AMD’s upcoming Barts GPUs. AMD is putting these two parts up against Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 460 models and it will be interesting to see how they compare both in terms of performance and pricing.
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IT APPEARS AS if ASRock has set its mind on becoming serious competitor in the mini PC market and its latest addition, the Vision 3D 135B looks like a huge step in the right direction compared to its previous attempts. Not only has ASRock come up with a much better looking chassis, but this time they’ve also added discrete graphics in the shape of a mobile GeForce GT 425M, alongside a mobile Intel Core i3 370M processor.
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NOT EVERYONE LIKES to use a mouse and touchpads are something of a hit and miss depending on what you prefer. The third alternative, the good old trackball is still around for those that are looking for a different way to control their computer and Logitech has announced a new model today in the Wireless Trackball M570. The new model features a tweaked design which should make it more comfortable to hold than the older TrackMan Wheel and Logitech has also added a few other new features.
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SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTED, MSI announced a custom GTX 480 graphics cards at its MOA event this weekend and as far as we’re aware, this is the most extreme GTX 480 card, so far. It’s also a rather gimmicky card, but at least as a limited edition product it does bring something different to the market.
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THIS WEEKEND MSI’S MOA or Master Overclocking Arena finals took place in Taipei, Taiwan with 20 teams from around the world competing against each other in what wasn’t exactly what we’d call an intense competition, but it turned out to be a fight to the end. MSI gambled and made a last minute change to the gear used by adding its N480GTX Lighting graphics card into the mix which threw a spanner in the wheel for most of the teams.
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NVIDIA HAS UNVEILED its latest addition to its 400-series of graphics cards with today’s introduction of the GeForce GTS 450, a card that’s set to be a direct replacement of the GTS 250. Every single Nvidia partner – including a few we weren’t even aware of – have announced cards today and just about all of them have launched both stock cards as well as overclocked versions for a an extra price premium.
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IT SEEMS LIKE AMD is a leaking ship when it comes to its upcoming Northern Islands graphics cards and with pictures of two models already leaked, what difference is a third one going to make? Well, not too much, although this upper mid-range card does look quite different compared to the Radeon HD 5700-series as it seems to have more in common with the Radeon HD 5800-series, at least design wise.
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IN THE SOHO market the NAS has pretty much replaced the server, but it seems like HP has decided to re-introduce the server to smaller offices around the world. The ProLiant MicroServer offers a range of benefits over a NAS and remains cost competitive in comparison to a higher-end NAS solution with Atom processors. The MicroServer is powered by an embedded dual core AMD Athlon Neo II N36L which should offer even the fastest NAS boxes a serious run for their money.
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STILL WAITING FOR Cortex-A9 ARM based smartphones to arrive? Well, we’ve got bad news for you, ARM has announced its next generation of ARM based cores, namely the Cortex-A15 family and the company is expecting five times the performance increase compared to its current crop of Cortex cores. However, we suggest that you go out and spend your cash on whatever tickles your fancy now, as the Cortex-A15 core won’t turn up in products until 2012 at the earliest, which might be a bit too long to wait if you’ve been thinking about upgrading your handset.
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USB 3.0 FLASH DRIVES have been slow to appear in the market, with only a handful or so to have hit retail so far. Super Talent is one of the companies that have been at the forefront of pocket friendly USB 3.0 flash drives and its latest additions are set to stir things up. Much like hard drives and SSDs having a cache, Super Talent has added 32MB of DRAM as a cache on its new Express RAM Cache series of USB 3.0 flash drives.
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AFTER HAVING LISTENED to a presentation by Frank Wang – an executive director at Morgan Stanley – earlier today at Semicon Taiwan it looks like the DRAM makers in Taiwan will be having a very tough time in the next few years. In fact, if his predictions prove to be true, we’d expect several casualties over the next three years or so.
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IT APPEARS THAT secrets are only held for so long in this industry and pictures of two of AMD’s upcoming 6000-series graphics cards have made their way on to the world wide wobbly web. The boards in question is the entry level Caicos which is expected to be a Radeon HD 6300 cards and the Cayman which should end up being a Radeon HD 6800 part.
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