Don’t you just hate it when your laptop is burning up after just a few minutes of use? Especially now that summer is just lurking around the corner, so to prevent my laptop from over heating I’ve been searching high and low for a device that could keep my laptop cool.
External hard drives are becoming very popular due to their size, portability and capacity. Nowadays, You can get a 500 GB hard drive for a reasonable price. But the problems with USB hard drives are: they’re too slow and drain too much CPU resources.
MIT researcher David Merrill has developed Siftables, which is some sort of a prototype of the Optimus keyboard. Basically, it takes all the best parts of the Optimus keyboard, mainly the programmable OLED keys and frees them into their own individual units. Each Siftable unit also contains a lithium polymer battery, short range infrared communicators, Bluetooth radio, 3-axis accelerometer, flash memory, and an integrated processor.
Look at how time have changed. in 1956, IBM’s RAMAC was the first machine with a hard disk, which was way ahead of its time. Each of its 24″ diameter platters held a whopping 100,000 characters for a total of five million characters. Nowadays, most of us wouldn’t want anything less than 300 GB, heck, even our USB drive hold much much more data than the RAMAC.
“Silverthorne,” the ultra-low-power processor at the heart of the “Menlow” platform, has been dubbed Atom. Intel says this new platform is designed for handheld Mobile Internet Devices, but the company’s Director of Basic Mobility Platforms, Uday Marty, stated that he also expect it to feature in clamshells notebooks as well as laptops.
It looks like the much anticipated ATI HD 3890 X2 is finally being released - it should be available in stores within the next week or so. The card is supposedly a threat to the nVidia 8800 GTX but there are no solid benchmarks yet. This card is supposedly the power of two full cards, on one. There are obvious benefits to this (space for one) but apparently it can’t come close to two real cards.
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