ATI releasing HDMI-HDCP card soon?
We’re not absolute if the present is planning to be observed as ATI mending this dodgy ways, or as them cashing in on the The next thing you knew found lack of HDCP-compliant cards, but it looks like it’s such as ATI has a HDMI-HDCP card on the way. There’s mostly easily presently leaked pic to go on so far, but the purported card has no DVI connection, clearly HDMI, and additionally has a S/PDIF pass-through jack to add the audio to your HDMI signal. No word on when their card is able to be announced, but let us recently wish they will be bringing about them away through breakfast cereals or they’re set to a suffer a few disgruntled households on the hands.
Lenovo 3000 budget computer succession debuts
As expected, Lenovo has unveiled its new chain of budget computers, initiating amid the Lenovo 3000 laptop and desktop series. The succession includes the 6.2 pound C100, that has a 15-inch widescreen display, 1.5 GHz Celeron, CD-RW, and is on hand now out of Lenovo’s web site commencing at $599. Also to be had now is the J succession series of desktops, that starts at $349 amidst a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron, 256 MB RAM, an 80GB force and a CD-ROM drive. The laptops turn up in ThinkPad black, even though the keyboards lack the current model’s various distinctive trait, the red pointer stick. Lenovo is targeting compact organizations in on the new line, and has priced the examples positively beneath similarly equipped ThinkPad and ThinkCentre models.
eMachines bores us to tears, burns our eyes amongst low&wshyp;priced new desktops
But eMachines’ newly drafted trio is just recently downright embarrassing. Still, individuals the do not mind covering such a tower in a black paper bag may provide just recently how properties wish in the $299.99 T3656, $399.99 T5254 or $498 W3653 kit (pictured). Specs wise, you will supply Intel’s Celeron / Pentium dual-core processors, a DVD burner, six USB ports, 1GB to 2GB of RAM, a 160GB or 320GB hard drive, 15-in-1 multicard reader and an equally hideous 17-inch LCD monitor bundled in amid clearly the latter. Oh, and eMachines remarkably expects you to run Vista on these kinds of circumstances and not rip most every the previous hair of your noggin. Enjoy!
Dell law enforcers to XPS 700 delays
Apparently borrowers who ordered Dell’s XPS 700 gaming PC hold not yet earned this machines in the mail, and in the have to sort out of soaring complaints, the firm has at last arrive clean on the issue. According to Dell’s new one2one blog, the Pentium D- and Pentium Extreme-powered versions of the tower hold indeed kept on delayed, although no exact cause is issued — all that is making declared is which inadequate processor supply is not to blame. While Dell sucker at this moment offering patrons through a firm ship date, shoppers who ordered this 700 prior to July 18th are able to obtain either a free of charge upgrade to a Core 2 Duo CPU or a gift card for a good deal of unknown rate as a bribe to still be them based on data from canceling this orders big thanks for making so patient. If you by now hold one of these types of desktops on order, suppose to take out a hire of Dell consumer utility in the originating days outlining your choices and presumably apologizing for keeping you waiting. And if you haven’t by now ordered one, well, possibly you can get a superior condition on an XPS 600 Renegade on eBay.
eMachines releases two desktops for cash-strapped under graduates
Even while summer has just barely begun, Gateway’s eMachines is by now seeming in the near future to the following class year, undergoing merely announced four new Vista-ready desktops for the student on a budget. Starting at the “top of the line,” we suffer the T6536 (pictured, providing optional monitor) and T6534, that both feature Athlon 64 processors based on data from AMD (3800+ and 3700+, respectively), nVidia GeForce 6100 graphics, and 250GB of storage, but the surplus $90 you are spending on the $540 T6536 doubles the RAM out of 512MB to 1GB and bumps the OS up to Windows XP Media Center Edition. Next in sequence is the T5046, that will be able to set you coming back the same $450 as the T6534 but unrest up the specs through a hyper-threaded Pentium 4 processor, Radeon Xpress 200 graphics on ATI, 512MB of RAM, a 200GB HDD, and the same dual-layer DVD burner at last found in both constituents of the 6000-series. Finally, the super-budget-conscious buyer has the selection of either the $350 T3506 or $380 T3508, amongst the former machine submiting a Celeron D352 CPU, Radeon X300-based graphics, 512MB of RAM, 120GB HDD, and a CD-RW/DVD combo drive, additonally the latter rig steps it up to a Celeron D356, Radeon Xpress 200 chip, 160GB hard drive, and too decent old multi-format DVD burner. All of the new machines are around immediately, that supplies you heaps of while to mound up the tool you will wish for surviving then year’s vigorous academic schedule — namely tunes, vids, and games.
HP’s TouchSmart PC
Yeah, we find so the initial two phrases subsequent to “HP TouchSmart IQ504 PC” are “coming soon,” but apparently the web design humanoid forgot to find out such a minimal “Ships same day” note lessened there by the Purchase button. That’s ideal kids, HP’s present all-in-one PC (you know, the TouchSmart 2) is all boxed up and anticipated to be shipped to your house or office. All’s this left for you to do is scrounge up $1,249.99 and punch in people gory things e-tailers are liable to ask for.
BWU-100A Blu-ray burner
This happening has carried on throughout for fairly a additonally in prototype form, but Sony has ultimately gotten about to joining the pack and unveiling a PC force for such a own format. The BWU-100A Blu-ray burner does not experience a gargantuan lot of surprises — funny things as opposed to who yellow faceplate that would many innate fully vie investing in your PC state of affairs — but the $750 pricetag is a wonderful move. It as well looks at all 3 lasers types, letting it to looked through and spit out single layer 4.7GB DVD+R/+RW/RAM discs, 8.5GB DVD+R Double/Dual Layer Discs, and CDs. With 2x burning speeds for BD-R or BD-RE media, you can fill a 25GB Blu-ray disc in 50 minutes, and we are anticipating 50GB discs plans to fill at a similar rate. Sony as well touts the ability to move 1080i HDV camcorder footage natively to the BD-AV format for house playback, provided a gargantuan one hours fitting on one 50GB disc. The push will be out in August, and is on hand for pre-order now.
Desktop PC
Mouse Computer Japan (or MCJ) is anticipated to turn over its new high-end desktop PC in Japan, well&wshyp;known as the MASTERPIECE V960XV1. Priced at ¥469,980 or around US$4,363, the computer is powered by Core 2 Extreme QX9770, Intel X48 Express Chipset that correspond to FSB 1,600MHz, GeForce GTX 280 (1GB), 4GB of RAM, 1.3TB of SATA HDD (WD VelociRaptor: 300GB @ 10,000rpm and 1TB @ 7,200rpm), and Super-multi purple drive. The V960XV1 moreover heaps 11-in-1 card reader, USB 2.0 x12, IEEE 1394, eSATA x2, DVI x2, and Gigabit Ethernet for connectivity options.
Samsung packs Blu-ray to MagicStation
Sure, Blu-ray burners are not especially the freshest concern on the block any longer — these kinds of days we are attaining all prepped for holographic storage to fall — but there is nonetheless a bit of “Magic” left in the underlying thought of burning 50GB of info to a disc. Samsung captures the feel providing this new MagicStation MV55 desktop, featuring a SH-B022 Blu-ray push and not a gargantuan lot else. However, the 3.2GHz Pentium D940 and 256MB GeForce 7600GT is planning to be lots for a tiny amount bit of web browsing or Minesweeper additonally you are filling people discs through all kinds of astronomical stuff.
Freescale sales out for $17.6 billion, wants a larger number of
While cellphone giant Motorola has carried on busy re&wshyp;selling endless iterations of the RAZR and more oddly-named phones, such a semiconductor spin-off Freescale has carried on working at relatively decently for itself, and is on the verge of making sold for relatively a few billion dollars. Freescale just now got a $17.6 billion give based on select private-equity sorts led by Blackstone, that price levels Freescale availability at $40 a share — pretty an improvement on the $13 a share Freescale headed public amongst in 2004. Freescale has accepted the offer, on the form overly properties can accept a bigger produce during 50 days, amidst a break-up fee to be put up to the Blackstone kinds if properties do. We clearly looked between all the couch cushions, but we are continue to shooting up a few billion short, so if you have got $18 bil or so burning a hole in your pocket, now’s your probability to break to the hip and happenin’ planet of UWB, MRAM and supplementary covet microchips.
[Via El Reg]
