Written on 10:51 AM by M Elumalai
VAIO X Series Sleek, sexy, and slim, the Sony VAIO X Series is the perfect netbook for the stylish, executive jet-setter. While this machine is smaller than most netbooks and measures just 0.55 inch thick, it packs a bit more gusto--and, starting at $1299 (our unit sells for $1499, as of 11/10/09), it carries an over-the-top price tag that screams, "CEO Only!"
I quickly fell for the golden, brushed-aluminum body and tha matching widely spaced keys. (Not feeling flashy enough for the limited edition gold version, like the one we received? The X Series also comes in black.) Measuring 10.95 by 7.29 by 0.55 inches and weighing 1.6 pounds, the X Series out-smalls the MacBook Air and gives the upcoming Dell Adamo XPS a run for its money.
The X Series boasts an 11.1-inch screen that measures merely 0.125 inch thick. Tha laptop comes with two interchangeable batteries: a standard (3.5-hours) battery and a larger , heavier, battery-and sony spokespeople . They were wrong. It lasts just a few minutes under 15 hours -- that's easily the longest running laptop we've tested to date. International jet-setter, we've found your PC. The additional battery brings the weight of the X Series to approximately 2.2 pounds.
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Written on 10:17 AM by M Elumalai
Dell has promised to come up with the thinnest laptop 'Adamo XPS' in the coming weeks. Through it has announced the product in the UK, yet the company has yet to come with the details. In early September, it was revealed to be an ultra-slim laptop with 9.99mm thickness and weighing 1.44kg only. Dell promises that it will be the world's thinnest laptop.
The 'Adamo XPS' laptop will carry a 13.4 in screen. Apart from that it features a fresh design with a foldable keyboard. The laptop is associated with the superfast Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of DDR3 memory. It also has a 128GB Flash instead of the traditional one which keeps the set a lighter one.
The new ultra-thin laptop runs with the latest Windows 7 OS. According to Dell, the keyboard in this new set is made to fold down from the body of the laptop with the swipe of a finger. The keypad is also secured with aluminium keycaps. More to it, the system has a nice touchpad and built-in location map.
The Adamo XPS has a replaceable battery which can offer up to 5 hours and 17 minutes of life. The system has also twin USB ports and an external display output.
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Written on 9:34 AM by M Elumalai
QPACE Distinguised As World's Energy- Efficient Supercomputer has been distinguised as the world's most energy-efficientsupercomputer.QPACE tops the Green500 list, which provides world ranking of energy-efficient supercomputers. The performance of swupercomputers were exclusively rated based on speed, earlier. So computers using high amount of energy were developed, since little care given on energy efficiency.
But as discussions regarding scarcity of natural resources and energy become more prominent, the concept also become visible for supercomputers. The QPACE supercomputers stands at 110 on the Top500 list and can compute at teraflop/s.
QPACE developed by an academic group of universities and research centers along with Germany-based IBM research and development center in Boblingen within the structure of a state-sponsored research association. It was deployed during mid-2009 with four racks each at the Research center Julich and at the university of Wuppertal.
It is being used for the simulation of fundamental forces in elementry particle physics, particularly in the research area of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The heart of QPACE is the IBM PowerXcell 8i processor, an improvement of the cell/B.E. processor, which was originally developed by sony, Toshiba and IBM for the sony PlayStation 3.
With its nine processor cores, the chip can perform a large number of calculations simultaneously and at a high speed. The new concept of QPACE contains connecting processors by a network of programmable units, called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), to an efficient scalable computer.
Each of the QPACE installations in Julich and Wupperatal can attain a maximum performance of 100 TeraFlops (double precision). That equals to 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) computing operations per second.
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Written on 7:57 AM by M Elumalai
Amkette's has developed a new wireless optical trackball keyboard with 360-degree navigation feature.
It is the first of its kind in keybord design with so many flexible features. Amkette's Wireless optical trackball keybord
comes with 800-DPI optical trackball system and 360-degree rotation capability. This portable keybord measures
365 mm x 156 mm x 22 mm only. Additionaly, there is a power saving Circuit by which the keyboard can save power itself by switching off
automatically after four minutes. the optical trackball has a scroll wheel and two buttons to perform normal operations.
Apart from that, the ten multimedia hotkeys help the user in accessing the internet and playing the MP3.
This Wireless optical trackball keyboard can be used better with the Home Theatre PC settings.
This set is a nice buy for the people who love more multi-media activities.
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