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May 27, 2005
Thursday, Intel Corp unveiled its new dual-core processor Pentium D for use in desk-top PCs. Intel Corp. vowed to sell millions of them by the end of the year reports Business Week.
"We're shipping 100,000 this quarter, and we're going to ship millions by the end of the year," said Gerald Holzhammer, vice president of Intel's Digital Home Group. "This is a big deal for us. It's the first time dual core will make a real impact on the marketplace."
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April 19, 2005
Fujitsu, Japan has announced the FMV-DESKPOWER TX90L/D PC featuring TV-like functionality with its integrated 32"widescreen LCD and inclusion of a digital tuner. Digital broadcast support is limited to the upper level "FMV-DESKPOWER TX90L/D" model with a Pentium 4 530J (3GHz) and 500GB hard drive. The lower level model in this series, the "FMV-DESKPOWER TX70L," omits the digital tuner and takes a CPU and hard drive capacity hit for a price of about 340,000 yen.
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March 31, 2005
HP yesterday, introduced a new, fresh look for its HP Pavilion and HP Media Center Desktop PCs and monitors, providing consumers with a PC that offers enjoyable digital entertainment experiences and functional design that fits effortlessly into the home. The new look has taken a few pages from the Mac mini design book.
HP's new desktop PC design offers simple lines and light colors unifying the PC with the company's consumer product portfolio. HP's advanced design and functionality make it easier than ever to enjoy digital entertainment and digital photography from the PC. For example, select models provide an easy connection to an R-series HP digital camera(1) or the Apple iPod from HP via a removable docking station located on the top of the PC chassis. models include the HP Pavilion d4000 Series Desktop PC,(2) the HP Pavilion a1000 Series Desktop PC, and the HP Media Center m7000 Series Photosmart PC .
via Mac Mini Gear
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March 19, 2005
Alienware will start offering an Acoustic Dampening System configuration option on all its high performance desktop systems reports ehomeupgrade. Starting at $99, consumers can add the ADS option and have their PCs outfitted with acoustic absorption matting and low-noise system fans to decreased internal chassis decibel (dB) levels
"PC noise levels have become an increasing concern for computer users. As computer components become progressively faster, the mechanisms used to cool them have become exponentially louder," said Nestor Villalobos, Product Manager for Workstations for Alienware Corporation. "Alienware has worked with several partners in order to develop the Acoustic Dampening System to significantly reduce overall system noise levels"
ADS Highlights:
4mm soft cellular foam pad matting
Ultra-quiet 92mm, 120mm and 80mm chassis fans (Operating at noise levels as low as 21 dBA)
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March 8, 2005
Soldam, Japan, recently announced a 5.25" bay-type PC status display panel, the "Visualizer," and has begun accepting orders via its website reports TechJapan. Store sales will start from 18 March and the display panel is priced from 13,629 yen.
The Visualizer uses a Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) and the "WiNDy Visualizer Control Center" software to display a wide range of information on the PC's status.
In addition to such things as the CPU ID, operating system, current time, alarm, CPU/Memory/HDD usage, incoming email and WinAmp/Windows Media Player visualizations, custom graphics can also be displayed.
The Visualizer is available in 11 different colors -- ivory, silver, black, white pearl mica, super gun metallic, creamy ivory, aquamarine, pale rose, blue, red and deep purple. Dimensions are W149.3 x D58 x H42.5 mm. Supported operating systems are Windows 2000 Professional and XP.
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March 3, 2005
Sharp Corporation, Japan has announced the Mebius PC-TX23H desktop PC set for release in Japan on March 5. Expected to be about 260,000 Yen (Windows XP Home Edition SP2 included).
The PC-TX23H features a 23" wide monitor with 1366x768 (WXGA) resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, 16M colors, approx. 500cd/m square brightness, 550:1 contrast, 16ms response, and 176 degrees viewing angles (all sides) - a built-in TV tuner, can able to record movies using its MPEG-2/MPEG-1 hardware encoder, analog RGB, 15-pin D-sub, S-video, Video-in (RCA pin), L/R audio-in (RCA), TV antenna input (VHF/UHF), microphone jack (3.5mm monaural), line-in/out (3.5mm stereo jacks, optical digital audio output, 4 x USB 2.0, 1 x 6-pin IEEE1394 and 1 x 4-pin IEEE1394 ports.
The main PC specifications include Celeron D 330 (2.66GHz) CPU, 256MB RAM (2GB max.), Intel 865G (with built-in graphics), DVD multi-format drive, 250GB Ultra ATA/100 HDD.
Measures 439x326x61mm, and weighs 7.8kg. Source: Sharp
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January 18, 2005
Taiwanese company BenQ is set to unveil the FP91V a new 19" LCD monitor with 6ms of response time. Key features include a 19" LCD Screen Size with 140/140 Viewing Angle, 1280 x 1024 resolution, a display area of 376.3 by 301.1mm, power consumption of 60W, 450:1 Contrast, 0,294 Dot pitch , 400 cd/m2 Brightness, 6ms GTG and 16.2million colors display.
- Seen at Ubergizmo
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January 17, 2005
Security company Sophos advises on a computer worm lurking in mass emails asking you to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster. The worm appears with the subject line: "Tsunami donation! Please help!" and invites you to open an attachment called "tsunami.exe" -- which, if opened, will forward the virus to other Internet users.
Sophos added that it had so far only received a small number of reports of the worm, which it said was not the first to try to take advantage of the Indian Ocean catastrophe in order to spread.
Sophos recommends recipients delete the mails and do not open the attachments.
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January 14, 2005
The state of Texas has filed a civil lawsuit in the federal court of Austin against Ryan Samuel Pitylak, a University of Texas student, and Mark Stephen Trotter of California for just spamming non stop. Texas is seeking millions of dollars from two men it says are responsible for sending illegal messages on the Internet. The two are suspected of controlling companies -- PayPerAction LLC, Leadplex LLC and Leadplex Inc. -- that sent millions of Spam messages pitching fraudulent services. An attorney for the defendants said the suit was groundless and the pair would defend themselves vigorously. The suit charges the operation with using misleading subject lines in e-mail messages and making misrepresentations in the body of the e-mail. No criminal charges were filed. Assets of the spammers in question have been frozen and a temporary injunction put in place preventing them from sending any emails, ahead of a hearing and a possible permanent injunction.
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January 13, 2005
LeapFrog Enterprises has announced "The Fly" a talking computerized pen designed for children that can translate words into other languages, and help with math and spelling homework. The product uses special "Fly paper" that kids can write on which translates the writing into audio, in English or different languages. It also enables children to create interactive calculators that will work by touching the hand written digits and functions. The pen will then read back the answer to the writer.
The FLY pentop computer will be available in fall 2005 at a MSRP of around $99.
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