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Seagate to Launch Slimmer Laptop Hard Disk at CES
Canadian Reseller Posts Intel Core i3 Chip Details
Gallium Nitride Transistor Could Replace Silicon
Major Print Publishers Confirm Collaborative Digital Store
The Register Reviews Acer's Aspire 5738DZG 3D 15.6in Notebook
Seagate to Launch Slimmer Laptop Hard Disk at CES
IDG News Service's Martyn Williams reports that at January's Consumer Electronics Show, Seagate Technology is planning to unveil a new laptop hard drive that's 25 percent thinner than current models. The new 7-millimeter high drive will allow laptop makers to further reduce the thickness of their computers.
The 2.5" Disk hard disk drives typically used in laptop computers (some "thinbooks" like the MacBook Air use 1.8" HDs) at one time were as much a 25 millimeters high, and nowadays are are usually either 9.5 millimeters high or 12.5 millimeters high.
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http://tinyurl.com/yee689e
Canadian Reseller Posts Intel Core i3 Chip Details
Canadian Mail-order reseller A-Power Computer Online has posted a product page featuring the Intel Core I3 530 2.93GHz Dual Core Processor at a Discount Price of CDN$152.19 (Regular Price: CDN$156.76)
Specs. cited include:
Model Number - Core i3-530
Frequency -m2933 MHz
L2 Cache - 2 x 256 KB
L3 Cache -4 MB
You can check it out (at least as long as it stays up) here:
http://a-power.com/product-14244-0-2
Gallium Nitride Transistor Could Replace Silicon
physorg.com's Anne Ju reports:
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.
Junxia Shi, a graduate student in the laboratory of Lester Eastman, the John Given Foundation Professor of Engineering, developed the gallium nitride-based device, which could form the basis for the circuitry in products from laptops to hybrid vehicles to windmills to other power electronic systems.
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http://www.physorg.com/news179518616.html
Major Print Publishers Confirm Collaborative Digital Store
Appleinsider's Neil Hughes reports:
Affirming repeated rumors, Condé Nast, Hearst, News Corporation, Time Inc., and Meredith all officially announced Tuesday that they will agree on open standards for a new digital storefront.
The five publishers said the independent venture will "allow consumers to enjoy their favorite media content on portable digital devices."....
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http://tinyurl.com/yk4ts2e
The Register Reviews Acer's Aspire 5738DZG 3D 15.6in Notebook
The Register's Will Head says that despite its obvious appeal, 3D hasn't really taken off as far as computers are concerned. but, things seem to be picking up with Acer is the latest to get in on the game with what it claims is the world s first 3D-capable laptop which has a 15.6" display and weighs 2.8kg, has HDMI and four USB ports (sigh), a low-profile keyboard, and several Intel processor options including Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU, 802.11n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, a multi-format card reader and a standard 500GB hard drive, plus Nvidia's been 3D Vision Kit.
For the full review visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yjxpp9j
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