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|  | Another manufacturer chooses VIA for their UMPC design
Friday, April 20, 2007
"Medion has snubbed Intel's new ultramobile processor platform with the launch of its first UMPC. The RIM 1000 will feature a VIA C7-M 770 ULV processor, 768MB of RAM and a 6.5in touchscreen. There's a 30GB hard disk, and future versions will "probably" have a solid state hard disk... The device boasts 802.11b/g wireless and an integrated webcam, and Munday hinted that a future version may ship with a SIM card slot for HSDPA network access." This news article on PCPro.co.uk goes on to conjecture: "while no claims were made about battery life, the chip's 5W thermal design power (TDP) should make the RIM 1000 more than a match for devices powered by Intel's new McCaslin CPUs, which have just over double the TDP at 12W." |   |
| VIA Defines Pico-ITX Form Factor, the World’s Smallest x86 Mainboard
Thursday, April 19, 2007
VIA has officially launched the Pico-ITX platform: "The Pico-ITX form factor is the latest advance in VIA’s proven record on platform miniaturization. The Mini-ITX mainboard, at 17cm x 17cm, which recently celebrated its 5th anniversary as an industry standard form factor with wide market adoption, was followed by the Nano-ITX form factor at 12cm x 12cm, exactly 50% of the size of the Mini-ITX. Now, the Pico-ITX, at 10cm x 7.2cm and 50% of the size of the Nano-ITX form factor, truly embodies VIA’s “Small is Beautiful” technology design strategy of shrinking the form factor to drive the x86 platform into ever smaller systems and whole new device categories." We have some exclusive images here of a reference board, one of them pictured above. Take a look and read all about the Pico-ITX here. | |
| Three updated Vista drivers
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Updated today:- CN896 Display driver for Vista 32 bit
- P4M900 Display driver for Vista 32 bit
- P4M900 Display driver for Vista 64 bit
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| I know I've reported on it already this week but...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
"Computer maker Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new desktop computer aimed exclusively at the Chinese market, the HP Compaq dx2020, and the system is notable not because it's an HP product exclusively for the Chinese market, but because it isn't driven by an Intel or AMD processor. Instead, the dx2020 marks the first time a major computer manufacturer is shipping a mass-market PC powered by a processor from Via Technologies." Source: CNet. | |
| Surfing blind
Thursday, April 19, 2007
"A government survey in the U.K. found that 12% of respondents had suffered from online fraud in 2006, yet fewer than half of the respondents believed they should be responsible for protecting their personal information online." I am very surprised by that figure. I really don't know anyone at all that has fallen victim to online fraud. I get phishing emails all the time but I don't know anyone who has actually fallen for them. It's probably not a bad idea to review your online security measures from time to time. DigitalTrends.com has put together a guide to keeping your identity safe online. | |
| | Direct X 10 just became affordable
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Nvidia's official Press Release announces "...the extension of the award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series line-up to include three new graphics processing units (GPUs), bringing high-resolution gaming, stunning Microsoft® Windows VistaTM graphics, and stellar HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback to virtually everyone regardless of budget. The new GPUs that complete the world’s first top-to-bottom family of DirectX® 10 GPUs include:- NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS $199-229
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT $149-159
- NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT $89-129"
Reviews of the new product family can be found on all your favoritate review sites including: BenchmarkReviews.com, bit-tech.net, HardOcp.com, HotHardware.com, LegitReviews.com, NeoSeeker.com, PCPerspective.com and more. | |
| Let your voice be heard
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
What if you thought you had a great singing voice? What's more you've composed a great song that means a lot to you and you want to share it with the world. Easy - put it on YouTube right? Well what if you don't have a computer? What if you don't have access to the Internet at all? Read this inspiring story from South Africa. | |
| 2 Windows XP Embedded components
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Updated today:- board support package for the EPIA NX series Nano-ITX mainboards
- PM880, PN800 and CN400 display driver component
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| V-RAID driver support for Linux
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Three new application notes have been released to bring V-RAID support to Linux. The guides describe how to install the VIA V-RAID driver v2.60 and its utility for chipsets VT8237R/VT8237A/VT8237S/VT8251/CX700 (Serial ATA RAID controller) and the VT6421(L) (Serial ATA+IDE RAID controller). There is a guide for Open SuSE 10.2, Ubuntu Linux 6.10 and Mandriva 2007 - x86 and x86 x 64 varieties of each. (Rating-5.00) | |
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