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Hand phone giant Nokia, has announced their 1st netbook -  Nokia Booklet 3G.  Nokia Booklet 3G is a Windows 7 netbook. Apparently, customers will be able to choose between Windows 7 Starter Edition, Home Premium, or Professional.

Specification:

• 10.1 inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels
• Accelerometer
• Intel Atom Z530 CPU at 1.6 GHz
• 1GB DDR2, 533 Mhz, soldered down
• 120GB SATA HDD, 8 MB cache, 4200 RPM
• Inbuilt 3G modem (data calls only). Different variants: WCDMA: 850/1900/2100 or WCDMA 900/2100 or no modem
• WLAN 802.11 b/g/n, 2T2R
• A-GPS
• Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
• 1.3 MP front facing camera with microphone
• 16 cell, 56.8 Wh, Li-Ion prismatic battery
• Up to 12 hours of usage time
• 264 x 185 x 19.9 mm
• 1250 grams

-via Unwiredview, Nokia Conversations-

AMD has released a low power  processor targetting Ultra-small Form Factors & All-in-Ones PC market. The new CPU is an AM2 part based on a Brisbane core, manufactured under the 65 nanometer process technology.

Continue Reading “AMD Athlon X2 3250e @ 22W TDP”

Samsung Electronics plans to launch a flash solid-state disk (SSD) driver this year that has a 256GB capacity with higher speed of SATAII interface.

the Flash SSD(Nand Flash-based Solid State Drive) of SAMSUNG Electronics is fully consist of semiconductor device and using NAND Flash Memory which has a high reliability and a high technology for a storage media. As the Flash SSD doesn’t have a moving parts such as platter(Disk) and head media, it gives a good solution in a sub. note PC and Tablet PC for a storage device with a high performance, low power consumption and a small form factor. Also it gives rugged features in industrial PC with an extreme environment and an increased MTBF.
For an easy adoption, the Flash SSD has a same host interface with HDD and has a same physical dimension.

• No Mechanical Moving Parts
• One Chip controller suitable for Low Power

Comparison between Flash SSD with conventional HDD

Yahoo has just added another 2 more email domains for user to register.  The 2 new email domain is ymail and rocketmail. The released of extra domains is because yahoo domain has been registered over 266 million active users. Thus, new user is hardly to get their preferable user name. Anyway, accounts created with the new domain names will use the same Yahoo! Mail interfaces and get unlimited storage at no charge. Localized country versions of the domain will also be available. The ID’s will also work for signing in to other Yahoo sites and services, such as Flickr, and Yahoo! Messenger.

So, act faster to register now for your fancy user name.

1. McAfee VirusScan
2. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
3. McAfee Internet Security Suite
4. Intuit TurboTax
5. Adobe Photoshop
6. Adobe Acrobat
7. Intuit Quicken Home and Business
8. Symantec Norton pcAnywhere
9. Symantec Norton Ghost
10. Adobe Creative Suite

Above listing is released by The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) in their 2007 Anti-Piracy review report.

From the top 10 softwares, i only use the Adobe Photoshop where i use it to crop images… The rest of the features i’ve no idea how to use it…. haha

Not long after Core 2 Duo processor, Intel came out with the latest Core 2 Quad processor where there is 4 cores in a processor.

On the left the Core 2 Duo and on the right the Core 2 Quadro.

Continue Reading “Intel Core 2 Quad Processor”

The Safari browser used on MacOS finally opened to PC platform. It support Window XP and Vista.

Features:

1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security

Anyway, the beta version still not so stable, especially on chinese display.  Anyway, i believe they will enhance it later.

PS: Finally i finished my semester exam… can relax… yippie !!!

Intel finally launched the 4th generation of Intel Centrino Platform – Santa Rosa. Is support latest Merom processor and using 65nm process. On first quarter next year, they will come out Santa Rosa Refresh which support Penryn processor and using 45nm process.

Continue Reading “4th Generation of Centrino”

Finally, TM Net Streamyx launched their high end broadband service up to 4Mbps/512kbps download and upload speed. The cost also very high –> up to RM268 monthly fee.

Other than that, there also had a mid end broadband service up to 2Mbps/512kbps cost RM188 monthly.

Continue Reading “Streamyx 4Mbps Packages ?”

Next weekend will be Ipoh 1st PC fair. They still hosting it in the same place –> stadium Indera Mulia. As usual, all the sellers are keeping pen drive/thumb drive in their stock…. This means that pendrive/thumb drive will be the main selling point again.

Last time my gf brought a 1GB pen drive with RM79. Nowadays with this price, easily can get a 2GB capacity….. How fast the price drop…

Hopefully this time can come out some new stall or what…. Because not much thing exposed in the PC fair.

So, did your guys saving money for PC fair ?