Archive for October 1st, 2009
Dell Latitude Z Unveiled
Dell has just announced the Latitude Z notebook, touting it to be the thinnest and lightest 16″ notebook in the market which will target those who want to make a fashion statement regardless of which station in the corporate ladder they are at at the moment. The Latitude Z is a purpose-engineered product, where it [...]
Stabilizing tThe Electric Grid With Megawatt-scale Storage
Even if we weren’t going to be increasingly reliant on renewable power, which is prone to fluctuations, it would make a lot of sense to add energy storage to the electric grid. That was the message provided by Imre Gyuk, who heads the US Department of Energy’s program for energy storage. On-grid storage is frequently [...]
Apple Delivers IPhone 3G S But Leaves Out Much More
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address was doomed to disappoint even before Phil Schiller uttered his first “iPhone.” It’s not that the keynote was a dud. It’s just that each one of these events is freighted with such oversize expectations that it’s impossible for them to do anything but disappoint.
As it is, the [...]
Dell Offers IPod Trade-In Deal
Dell Computer is offering consumers a discounted digital music player for customers that turn in their Apple iPods, the company said Wednesday.
For $99, consumers can exchange any iPod for a 15-Gbyte Dell Digital Jukebox. Customers can also get free shipping, 25 free Musicmatch downloads and a copy of Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition and Windows [...]
Intel Talking About The 16-Thread RISC Killer
Take two Nehalem dies, turn them 90 degrees, add a lot of system interface logic and 8 MB extra of L3-cache and you get – very oversimplified – the impressive Nehalem EX, alias “Beckton”. The new Xeon MP is an impressive monster, just like it’s predecessor Dunnington. Dunnington consisted of 1.9 Billion transistors, the Xeon [...]
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