MacBook Air Guided Tour

And here is a guided tour to Apple's MacBook Air. Unveiling was today 15/1/2008 in Macworld 2008.

Apple's MacBook Air straight from Macworld 2008

THIS NO RUMOR...THIS IS FACT

First pictures of Macbook Air from apple's keynotes in Macworld 2008.

And here are the details on the MacBook Air that eco-fanatics care about. It's got an Aluminum case, and a mercury-free and arsenic-free glass display. The circuit boards are BFR free and PVC free. The packaging has 56% less volume than the regular MacBook.

System specs:3.0 pounds, 0.16 -0.76 inches, 13.inch display, full-sized keyboard, multi-touch gestures, iSight, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo standard, 2GB memory standard, 80GB hard drive standard (64GB SSD optional), 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard, and MagSafe.

The other features: flip-down door that has USB 2, microDVI port, and a headphone jack. The other side is a MagSafe connector. As for wireless, it's got 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It doesn't have an optical drive internal, but you can buy a separate USB-powered SuperDrive that's especially made for the MacBook Air. $99.

Here's the CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Inside, 1.6 GHz standard, with a 1.8GHz upgrade available. Apple asked Intel to shrink their Core 2 Duo processors down to a package 60% smaller in order to fit it inside the MacBook Air.

MacBook Air Price: $1799. Ships in two weeks. You can pre-order online now

My new Crysis killer pc rig in action !

My new Crysis killer pc rig! Crysis everything in high and 4x AA without any problem! Resolution 1280x1024

System Specs

AMD Athlon X2 5600+ 2.81Ghz
MSI K9N Neo V3
2GB Corsair XMS DDR2
XFX 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3
PSU THERMALTAKE W0093 TR2 500W
THERMALTAKE SOPRANO RS 101

My new second gaming system

1)THERMALTAKE VG7000BWS SOPRANO RS 101 BLACK WINDOW
2)XFX 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3
3)PSU THERMALTAKE W0093 TR2 500W
4)2GB Corsair XMS DDR2
5)AMD Athlon X2 5600+ 2.81Ghz
6)MSI K9N Neo V3

Phenom: AMD's quad-core desktop processor

Phenom is an update to AMD's K9 architecture that supports four CPU cores.
(c) 2007, Uberpulse.com

Έκαναν την εμφάνισή τους οι πρώτες μετρήσεις των επόμενης γενιάς επεξεργαστών της AMD, με πυρήνα Barcelona.

Συγκεκριμένα, οι μετρήσεις αφορούν τον τετραπύρηνο Opteron 2332 (τετραπύρηνος Phenom) με συχνότητα λειτουργίας στα 4GHz. Μάλιστα, ο Coolaler (γνωστός στη κοινότητα των overclockers) κατάφερε να κάνει και μια mini σύγκριση του Opteron με επόμενης γενιάς τετραπύρηνο επεξεργαστή της Intel (πυρήνας Penryn).

Τα αποτελέσματα δε φαίνονται καθόλου ευνοϊκά για την AMD, τόσο στο Super Pi όσο και στο Cinebench, με τον Penryn να κατατροπώνει τον Barcelona τόσο στο Super Pi 1M (23,297 sec ο Penryn, 39,657 sec ο Barcelona) όσο και στο Cinebench 10 (1896CB Marks με ένα πυρήνα, 13295CB Marks με 8 πυρήνες από δυο επεξεργαστές για τον Barcelona, 2454 CB Marks με ένα πυρήνα, 15334CB Marks με 8 πυρήνες από δυο επεξεργαστές για τον Penryn).

Ο Coolaler φρόντισε να πάρει τις μετρήσεις σε δυο ίδια server συστήματα, με 4GB μνήμης και Windows Server 2003, με τους επεξεργαστές να λειτουργούν στην ίδια συχνότητα, τα 2GHz.

Περισσότερα μπορείτε να δείτε (ή και διαβάσετε αν ξέρετε κινέζικα) στη διεύθυνση http://www.coolaler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=161127

Sapphire Gemini HD 2600 X2 DUAL announced

Hot on the heels of the GeCube dual HD 2600 XT announcement last Friday, Sapphire are set to announce a similar product very shortly today.

It seems that Sapphire's version uses the same PCB as the GeCube version (although we can't tell conclusively from the shots of both that are available), so outwardly the only difference between the two is the cooler, given that both use GDDR3 memories to support both available configurations.

You can get the product with 512MiB or 1024MiB of total memory (half those nominal amounts per GPU), and the hardware supports two displays per GPU, Crossfire, UVD, DirectX 10, HDMI and all the other technologies AMD saw fit to endow Radeon HD 2600 XTs with.

The two-fan copper cooler looks to do the business of cooling two GPUs, although we've got no data on how noisy the thing is under reasonable Crossfire loads. Speaking of Crossfire, the support for dual-GPU 3D acceleration with the Sapphire HD 2600 X2 DUAL isn't universal and you'll require a Crossfire-supporting mainboard for that to work, as you would if you used two discrete AIBs to get the two GPUs provided.

The most appealing thing about these dual HD 2600 XT products for us is the support for four dual-link DVI outputs, letting you drive four dual-link displays at the same time, a feature which should work just fine without a Crossfire-compatible mainboard if that's what you'd want a Sapphire HD 2600 X2 DUAL for.

Pricing is likely comparable with GeCube's offering, which should mean around $259 for the 512MiB version, and $279 for the 1024MiB version.

New Amazon.com store in Greece!

The news are true! A new affiliate of Amazon.com has come to Greece! Everyone can now order from video games to PCs with the ease tha Amazon know how to offer!

Visit the Greek Amazon Store and find out!

Links:
Amazon.com/Greece
Greek world PC Store News