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Omg. SEXY specs

Size and weight

Height:

0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)

Width:

12.8 inches (32.5 cm)

Depth:

8.94 inches (22.7 cm)

Weight:

3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)

DVI output using micro-DVI to DVI adapter (included)

VGA output using micro-DVI to VGA adapter (included)

Composite output using micro-DVI to video adapter (optional)

S-video output using micro-DVI to video adapter (optional)

• 80GB 4200-rpm Parallel ATA hard disk drive²
• Optional 64GB solid-state drive²
• Optional external USB MacBook Air SuperDrive

• Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

  

  Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

 

 

Notebook PC disk storage leaps into the stratosphere today, hitting the half-terabyte mark with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ announcement of a 500GB 2.5-inch mobile hard drive. Due out in February 2008, the $400 Travelstar 5K500 drive will dramatically expand the capacity possible in today’s notebook PC designs. Hitachi’s announcement makes it the largest capacity mobile 2.5-inch hard drive. Previous high-water capacity marks for 2.5-inch drives included Fujitsu’s 300GB drive and Toshiba’s 320GB drive. Hitachi’s jump to 500GB represents a whopping 36 percent increase in a single bound. (Hitachi also announced a 400GB version for $350.) Mondo Capacity In order to achieve this landmark capacity, Hitachi didn’t so much advance areal density as it did rethink the drive’s design. Hitachi moved to a three platter design, as opposed to the typical two-platter approach for a 2.5-inch hard drive. According to Hitachi, although the drive itself will occupy a 2.5-inch chassis, the drive mechanism inside the drive enclosure will be a bit thicker than the usual height of a drive. Typically, drives are 9.5mm in thickness; the 500GB drive will be 12.5mm, due to the additional disk platter. The 5400rpm 500GB drive has 167GB per platter, the highest capacity per platter drive announced. Toshiba’s 320GB drive packs in 160GB per platter. Notably, the power consumption of this drive is practically the same as that of Hitachi’s two-platter drive, the 5K250. “We did not want consumers to sacrifice battery power in exchange for the increased capacity. We spent a lot of time designing the motor, and designing the electronics that control the motor and represent a large portion of the power consumption of a hard disk drive,” says Larry Swezey , director of consumer and commercial hard disk drive marketing at Hitachi. New to this drive: Hitachi’s Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology. Explains Swezey: “On desktop drives and enterprise drives, when you put several drives together, a drive tends to pick up the rotational vibration produced by the motor of the drive or drives around it. That rotational vibration can cause disk read or write errors if the heads are unable to stay on track due to the vibrations. Drives with RVS add a sensor on the drive itself to detect such rotational vibration; RVS, in turn, controls the movement of the actuator–which moves the drive’s heads back and forth–to compensate for the vibration.” The need for such technology has become increasingly apparent to Hitachi as consumer notebooks have gained improved speaker technology. “What we’ve found is that on consumer notebooks with large speakers, music playback can induce very similar types of vibration [to that caused by rotational vibration] and introduce read or write errors. The use of a rotational vibration sensor can help prevent those errors when the user is playing loud music, for example.” New Product Design The 500GB 2.5-inch mobile drive provides the grounds for a seismic shift in how notebooks–and other devices that rely on 2.5-inch drives–can be perceived. Current notebooks offer much of the power and capabilities of desktop PCs, but have been constrained by the hard disk drive’s size. “I look at this as a new product category, syas Swezey. “We thought this was a good evolution of the mobile drive to meet the changing needs of consumers who are buying notebooks.” One notebook manufacturer, Asus, has already jumped on board. The Taiwanese notebook manufacturer is co-announcing with Hitachi that it will offer the 500GB drive in a striped RAID configuration to provide 1 terabyte of storage. “Asus will be the first in the world with a 1TB notebook,” says Swezey. Another benefit of such a high-capacity, 2.5-inch drive? “We now offer a way for manufacturers to migrate from using 3.5-inch drives to 2.5-inch drives in consumer electronics devices and computers,” says Swezey. Desktop manufacturers who want to go to a smaller form factor chassis or DVR manufacturers who want to integrate a drive can do so, “all while staying at the same capacity as with a 3.5-inch drive, but at a lower power draw.” DVR Future In addition to aiming the 500GB drive squarely at notebook manufacturers, Hitachi is also pushing the drive for digital video recorder applications. The company is offering a second version of the drive, dubbed the Travelstar E5K500, where the “E” stands for Enhanced Availability (EA), a Hitachi approach to optimizing the drive for DVR applications. Physically, the drive is the same. Hitachi makes some tweaks to the drive’s firmware, so the drive can spin 24/7 for DVR and streaming applications, or for use in enterprise servers. The 500GB drive could hold up to 500 hours of video, depending upon the audio and video compression technologies used. “In the EA drive, you don’t want it to shutdown; you want it to be constantly available. We do firmware changes, and we do additional testing to make sure the drive can handle always-available 24/7 operation, versus shutting it down,” explains Swezey. “You wouldn’t want to use an EA drive in a notebook, because your battery life would be terrible: The drive would never go into power savings mode.”

WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush vetoed a major spending measure on Tuesday that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained too many special projects, even as he signed a $459 billion bill to increase the Pentagon’s non-war funding.The veto, of a measure providing $150.7 billion in discretionary spending for the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services, was announced as Bush was en route to southern Indiana to deliver an economics speech at which, his spokeswoman said, he would criticize Congress for its “wasteful spending.”It guaranteed a new round of wrangling with the Democrats who control Congress over war costs and domestic spending priorities.The president’s criticisms of Congress’s spending priorities have grown steadily more pointed. But in her immediate response to the veto, the Democratic speaker of the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi, seemed to be trying to hold her fire, keeping open the possibility of reaching compromise but saying the president need to help in finding “common ground.”The veto announcement also came as top Democratic lawmakers were unveiling a new study on the “hidden costs” of the Iraq and Afghan wars. They said that if one included such factors as the higher cost of oil, lost productivity and interest payments on money borrowed to finance the wars, the real costs would nearly double, to more than $1.5 trillion.

Leica myndavél, Bluetooth armbandsúr og Wattson orkumælir eru meðal þeirra tækja sem þykja flottust í ár að mati Stuff tímaritsins, sem sérhæfir sig umfjöllun um græjur og dót ýmis konar. Það kemur þó kannski ekki á óvart að það er iPhone síminn sem valinn er tæki ársins.Í umsögn tímaritsins um símann segir að snertiskjárinn og hönnun viðmóts hafi breytt því hvernig litið sé á síma og þeim stjórnað auk þess sem hann sé búinn nánast öllum þeim kostum sem prýða eigi síma.Í öðru sæti á listanum er Leica M8 myndavélin sem fær mikið lof fyrir gamaldags útlit en nýtt innvols. Þá eru á listanum Sony Ericsson W880i síminn sem þykir líkt og iPhone síminn sameina kosti margmiðlunartækis og síma en auk þess Sony Ericsson MBW-150 armbandsúrið, sem lætur vita af símhringingum, sýnir smáskilaboð og hægt er að nota sem fjarstýringu fyrir tónlistarspilara síma.Eitt frumlegasta tækið á listanum eru Shanling MC-30 hljómflutningstækin, sem sameina gamla og nýja tækni. Hönnun tækisins sækir í gamla tíma og er það búið lampamagnara sem gefur að margra mati mýkri hljóm, á magnaranum er hins vegar slíður sem tengir iPod spilara beint við tækið auk geislaspilara. Þá er nefndur Wattson orkumælirinn, sem sýnir orkunotkun og skráir sparnað þegar dregið er úr notkun rafmagns, hönnun mælisins þykir góð, en sá kostur að hægt er að tengja tækið við tölvu ekki síðri. Apple er áberandi líkt og fyrri ár og opnar og lokar hringnum svo að segja, í tíunda sæti er nýjasta gerð iPod Nano spilarans.

n Philadelphia, a woman was pulled out of her car by Randy-Jay Adolphos Jones (mugshot guy), fondled and robbed of her purse containing her cellphone. During her police report, authorities asked her to call her phone while they GPS tracked the location. The robber/fondler’s story? He wanted $185,000 for that phone.

So where did he come up with that figure, exactly? Did that figure reflect just the price of the phone, or the price of his time? Maybe he was billing the lady for expenses. Maybe she ripped his one-of-a-kind, rare vintage shirt while he was purse-nabbing…which is a big no-no in the getting-thieved industry.

Regardless, the victim somehow talked the man down to $200 and agreed to meet him later that night for the exchange (we think the convo went something like, “Dude, my phone came free with contract”). Cops then arrested him at gunpoint and she retrieved her purse and phone.

The Sun hefur greint frá því að kynlífsmyndband með Evu og eiginmanni hennar Tony Parker sé væntanlegt á netið.

Sú saga flýgur nú fjöllunum hærra í Hollywood að myndband með ástarleikjum aðþrengdu eiginkonunnar Evu Longoriu og eiginmanns hennar Tony Parker sé væntanlegt á netið. The Sun greindi frá þessu og segir að myndbandið verði að líkindum komið fyrir almennings sjónir strax í þessum mánuði.

Ef satt reynist vilja sumir meina að hér verði um að ræða mest umrædda myndband síðan kynlífsmyndband með Paris Hilton og þáverandi kærasta hennar, One Night In Paris, var dreift á netinu. Nýjustu fregnir frá Bandaríkjunum herma að þegar sé hægt að nálgast myndbandið en aðeins á síðum þar sem greitt er fyrir aðganginn. Ekki fylgir sögunni hvað nýgifta parinu finnst um dreifingu myndbandsins en telja verður líklegt að þau séu allt annað en ánægð.