Dell Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop
You may be wondering, isn’t the M17x an old laptop? Why is it being reviewed now? I’m glad you asked. Alienware has always been a brand that’s about being on top of the technology spectrum, and with a whole host of new technologies being launched over the past year; they’ve decided to refurbish their highly successful laptop line with some improvements on the hardware.
Customizability is the of the game for Alienware’s series of laptops, and the new M17x is no different. Starting with the hardware, customers are able to choose between a series of Intel Core i7 processors ranging from the 1.6GHz chip to the 2.13GHz one, depending on your budget. The old M17x ran on Intel’s older Core2Extreme processors, and it’s a welcome change by the Alienware to see that they’re up to industry standards where raw power is concerned. The new M17x also does away with dated nVidia Geforce GTX280 graphics card, and is replaced by Ati’s new Radeon HD5870 cards. Much like the SLI option for the GTX280 card, you can also opt to CrossFire two of the HD5870s at the order page.
But the customizing options don’t just end there. All Alienware laptops are very colorful laptops, and this is made possible by their unique backlighting system that allows users to change the colors of these lights, and more. In other words, as long as it lights up, you can change it via the AlienwareFX software, which affords you different customization options, which include changing the colors of the LED lights, battery options, and also profiles for different types of usage.
Needless to say, the M17x plays ANY GAME you can throw at it nearly flawlessly at the highest settings, but at the cost of a near non-existent battery life of two hours. If you’re asking if the laptop can play Crysis, we’re telling you that it definitely can, and more. The Core i7 processor and ATI’s HD5870 card combination definitely pushes the limits of mobile desktop computing to its limits, regardless if you’re gaming, coding or doing some heave duty animation and video editing work.
If you can stomach the asking price for this awesome piece of technology, the M17x should definitely be on top of your must get list. It may be a large laptop, but it definitely packs more power than most conventional laptops and even some desktop computers, at the fraction of the space taken.
Epson BrightLink 455Wi interactive digital projector can work on a wall or a table
The projector is an ultra short throw unit that can throw an image onto a whiteboard, wall, table, or other smooth and light color surface. The device has flexibility with installation allowing the usable interactive areas to be WXGA resolution for 55? to 96? diagonally or XGA at 55? to 85? diagonally. The projector has 2500 lumens of color and white light output and is compatible with notebooks.
Epson offers accessories for the projector that allow it to be mounted to a table, and it can be mounted to a height adjustable cart designed just for the projector. The table mode sounds really cool and turns any table into an interactive surface for working with small groups of students. The students can play games on the table top and more. The projector can be mounted as little as 2.8? from the wall and from 10? away it is able to throw and 80? image. The projector uses 3LCD tech and it is available right now for $2199 or through the Brighter Futures program for schools for $1699.
HTC Wildfire Smartphone
The HTC Wildfire looked like an offshoot of theHTC Desire if it actually grows like a tuber plant. At closer look, you’ll realize that it’s just that in looks; the HTC Wildfire is, in fact, closer in terms of the HTC Tattoo by conception and purpose. That is, an entry-level smartphone that offers a lot more than its price.
It’s definitely easy to mistake it as the HTC Desire, because it retains most of its design characteristics; a chin, optical Trackpad and round edges, though it does take a leaf from the Nexus One to implement touch –sensitive keys as oppose to Desire’s click buttons. It’s a slim, light phone that has a solid built; something normally absent from entry-level devices.
The Wildfire is also smaller, and due to cutting costs the screen is plain old LCD (no AMOLED here), which sadly displays at 240 x 320 QVGA resolution. It’s not so bad on images, but when it comes to reading websites, it makes it difficult, and video quality takes a hit. It’s also quite reflective, but considering its price point, these might be expected. At least the touch operation is responsive.
The Wildfire runs on Android 2.1, and HTC Sense keeps up the good deed of giving an accessible, simple user interface. Navigating through the Wildfire feels natural and very similar to Android HTC devices of late. HTC also integrated the address book into social networking sites, and with Wi-Fi and HSDPA support plus GPS, an entry level phone doesn’t get any better than this set of features.
A 528MHz processor powers the Wildfire, which does a worthy job to manage most simple operations, but it hiccups occasionally when running videos and taps sometimes will fail to respond. Slow loading and crashes happen, but rarely. It’s a lot to ask from an entry-level device, and as such, we won’t complain as much.
The HTC Wildfire is a nice looking, solid device to fill HTC’s cheaper line up, thanks to its populated features and good design senses. It does suffer from its low screen resolution and performance limitations, but for its price, it’s a bargain.
Pros : Solid built, Wholesome functionality
Cons : Low-resolution screen, Some performance hiccups.
HTC Wildfire Specifications :
Operating System : ndroid 2.1
Frequency :HSPA / WCDMA 900/2100MHz, GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Screen :3.2 inch LDC capacitive touch screen at 240 x 320 QVGA
Connectivity : WiFi, HSPA, USB2.0, Bluetooth
Others :5MP color camera with geotagging
Dimensions :60.4 x 106.75 x 12.19mm
Weight :118g
32GB USB 2.0 Drive Flash Memory Pen For Sale
I’m selling 32GB USB 2.0 Drive Flash Memory Pen.
Product detail :-
Support USB version 2.0 and 1.0
Capacity: 32GB SAMSUNG MEMORY
Hot Plug and Play – No external power is required
Ultra high speed Read & Write feature: maximum read to 20 mbps, maximum write to 14 mbps (USB version 2.0)
Supports power saving mode to reduce power consumption
Supports Windows ME, 2000 and XP & Vista without device driver
Supports Driver for Windows 98/98 SE (High speed mode not supported with these OS)
Driverless support for Linux Kernel version 2.4 or later version
Driverless support for OS 9.X or above
More Than 10 Years Data Retention
Package content:
1 x 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drive
The price for this item USD45.00 FREE shipping. I ship worldwide.
Payment by paypal. My email if you want to buy or asking something. rizalcb@gmail.com, You also can use the contact form.
Thank you
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hard Drive
Since SSD became mainstream, plenty of people buy it just to run their operating system and programs that they use very often. We can’t blame these people because in our opinion, this is by far the most correct way to use Solid State Drive, not to mention its price. An idea to combine both SSD and normal HDD drive came up, creating a hybrid drive and this month, we have the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB.
The Momentus XT looks just like a standard 2.5 inch hard drive with nothing much to talk about but what lies underneath is a 500GB (in our case) and a 4GB Solid State SLC NAND flash storage. So how does a hybrid drive like this work?
It may differ from different brands but Seagate in particular has developed a new technology they call Adaptive Memory technology. What this does is that the drive will monitor the data files you use most frequently and place it in the SSD portion of the drive. This means that every time you call these data up, it’ll take less time, since it doesn’t need to spin and search for it. To the PC, it is just like any other hard drive you have. There are no funny partitions that confuse you. It sees only one (physical) drive and that’s it. We’re not too sure how Adaptive Memory technology classify a data as ‘frequent’ but we will just assure that it works.
We installed the Momentus XT on our test bed and used it as normal. We didn’t really notice and differences opening applications. The hard disk is faster than the 2.5 inch HDD we’ve tested though. We think Seagate should bundle a tools of some sort to let us know what is in the solid state drive, or better yet, let us select the data we want to put in there, instead of relying on Adaptive Memory. Adaptive Memory might be good for novice users but for advance users, we’re left in the lurch, not knowing what went where.
Performance on the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB is good. We do see an improvement over regular hard drives. The idea of a hybrid drive is great as well. We do hope it’ll be more transparent to users though.
Tags: hard drive
Samsung NX-10 Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera
Samsung NX-10 is Samsung’s first attempt in the now popular mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera form factor and we have to say, of all the ones we’ve tested, Samsung’s NX-10 comes really close to the feel of a DSLR.
While being as close to a DSLR is not a bad thing, the NX-10 sacrifices one thing that keeps itself in this new camera genre, size. The NX-10 has to be one of the biggest mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras out there! To Samsung’s defense, the omission of the mirror did bring the size down a fair bit; that is, as compared to a normal DSLR.
Like we said earlier, this might not be a bad thing. The closer it gets in size to a DSLR means that the more ergonomic it is to use. The other cameras are just too awkward to be held in two hands and too big to be held in one. The size of the NX-10 is just nice.
You have the liberty of either using the gorgeous 3 inch AMOLED display or the EVF. There is a proximity sensor above the display, which automatically disable the display when you put your face on it to use the EVF.
We were given the kit lens for this review, an NX mount 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OIS. The camera performed really well and color reproduction was good. The camera supports up to ISO 3200 but we found that ISO 800 is pretty much limit for print quality, which is quite amazing actually.
One thing we’ve bumped about is the built in pop up flash. With the kit lens, even at 18mm, the lens barrel shadow is pretty serious with objects closer than 50cm. The camera has a hot shoe for flash guns though you’ll need Samsung’s SEF-42A or SEF-20A flash guns for that.
The Samsung NX-10 is great if you want a ‘pseudo DSLR’ that is lighter and more ergonomic. The barrel shadow is pretty serious but if you don’t really take a lot of flash photography or close up shots, it’ll be fine. The AMOLED screen is gorgeous as well!
