Want to see what every single part of a brand new Motorola DROID 3 looks like? Head over to iFixit right here to check it out. Oh, and according to iFixit, the “repairability score” (meaning how easy to take it apart) is a meager 6 out of 10, which really isn’t that hard or that easy.
NVIDIA is having a great day at the office. Turns out the GeForce 580M can be touted as the “world’s fastest mobile GPU”, capable of running Crysis 2 on the new Ultra DX11 settings without much of an issue whatsoever. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA 570M is slightly weaker but is able to fit into more conventional systems, rather than large and power-hungry gaming rigs. It too is powerful, but not at all like the Crysis 2 performance seen on the 580M. Both 40-nanometer cards support DirectX11, OpenCL, PhysX, CUDA, 3D Vision, Verde drivers, Optimus, SLI, and 3DTV Play. As for manufacturers actually putting the chips into their notebooks (the power of each GPU can be altered by the OEM as well), Alienware has put in a fresh GTX 580M in their M18x laptop, while their older M17x will get a single-core version of the 580M with Optimus support rather than the defualt quad-core GPU that the normal 580M has, on top of the 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory, 384 cores running at 1.24GHz each, and a 256-bit memory bus. MSi and Origin have also released laptops today with the new GTX 580M as well.
PR after the break.
While Apple’s new update to their existing wireless backup hard drive, the Time Capsule, does not add a teleportation through time feature, there is now a 3TB (terabyte) version for $499, meaning that all 3,000 gigabytes worth of backups and files you have were rather pricey to employ, but you’d pay any price to make sure your data is safe, right? Oh wait, 3TB is a bit much. Or maybe not — nevermind. It also features 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi with WPA/WPA2 along with 40/128-bit WEP encryption, all managed through OS X’s Time Machine.
Via: Apple
It’s that time of year again: time for NVIDIA to release a brand-new gaming mobile GPU (graphics processing unit, for you n00bs) that adds 192 CUDA cores (clocked at 1550MHz) with up to 3GB of GDDR5 memory (now clocked at 1250MHz, on a 192-bit bus), meaning that the latest games should run at playable framerates on a 1080p screen, with maximum detail (no antialiasing) on DX11 and a quad-core Sandy Bridge processor with tons of DDR3 RAM. Keep in mind every GTX 560M is compatible with Optimus, so when that massive graphics power isn’t needed for say, reading this post, then you can get a purported 5 hours of battery life.
NVIDIA is also stating that partners like ASUS (their unreleased ASUS G74Sx is above) , MSI, Alienware, Toshiba and Clevo will all produce at least one lappy with the new GTX 560M graphics card, while the also refreshed GeForce GT 520MX heightens all the clock speeds of the original GT 520M, which is technically a mid-range (of sorts) discrete GPU.
Via: NVIDIA Official Blog, GTX 560M
The newest trend in technology journalism — write a post about how iFixit took apart the latest gadget. OK!
So they did. And everything RIM says is in the PlayBook actually is there. iFixit also mentioned that for the average user, taking apart a PlayBook is rated a 7 out of 10 (10 being the easiest, 1 the hardest) and that the front panel of glass is not fused to the rest of the tablet, so a shattered screen could be easily replaced without much annoyance and/or money. Check out the source link for the rest of the teardown!
Via: iFixit
Epic.
According to Korean blog MK, a “high-ranking” Samsung official stated that they are “planning to release a 2GHz dual core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year.” Also mentioned was that the new silicon would “have the data processing capacities of a regular PC.” That, dear readers, would be a very accurate statement, if true. Better yet, Samsung may outsource this chip to other manufacturers. Now we just need a killer-looking smartphone with that kind of power and new battery technology — one can dream, no?
Via: MK
Intel is ready for a new chip war, this time in the tablet space, going up against well-placed competitors like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung, Nvidia and AMD. To kick things off, the Z670 Atom Oaktrail processor is clocked at 1.5GHz, supports 1080p video with aid of Intel’s GMA 600 integrated graphics, low power consumption while allowing for thinner bodies and lighter designs. Best of all, Intel mentions that over the course of 2011, 35 new tablets from Fujitsu, Lenovo, Razer (!) and Viliv will debut. Sounds good.
Press release after the jump.
Slow news day. But hey, what’s cooler? No news or some dudes breaking iPad glass? The iPad 2 is very resilient due to it being thinner, and the original iPad breaks like a toothpick. Just mute your speakers; the awful song selection would make you cringe.Via: Wired
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