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Samsung’s US subsidiary will soon be selling a decent range of laptops to fight for the market share this upcoming holiday season. They’ll also be letting loose its first netbook, NC10 soon for a modest price of $499.
Notebooks to be launched are – X360, X460, Q310, R610, P460 and P560. The first two notebooks, X360 [...]
Hot off our inboxes, from Mikey:
We are driving to the Austin Maker Faire from the SoCal area.
We’re planning on taking our time on the drive there — I was wondering if there’s anyway I can ask the blog.makezine.com collective intelligence to suggest some places to stop at along the way that would be fun/interesting to makers.
Dear readers, where would you stop?
Here’s an idea of what the route might be like:
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Please comment below with suggestions for where to stop, and if we’re lucky Mikey will send us photos and more!
To get us started, I’ll propose a detour to the Earthship community in Taos, New Mexico. These off-the-grid rammed earth houses are a beautiful example of architecture in harmony with nature. And, there’s a really nice hot springs within 2 miles!
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Samsung have taken the wraps off of the industry’s smallest 2GB DDR3 memory chips, built using 50nm processes, which allows for 60-percent higher productivity than DDR2 chips of an equivalent density. It opens the door for up to 16GB RIMMS (Registered In-line Memory Modules) that save 40-percent of the power required for the same RIMM based on 1GB DDR3 chips.
If space is the premium concern, the new 2GB DDR3 chips can be combined to make 8GB RIMMS without component stacking; that means devices using the memory can offer larger-capacity chips without requiring a larger physical casing. Samsung’s volume production of 50nm 1GB DDR3 chips began in April 2008.
The company is currently sampling the new 2GB chips, though there is no timescale announced for their full-scale production. Nonetheless, this is good news for ultraportable and mobility devices, with the promise of faster computing with longer battery life and no negative impact on portability.
[via AVING]
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If half the problem with MIDs and UMPCs is explaining to would-be buyers why they really ought to consider one, the other is actually finding them for sale. Aigo’s P8860 MID is a case in point; on sale since August in Hong Kong, trying to find one elsewhere will force you onto eBay. Now, finally, an official reseller has been nominated, Direct From Japan, who will happily ship you the P8860 anywhere worldwide.
If we’re dealing in halves, then the remaining 50-percent of today’s good Aigo news is that the company has signed the necessary deals with Microsoft and Intel to be able to promise Windows XP drivers for the Mobile Internet Device. A Windows XP version was spotted at the Hong Kong launch but no timescale for availability given; we now know that come the first week of October the drivers will be released. It will mean the 4.8-inch touchscreen will be properly recognized and functional.
Direct From Japan are asking $699 for the Aigo P8860, including free shipping worldwide. That compares well to the HK$5228 (US$670) price-tag in Hong Kong. Your money gets you an Intel Atom Z500 processor, 512MB of RAM and a 4GB SSD for storage, all in something weighing just 350g.
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Wow, Jose @ Planetx64x has a nice step-by-step on installing Mac OS X on the super tiny MSI Wind, it’s a pockable Mac almost - via /.
Recently I’ve managed to install Apple’s OS X Leopard operating system 10.5.4 onto a 10 inch MSI Wind Netbook, and you can too. Let me preface this by saying that I consider myself an Apple fan, and run nothing but authentic Macs in my home studio office. If you’re looking for another Mac vs. PC debate, then there’s is nothing for you to see here. Move right along please.
The Victim: An MSI Wind U100 Netbook. This slick little machine comes preloaded with your choice of Windows or Linux. Armed with an Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HD, built-in ethernet, wifi, webcam and bluetooth. That said, the most enticing feature is its crisp & clear 10 inch screen.
To accomplish this procedure, you will be opening the MSI netbook to upgrade the memory and swap out the factory wifi card (which will void your warranty). So think twice if you are not comfortable doing such a thing. We need to do this bacause having more memory always helps any operating system run snappier. OS X is no different. The MSI Wind takes up to 2 GB of RAM. More importantly the factory wifi card that it comes with, does not work in OS X out of the box. So you’ll need to acquire a Dell Broadcom DW 1390 or 1490 internal mini pci wifi card, which are both inherently supported in OS X.
I found both the 1 GB memory upgrade stick and a 1390 card on ebay for no more than $20 each. You’ll need a special Leopard build titled “MSI WINDos x86”, of which the Hackint0sh community should be credited for assembling. It’s a slipstreamed “Kalyway” build which includes all the proper Kexts, drivers, Kernel modifications, and other files necessary to achieve a fully working installation on the MSI wind. Please do not inquire about where to find this disk image, it’s in all the typical shady places on the net.
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The HP HDX18 offers a 18-inch display, which shows content with a resolution of 1.920 x 1.080 pixels. Furthermore, a BluRay ROM is included too. The mass storage device consists of two hard drives with 250 GB each and therefore it provides an overall capacity of 500 GB. The rest of the [...]
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This is fairly huge, and fairly believable! Japanese business newspaper Nikkei posted an article describing features in an upcoming new DS model set for this year, designed with the intention of competing with the iPhone and other mobile devices. According to the article, the new hardw…
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Sony Ericsson’s newest Cybershot camera phone, also known as Kate, has been leaked onto the Internet, and we gadget blogs tend to swarm towards such news like bees to honey. In our never ending quest for the most uber gizmos, here’s the customary blur spyshot of the Sony Ericsson Kate accompanied by its specifications below :-
Strangely enough, this model lacks a front camera for video calling capability, while it also misses out on GPS navigation which is fast becoming a standard feature on new handsets. The Sony Ericsson Kate is tipped to roll out this October for approximately 300 Euros $(450).
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Section: Web, Web Apps, Websites, Google
Seeing how Google has taken over almost every web service, it is no longer a shock to hear updates on Google’s vast range of products.
Google has caught my attention with its latest enhancement on Google Books. In its efforts to further increase the usage of their Google Books service, Google has worked with major online booksellers such as Books-a-Million and Borders.com to allow previews of books on their own websites. This means customers will be able to enjoy the convenience of previewing books of their choice without ever having to leave the retailers’ sites. This is a very useful service, particularly for the retailers, because they wouldn’t need to develop their own systems for previewing books on sale.
Here comes the interesting bit. If you run an online book selling service, you will surely be delighted to hear that you can implement this feature on your own site by utilizing the set of API released by Google. This will greatly benefit small to medium online book retailers by having an extremely useful feature with minimal costs. A notable user of the Book Search API is GoodReads, a social book-recommendation site.
Via [Official Google Blog]
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Get your flash here, red hot flash memory. Toshiba is now sampling its new 256GB SSD with a 120MB max read and 70MBps write via 3.0Gbps SATA interface — not the fastest consumer SSD but not not bad. This 2.5-inch slab measures just 3.0-mm thick and targets laptops looking to shed the 9.5-mm constraint presented by standard hard disks. Like Samsung, Tosh also announced new 8GB, 16GB and 32GB SATA flash modules aimed directly at the booming netbook market with speeds topping-out at 80MBps for reads and 50MBps for writes. All the drives feature MLC-based NAND which accounts for the less-than blazing SSD speeds. On the other hand, that should help keep the costs low when these things ship in quantity later this year.
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