Dell introduced ‘PRECISION T3400′ which claimed to offer desktop workstation class performance and features in a mobile form factor design. It features Intel Bearlake x38 chipset, Core 2 Extreme processor, and dual PCIe X16 2.0 graphic card. Front multi card reader, dual optical drive, USB port and a fire wire post is also provided. Notice there is no reset button provided; Dell is assured that their machines will never hang.
Lenovo announced the launch of its small-sized desktop PC ‘ThinkCentre A61e’ in Korea market. It will be available with two CPU choices, either AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core processor or single-core AMD Sempron processor. It will be available from November 10 onwards. Suggested price is from 673,000 KRW (VAT not included).
Apple will sooner or later release Santa Rosa laptops; there are surely a faithful few who feel their weekly pilgrimages to The Apple Store aren’t being properly respected by Lord Jobs. But new Leopard driver evidence nearly proves that Apple does have Santa Rosa MacBooks (and Mac Minis) in their sights. Some software enthusiasts found a full set of GMA X3100 drivers within Leopard’s files, which are basically for a Santa Rosa chipset with integrated graphics (making it useless for MacBook Pros that use separate graphics cards). But even more interesting that the driver itself was the date it was added.
Tacked on to the OS on just October 11th, this was a last minute addition by Apple. Maybe this means nothing, or maybe this means that we’ll be seeing Santa Rosa laptops sooner as opposed to later. Seeing as the first Santa Rosa laptops hit in May, it’s about damn time this low to moderate update makes its way to Apple’s low-end lineup.
Russian people are known to do things in a way one can’t imagine. Elcomsoft, a company based in Moscow has found a password cracking technique that uses the same parallel processing concepts to speed up dictionary and brute force attacks on things like Windows Vista password logins. The firm says that the Geforce 8800 is up to 25 times faster than a CPU, in general used for such tasks. I think crunching heavy graphics (in games) definitely require more power than playing with text (read password cracking). They should try by combining two graphic cards too (SLI) which will yield better results I an sure, but no one knows that they may be trying with four! After all they are Russians.
An ATM at a bank in Tbilisi, Georgia stopped working just because the Operating system installed in ATM (windows xp) was not activated! The pop up shows that only 5 days are left which means that machine was working for 25 days (30 day trial) without activation. If xp is not activated after install, it shows warning several times but here in ATM case the warning message popped up only before 5 days are left. This means the guy who installed Xp on that machine set the reminder to “remind me after 25 days” and then forgot to activate. I think that windows xp is not just right to be used in ATM machines, either Microsoft should make a different version of OS for these machines or much reliable operating systems like Solaris should be used.
Photo: zparks.lv (illustrated by me)
Digital Pious launches Shuttle barebones ‘XPC SG33G5 Pro / SG33G5M Deluxe’ with fingerprint recognition functionality. With Speed-Link, it can share files and perform backups by connecting it to other PC just by a single USB cable. Intel Core 2 Quad CPU is used in this shuttle PC supporting 1333 MHz FSB and company has also planned for using Intel’s Penryn Core 2 Quad processor as well.
