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Super Talent UltraDrive GX Solid State Drive

October 9th, 2009 David No comments

Super Talent offers the UltraDrive GX Solid State Drive for your netbooks. The Super Talent UltraDrive GX Solid State Drive comes in two versions: the SLC and and MLC. The SLC version is available in up to 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and offers up to 260MB/s read and 210MB/s write speeds. And the MLC version adds 256GB and provides up to 260MB/s read and 200MB/s write speeds. Both of them are a good solid state drive option for your netbooks.

Super Talent UltraDrive GX SSD

Western Digital My Passport Elite External Hard Drive Unveiled

October 7th, 2009 David No comments

Other than the new Western Digital My Book Studio with E-Label Display hard drive, Western Digital also unveiled the new Western Digital My Passport Elite portable hard drive. This My Passport Elite portable hard drive has some new features with latest techniques.

The new My Passport Elite External Hard Drive comes in three colors:red, blue, and charcoal and has a variety of storage capacities of 320GB, 500GB, and 640GB. The price for this new portable hard drive ranges from $119 to $169.99 with different storage capacities.

This time the new portable hard drive comes with a new dock. With this dock, users can just return the hard drive in the dock without looking up for the USB port, or a USB cable. This hard drive also features an illuminated capacity gauge and drive lock indicator so they can see how much storage is left and if the data is secure or not.

western digital my passport elite

Western Digital My Book Studio with E-label Display Unveiled

October 7th, 2009 David No comments

Western Digital just released the new My Book Studio with E-Label display. One unique feature of this product is that the additional display maintains power even when the hard drive is unplugged from computer. This display allows the users to label the contents of the drive and show how much storage is left on the drive. The small e-label display uses e-paper technology which consumes little power.

Western Digital My Book Studio with E-label drives are available in 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB capacities. Prices for the drives range from $149.99 to $299.99.

The external storage solution is designed to work with Mac computers and has FireWire 800 interface.

western digital mybook with elabel

Wii Fit Plus Released

October 5th, 2009 David No comments

Wii is one of the most popular game gear in the market. Since the successful launch of the Wii Fit, Wii Fit has been sitting at the top of many game charts for a long time . Now the updated Wii Fit Plus is likely to be the hot Wii title in the future.

Wii Fit Plus is offered in two types: (1) one comes with the balance board and software; (2) one comes with the software only for users who purchased the original Wii Fit with the board. The new Wii Fit Plus offers 20 new activities including skateboarding and a Segway course.

The price of the Wii Fit Plus and Balance Board combo is sold for $99.99 and the software is sold at $19.99.

wii fit plus

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Sony DRX-S70U-W Slim Portable DVD SuperMulti Burner

October 2nd, 2009 David No comments

Sony, Samsung and Pioneer are the three major players in the market of external DVD/CD burners. Today, Sony announced the new DRX-S70U-W slim and portable external multi-format DVD SuperMulti recorder.

This new Sony DRX-S70U-W DVD burner has a slim design and uses USB 2.0 interface. This new Sony DVD burner sold together with the Nero DVD/CD software to facilitate the burning process. It can burn DVD+/-R and DVD+RW at 8X, DVD+/-R dual layer and DVD-RW at 6X, DVD-RAM at 5X and CD-R/RW at 24X.

Sony DRX S70U W Slim Portable DVD SuperMulti Burner

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ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player

October 1st, 2009 David No comments

ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 HD Media Player is up on sale right now for $99.99. This ASUS O!Play is a 1080p-enabled media player offers playback of a great number of local, network or internet contents, via a variety of eSATA, USB 2.0 or ethernet ports. This ASUS O!Play supports a lot of file types like DivX, Xvid, MKV and MPG, MP3, AAC and FLAC audio. Remote control is provided for convenience.

ASUS O!Play media streamer

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Toshiba Announces The New mSATA Drives for Netbooks

September 22nd, 2009 David No comments

One important factor that determines the overall performance of a PC is the writing and reading speed of your PC’s hard drive. At the same time, the power consumed by hard drive can also account for the battery life of your netbook. Luckily, Toshiba announced that its first mSATA drives in 30GB and 64GB sizes, which will bring power efficiencies to netbooks.

This new Toshiba HDD will begin production in October and will provide products for Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung netbooks.

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Sony Walkman NW-A840 Ultrathin Media Player Unveiled

September 18th, 2009 David No comments

Sony just released the thinnest portable media player-the Sony Walkman NW A840 media player. The thickness of this device is measured to be Sony Walkman NW-A840only 7.2mm! This thinnest Walkman Media Player is available in 16GB (NW-A845), 32GB (NW-A846) and 64GB (NW-A847) models in Black and Copper colors.The limited version in purple color is also available on the official release date October 31, 2009.

This new Sony Walkman Media Player can play MP3, WMA, ATRAC, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, AAC, PCM audio files, MPEG-4 AVC H.264, WMV video files and JPEG image files. It can also play FM radio with built-in FM tuner.

Other technical features are 2.8-inch 240×400 OLED display,  S-Master digital noise cancellation technology, and Digital Sound Enhancement Engine.


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