HP releases two new middle range inkjet printers: the Deskjet 6940, 129 € and the Deskjet 6980, 179€.
The two of them have USB, network interfaces and the D6980 is WiFi compliant (802.11g/b). Print rates announced are very high: 36 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white and 27 ppm in color.
The two models print photos at the standard 4"x6" and panoramic format (up to 215 x 615 mm) with or without white border.
They are Windows, 98 SE, Me, 2000 Professional, XP and Macintosh Mac OS X v10.2, 10.3 and ulterior versions compatible.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Seagate: 16 million PMR hard drives sold
If Maxtor started demonstrating PMR technology ((Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) three years and a half ago (news in French), the technology only became massively available in our computers in 2006. Seagate (who in the meantime acquired Maxtor) announced to have sold 16 million PMR hard drives since the introduction of the Momentus 5400.3 2.5", first hard drive of the company using this technology, in December 2005.
Since that date, the market leader made PRM available for entire product line. According to an Analyst of iSuppli, it will represent 75% of the production by the end of the year.
PMR reduces the surface occupied by each byte present on the platters by positioning them vertically instead of horizontally. This increases the number of bits per platter. Beside the density increase, it also leads to higher performances.
Since that date, the market leader made PRM available for entire product line. According to an Analyst of iSuppli, it will represent 75% of the production by the end of the year.
PMR reduces the surface occupied by each byte present on the platters by positioning them vertically instead of horizontally. This increases the number of bits per platter. Beside the density increase, it also leads to higher performances.
Athlon 64 EE 65nm: 45 Watts yes, but...
Additionally to the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ announcement, AMD unveiled two new low power consumption processors: the Athlon 64 3500+ EE and 3800+ EE. Respectively clocked at 2.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz, they use 65 nm fabrications process, have a TDP of 45 watts but only one core and 512KB of L2 cache. Prices for 1000 units will be of $88 for the 3500+ EE and $93 for the 3800+ EE. An important point to note is that AMD’s product line already includes an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and an Athlon 64 3500+ with a TDP of 35 Watts. However, their fabrication process is 90 nm, they are only available in very small quantities and despite the smaller fabrication process AMD couldn’t reach the same level of dissipation. | |
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