Fujitsu Announces World's First 160GB 7200RPM SATA Notebook HDD

Fujitsu has unveiled the world's first 160GB 7200RPM SATA hard disk drive (HDD) for notebook computers. The new MHW2160BJ notebook HDD will be available for high-performance notebooks beginning in May of this year.

The 2.5" HDD features a SATA 3.0Gb/s interface and has best-in-class acoustic levels of 2.5 bels at idle. The drive also sips power and only consumes 2.3 watts or less when reading/writing data.

2.5" notebook HDDs currently max out at 200GB and are only available with a spindle speed 4200RPM. Likewise, 7200RPM hard drives until now have topped out at 100GB. Fujitsu's new 160GB 7200RPM HDD strikes a nice balance between both extremes. Pricing, which is sure to be extravagant, has not yet been announced.

Acer : 22'', 2 ms to be released soon

End of March, Acer will release the AL2251WA, the first 22" of the Gamer line. The manufacturer announced that it will feature a TN 2ms CrystalBright panel. This means that the panel will be glossy, have vivid colors and will reflect light sources in the room.

Acer's current MSRP will be a little over 400€ but it isn’t definitive. If the monitor is released at this price, it will probably have some difficulties to compete with the Samsung SyncMaster 226BW. This newly released LCD display has a mat panel and is priced below 400 euros.

Asus, Samsung and Acer have all released 22" monitors with response time of 2ms. 22" are getting faster and this will motivate those who haven't yet fallen for this new diagonal because of the afterglow risk. We can also reasonably hope that the two monitors will have better color adjustments than the Asus which rendering was particularly terrible.

Forceware 101.41 for Vista : SLI

More than one month after the release of Windows Vista, Nvidia finally releases official drivers (which are still in a beta version) supporting SLI with GeForce 7 (they also makes it possible for the GeForce 7950 GX2 to provide correct performances). The list of issues corrected is quite long and some of the options, such as SLI antialiasing, aren’t yet implemented. In other words, even if drivers are improved, there is still a lot of work to do. To download the 32 bit version, go to this page and for the 64 bit, go to this one.