I recently became a fan of Lexmark’s new line of Wi-Fi Printers, and I would of told you a few weeks ago that I was the proud owner of the Lexmark X4550 Wi-Fi Printer, but then I had a paper jam. It literally broke—a piece of plastic in the printer literally broke due to 4 sheets of paper that somehow managed to get crumpled, I was left without a printer.
But as my luck would have it, the day before my X4550 broke HP asked if I would be interested in taking a look at one of their Wi-Fi printers and I agreed. But my expectations were low. I didn’t expect much; in fact I did not even know HP had any Wi-Fi printers.
Futuremark has finally made available the much anticipated 3DMark Vantage.
I have had the pleasure of playing with it today, and although I ran into a hick-up with my AMD based system, AMD helped me solve it and provided me with a Hotfix, Thank you Damon Muzny! 3DMark Vantage has a pretty nice UI, and a lot easier to understand and use than the previous version.
Today Western Digital (WD) introduced a new 10,000 RPM, 2.5–inch, 300 GB SATA Hard Drive. The WD VelociRaptor is 35 Percent Faster and offers Twice the Capacity of their previous top of the line drive in the Raptor Series.
“Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor. We created WD VelociRaptor hard drives to lead PC enthusiasts into the next era of PC and Mac storage performance and satisfy their insatiable thirst for computing speed,” said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD’s enterprise business unit. “The new WD VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all SATA hard drives currently on the market.”
So today I received from HP the HP Pavilion Entertainment PC dv6885se. It’s a special edition copper (looks kinda red) colored notebook PC, and honestly it’s probably the prettiest one I ever had the pleasure of playing with.
Normally I like to post pictures when I have my review ready, but this thing is so beautiful I couldn’t wait, so here are some pictures enjoy!
Today Kingston introduced a secure USB flash drive, so secure the Goverment approves it!
“We are very excited that our DataTraveler BlackBox met all federal requirements established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),” said Mark Akoubian, Flash memory product manager, Kingston®. “This certification, along with other enhanced security features makes the DT BlackBox an ideal way to store and transport confidential documents with the utmost confidence that the data is secure.”
Today HP has officially introduced the HP 2133 Mini-Note. Info of the Mini-Note PC leaked onto the web weeks ago, but no one really knew anything about the system, some guessed on its specs and others claimed they knew, but until today HP has not officially released the specs, and we have them, and for it’s size and price its going to be a pretty powerful machine.
The HP 2133 is designed for instructional purposes, meaning they designed it with the teacher and student in mind, but it will be available to everyone. With a starting price tag of just $500 USD it will be affordable to a lot of students and to the parents of students.
“HP listened to our needs and now is delivering a product designed by education for education,” said Chris Sieger, director of information technology for Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia. “Teachers and technology are the two most important assets in education. HP’s announcement demonstrates that it understands what schools need from industry.”
Today Nokia launched Globally the Nokia N-Gage games service with new games and additional compataible devices. Millions of Nokia owners can mpw try out games on their phone, directly from the N-Gage mobile service, they can also connect with other players through the N-Gage Arena Community.
“With N-Gage we’re offering a seamless experience for people around the world to try and buy games that are engaging, accessible and have wide appeal,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, vice president of games, Nokia. “We’re very excited to get this into the hands of our customers, because with them we will shape the future of mobile gaming.”
The N-Gage platform has a bunch of exclusive titles such as EA Sports Fifa 2008, The Sims 2 Pets, Dogz, Tetris and World Series of Poker Pro challenge just to name a few.
Earlier this week HP Introduced the HP Elite Autofocus Webcam, a stylish little webcam that sits on top of your monitor and can deliver up to 12 Mega Pixel pictures, and all for a low price of $99.99.
First thing that popped in my head was, wow a 12 MP camera for $99.99 that’s a bargain even if it is just a webcam. So can a $99 dollar web cam really deliver 12 MP pictures? Only one way to find out and that is to test the camera out, thankfully for us HP was kind enough to send us one.
We received the camera back on the 31st of March and made a little unpacking post to tease you, and first impressions by some weren’t great, some thought that it was too square and ugly, and while I may have agreed at first the webcam looks much better in person and honestly I like it, the square face it has fits better on my monitor than a round face camera.
Today Western Digital Introduced the My Book Studio Edition II for Macs. The My Book is an external hard drive with up to 2 TB of storage space.
The new Studio Edition II which are formated specifically for Mac computers and designed in a way that is eco-friendly is currently available at the online Western Digital store (ShopWD.com).
“WD developed the My Book Studio Edition II external drives to satisfy the needs of Mac enthusiasts and creative professionals who require extra-fast performance, but also want it to be as environmentally friendly as possible,” said Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD’s branded products and consumer electronics groups. “Configured with RAID 0 out of the box, photographers, graphic artists, videographers, and others who require large amounts of storage will experience high performance combined with power savings and quiet operation when they use the new My Book Studio Edition II storage system.”
Earlier today, HP Introduced the w1707 a webcam that promises to deliver up to 12 mega pixel image quality and 5x zoom.
Pretty impressive considering the camera only cost $99.99. While the Camera is not in stores yet HP was kind enough to send us a sample to check out for 2 weeks and before we bring you the review, we thought we would tease you with some pictures we took when we unpacked it.
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