Windows 7 Pro 64 bit–$139 @ Newegg

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pureSilicon announces Kage K1 SATA and USB SSDs, up for pre-order now

By Amar Toor posted Jan 18th 2012 3:05AM

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It seems like only yesterday that pureSilicon released its new Nitro N2 and Renegade S4 SSDs. Today, the company followed up on that announcement with the Kage K1 USB SSD, and the Kage K1 SATA SSD. The former is a USB 3.0-based SSD drive that measures around 4.5mm in thickness and offers up to 240GB of MLC space. It's available for pre-order now, at a price of $230, with shipments expected to start up sometime during Q1 of this year. As for the Kage K1 SATA SSD, it's more in line with what you'll find with the aforementioned Nitro N2 and Renegade S4 varieties. Capable of delivering up to 6Gb/s, the eMLC NAND flash memory-based SATA SSD promises reading speeds of up to 540 MB / sec, writing speeds of 520 MB / sec, and boasts up to 400 GB of usable eMLC. That'll cost you a bit more, though, with a price tag of $975. It too, is available for pre-order now, with shipments slated for early this year.

Belkin reveals Advance N900 DB router, keeps your MW3 marathon top priority with IntelliStream

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By Billy Steele posted Jan 8th 2012 12:00PM

Belkin has added another wireless networking kit to it's N-series lineup here at CES. The company has announced its Advance N900 DB, a dual band WiFi router capable of 450Mbps speeds per band. Featuring six MultiBeam antennas, the tech makes watching Hulu Plus from your basement much easier and looks to cut down on those pesky dead spots. Also outfitted with IntelliStream, the device automatically prioritizes video and gaming streams and houses a 600MHz multi-thread processor that multitasks across all networked devices. For connected storage or wireless printers, the N900 packs two USB 2.0 ports enabling access to those peripherals from workstations other than your desk. If you're looking to take the leap, the router will be available for pre-order this month and at retailers in April, setting you back two Benjamins.

Samsung introduces WiFi SmartCam and video baby monitors

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By Dante Cesa posted Jan 8th 2012 7:21PM

For those keen on observing from afar, Samsung's just unveiled two WiFi surveillance cameras. Both can easily be paired with routers that support WPS and offer remote tracking from Sammy's SmartCam website. That feed is 640 x 480 at 30fps and encoded in H.264. Alternatively on the WiFi SmartCam, footage can automatically be uploaded to YouTube based on predefined activity. They'll also survey in complete darkness thanks to built-in infrared. Both will go on sale in March for $149

Rosewill 2-Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card Model RC-505 - $24.99 Newegg.com

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Easily add two USB 3.0 ports to your computer. Rosewill’s PCI-e USB 3.0 solution, RC-505, provides ultra-fast data transfers at up to 5Gbps to address the needs of higher performance connections between the PC and increasingly sophisticated peripherals. USB 3.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.0/1.1/2.0 devices and fully plug-n-play and hot swap compatible. The RC-505 is a great way to take advantage of the latest USB 3.0 data transfer technology.

• PCI EXPRESS USB 3.0 SOLUTIONThe Rosewill RC-505 uses one free PCI Express slot to provide two USB 3.0 ports. With up to 5Gbps maximum transfer rate, the RC-505 offers an ideal connection for digital cameras, scanners, printers, external CD/DVD/Blu-ray writers, hard disk drives, flash memory drives and etc. It is also backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 devices. The Rosewill RC-505 supports simultaneous operation of multiple USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 devices.

 

• EXTERNAL POWER CONNECTORThe RC-505 has built-in 4-pin power connector for added power source to better support power hungry bus-powered devices.

The First Gigabit-Speed Wi-Fi Cards Will Make Streaming Netflix More Awesome

BY KYLE WAGNER

JAN 5, 2012 12:46 PM

Wi-Fi is about to get pretty darn fast. Broadcom's first gigabit Wi-Fi cards are reportedly up to three times faster and six times more efficient than what's out there now.

The new 802.11ac chips are based on 5G WiFi, the next gen Wi-Fi standard. The chips—BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526 and BCM43516—use an 80 MHz channel bandwidth that's two times wider than the channel on similar products. That's huge for bandwidth-hungry tasks like downloading HD movies or loading a dozen tabs of horrible offensive pornography at a time.

The chips should have an effect on mobile, too. Content will be downloaded faster, so the chips should let handsets go into low-power mode quicker, which will should actually save battery life to the point that turning on LTE doesn't immediately drop your charge by half.

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Intel Ivy Bridge Chips Launching Early April 2012

 

By Melanie Pinola, PCWorld    Dec 29, 2011 1:24 PM

Intel may unveil its next generation of processors--nicknamed "Ivy Bridge"--in April, according to the latest reports. The Ivy

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Bridge chips for desktops and laptops promise a 37 percent performance increase over the current generation of Sandy Bridge processors.

The new Ivy Bridge CPUs use a 22-nanometer architecture, which makes them almost 30 percents smaller than the current chips, which use a 32nm architecture. Smaller chips mean lower power consumption (which is great for battery life) and more room for the integrated graphics chip. Ivy Bridge will support DirectX 11, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.0.

Taiwan-based trade publication DigiTimes reports that the first Ivy Bridge processors to launch will be quad-core desktop processors: the Core i7-3370 series and the Core i5-3570, 3550, and 3450. Because Ivy Bridge is backward-compatible with existing Sandy Bridge motherboards, desktop users should have an upgrade path available.

The first Ivy Bridge notebook chips to launch, according to DigiTimes, will be the Core i7 chips as well: The Core i7-3920QM, 3820QM, and 3720QM. Core i5 processors will pop up later.

Ivy Bridge will be smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient, and should be here in just a few months.

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