World’s Fastest AMD “Trinity” Notebook Preview

Famous Taiwanese mainboard manufacturer MSI, has been quite famous lately for building the world’s fastest “Ivy Bridge” notebook and the company has apparently done it again. MSI has shown at this year’s Computex the company’s new implementation of AMD’s “Trinity“APU inside its gaming notebook line. MSI’s Computex 2012 booth had displayed a new GX60 gaming notebook. The interesting thing about this model is that it was powered by AMD’s A10-4600M APU instead of Intel’s Ivy Bridge that powers just about every other notebook in the company’s new product line. This is AMD’s top-performing Fusion mobile part and it works at a base frequency of 2300 MHz. The processor can Turbo up to 3200 MHz and is packaged in a 722-pin micro-PGA...

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Sapphire’s AMD FirePro Cards Power 6480x3840 Resolutions

Lately there wasn’t much talk about AMD’s professional line of graphics card. The company seems to lack the will to make its professional solutions more popular unlike Nvidia is doing with their Quadro line. AMD seems to be leaving such marketing and announcements to its partners and Sapphire is happy to oblige. The long time AMD AIB partner has just presented during this year’s Computex show an array of FullHD monitors that were connected to an AMD FirePro professional video card. The impressive aspect of Sapphire’s display was the fact that all the displays were controlled by a single video card using some Vid-2X display expanders. The whole setup was comprised of 12 FullHD monitors displaying a resolution of 6480...

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7Gb/s Wireless Devices Coming in 2013

While not being displayed at this year’s Computex, WirelessAD chips already taped out and are being tested. The WirelessAD standard promises transfer speeds of 7 GB/s, but the technology will not replace WirelessN and WirelessAC. The 802.11ad wireless communication standard operates in the 60 GHz band and is mostly designed to sustain networks inside the same room. The 60 Ghz signal is much more sensible to obstacles and is likely to be bounced off the walls. WirelessAD technology will coexist with current WirelessN networks working in 2.4 GHz band and new WirelessAC setups working in the 5 GHz band. There will be tri-band routers, but most of the wireless home environment in the AD standard will evolve towards point...

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BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 Coming to Indonesia for $2,000 USD (1600 EUR)

Shortly after Research In Motion (RIM) announced the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 in Singapore, the Canadian company introduced the smartphone in Indonesia. Porsche Design and Research In Motion recently confirmed that the premium Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone will be available in Indonesia at all BlackBerry Lifestyle stores from authorized partners across the country, including PT. Teletama Artha Mandiri, PT. Selular Media Infotama and PT. Comtech Cellular. Customers who wish to purchase the Porsche Design P’9981 will have to come up with no less than Rp. 18,888,888 ($2,000 USD or 1600 EUR) upfront. Powered by RIM's BlackBerry 7 operating system, Porsche Design P’9981 is built from...

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Apple Confirms iOS 6

Apple continues to install various banners inside San Francisco’s Moscone West, the latest of which confirms one key announcement about to be made at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference this next Monday. “We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers,” said Philip Schiller (Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing), in April, when Apple announced the WWDC schedule. Apple’s sales guy added, “The iOS platform has created an entirely new industry with fantastic opportunities for developers across the country and around the world.” By giving workers the green light to hang banners that read “iOS 6. The world’s most advanced mobile operating...

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Windows 8 - a Rich, Extensible Media Platform

Windows 8 will arrive with improved connectivity capabilities, better social networking, and support for new, appealing applications, as well as with various media features, Microsoft says. For a platform designed to power a new range of mobile computers, it was only natural for it to deliver great entertainment capabilities too, regardless of the PC architecture it was loaded on (both x86 and ARM devices should deliver the same features). Whether it comes to watching a movie, listening to music, video chatting or more, engaging with rich media should provide a great experience to all users, Microsoft says. Thus, Windows 8 was designed to enable users to engage in a rich variety of multimedia activities, while also offering...

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