AMD Unlocked Dual Core Trinity A6 5400K

AMD seems keen on satisfying even the most financially challenged overclockers and is apparently preparing an unlocked dual core Trinity processor called A6 5400K. How many times did you buy a rather expensive motherboard that would allow you good overclocks and ensure compatibility with future and more powerful processors? This happened to us a lot and, to make the initial financial effort for a new platform easier, we usually got one of the cheapest CPUs available for the new platform. The plan was to overclock the processor until more funds became available to buy a powerful processor with higher frequency, more cores and a bigger cache. As reported by Fudzilla, AMD’s A6 5400K Trinity unlocked processor runs at a...

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MSI S20 Slider UltraBook Coming with Ivy Bridge and Windows8 in October 2012

MSI’s innovative convertible UltraBook called S20 is apparently coming on the market this autumn. The S20 features a 11.6” touchscreen with 10-point multi-touch support. The small and versatile wonder from the well-known mainboard manufacturer is powered by Intel’s powerful Ivy Bridge processor and reportedly only weighs about 1.2 Kg. That’s about 2.64 pounds and, at just 20 millimeters (0.65”) thick, the S20 Slider will certainly find its way in many clients’ shopping bags. Mobile enthusiasts dreaming to buy MSI’s new convertible UltraBook/Tablet should likely put aside about $800 if they live on the New Continent or €800 if they are in Europe. The price may be a little higher than that, considering that it will...

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Microsoft Details the Photos App for Windows 8

Windows 8 will come to the market with a series of applications that appear to be essential to any platform designed for mobile use out there. Among them, we can count the Contacts app, the Messaging app, a Calendar app and other similar software, along with a Photos app, all designed under the same Metro-style principles as the entire platform. The first thing that strikes about the application is the fact that it can bring all of your photos in a single place, regardless of their location. Of course, the application will also provide users with the possibility to keep track of where these photos come from, but it will deliver a simplified view of their memories, Microsoft notes. The company offers support those...

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Built-in PDF Editing Coming to Office 2013

The upcoming Office 2013 productivity suite from Microsoft is set to deliver an upgraded user experience through more than just visual changes. We already learned that the Redmond-based software giant is set to pack the new application version with a series of graphical changes that would bring it in line with the Metro UI in Windows 8, but there’s more to it.  The functionality of the suite will be improved as well, through the addition of new features to its various components. One of them is the Word 2013 application, which is now said to be en-route to receive full-blown support for PDF files. The app was already capable of saving documents in PDF format in Office 2010, and could also allow for this feature...

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HP Pavilion G6 with AMD A4-3305M Just for $399

HP seems to be heavily discounting its AMD Llano-based offerings to make room for newer and more powerful Trinity-based products. The company’s Pavilion G6 15.6” notebook is already available on HP’s official website for just $399 after rebate. That’s about €316 for European AMD APU fans and that’s a very affordable price point for a notebook that offers AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series Discrete-Class Graphics with both HDMI and VGA outputs and a free upgrade to 6 GB DDR3 system memory using DIMMs. That’s likely a 2+4 memory configuration and that’s not optimum for performance, but since it is free, we can’t argue with HP’s offer. The top configuration would be powered by AMD’s dual-core A4-3305M APU running at 2.5GHz with 1MB...

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Nokia N9 PR1.3 Update Now Available for Download

Finnish company officially has confirmed the update as being available for download. According to Nokia, the new update for N9 to 40.2012.21-3 is now rolling out OTA (over the air) in waves during the next few weeks. Those who currently own a Nokia N9 smartphone and did not receive a notification update will have to wait a bit longer until it becomes available in their country. “The update will be released in waves during the next few weeks, firstly to non-branded variants and later on for other variants as well. When an update is available a notification with the icon is shown in the Events view. Select the notification to view and install the update.” Nokia’s employee kerttu mentioned on the company’s support site...

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Windows Phone 8 Will Pack More Features than Unveiled

Windows Phone 8, the next-generation mobile operating system from Microsoft, was made official only a few weeks ago, yet the hype around it is already growing. Apparently, there’s a good reason for that, as Microsoft didn’t reveal all the features and capabilities of the platform during the unveiling event in San Francisco the other week. In fact, the company seems to have showed only a minor set of new features that will make it inside the Windows Phone 8 platform when it becomes official, Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for the OS, says. In a recent interview with Pocket-lint, he confirmed that most of what was unveiled at said event was meant for developers and IT pros, and not for end-users. “We showed a...

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Samsung Shows World’s First 16 GB DDR4 RDIMM Memory

Memory expert manufacturer, Korean giant company Samsung has just announced that it is already sampling DDR4 server modules with high densities of up to 16 GB. The module announced today is a RDIMM 16 GB DDR4 server memory. Samsung has been on the forefront of the DDR4 development since December 2010 when it first showed industry's first 30nm-class 2 GB DDR4 module. Today’s 16 GB hero is also built in 30nm manufacturing technology, but Samsung has pledged that it would start manufacturing memory chips in 20nm technology starting next year. Once the 20nm production line starts making DDR4 memories, densities will reach an amazing 32 GB per module. One of the advantages DDR4 memory brings overall is the fact that it...

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Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 Quad Channel Kit with Very Low Latency

Well-known computer memory manufacturer, American company Mushkin has introduced the new quad-channel memory kit of four DDR3-1600 MHz memory modules with very low latencies for DDR3 memory. Mushkin’s new memory set is called “Redline Ridgeback” and is comprised of four 4 GB DDR3-1600 memory modules rated at 7-7-7-24 latencies. These latencies are amazingly low for DDR3-1600 memory modules, and probably the lowest we’ve seen on a certified quad-channel memory kit. Mushkin’s Redline Ridgeback 16 GB quad-channel memory kit needs a 1.65V voltage for default frequencies and is covered by a full lifetime warranty by the Colorado-based manufacturer. The modules come with orange metallic heatsinks that are probably made...

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RIM 2013 Roadmap, Shows Four BlackBerry 10 Handsets

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion unveiled last week during the discussion on its first quarter fiscal 2013 earnings that it wouldn’t be able to deliver the first Blackberry 10 smartphones before the end of this calendar year. The leading handset vendor confirmed the possibility for its first such devices to arrive on shelves only in the first quarter of the calendar year 2013, but it did not offer specific info on the matter. However, some additional details on the matter are now available, courtesy of a leaked roadmap that emerged over at blackberryos.com. There is no telling on whether the info is real or not, but it comes in line with what RIM has already announced, and it might actually pan out in the...

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