Transcend ESD200, an excellent portable SSD

As we know, the read and write speeds of an SSD, or solid state disk, are superior to those of current hard drive, and if to this we also add an interface USB 3.0 , but we will have a fast disk. The Transcend ESD200 is an album of that kind.

Transcend has just released this new line which currently has only two models available: a 128GB and a 256GB. As stated by the title, are discs Portable easy to carry anywhere and also easy to connect, but most are very fast because of its nature and that use a USB 3.0 interface to connect to your PC or notebook.

Thus, the Transcend ESD200 is capable of reading and writing speeds of 260MB/sy 225MB / s respectively. The 128GB model has a price of around $ 125, while the 256GB can be purchased for $ 250.

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iTunes 11 could be launched soon

The next version of the iTunes store for Apple , known as iTunes 11, will be a major redesign for the site, but unfortunately, just as we reported early this month, this release has been delayed. As indicated in its time , the output of the new version has been delayed approximately the end of November, ie for the days ahead.

It seems that Apple has placed orders for musicians and record companies to send them high quality images and galleries that will be used in iTunes 11. All this indicates that Apple is betting big on this new version.

We'll have to be careful the next few days about the possible launch of iTunes 11.

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Location X1 presented in China and with a thickness of only 6.55 mm

Does anyone remember the Oppo Finder? Is this great smartphone recognized as the world's thinnest measuring only 6.9 mm thick. Therefore now the Finder is out of his crown, as another smartphone called Live X1 has even less thickness, measuring 6.55 mm. To give some idea of an iPhone 5, for example, has a thickness of 7.6 mm.

The V ivo X1 is manufactured by the company BBK, one of the largest manufacturers of DVD players in China. If you wonder why your specifications, the Living X1 has a screen 4.7-inch qHD uses a Cortex-A9 processor at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM available, has 16GB of internal memory, the camera uses an 8-megapixel sensor and the battery is 2,000 mAh leads. Besides all this, runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

It will be released soon and will cost about $ 400.

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Archos FamilyPad be launched in December

Archos has just introduced a new tablet designed to be used by the whole family, the brilliant Archos FamilyPad. This is a sizeable tablet that measures 13.3 inches. The screen is multitouch and has a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels.

The idea behind the device is to be used for watching movies, watching photo albums, play virtual games and other similar activities that can be done as a family.

The FamilyPad has decent specs. Its internal memory is 8GB, has a microSDHC card reader, uses an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz which is accompanied by 1GB of RAM and has a front and a rear camera of 2 megapixels in both cases. The department has a microUSB port and a HDMI output. Regarding the operating system, runs on Android 4.0 ICS.

The Archos FamilyPad will be released next month and will cost about $ 440.

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A A15 Samsung demonstrates its performance with Ubuntu

With the launch of new models of Chromebooks by Samsung and Acer and the decline being experienced by netbooks is more likely that Chromebooks are more likely to succeed in the market. Obviously this does not lead us to question how good is the performance of one of these machines.

A user emptied your Samsung A15 Chrome OS operating system and installed Ubuntuinstead. By doing so, turned his laptop into a powerful team.

The laptop in question is 11 inches, has a Cortex-A15 CPU Dual-core 1.7GHz, uses a Mali-T604 GPU, has 2GB of RAM and 16GB memory consists in SSD.

After installing Ubuntu, system performance improved significantly as you can see in the picture below. This makes it quite clear that Ubuntu is one of the best distros of Linux and is very well optimized.

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Samsung working on a eight-core chip for smartphones and tablets

Samsung is developing a new type of mobile processor will be based on the ARM architecture Big.LITTLE. This architecture is an expansion of the technology 4-Plus-1, which is used by a known quad-core processor, the Nvidia Tegra 3, which is able to use a single core when not needed in order to save the rest battery.

It seems that Samsung plans to talk about his new project in the conference International Solid-State Circuits to be held in February. The new eight-core chip from Samsung will be created with a 28nm process and have two clusters of four cores each. One of these clusters will run at 1.8GHz and will be responsible for tasks requiring high performance, while the remaining cluster march at 1.2GHz and will handle simple tasks in order to save battery all possible.

Will this be the chip that will use the next Galaxy S IV?

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Windows turns 27

With the release of Windows 8 is likely that many have forgotten that the famous operating system Microsoft turned 27 yesterday. While Windows dates from early 1985, was in November of that year when it was released to the public the first version, which was 1.01.
Some said the copied many things OS Macintosh Apple , but the fact is that by the mid-90s' Windows and was dominating the domestic market.
If we look at current W1.01 orignal W8 and see a lot of different things obviously, and it shows clearly how this operating system has evolved to become what it is today.
Funny thing is that Microsoft continued to support Windows 1 to 2001. Will the same with Windows 8 until 2028?

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Curiosity has found something big on Mars

Curiosity, the famous robot probe that was sent to explore Mars a couple of months ago, seems to have stumbled upon something very interesting on the red planet. It appears that some of the instruments of our little friend space are analyzing a soil sample that has attracted much attention of the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. If confirmed what they believe, this is a finding to enter the history books.
The Curiosity analysis tools, known as SAM, allow the robot to identify the different compounds that form a sample. John Grotzinger, the mission's principal investigator, has yet to comment on what you think you have found on Mars by Curiosity simply because they can not yet confirm the nature of the find.
Obviously what many believe is that Curiosity has evidence that life exists beyond Earth, but also those who believe that it is something much fatter. We will have to wait and see.

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