The first wave of Intel Ultrabooks are coming. A leaked photo of the Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook has the ultraportable market buzzing this morning. As the first legitimate 2011 MacBook Air alternative for Windows users, the Aspire 3951 will be an eminent threat when it launches this October. Not only will it nearly match the MacBook Air in size and dimensions, the Ultrabook will be priced less than £849.
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TDK Corporation has unloaded a new line of solid state drives (SSDs). THE SDG3B series is built off the SATAII interface and ranges in size from 16GB to 128GB. Using MLC NAND flash memory and the TDK GBDriver RS3 controller, the budget-friendly drives achieve maximum read speeds of 160 MB/s and write speeds of 25 MB/s.
For better or worse, the MacBook Air re-invented the so-called netbook segment of modern computing. Fitted in a razor thin aluminum casing with a brilliant display, low power processor, best-in-class trackpad and a full-sized keyboard, how could you improve such a wonderful gadget? Simply head on over to OWC for a ride on the wild side with a mammoth-sized 480GB SSD upgrade — if you can stomach the price tag.
With the exception of the new 3TB Constellation ES.2 hard drive, all of Seagate’s 2011 product announcements this afternoon consisted of 2.5-inch for factor drives. Cache has been boosted across the board from 16MB to 64MB and all of the new drives come with a self-encryption option. Bottom line, expect performance and capacity improvements between 50 and 100 percent.
Copying your games to your Playstation 3 has long been the solution for reducing game load times. Today, that all changes with a simple SSD upgrade for your original (fat) Playstation 3. Using Gran Turismo 5 as a test and a Corsair F120 SSD, a user on the Beyond3d forums has slashed their track load times by as much as 50 percent.
Those memory-mad mavens Buffalo have just launched what they claim is the world’s first external solid state USB drive: the MicroStation.