iXBT Labs - Computer Hardware in Detail

Platform

Video

Multimedia

Mobile

Other

News Archive


 « Previous Day News Archive Next Day » 

Headlines


Dell W1700 – another monitor with a TV tuner

Transcend unveils 1" 2.2GB storage solutions

Future AMD64 chipsets from ALi, ATI, NVIDIA SiS, VIA: more details

Toshiba Dynabook SS SX: new ultra light notebooks with 12.1" XGA displays

3Dlabs Wildcat VP990 Pro 512MB in our lab



Dell W1700 – another monitor with a TV tuner

Dell started shipping its new 17" monitor with a built-in TV tuner — W1700 – that costs avout $776 in Japan. Based on Super IPS, it supports WXGA (1280x768) resolution and 16.7 million colors. It also features 0.291 mm pixel pitch, 450nit brightness, 25ms response time, 400:1 contrast, 176° horizontal and vertical viewing angle (slightly better than those of similar models), 56-75Hz frame scan, 31-61kHz line scan, CATV (VHF/UHF/CATV) tuner capabilities.

Designed for modern graphics cards, the monitor has a DVI-D and a 15-pin D-Sub connectors as well as several AV interfaces, including Tuner — Coax, Composite Video , Component Video, S-Video and RCA (L+R) Audio. As a multimedia solution it has 2x5W speakers, supports clearness correction, PIP. While working it consumes 60W. Sized 290-420x544x89.5mm, it weighs about 7kg.

The company is also going to ship a ready system, including W1700, desktop Dimension 2400C with 2GHz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, optical drive.

You can find similar features in iiyama PLE430T-S (that is slightly smaller and lighter — 4.4kg), Sharp LL-M17W1. However, W1700 has more powerful speakers.

Source: Mycom PC Web

Transcend unveils 1" 2.2GB storage solutions

Transcend introduced its new hard disk — 2.2GB CF+ Type II 1" HDD — designed for MP3 players, digital cameras, notebooks, etc. According to the company, 2.2GB is enough for 80 video games and a whole lot of any high-quality photos.

Other specs are:

  • 3.3V or 5V voltage (autodetected)
  • 3.3-6.5MB/s sustained data rate
  • 4200rpm rotation speed
  • 10ms avg. seek time
  • 42.8x36.4x5.0 mm dimensions

Despite such small-size novelties, 3.5" drives dominated in 2003. Their share is expected to make 81.3% (about 179 million units). Besides, the share of 2.5" drives is to make 18.7% (about 41 million units). At that analysts believe that the gradual transition to 2.5" disks is inevitable because such solutions are optimal for notebooks and consumer electronics.

Future AMD64 chipsets from ALi, ATI, NVIDIA SiS, VIA: more details

Today South Korean Darkcrow completely confirmed that ATI prepares to release an AMD64 chipset series with the report about 2003 AMD Reseller Seminar held last week in Seoul. We were especially pleased with very nice images enabling us to clearly identify roadmaps of ATI and all other chipset makers.



On the first image you can see the discrete chipset roadmap, on the second – the integrated chipset roadmap of all 5 makers of this market: ALi, ATI, NVIDIA SiS and VIA. In particular, Ali that had already introduced single-chip prototypes for the Intel Pentium 4 platform got a taste for this and also introduced its new A64 single-chip core logic, ALi 1697, similar to NVIDIA´s Crush K8. Besides the PCI Express, ALi´s new chipset has integrated Wi-Fi support.

We´ve already posted about all other chipset, so we won´t pause on them again. The only new information these images provide are the more or less specific release dates. As you can see, almost all companies will be ready for AMD64 chipset volume shipments by the summer, so it´s just about the demand.

Source: DarkCrow

Toshiba Dynabook SS SX: new ultra light notebooks with 12.1" XGA displays

Japanese Toshiba introduced another mobile ultra light B5 series — Dynabook SS SX/210LN scheduled for shipping to January. Novelties are interesting by their light weight, just 995g fully equipped, and operation time – up to 5.4 hours with a standard battery.


Dynabook SS SX/210LNLN has 12.1" XGA LCD display, 1.0GHz ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) Pentium M, Intel 855GM chipset, 256MB PC2100 (up to 1GB), 1.8" 20GB hard disk. Besides, the SS SX/210LNLW model weighs 1.1kg and features 2.5" 40GB HDD and IEEE 802.11b/g interface. In Japan new models will cost up to $2000.

Source: PC Watch

3Dlabs Wildcat VP990 Pro 512MB in our lab

We are currently testing the professional workstation graphics card, Wildcat VP990 Pro, based on P10 processor and featuring 512MB RAM. If you remember, this model was announced before the 256MB variant.

The card supports AGP 4x/8x and has 256-bit bus. Wildcat VP990 Pro 512MB has 2 x DV-1 connectors and supports output to two analog/digital monitors. Wildcat VP990 Pro can show what she is really capable of when coupled with a hi-res display with up to 9 million pixels.







 « Previous Day News Archive Next Day » 

Write a comment below. No registration needed!




blog comments powered by Disqus

  Most Popular Reviews More    RSS  

AMD Phenom II X4 955, Phenom II X4 960T, Phenom II X6 1075T, and Intel Pentium G2120, Core i3-3220, Core i5-3330 Processors

Comparing old, cheap solutions from AMD with new, budget offerings from Intel.
February 1, 2013 · Processor Roundups

Inno3D GeForce GTX 670 iChill, Inno3D GeForce GTX 660 Ti Graphics Cards

A couple of mid-range adapters with original cooling systems.
January 30, 2013 · Video cards: NVIDIA GPUs

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

An external X-Fi solution in tests.
September 9, 2008 · Sound Cards

AMD FX-8350 Processor

The first worthwhile Piledriver CPU.
September 11, 2012 · Processors: AMD

Consumed Power, Energy Consumption: Ivy Bridge vs. Sandy Bridge

Trying out the new method.
September 18, 2012 · Processors: Intel
  Latest Reviews More    RSS  

i3DSpeed, September 2013

Retested all graphics cards with the new drivers.
Oct 18, 2013 · 3Digests

i3DSpeed, August 2013

Added new benchmarks: BioShock Infinite and Metro: Last Light.
Sep 06, 2013 · 3Digests

i3DSpeed, July 2013

Added the test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 and AMD Radeon HD 7730.
Aug 05, 2013 · 3Digests

Gainward GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2GB Golden Sample Graphics Card

An excellent hybrid of GeForce GTX 650 Ti and GeForce GTX 660.
Jun 24, 2013 · Video cards: NVIDIA GPUs

i3DSpeed, May 2013

Added the test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770/780.
Jun 03, 2013 · 3Digests
  Latest News More    RSS  

Platform  ·  Video  ·  Multimedia  ·  Mobile  ·  Other  ||  About us & Privacy policy  ·  Twitter  ·  Facebook


Copyright © Byrds Research & Publishing, Ltd., 1997–2011. All rights reserved.