Creative Japan announces professional EMU-0404 sound card

Acer introduces TravelMate 290E notebooks on Celeron M

Photo of the day: SMCWMR-AG EZ-Stream wireless receiver from SMC Networks

Chaintech Korea unveils GeForce 6800 based cards

Creative Japan announces professional EMU-0404 sound card

Creative Japan announced the new professional EMU-0404 PCI sound card that will go on sale late in June with expected MSRP of $140.

The card has 32-bit E-DSP to offload CPU, 24-bit/192kHz ADC/DAC, and features 111dB SNR of analog input, 116dB SNR of analog output. According to the press release, sampling rates include 44.1/48/96 kHz @ 16-24-bit. The novelty supports MME, WDM, DirectSound, ASIO 2.0 drivers.

• Analog input:
  • Unbalanced
  • RCA
  • 20 Hz — 20 kHz (+0.20/-0.10 dB)
  • 3.3 kOhm input impedance
  • 100dB THD+N (1 kHz @ —1 dBFS)
  • Crosstalk less than —120dB (1 kHz @ —1 dBFS)
• Analog output:
  • Unbalanced
  • RCA
  • 20 Hz — 20 kHz (+0.20/-0.10 dB)
  • 560 Ohm input impedance
  • 100dB THD+N (1 kHz @ —1 dBFS)
  • Crosstalk less than —109dB (1 kHz @ —1 dBFS)
• 156x107 mm size

Acer introduces TravelMate 290E notebooks on Celeron M

In three weeks after the Intel Pentium M on 90nm Dothan core was announced, Acer introduced its TravelMate 290E notebook based on 1.3GHz Intel Celeron M with 512KB L2 cache, Intel 852GM chipset and 400MHz FSB.

Acer TravelMate 290E features:

• Intel Celeron M processor
• Intel 852GM chipset
• 256MB DDR266 (up to 2GB)
• 40GB ATA/100 HDD
• 15" TFT LCD, 1024x768
• Int. graphics, uses 64MB of RAM, supports DualView
• Up to 4.5 hours of standalone operaiton
• 56Kbps V.92 modem
• Fast Ethernet 10/100 Mbps, IEEE 802.11g
• 1 x LPT
• 3 x USB2.0
• IrDA
• 1 x PCMCIA (CardBus) Type II
• Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional + Recovery CD
• Acer Launch Manager, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Norton AntiVirus, NTI CD Maker

This Intel Celeron M/852GM model differs from notebooks on Intel Pentium M Dothan/855GME announced earlier by the absence of integrated Memory Stick/Secure Digital/SmartMedia/MultiMediaCard reader.

Photo of the day: SMCWMR-AG EZ-Stream wireless receiver from SMC Networks

Our Alexey Samsonov is currently testing SMCWMR-AG EZ-Stream wireless receiver from SMC Networks.

The bundle includes:

• Receiver itself
• Support
• Remote control
• 1.5m RJ-45 cable
• RCA-RCA cable
• 2 x RCA — 2 x RCA cable
• Power supply
• Software CD
• Brief user´s manual

And the features are:

• IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g
• 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps over 802.11b
• 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps over 802.11a/g
• 64-bit, 128-bit WEP
• Infrastructure and Ad-hoc modes
• Built-in antenna
• 10/100 Mbps networking controller (RJ-45)
• CSMA/CA access protocol
• Firmware upgrades
• Composite TV connector
• PAL/NTSC
• Stereo sound (2 x RCA)
• Playback:
  • MPEG1 (352x288, up to 2 Mbps) and MPEG2 (352x480, up to 4 Mbps)
  • MP3 (16-320 Kbps)
  • JPEG, BMP
• Internet Radio support (128 Kbps and over is recommended)

Chaintech Korea unveils GeForce 6800 based cards

Chaintech Korea unveiled three cards on NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPU: AA6800UA1 (GeForce 6800 Ultra, DDR3, 400/1,100 MHz), AA6800GA1 (GeForce 6800 GT, DDR3, 350/1,000 MHz), AA6800B1 (GeForce 6800, DDR3, 325/700 MHz).

The latter model will go on sale first. It´s almost repeats the reference design: 128MB DDR SDRAM (4x32, 256-bit bus), TV-out, D-Sub, DVI.

Source: DarkCrow

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