MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum, a novelty on i915P

Sony adds 2GB products to Pocket Bit USB

Epson/Cosina R-D1: not a prototype anymore

Intel updates OEM price list

Photo of the day: IWILL DH800 in our lab

MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum, a novelty on i915P

Micro-Star International (MSI) unveiled the MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum motherboard on Intel 915P + ICH6R chipset for LGA775 Pentium 4 Prescott processors. Similar to competing solution, the board supports dual-channel DDR2-533 and PCI Express x16.

As chipset features were mentioned here, here we´ll say that theoretically the board can work with DDR2-667 from Samsung, Infineon, Micron, Hynix, Elpida, Kingston, Corsair, GeIL and Transcend. Besides, an additional VIA RAID provides RAID 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD for 4 x IDE drives.

Traditionally the board features CoreCell chips and provides the following features:

• V Power – dynamic CPU core voltage adjustment.
• SafeBIOS – automatic BIOS recovery from the "backup area"; based on CoreCell (MS-8)
• Meta I/O – provides support for various interfaces from S/PDIF, coaxial and optical to IEEE1394, etc.

Besides, the board features Communication slot that supports extended PCI specs and supports PCI network cards. For this slot MSI developed a proprietary Dual-Net card combining 802.11g and Bluetooth interfaces. This slot resulted in DigiCell interface redesign that now provides a quick way to transform a system into an access point or a wireless gateway.

Sony adds 2GB products to Pocket Bit USB

Sony added a new product to its Pocket Bit USB series — 2GB miniature hard disk. The novelty is larger than a usual USB dongle, 73x50x13mm, and has a "hideable" connector.

Because of the very simple backup method (just press AutoSync), it´s not clear to whom the device is positioned. Though sometimes, this might come in handy and you won´t need any special software. The device supports incremental backup up to 10 copies.

All there´s to do is to wait for test results to be assured the novelty is really worth $316 (in Japan). For sale it is to go in July.

Another interesting solution is a usual USB dongle with a fingerprint sensor. The software secures system access when there´s a screensaver active and stores up to 10 fingerprint and password accounts. Sized 20x7x61mm, it weighs about 8.5g. I guess the competing companies will announce similar devices soon as well.

Source: Mycom PCWEB

Epson/Cosina R-D1: not a prototype anymore

Epson/Cosina´s R-D1 "Rangefinder Digital Camera" supporting Leica M & L lenses, that was introduced as a prototype at PMA this year, has finally arrive as a ready product.

• Magnesium alloy body
• 23.7x15.6mm (APS-C) CCD, 6.1 effective megapixels
• 3008x2000, 2240x1488
• 12-bit CCD-RAW, JPEG (EXIF 2.21)
• Galileo 1.0x viewfinder with parallax correction

• Auto and manual WB, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Sunny presets
• 1-1/2000s exposures
• ISO 200/400/800/1600
• 2" LCD, 235,000 pixels
• SecureDigital media
• 142x89x40mm
• 590g without battery

Source: PC Watch

Intel updates OEM price list

Intel updated its OEM price list with the following products: 3.40 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (LGA775), Pentium 4 560/550/540/530/520, Celeron D 335/330/325/320 (Socket 478). As we have already mentioned in the pre-announcement, Pentium 4 XE 3.40 GHz costs $999, Pentium 4 560/550/540/530/520 — $637/$417/$278/$218/$178 respectively, Celeron D 335/330/325/320 — $117/$89/$79/$69 respectively.

Pentium 4 XE (LGA775): 800MHz FSB, 2MB L3 cache, 0.13µm process. Pentium 4: 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, 90nm process. Clock rates are: 560 – 3.60 GHz, 550 – 3.40 GHz, 540 – 3.20 GHz, 530 — 3 GHz, 520 – 2.80 GHz. Celeron D: 533MHz FSB, 256KB L2 cache, 90nm. Clock rates: 335 – 2.80 GHz, 330 – 2.66 GHz, 325 – 2.53 GHz, 320 – 2.40 GHz.

Mobile Pentium 725 and 715 cost $241/$209 respectively.

Photo of the day: IWILL DH800 in our lab

We are currently testing IWILL DH800 workstation motherboard that supports 2 x Xeons wit up to 533MHz FSB, DDR400 memory and PCI-X

• 2 x Intel Xeon (533MHz FSB
• Intel 875P + HR
• Up to 4GB of dual-channel DDR400, ECC
• AGP 8X
• PCI-X 64-bit/66MHz
• Intel CSA Gigabit LAN
• TI IEEE-1394
• 2 x SATA, Adaptec HOST RAID (RAID 1)
• Int. 5.1-channel audio
• USB2.0
• ATX

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