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RunCore Announces 7-mm Ultra SSD For Ultrabooks Razer Showcases Project Fiona Gaming Tablet Concept Razer Releases Naga Hex Gaming Mouse Ozone Gaming Releases New Optical Mouse Radon Opto Modified Form of Graphene Can Improve Cooling of Electronics Lian Li PC-100 Case For Motherboards Installed Back-To-Front Futuremark Releases Powermark Battery Life Test For Windows 7 G.Skill Rolls Out RipjawsZ DDR3 2400MHz 64GB (8GBx8) Memory Kits RunCore Announces 7-mm Ultra SSD For Ultrabooks
To seize the opportunity, RunCore announced its Ultrabooks solution: 7mm Pro V Ultra SSD. The product is a Sandforce-based SSD, and it adopts stainless steel enclosure. With the SATA 6Gbps interface it offers up to 525MB/s read and 525MB/s write, featuring write IOPS up to 75000. One other selling point of RunCore Ultra SSD is the height of drive: 7 mm is particularly noteworthy as most standard 2.5" drives are around 9 mm of height. Source: RunCore Razer Showcases Project Fiona Gaming Tablet Concept At CES, Razer showcased their newest gaming concept design, the Project Fiona PC Gaming Tablet. Unlike other tablets designed for general use and casual gaming, Project Fiona is a tablet concept designed to play the most popular PC games of today with an intuitive control setup.  Razer worked closely with Intel to harness the power of its third generation Intel Core i7 processor in Project Fiona. As a result, Razer's tablet is more akin to a fully functioning PC; and yet in a form factor and platform highly familiar to everybody. Instead of relying on developers to work on a suite of brand new applications for Project Fiona, many PC games today run natively on the tablet concept without the need to be ported, optimized, or developed from scratch. Moreover, Project Fiona will feature one of the most powerful processors integrated in a tablet form factor. Instead of the casual and mobile-only games that run on under-powered tablets, Project Fiona will run full-fledged PC games that have never run on a tablet form factor before until today.  Razer has developed an all-new hybrid user interface scheme for Project Fiona. Featuring integrated dual game controllers with ultra-precise analog sticks, Project Fiona runs gamepad-enabled PC games right out of the box. Along with the game controllers, Project Fiona is also designed with ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly sensitive multi-touch screen. This provides game developers with new game experiential opportunities to develop around the hybrid game control experience offered by Project Fiona. It also ensures current-generation PC games run on the tablet concept, as well as any existing games optimized for the touchscreen interface of a tablet. Future games developed for Fiona are expected to take advantage of not just the integrated gamepad controls but also integrate core game functionality controls for the touchscreen and accelerometer-based controls. To further intensify the gaming experience with Project Fiona, Razer's integrated dual controllers deliver full force feedback, so every explosion or gun recoil can be felt in the gamer's hands. Developer units of the Project Fiona Concept PC Gaming Tablet will be made available soon. Price: Estimated below $1000. Availability: Actual product shipping Q4 2012. Source: Razer Razer Releases Naga Hex Gaming Mouse At CES, Razer released the Razer Naga Hex MOBA/action-RPG gaming mouse. Inspired by the Razer Naga MMO gaming mouse's 12-button thumb grid, the Razer Naga Hex features six large thumb buttons optimized for the user interfaces found in action-RPG and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games.  The Razer Naga Hex has six mechanical buttons to specifically bind the spells, abilities, items, and other invaluable commands in MOBA games like League of Legends for faster and easier actuation. With a mechanical key infrastructure that requires less force to actuate, you gain the edge in speed over enemies, attacking before they can react. The Razer Naga Hex is also perfect for obsessive clicking in hack and slash games. Since both the RPG and MOBA game genres require intensive clicking, the Razer Naga Hex's buttons are constructed with special switches for a performance of up to 250 clicks per minute—perfect for pro-gamers with lightning fast reflexes. Don't worry about hyper-clicking though, as the Razer Naga Hex utilizes switches that are good for up to a whopping 10 million clicks.  The Razer Naga Hex is designed with an ergonomic curvature that fits your hand comfortably. The placement of the six thumb buttons has also been perfected over countless design reiterations, and validated by MOBA pro-gamers to ensure you're getting the best game control and grip. Three interchangeable thumb rests of different heights are included so you get the best comfort and grip that suits you. This is especially important for reducing strain during lengthy gaming sessions at home or at highly competitive tournaments. The Razer Naga Hex will also be Razer Synapse 2.0 enabled—this means the mouse is installed with the world's first cloud-based storage software that automatically saves all user custom mouse settings and profiles to a cloud server. These settings can then be accessed from any computer, with any Razer Naga Hex, ensuring that the mouse is ready for use instantly, and setup just the way you like it. The MSRP of the novelty that is expected in stores worldwide in March 2012 is 79.99 euros. Product features:
Source: Razer Ozone Gaming Releases New Optical Mouse Radon Opto After unveiling Radon 3k and 5k mice the gamers peripheral company is back a year later to present the Radon Opto pro gaming mouse.  Radon Opto has a powerful Avago 3090 optical sensor with up to 3500 dpi resolution, more than enough to achieve extreme accuracy. These levels of resolution combined with the internal capability of optical technology to recognize the work surface with a high level of detail, offer an excellent response especially in FPS (First Person Shooters). Radon Opto offers 4 sensitivity levels that can be switched by simply pressing a button: 450/900/1800/3500 dpi. The novelty also can store custom profiles in own memory, including resolution, macros and scripts.  Mouse weight can be adjusted as well—with the included five weights, 4.5g each. It also has a high-level prediction and reporting system with 1 m/s recoil, a great advantage for gaming or graphics design. The MSRP is 39.90 euros. Specs:
Source: Ozone Gaming Modified Form of Graphene Can Improve Cooling of Electronics A University of California, Riverside engineering professor and a team of researchers have made a breakthrough discovery with graphene, a material that could play a major role in keeping laptops and other electronic devices from overheating. Alexander Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, and researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Dallas and Xiamen University in China, have shown that the thermal properties of isotopically engineered graphene are far superior to those of graphene in its natural state. The results bring graphene—a single-atom thick carbon crystal with unique properties, including superior electrical and heat conductivity, mechanical strength and unique optical absorption—one step closer to being used as a thermal conductor for managing heat dissipation in everything from electronics to photovoltaic solar cells to radars. "The important finding is the possibility of a strong enhancement of thermal conduction properties of isotopically pure graphene without substantial alteration of electrical, optical and other physical properties," Balandin said. "Isotopically pure graphene can become an excellent choice for many practical applications provided that the cost of the material is kept under control." The importance of the present research is explained by practical needs for materials with high thermal conductivity. Heat removal has become a crucial issue for continuing progress in the electronics industry, owing to increased levels of dissipated power as the devices become smaller and smaller. The search for materials that conduct heat well has become essential for the design of the next generation of integrated circuits and three-dimensional electronics. Balandin believes graphene will gradually be incorporated into different devices. Intially, it will likely be used in some niche applications such as thermal interface materials for chip packaging or transparent electrodes in photovoltaic solar cells or flexible displays, he said. In a few years, it could be used with silicon in computer chips, for example as interconnect wiring or heat spreaders. It also has the potential to benefit other electronic applications, including analog high-frequency transistors, which are used in wireless communications, radar, security systems and imaging. Source: UCR In the next year of the black dragon we wish you solid health, happiness and luck. Be powerful as a dragon, wise as a dragon, and may your hoard of riches be really huge! Happy New Year everyone! Today's collection of reviews published by our colleagues.
Lian Li PC-100 Case For Motherboards Installed Back-To-Front Lian Li unveiled a radical rethink of the PC case, the new PC-100. The PC-100 is a long overdue redesign of the traditional PC chassis that is meant to improve cooling, prolong component life, and save space. This mid-tower case is roomy enough for the longest graphics cards and largest E-ATX/XL-ATX/ATX motherboards, thanks to its innovative layout. It is also easy to assemble without tools.  According to the company, traditional case layouts have two serious barriers to optimal cooling, performance, and ease-of-use: firstly, they block airflow with a wall of hard disk drives inside the front of the case; secondly, important ports and connectors are at the back, making them difficult to access — a defect that manufacturers can only try to address by adding a few front panel connectors. The PC-100's redesign solves both these problems thanks to a couple of innovations. In the PC-100, the motherboard is rotated 180 degrees. So all those hard-to-reach connectors at the back of traditional PCs are now easily accessible at the front of the PC-100, and the graphics card is much closer to cool air drawn in at the front. Meanwhile, the hard disk drives are moved to the side of the case from their traditional location at the front (similar to Lian Li's recently released PC-90 chassis). The airflow direction remains the same, from the front of the case to the back, driven by two large, quiet 140-mm fans filling the rear of the case, and another 120-mm fan at the front.  Despite this redesign, there should be less cable clutter. The front panel keeps things neat, with a cable access door. If necessary, any cable can still be routed to the rear or side internally through ducts, so no extra cables protrude from the front of the case and the front panel can be opened without unplugging cables.  The PC-100 also offers enhanced hard drive cooling. With the top side of three hard drives now arranged flat against the outside of the case, they are able to radiate heat directly to the outside over a bigger surface area, instead of being crammed together in a stack as they are in traditional cases. And there's still unimpeded airflow moving across every drive. Unobstructed airflow reduces noise, as well as keeping the PC cooler. To further control noise and vibration, there are rubber anti-vibration pads under the case, and the disk drives are isolated with rubber strips on the hard drive tray. Other features that buyers have come to expect are still there, like washable air filters, a graphics card holder for stability and protection, and water cooling ports. There's space for up to 8 full sized drives and 8 expansion slots. For removable and optical drives, there are two bays at the front of the case — at the top to avoid obstructing air flow. Source: Lian Li Futuremark Releases Powermark Battery Life Test For Windows 7 Futuremark today expanded its product line with Powermark a new battery life and power consumption test for Windows 7 notebooks, laptops, tablets and other battery powered devices. Powermark is a professional grade benchmark designed for industrial testing of battery powered Windows 7 devices by OEMs, corporations and governments. It includes a convenient set of standard tests based on productivity and entertainment use-case scenarios, as well as allowing custom settings for bespoke testing requirements. Powermark Professional Edition commercial licenses start at $200 for 10 activations.  Powermark - battery life test for Windows 7 devices from Futuremark:
Powermark is only available for business customers at this time. Source: Futuremark G.Skill Rolls Out RipjawsZ DDR3 2400MHz 64GB (8GBx8) Memory Kits Following the announcement of the RipjawsZ series quad-channel DDR3 memory, G.Skill now introduces the faster DDR3 2400MHz CL10 64GB (8GBx8) kits exclusively for the Intel X79 platform.  Every single memory module of this 2400MHz 64GB kit is hand-tested, hand-picked by G.Skill. All the chips are selected and tested in a rigorous internal validation process to ensure their maximum stability with a decent overclocking headroom. All G.Skill memory products come with a lifetime warranty. Source: G.Skill
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It has been half a year since that the concept of "Ultrabook" was proposed by Intel at Computex 2011. The concept was well-received by major brand vendors in hopes that Ultrabook can revive Notebook market demand, many of whom such as Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, Acer, Fujitsu, Asus, have launched Ultrabooks, or announced they are to launch one. With the expected major growth in Ultrabooks in the next few years, SSD indeed is given a great opportunity as it is one of the key components of Ultrabooks.
