Thursday, December 11, 2008

OCZ intros Vertex line of 2.5-inch SATA II SSDs

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/ocz-intros-vertex-line-of-2-5-inch-sata-ii-ssds/


What's this? A solid state drive family with prices not hidden deep within telephone menu trees? Yep, OCZ Technology is so sure you'll be unable to resist the speed and agility packed within its Vertex series that it has proudly produced MSRPs to go along with 'em. The 2.5-inch SATA II crew is MLC NAND-based and includes up to 64MB of onboard cache, 200MB/sec read speeds, 160MB/sec write speeds and a 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF). If your current machine could use a little bit of this, you can pick up a 30GB, 60GB, 120GB or 250GB edition right now for $129, $249, $469, and $869, respectively.

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Posted by Augustine at 2:36 PM

Dell's OptiPlex 160 'Tiny Desktop Computer' is appropriately named

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/dells-optiplex-160-tiny-desktop-computer-is-appropriately-nam/


Dell just dropped the new tiny-tower OptiPlex 160 for businesses and educational markets looking to save space and "go green." This 1.85-inch thick machine packs the usual assortment of ports, and an integrated power supply (no brick!), but unfortunately forgoes the integrated disc drive. The $563 base model incorporates a single-core Intel Atom processor, 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM, integrated video, and Vista Home Basic SP1 -- most of which reminds us of the Eee Box, other than the extra two Benjamins Dell's asking for. You can also spring for a 64GB SSD and an external DVD-ROM drive, and there will be a dual-core Atom option in 2009. While folks over in Round Rock envision these in the workplace, we certainly wouldn't mind taking one home for a romantic weekend with Ubuntu.

[Thanks, Ivana]

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Dell's OptiPlex 160 'Tiny Desktop Computer' is appropriately named originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 2:36 PM

Addonics' USB-to-NAS adapter: all your external HDDs, now network accessible

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/addonics-usb-to-nas-adapter-all-your-external-hdds-now-networ/


Storage junkies, your dreams have just been made into reality. Addonics has just introduced a marvelous new piece of kit, the simple-yet-useful Network Attached Storage Adapter. This little box enables any USB hard drive to be placed onto a network for network access, essentially turning your stale USB HDDs into NAS drives. The device supports both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols, which allows for cross-platform access of shared data for most versions of OS X, Windows and Linux. For users not directly connected over the LAN, the adapter provides FTP access for up to eight simultaneous users anywhere in the world, and it can even be used as "a print server or as a BitTorrent file downloading appliance." Best of all? It's available right now for $55. Like we said, dream come true.

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Addonics' USB-to-NAS adapter: all your external HDDs, now network accessible originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 2:34 PM

GE frees CFL lighting from the tyranny of ugly

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/ge-frees-cfl-lighting-from-the-tyranny-of-ugly/


Was it Arthur C. Clarke who said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? If he was correct, it would follow that GE's new Energy Smart CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulb is most magical. A true product of "ecomagination" (their word), the imagineers (Disney's word) at GE have taken the their tried and true CFL hardware and housed it in the form factor of a traditional light bulb. Of course there are already a vast number of options for homeowners wishing to go green on the lighting front, but we're hard pressed to find something that works across the board in traditional lighting fixtures (at least without looking awful as it does so). The product gets its national outing at Target on December 28, and starts popping up at more retailers over the coming months. To tide you over until then, we've provided some earth shattering video after the break.

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Posted by Augustine at 2:34 PM

Apple and AT&T bring back iPhone home activation

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/apple-and-atandt-bring-back-iphone-home-activation/

Online shoppers looking to spend the holiday season firmly planted on the couch can add the iPhone 3G back to their lists -- we've just confirmed that Apple and AT&T have quietly brought back in-home activation. Sure, it's been available in limited circumstances before, but now it's here and for real, just like with the first-gen unit. Would-be unlockers looking to score a phone for $199 flat can't start celebrating just yet, though -- you'll still have to provide your billing details and face an ETF if you don't activate within a set period of time. Oh well -- at least it's convenient, right?

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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