New Apple Cinema Display: 27″, LED, 16:9, $999

Press release:
Apple today unveiled a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display with stunning 2560 x 1440 resolution and 60 percent more screen real estate than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display. Featuring a built-in iSight video camera, microphone and speakers, powered USB 2.0 hub, and universal MagSafe connector, the new LED Cinema Display is an ideal companion for the MacBook family or a Macdesktop, and is available for $999.

“With built-in MagSafe charging, iSight camera, speakers, and USB ports, the LED Cinema Display is ideal for MacBook and MacBook Pro users,”said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With its massive 2560 x 1440 resolution, the new 27-inch LED Cinema Display is a perfect fit with our powerful new Mac Pro, and it gives iMac users an easy way to double their screen real estate.”

The new, larger 27-inch LED Cinema Display features a beautiful 16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge that makes tilting the display almost effortless. The LED Cinema Display has vivid colors and exceptionally high contrast and uses a premium display technology called in-plane switching (IPS) to provide a brilliant image across an ultra wide 178 degree viewing angle.

Designed as a companion for any Mac notebook or desktop, the 27-inch display includes a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, an integrated MagSafe charger to keep Mac notebooks charged, built-in Mini DisplayPort connectivity for video and audio input and a powered three-port USB 2.0 hub so customers can charge their iPhone or iPod even when they take their MacBook with them.

The new LED Cinema Display now includes a new ambient light sensor which automatically adjusts the display brightness based on external lighting conditions and uses only as much energy as necessary to provide an optimum viewing experience. Made with mercury-free LED technology, arsenic-free glass and highly recyclable materials, the LED Cinema Display meets stringent Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status. The new display contains no brominated flame retardants and all cables and components are PVC-free.

Pricing & Availability
The new LED Cinema Display will be available in September through the Apple Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999 (US). The LED Cinema Display requires a Mac with Mini DisplayPort.

Apple updates its Mac Pro lineup, installs more Cores than you need

Press release:
Apple today unveiled a new Mac Pro line with up to 12 processing cores and up to 50 percent greater performance than the previous generation.* Featuring the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics and the option for up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD), the new Mac Pro continues to deliver amazing performance and expandability for the most demanding consumers and professionals.

“The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and configurable Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous top-of-the-line system by up to 50 percent, and with over a billion possible configurations, our customers can create exactly the system they want.”

At the heart of the new Mac Pro’s performance are next generation quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 3.33 GHz. These multi-core processors use a single die design so each core can share up to 12MB L3 cache to improve efficiency while increasing processing speed. These systems feature an integrated memory controller for faster memory bandwidth and reduced memory latency; Turbo Boost to dynamically boost processor speeds up to 3.6 GHz; and Hyper-Threading to create up to 24 virtual cores. The Mac Pro now comes with the ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics processor with 1GB of memory and customers can configure-to-order the even faster ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of memory.

For the first time, Mac Pro customers have the option to order a 512GB SSD for the ultimate in reliability and lightning fast performance. With the ability to install up to four SSD drives in the system’s internal drive bays, the new Mac Pro can provide ultra high-speed disk bandwidth and random disk performance, two times faster than the average performance of a standard disk drive.** Mac Pro also now features two Mini DisplayPorts and one dual-link DVI port. The additional Mini DisplayPort output allows customers to connect two LED Cinema Displays without an additional graphics card or adapter and the dual-link DVI port supports legacy DVI-based displays up to a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.

Every Mac Pro comes with Apple’s innovative Magic Mouse and customers can also order Apple’s new Magic Trackpad as an option. The Magic Trackpad brings the intuitive Multi-Touch gestures of Mac notebook trackpads to the desktop. With its glass surface, the wireless Magic Trackpad allows users to scroll smoothly up and down a page with inertial scrolling, pinch to zoom in and out, rotate an image with their fingertips and swipe three fingers to flip through a collection of web pages or photos. The Magic Trackpad can be configured to support single button or two button commands and supports tap-to-click as well as a physical click. Magic Trackpad is available separately for $69.

Continuing Apple’s commitment to the environment, Apple’s desktop lineup is a leader in green design. The Mac Pro meets stringent Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status.  The Mac Pro enclosure is made of highly recyclable aluminum and the interior is designed to be more material-efficient. The Mac Pro uses PVC-free internal cables and components and contains no brominated flame retardants. The new Apple Battery Charger provides a convenient and environmentally friendly way to always have a fresh set of batteries for your Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard. The Apple Battery Charger is available as an option for $29 and comes with six long shelf life rechargeable batteries.

Every Mac also comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the world’s most advanced operating system, and iLife, Apple’s innovative suite of applications for managing photos, making movies and creating and learning to play music. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. iLife features iPhoto, with breakthrough ways to organize and manage your photos by who appears in them and where they were taken; iMovie with powerful easy-to-use features such as Precision Editor, video stabilization and advanced drag and drop; and GarageBand which offers a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar.

Optional Apple professional applications include Aperture, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Studio, Logic Express and Logic Studio.

Pricing & Availability
The new Mac Pro will be available in August through the Apple Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

The new quad-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of $2,499 (US), includes:

one 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 processor with 8MB of fully-shared L3 cache;
3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB;
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
18x SuperDrive® with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire® 800 ports;
AirPort Extreme® 802.11n;
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; and
Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.

The new 8-core Mac Pro, with a suggested retail price of $3,499 (US), includes:

two 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors with 12MB of fully-shared L3 cache per processor;
6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB;
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port (adapters sold separately);
1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW);
four PCI Express 2.0 slots;
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire 800 ports;
AirPort Extreme 802.11n;
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; and
Apple Keyboard with numerical keypad and Magic Mouse.

Configure-to-order options include:

one 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3565 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;
one 3.33 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon W3680 processor for the quad-core Mac Pro;
two 2.66 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
two 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (12-cores) for the 8-core Mac Pro;
two ATI Radeon HD 5770 cards with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
one ATI Radeon HD 5870 card with 1GB of GDDR5 memory;
up to 16GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the quad-core Mac Pro;
up to 32GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory for the 8-core Mac Pro;
up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD); or
up to four 1TB or 2TB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm;
Mac Pro RAID card;
dual-channel or quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card; and
up to two 18x SuperDrives with double-layer support.

Accessories include: Magic Trackpad, Apple Battery Charger, wired Apple Mouse, wireless Apple Keyboard, Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (for 30-inch DVI display), Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, the AppleCare® Protection Plan; and pre-installed copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server; iWork®, Logic Express 9, Final Cut Express 4 and Aperture 3. Complete options and accessories are available at www.apple.com/macpro.

HTC to continue to make Sense in Windows Phone devices

Blackberry Pearl 3G 9105 coming to the UAE

We got this in the email today.

Fans of Blackberry will be happy to know that the “Pearl 3G” should be coming out pretty soon, for obvious reasons, we’ve removed the location and date from the image above, but lets just say that the event in scheduled for some time next week

Toshiba Qosmio X500 Laptop

With a quad core Intel Core i7 CPU running eight threads at 1.60GHz, 8GB RAM and a GeForce GTS 360M with 1GB dedicated frame buffer, the Toshiba Qosmio X500 puts most desktops to shame.

Check out our full review for this gaming bad boy here

What to look for when buying a Home Theater

Home Theaters come in different shapes and sizes- from the 4 Tall Boy speaker configurations (4 Tall floor standing speakers) to a Sound Bar (a bar that gives you 2.1 channels or 5.1 channel virtual output). Buying a new Home Theatre there requires several factors to be considered and below, I highlight some of the factors that I recommend you consider before making the payment.

Home Theaters have made their way to TV lounges primarily because of their aesthetic appeal. Therefore, a design matching your flat screen is recommended to add to the aesthetics. And if aesthetics is high on your list, then I suggest to go for the Sound Bar option which looks incredibly sexy and delivers high quality sound with a simple connection. Sound Bars are wall mountable and can be mounted below your flat panel TV.

Panasonic has 2 Sound Bar models- the HTB500 and the HTB10. The BT500 offers dynamic and powerful bass sound from the Kelton Subwoofer, while the HTB10 offers a simple and clean solution. Both these models provide you with clear and crisp vocals thanks to the Bamboo Cone Speakers on-board. Connecting these to your TV is through a simple HDMI cable.

If you prefer a more elaborate configuration, then I suggest our PT980 boasts stylish and glossy design speakers. These slim-sized speakers offer powerful and rich sound with heavy bass performance to bring out the best in cinematic experience. The PT980 goes a step further by allowing you to use it as a docking station for your iPods and iPhones as well.

Continuing with the integration, If you have a Panasonic display, then using out VIEra Link technology, you can have complete control over the Home Theatre, or for that matter other AV devices connected by HDMI cable to the TV, using the VIEra TV remote control. Also, the the new ARC feature lets you enjoy the TV channel sound from your Home Theatre speakers without the need for any addition cables.

If your TV is a Full High Definition TV (1920 x 1080p), you will want to invest in a Blu Ray Home Theatre so you can enjoy the Full HD Blu Ray Movies. Again, Panasonic has two Blu Ray Home Theaters to suit different room sizes. The BT735 is a 4 Tall Boy speaker model, while the BT235 is a 4 Satellite Speaker model. Both these models playback Blu Ray movies and offer a myriad of exciting features to match your Blu Ray experience.

Like always, do plenty of research to ensure that you are happy with the picture, sound and networking solutions on offer from the Home Theatre you are thinking of investing in. Panasonic has on offer a variety of Home Theatre models to suit from large lounge rooms to small bedrooms and with a bank of features to maximize your cinematic visual and audio experience. For more details on Panasonic Home Theatre models, visit panasonic.com.me or visit your nearest electronics outlets.

Scosche flipSYNC – Micro & Mini USB 2.0 Charge and Sync Cable

Link: http://igadgetlife.com/reviews/review-of-scosche-flipsync-micro-mini-usb-2.0-charge-and-sync-cable/

Quote:
” Today I’ve got a brief review for you of a rather simple but yet very useful product from Scosche called the flipSYNC. I don’t know about you but I’m always looking for a USB cable, even though I’ve got many of them I never seem to be able to find one when I need it. The flipSYNC offer both mini and micro style UBS connection with a standard USB connector on the other end so you always have both of the popular connections ready when you need them. It’s all packaged in a very small handy casing that you can clip right on your keychain to take with it with you. ”

Joby Gorillatorch Flare Review

“I love little gadgets, and I have a fondness for flashlights for some reason.. I got the Gorillatorch for review a while ago and I’ve found it to be one of the most useful products I’ve ever got for review. Joby has introduced another Gorillatorch though called the Gorillatorch Flare, that is similar to the original but offers a brighter beam with three levels of brightness and a strobe. In addition to the standard white light though included is a red light, that’s kind of where the name flare comes from. The red light can be solid or strobe only. The Gorillatorch Flare has legs that are flexible to wrap around anything but it also has magnetic feet so it sticks to many surfaces giving it the ability to get light exactly where you need it. ”

Review Picture(200×150): http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/Images/reviews5/gorillaflare/gorilla4.jpg

Main site link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com

ASUS GeForce GTX 460 TOP: Finally a Proper Fermi

Truth be told, we were expecting the new chip to perform a bit better at the beginning, but we mustn’t forget that this is the first graphics card from Nvidia after way too much time that brings proper performance at a competitive price.

Article link:

http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Graphics-cards/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-460-TOP-Finally-a-Proper-Fermi.html

ASRock 890GM Pro3 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

A few weeks ago, the ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard was tested at ocinside.de and the result was excellent with the updated BIOS version.
In this review, an equivalent Micro ATX board with 890GX chipset is overclocked to the limit.
This mATX motherboard has also integrated USB3.0, SATA3 and eSATA3, as well as the fast onBoard HD4290 GPU with sideport memory.
Let us see, if this small 890GM Pro3 mATX motherboard can keep up with the large 890GX Extreme3 ATX board.

Title:
ASRock 890GM Pro3 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

Link:
http://www.ocinside.de/html/results/mainboard_asrock_890gm_pro3.html

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