Western Digital’s Scorpio Blue SATA hard drive

Western Digital (WD) is helping to break new ground with its new Scorpio Blue SATA series of 2.5-in. laptop drives by adding two 1TB models: the 9.5mm-high, 5400rpm WD10JPVT and the 12.5mm-high, 5200rpm WD10TPVT. Both models have an 8MB buffer and are 3Gb/s compatible. For this article, I reviewed the shorter 9.5mm WD10JPVT.

(The taller 12.5mm drive won’t fit into many laptops but will still do yeoman’s duty in server farms where a slower turning drive with more power conservation technology would generate less heat than its 3.5-inch counterpart.)

More storage in less space

Getting 1TB on a 2.5-inch platter wasn’t simple.

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There are some great prices around these days in the netbook and laptop market, but sub $200 netbooks are rare unless we consider the latest offering from Asus, it is called unremarkably the Asus X101-EU17-WT (White) and the X101-EU17-BK (Black). Both models will be running the MeeGo operating system and are available for pre-order on the Asus Amazon site, as for the delivery of these new netbooks, it is expected that they will be ready for an early October release, but as we have seen before anything can happen.

The Asus X101-EU17-WT netbook has the now standard sized 10.1 inch LED WXGA display with 1024 x 600 of pixel resolution with a built in 0.3 mega pixel web camera, which is handy for face to face conversations while on the move.

It will be powered the standard netbook Intel Atom N435 1.33 GHz processor and graphics come via the Intel UMA graphics card.

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AMD has released a slight bump in their netbook line up moving their Acer Aspire One 522 & 722 from the 1GHz AMD C-50 to the 1.33GHz C-60. 1.33 GHz. The processor also experiences a graphics increase from the Radeon HD 6250 graphics to the more powerful Radeon HD 6290 graphics. The C-60 chip has a TDP of 9W which isn’t just like the older C-50 processor. Acer’s Aspire One 522 netbook features a 10.1-inch widescreen LED-backlit display, a 250GB hard drive, an integrated 1.3-megapixel Webcam with a screen resolution of 1280 x 720.

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Asus has announced its new U36S Ultra-Thin Laptop for the European Market. The device was initially released in mid-April and is finally seeing the light of day, it is scheduled to go on sale in Europe early next month and comes with a recommended price tag of €1,299.

The Asus U36S features a body that measures only 19mm thick, it has a fingerprint-free Magnesium-Aluminum alloy cover and is based on the Huron River platform. T

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CinemaTube Mini/ CinemaGo (WiFi-Equipped Package)
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The patent trolls are at it again, and this time beloved music streaming service Spotify is the victim. Nearly immediately upon its entry into the US market, the company has been sued by PacketVideo, a subsidiary of Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo, for violation of patent 5,636,276, Device for the distribution of music information in digital form.

The patent in question dates to 1995 and essentially describes the process of streaming music to a device over a communications network. A device connects to the network, which has a databank of digitized music information and retrieves music over an encrypted link.

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