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Hewlett-Packard (HP) created a new notebook which is EliteBook 6930p that able to be operated within 24 hours if the battery is full in charge. This notebook that have 14,1” screen can be concluded as a notebook that eligible for military standard. Most of the owner of notebook that only able to operate within 4 hours would be very interested towards this new claim of the notebook that able to operate in 24 hours. But in fact, there are plenty of the requirements to makes the existed notebook be able to operate in 24 hours and the rest news said that the claim of the 24 hours operation is unable to be reach.

According to HP, his EliteBook 6930p is able to operate in 24 hours in one sickles of battery charging. It would make the notebook user should not have to worry about loosing of the battery power before its working hour is ended. According to him, the battery in his notebook would keep active inside the flight from New York to Singapore which is 18 hours 40 minutes or in a road trip from Maine to Florida. The Claim of its battery power is very extraordinary just like we usually heard similar with the Claim from Dell’s notebook that would be able to operate within 19 hours. But here are the following requirements giving by HP to meet the ability of battery power in order to operate maximum.

First condition is the EliteBook 6930p should use the SSD Intel 80GB and new LED display (that would be offered in next month). The notebook would also need an Ultra capacity Battery 12-cell with US$ 190 price tag, New Driver Graphic Intel, Window XP and BIOS HP. Even though the whole requirement is already given and plug in to the existed notebook, the HP still unable to make sure that the operation of his notebook would be able to precisely operated in 24 hours. It is because the operation of the notebook would also depend on the application type and another application hardware which is mentioned by HP would be able to reduce the ability of the battery power during its operation. The HP battery 12-cell that he already mentioned is able to operate in 16 hour so the claim of the battery notebook that would be able to operate within 24 hours is still far away from the exact reality that should be faced.

Asus is one of the most leading brand that produced computer, notebook and peripheral for computer devices. Recently Asus has launched Asus Eee PC 901. Formerly, Asus also has launched another Eee PC series, such Eee PC 1000, Eee PC 1000H, Eee PC 904HD and others. Asus named its product with Eee PC because form the website, it has meaning for Experience easy, Excellent and Exiting PC. Why it called like that, because this Asus series has small, light in weight, unique but also elegant. If you take a look from all of the products, especially for Eee PC series, all of them have brought simplicity to its users.

Recently, Asus has launched Asus Eee PC 901. The different with its former edition is that 901 have powerful battery than others. This 901 has Asus exclusive Super Hybrid Engine that offer a choice of performance and power consumption modes for easy adjustments according to various needs. The company claimed that this system would bring long life for battery up to 8 hours, and of course with special circumstances.

When we look for overall performances of this device, actually it is not really distinctive if we compare to others, but what makes this Eee PC become famous is the slim, small and easy carry form. Like others notebooks, that are currently produced, this device also equipped with 1.3 megapixels camera, 8.9 “ display, WLAN 802. 11 n wireless networks, and its weight only 1,1 kg. there are 6 type of colors, which are red, white, black, green, peony black, pearl white and fine ebony. You can also choose whether to install Linux or Windows, because it will affect your memory capacity. As many small PC problem, this Eee PC 901 also doesn’t equipped with drive optic, because to support its small form.

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ASUS has formally launched its Windows XP Home Edition pre-installed Eee PC in Japan. The Linux-less Eee PC is named 4G-X and has quite the same specs as the original Eee PC 701 (4G). The standard 4GB SSD, 512MB of DDR 2 memory, 800×480 display, three USB 2.0 ports, SDHC memory card reader, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and a 0.3-megapixel webcam are all presented. ASUS is also bundling the 4G-X model with a 4GB SDHC card, doubling the total storage to 8GB. Japanese buyers get a choice of white or black colours. Buyers also get an optical mouse and free access to NTT’s WiFine hotspot network. The 4G-X will cost ¥50,000 ($468/£239/€320).

Anyone paying the slightest attention to the Linux-on-the-desktop scene will have noticed that desktop environments are featuring more and more eye-candy with every release. While this has had the predictable effect of increasing processor usage and memory requirements (although the pretty things can always be turned off), it seems that the newest version of the K Desktop Environment graphical user interface will use nearly 40% less memory than current version 3.5 despite having a lovely composited windows manager (think Aero but free). The figure comes from a test run by German magazine Pro-Linux who ran tests comparing the performance and memory footprint of the second release candidate of KDE 4 compared to the latest version of KDE 3.5.
With further good news for those of you with older systems to support, KDE developer Will Stephenson announced in a post to his blog that he’d tried a pre-release build of KDE 4 with the 3D desktop effects enabled on a laptop running at 1GHz and with only 256MB of RAM. Rather than the single-frame-per-second slide show he was expecting, Will was pleasantly surprised to find the desktop completely usable even with all the glitz and glamour turned on.

It’s also worth noting that Will had some KDE 3 libraries loaded for compatibility reasons, and that final optimisation of the code has yet to take place: in other words, there’s room for still more performance gains.

The finished version of KDE 4 is due for release on the 9th of January 2008. If you can’t wait that long, you can grab the source for the release candidate from the KDE website.

Source: bit-tech

The 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1. Service Pack 1 will install even if a publicly available update has already been installed on your computer. SP1 also includes stability improvements developed as a result of user input from the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis and from Microsoft Product Support feedback.

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IBM has revealed that it is working on a new 32nm processor manufacturing technique which could make the production of chips more accessible to smaller companies, as well as yielding performance gains. The process works in a similar way to the high-k/metal gate technique that is currently used by both IBM and Intel for their 45nm chips, which replaces some of the silicon in transistors with more efficient materials to pack more components into a single chip. IBM’s new technique uses a modified version of this process known as high-k/gate-first to develop its 32nm chips, which works by focusing on the most advanced components first. Big Blue has already demonstrated a working example of the 32nm technology with prototype static RAM chips, and mass production is expected to begin during the second half of 2009.

Source: MacNN

The lackluster launch of Barcelona earlier this year left us with ambivalent feeling before the launch of Phenom. Up before the launch, numerous rumors of various problems were circulating, and when the launch finally happened and we only had two models to play with, we couldn’t help feeling a bit let down. The performance was good and lived up to what AMD had promised, more or less, but since the frequencies were so low and IPC was more or less the same as Core 2, it was still being outperformed by Intel’s processors. With the recent unveiling of the TLB bug, the crippling BIOS fix and the seized shipments of quad-core processors, the plans for the future has had to be revised. The earlier announced tri-core series is set for arrival in February 2008, and should be available in decent numbers the following month. Two models are currently planned for launch, Phenom 8700 and Phenom 8600 running at 2.4 and 2.3 Ghz respectively. These are disabled quad-core with 512KB L2 cache per core and a shared 2MB L3 cache, not suffering from the TLB errata (B3 stepping).

The new B3 stepping Phenoms are expected to arrive in large numbers in March as well. With the “new” Phenom 9700 model, there will also be a respin of the Phenom 9600 and 9500 models, called 9650 and 9550. Frequencies will remains the same, just less errata. There will also be a Phenom 9900 model in Q2, which together with the 9700 model will use the full HyperTransport 3.0 bandwidth of 4 GHz. Later in 2008, AMD will announce more Phenoms.

Phenom 9600 Black Edition is expected before the end of the year. It runs at the same 2.3 GHz as the regular Phenom 9600, but comes with an unlocked multiplier. The Phenom FX processors have been put on hold, but are not canceled per se, we just won’t see them until AMD get their regular stuff working right.

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Microsoft on Friday launched Service Pack 1 for Windows Exchange Server 2007. Features include additions to the Exchange management console, Outlook web access and disaster recovery.

Disaster recovery features already in Windows Exchange Server 2007 include Local Continuous Replication and Cluster Continuous Replication. SP1 introduces Standby Continuous Replication, which allows replication between geographically dispersed areas. Data created in one place can be copied to other areas so that, in the event of failure or disaster, data from the other areas can be recovered automatically.

However, replication will not happen automatically. “Restore after failure will be a manual process,” said Microsoft’s Mark Deakin, product manager for unified communications. “It has to be manual because it is two separate pieces of data.”

Another new feature in the Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a closer tie with Office Communications Server, with the ability to move voice mail between the two and control a greater variety of mobile devices. “There are lots more mobile devices you can connect as well,” said Deakin.

Forefront Security for Exchange Server is now included, as is support for multiple scanning engines from more security firms. These can be implemented in a single module, Microsoft said.

Microsoft claims it has more than 3,000 companies as customers, representing more than a million seats now working with Exchange Server 2007. More than 270,000 people tested out the beta of SP1, the company said.

It looks like a Dynamism product listing has revealed about when the 8GB Asus Eee PC will be hitting store shelves and for just how much damage to your bank account. Listed for $499 as expected, the tiny laptop featuring 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of RAM will be shipping in mid to late December. So yes, it’s still in Christmas gift territory for those interested. It’s also confirmed here that, as Asus debunked already, the 8GB model will not feature a larger screen than its predecessors. So is the 8GB model still enticing? If you don’t want to void your warranty by adding extra RAM, then yes. But with its abundance of USB ports, the possibilities of extra storage aren’t quite as tempting as some extra horsepower under the hood. Is it worth saving $100 on the 4GB model?