Device with Windows 7 Tablet PC Acer Iconia W500 with docking keyboard

At the bottom there are two docking ports, through which you connect the Tablet PC with the keyboard. To make the Iconia necessary, a netbook-like computer. Above all, make a longer text entries are more comfortable with the keyboard. For wired network connections available to the PC via a network jack.

External devices connect via USB port. For wireless data exchange with the Tablet PC is equipped with WLAN and Bluetooth. UMTS-compatible versions are also available. On the Tablet PC is the latest Microsoft operating system "Windows 7" is used. The essential hardware components are made by AMD: the graphics-chip Radeon HD6250 "" C-50 "processor to the side.

Who's the loudest: Intel, AMD or ARM?

iSuppli has done its accounts and concluded on the respective market shares of Intel and AMD over the global market for microprocessors in 2010. Surprise? Not surprise: Intel finished the year by controlling 81% of the market is 0.4 points more than in 2009 and has allowed AMD to 11.4% of the market (- 0.8 points).

AMD has particularly suffered in the last quarter of the year, losing 1.3 points compared to 2009. iSuppli considers not only the x86 CPU: RISC are also included and therefore all ARM chips from shelves. Overall the market has shown over the year a turnover of 40 billion dollars, 25% better than 2009.

Mac OS X and the TRIM: "The" hack

With the release of the latest MacBook Pro Mac OS X began to manage the famous TRIM control, guaranteeing the sustainability performance of SSDs. However, only owners of the latest Mac and Apple could benefit from SSD. Our colleagues MacBidouille got down to break the shackles, with success. The blockage is at the level of a kernel extension for Mac OS supports storage devices.

This extension contains a detection procedure which verifies that the DSS is called well-installed Apple SSD. He "just" so to replace that string with the name of the DSS really present in the machinery that TRIM is activated. More exactly, it must be limited to the first 9 characters of the DSS for not varying the size of the file.

Finally blocks compact PLC

Netgear has announced a new generation of PLC blocks and - good news - they are finally compact. The new range of "Nano" (AV 200 Powerline Nano XAVB2101) is considerably smaller than older models and functions are the same: a connection to 200 Mbps in theory and about 70 Mbps in practice. To get an idea, Nano measuring 67 x 55 x 34 mm, conventional models are 90 x 53 x 32 mm (they are much longer) and models with a female are 138 x 65 x 40 mm.

Kingston broad range of microSDHC Card Class 10.

Kingston, one of the largest manufacturers in terms of memory products, announces the launch of new cards microSDCH Class 10 with 4GB and 8GB sizes, joining the 16GB model, also class 10, then include a 32GB model in the second quarter. MicroSDHC cards use Class 10 compatible with mobile phones, cameras, high definition (HD) or tablets, is intended to provide a more rapid transfer rate, thus satisfy all users, both in speed and storage capacity.

Reaching only 12 V power supplies?

Interestingly, the new generation of Intel chipsets could help simplify power. Currently, a PC power supply provides three voltages: 3.3 V, 5 V and 12 V (-5 V and sometimes for old ISA cards). Professional for chipsets with Sandy Bridge, we could move to a single voltage: 12 V. Indeed, in a typical PC, a lot of needs is on this tension and components that require a voltage of 5 V or 3.3 V are rare.

Mac OS X natively supports the Radeon 6000 GPU and 5000

A specific operating system update to Mac OS X 10.6.7 MacBook Pro includes native support for several graphics cards AMD Radeon series 5000 and 6000. Thanks to this new Quartz Extreme and CoreImage received an interesting performance boost when used on these GPUs. In addition to technical aspects, support also means that the Radeon HD 6xxx in the list below, can be used for the next models with Sandy Bridge processors expected in April.