TDJ: GeForce vs. Radeon HD 6790 550Ti

Our colleagues in the Counter of the Hardware just upload a file between two graphics cards to medium range, ie Ti GeForce GTX 550 and Radeon HD 6790. Performance, power consumption, noise, overclocking, or operating temperature: is it possible to separate these two recent graphics cards?

• AMD rolls out budget-friendly Radeon HD 6450, Radeon HD 6790 desktop graphics cards (07/04/2011)
• AMD Radeon HD 6790 tipped to bring mid-range battle to GeForce GTX 550 Ti (29/03/2011)
• AMD launches Radeon HD 6790 without fanfare (05/04/2011)
• AMD planning mid-range Radeon HD 6790 (29/03/2011)
• Radeon HD 6790 sneaks in at under $150, leaves reviewers wanting more for the money (05/04/2011)

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Archos 9: New Tablet PC

The manufacturer Archos has a new and improved version of its tabletPC Archos 9, has a storage unit and a 32GB SSD 1.2GHz Atom Z515 processor. The new Archos 9 includes Windows 7 Starter with which you can perform most common tasks such as web browsing, viewing multimedia content, access to social networks, or video through its integrated camera 1.3Mpx.

Its screen is compatible with video playback in HD and features stereo speakers for better quality, in addition, with its weight of just 800 grams is ideal for travel without having to stop performing a task that requires the use of a PC To this end, has an integrated stand offers two positions of use, for web browsing or writing and another for playing video and chat.

IPad 2 is equivalent to a supercomputer of 1985

Dr. Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee has measured the capacity of mathematical calculations of the iPad 2 and concluded that a core processor A5 tablet was as powerful as the supercomputer Cray 2 Quad CPU delivered in 1985. His team has not finished testing, but believes that the use of both processor cores can be mounted to a computing power ranging between 1.5 and 1.65 GFLOPS GFLOPS.

Hard drives still affected by Japan

Western Digital and Hitachi GST (see "Western Digital buys Hitachi GST) have extremely hard drives stocks down due to damage sustained in the Japanese earthquake which took place last March, which already started to climb prices. According to DigiTimes, despite the efforts of Texas Instruments and Renesas delivering controllers and other chips needed for the proper functioning of the disks, the shortage will last through the second quarter.

Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft are very valuable

Apple went first in the ranking of most valuable brands published annually by the agency Millward Brown. It exceeds that Google has held the lead for four consecutive years. IBM and Microsoft comes in third to fifth position behind McDonald. The report is an interesting analysis that attempts to define what a brand is worth in monetary terms.

We must understand that we are not talking about market capitalization or accumulated assets. This is not a financial analysis, but marketing that attempts to discover the value of a brand, not a corporation. Thus, in some cases, this is not the company that is considered, but the brand marketed.

Latest 3D and entry-level devices: New Blu-ray player: Toshiba BDX3200KE and BDX1200KE

Toshiba brings the Blu-ray player BDX3200KE on the market, the third generation of 3D-capable players of the manufacturer. To be eligible to benefit from three-dimensional images, however, is still necessary accessories: a 3D-capable TVs and the corresponding 3-D glasses. Depending on the TV, these are an expensive shutter glasses or a cheap pole glasses.

The 3-D TV without special glasses by Toshiba is not yet available in Germany. The player supports Dolby True HD 7.1 format. Via a USB jack, it plays movies, photos, music in formats MKV, DivX, JPEG, from MP3. Users thanks go live 2.0 of additional content on the Internet. As an entry-level device without a 3D complements Toshiba's series on Blu-ray players by the BDX1200KE.

Third dimension for the living room: LG D2342P: 3D display with polarization technique

The manufacturer promises a flicker-free picture quality in 2D as in 3D mode. Dizziness and nausea (occasionally occur on units with shutter technology) will be spared to the court. In cinema, the polarization technique is common. The principle: A special film on the monitor provides the 3D effect. The lines are  adjusted, they are alternately polarized to the right and left eyes.

You do not need a heavy shutter glasses or a special. And polarized glasses do not require batteries. On board the 23-inch monitor (resolution: 1920x1080 pixels) there are various interfaces (HDMI, VGA). The contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. Thanks to the "3D Light Boost" technology of LG D2342P reached their manufacturers to up to three times brighter than comparable displays with 3D shutter technique.