Gigabyte motherboards LGA1155 compatible Ivy Bridge and PCIe 3.0

Owners of a motherboard Gigabyte Intel 6 series to be happy: via a simple BIOS update to your card will be compatible with upcoming CPU and Ivy Bridge Controller PCI-Express 3.0 at the same time. Gigabyte ensures that its entire line to Intel 6 series - so the socket in 1155 - is concerned. Updating the BIOS can be downloaded today at the manufacturer's website.

Compatibility PCI-Express 3 will concern the course PCI-Express cable directly to the CPU (those dedicated to graphics cards), the remaining 6 series chipset it limited to PCI-Express 2.0. As a reminder, we expect the Ivy Bridge in April 2012.

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Lenovo announces ThinkCentre M71z all in oncomputer

Lenovo introduces its bid for the computer market all in one with the ThinkCentre M71z, will be available next October and will feature Intel Core Second Generation. The ThinkCentre M71z have a 20-inch display with touchscreen capabilities and interactive video conferencing capabilities through its 2-megapixel camera.

As a new version equipped with a 160GB SSD drive takes only 15 seconds to boot and be ready for use. Intel processors come equipped with second generation Sandy Bridge, plus DDR3 RAM, 6 USB 2.0M DVD burner, WiFi and display output port. Its price is around $ 599 or so.

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1 million Seagate hybrid drives

Seagate has announced reaching the million mark record "hybrid" Momentus XT delivered. In 2.5-inch hybrid drive that was launched in May 2010. The Momentus XT includes a reminder a standard hard drive (with a capacity of 250 GB, 320 GB or 500 GB depending on the version) operating at 7200 RPM, 32 MB buffer memory and 4 GB of NAND flash SLC.

This combination theoretically improve the startup time of the computer and speed up the loading of applications, while providing a decent storage capacity at a rate lower than that of an equivalent capacity SSD. If we are to believe a study published by the institute IDC, hybrid discs should be included in a quarter of computers sold in 2015.

In 2012, the 3D glasses standard

Previously the user was limited when you buy a 3D TV glasses on the models of the manufacturer. The different types of transmission between the glasses and the TV made the exchange of models from different manufacturers used to be impossible. That should change now: With the initiative to the leading companies make the consumer market for 3D-enabled devices more manageable.

The agreement of the initiative involves different radio-and infrared-transmission protocols. They provide data transport between the glasses and organize player and the opening and closing of the glasses synchronized with the picture. From the TV or projector for home cinema via the PC-monitor technology to the cinema: All transmission types, ought to be compatible with a universal eye.

New Laptop: Acer Aspire 8951G: Full HD notebook with a special touchpad

Depending on the price potters in the Acer Aspire 8951G-i, a core processor (Sandy Bridge) with two to four cores and a clock speed of up to 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) or 3.4 GHz Turbo mode is active. Acer installed four gigabytes (GB) of RAM, which can be upgraded as needed to a maximum of 16 GB. The image calculation assumes an Nvidia graphics card with DirectX 11 support.

Five built-in stereo speakers promise rich sound in film, music and games. The Aspire 8951G has an 18.4-inch LCD display with full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels). Add an optional Blu-ray drive can therefore play high definition movies directly on your notebook. Alternatively, you connect via HDMI to an external monitor or TV.

Google + App now available for all IOS devices

And it took just 16 days, the newly launched Google's social, broke the ten-million-member mark - even though the service previously accessible only by invitation. A success for the competition for each and needed more than two years. Million users of Android phones were already before the start of the service to access the corresponding mobile application - here, finally Google has control over the new arrivals.

Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Wizard

Apple has released the Lion Recovery Disk wizard to clone the partition backup on an external Lion, such as an external hard drive or USB key. This is a solution to the problems that some users might experience after a hard drive failure or SSD, but this does not solve everything. To take advantage of this utility, it is imperative to have a machine running on Leo.

For the record, the new operating system creates a backup partition on which it is possible to start to reinstall the operating system or restore a Time Machine backup and carry out certain repairs of storage media. The problem is that in case of severe damage, it is impossible to boot from this partition that resides on the primary disk.