200 Gigabytes of Perpendicular Love, Samsung Style
Seems like just yesterday when the world was all excited about OWC’s packaging of a 2.5-in. 160GB 7200rpm drive Seagate Momentus drive with perpendicular recording capability. No time to enjoy that view: Samsung just upped the stakes with a 2.5-inch perpendicular-recording drive of its own. Capacity? 200GB. The company says the SpinPoint MP1 with SATA…
Samsung YP-K3 Reviewed, Almost Here [verdict: still not an iPod nano killer]
The launch of Yet-Another-Nano-Killer is imminent. Again. Maybe. Or it will be someday, anyway, because according to CNET, the Samsung YP-K3 is not it, even if it’s a “solid sexy player.” While they think it’s nice-o, with a very good design and simple interface, CNET says the touch- sensitive controls can be “challenging to use.”…
PC Makers to Microsoft: “Vista Is Not a Seller. You Suck”
This may feel like Groundhog Day for you and Steve Ballmer, but according to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. The not-so-shiny-shiny-anymore OS is not helping sales at all and some companies may end with a whole bunch of unsold stuff in their warehouses. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-sells-2520-milllion-vistas-ooh-thanks-to-n-247337 Take Acer’s…
LG Puts Google Apps on Phones, Larry and Sergei Hope for Date with Prada Girl
LG has signed a worldwide deal with Google, which will give their phone users worldwide instant access to Google mobile apps, further dispelling the recent rumors of the GPhone. https://gizmodo.com/google-denies-g-phone-still-searching-for-g-spot-246186 This comes just weeks after the Korean giant signed a similar deal with Yahoo! And then you’ve got Larry and Sergei’s kiss-up with Samsung. The…
Samsung 64GB Solid-State Drive Keeps Apple Fans Drooling
Yet another reason to drool about for Apple fans waiting for the next coming of the MacBook and those who dig solid-state storage: Samsung has released a NAND drive and, unlike Intel, they have pushed it to 64 Gbytes this time. https://gizmodo.com/further-confirmation-on-flash-based-sub-notebook-has-ap-242526 And if 64MB/s reads and 45MB/s writes in a 15 grams, 1.8″ low-consumption…
