Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 31, 2005 at 3:02:50 PM
Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I sure did.
AMD set to release Athlon 64 X2 chips this week.
Intel prepares Mac-Mini brother.
Laptops are too big and heavy... and suck to work on.
Andromeda is bigger than we thought.
Hitachi ramps up plasma production.
AMD set to release Athlon 64 X2 chips this week.
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These dual-core chips also sell at a premium price. The 4800+ will sell for $1,001 in quantities of 1,000 while the 4600+ will go for $803, far higher than Athlon chips today and higher than most mainstream desktop chips sold in the last several years. (The 4400+ and the 4200+ sell for $581 and $537, respectively.)
Intel prepares Mac-Mini brother.
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Working prototypes of the Mac mini look-alike running Microsoft Windows and based on Intel's Pentium M CPU have already been built by Taiwan PC maker AOpen at Intel's request, according to two sources in Taiwan's PC manufacturing industry who have seen them. AOpen manufactures PC and components as a subsidiary of the Taiwanese corporation Wistron, and is affiliated with the giant Acer group.
Laptops are too big and heavy... and suck to work on.
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The main problem with laptops is that the screen and keyboard are so close together. Without the aid of peripherals, laptop users have two choices, neither of which would win them any points for posture. They can cramp their neck down to view the monitor or they can elevate the machine to eye level, which can wreak havoc on shoulders and arms.
Andromeda is bigger than we thought.
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One of the research team, Scott Chapman at Caltech, California, US, says this means the disc of the galaxy is actually three times larger than had been thought - 220,000 light years across, instead of previous estimates of 70,000 to 80,000.
Hitachi ramps up plasma production.
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The Tokyo-based company said it will be investing $787 million (85 billion yen) in the Miyazaki Works facility of its Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display (FHP) project, which should be completed by late 2006. The plant is the result of Hitachi's partial purchase of Fujitsu's equity stake in the factory earlier this year. Hitachi said it will now make FHP a consolidated subsidiary.