Thursday, March 11th, 2010 0 views
The 32GB Onyx SSD from OCZ Technologies is the company’s first to hit the market with an MRSP below $100. OCZ Technology has announced its first solid-state drive to hit the market below the magic $100 price point - the Onyx. While the Onyx - a 2.5″ SATA II SSD - only offers a somewhat cramped 32GB of storage space, it could be a tempting purchase for those looking to speed up a boot drive or make their ultraportable laptop a bit more robust. The company claims that while storage space has been trimmed, performance has been kept as high as possible - and while it’s unlikely to challenge any of the market leading devices, a read speed of 125MB/s and a 70MB/s write speed certainly isn’t anything to complain about. A generous 64MB of on-board cache helps to keep things ticking along, too. The company’s chief executive officer Ryan Petersen claims that the Onyx series - which is expected to grow to encompass larger sizes in the future - ” delivers the speed and reliability of solid state storage to mainstream consumers at an aggressive price point that makes the technology more accessible to customers who want to take advantage of all the benefits of the SSDs without incurring the high cost normally associated with the solution. ” OCZ is pretty confident about the long-term benefits of its budget SSD, too: offering a three-year warranty, the company claims that the Onyx series features ” unique performance optimisation to keep the drives at peak performance over the long term ” - although it’s a trifle cagey with the details of exactly what ‘optimisation’ it means. The 32GB Onyx is available to retailers immediately, so expect it to crop up on your favourite hardware sites pretty sharpish. Can you think of a use for a ‘budget’ SSD, or is the Onyx still too expensive for a mere 32GB of storage
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OCZ launches budget SSD
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 0 views
Onlive, the cloud-based games system, will launch in the US this June for a $15 per month subscription fee. Onlive , the controversial cloud-based games system which has had tech-heads arguing since it was first announced last year, will launch in the US on June 17th. The premise for the system is simply that gameplay is streamed back to players over the internet, with the actual computing done in Onlive server farms. Player inputs are pinged over to the farms and results are sent back as video, continuously. The theory is technically sound, but doubts have been raised over how viable the idea is on current internet connections. Either way, Onlive is confident the system will work and has signed up publishers like EA, Ubisoft, 2K Games and THQ to support the system from launch. Pricing for Onlive has been revealed too, with users coughing up a $14.95 USD monthly subscription for access to the network, with game access costing extra
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 0 views
The first Service Pack for Windows 7 could be due earlier than expected - possibly before the end of the year. Reports circulating the ‘net suggest that Microsoft might be pushing forward the release of the first Windows 7 Service Pack - possibly looking to have it ship before the end of the year. According to unnamed sources quoted over on Tech ARP - a site which has been previously accurately predicted the release dates of patches and service packs for Microsoft products - the original twenty-two month development cycle Microsoft had planned for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has been trimmed following the discovery of several bugs in the operating system which can degrade performance. While most of the major bugs have been fixed - and the rest have patches currently running the gamut of testing prior to general availability - Microsoft is apparently keen to make the Windows 7 experience as pleasant as possible for its customers, and will be rolling the updates into the operating system’s first Service Pack for release in the last quarter of 2010. The move will be of particular interest to business users: many corporations eschew new versions of the Windows operating system until the release of the first Service Pack, in order to allow third parties to discover the bugs and iron out the wrinkles prior to an expensive large-scale deployment. With sales figures for Microsoft’s latest operating system already through the roof, the launch of SP1 could very well boost the company’s coffers considerably. Thus far, Microsoft hasn’t confirmed or denied the rumoured launch date. Are you pleased to see Microsoft hurrying along the first bundle of fixes, or are you saddened at the fact that the company has found enough bugs in its latest Windows release to justify speeding the development cycle
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Windows 7 SP1 due this year
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 0 views
The NCSA Mosaic browser was the first graphical web browser ever released - and now you can take a trip back in time. If you fancy taking a step back in time - or if you’re Johnny-come-lately looking to find out just what the previous generation had to put up with - then perhaps you’d like to try one of the first web browsers ever created? The source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 - Marc Andreessen’s browser which became the basis for Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, and would eventually become Mozilla Firefox - has been uploaded to source-code sharing site GitHub by user Alan Dipert. Linux users capable of compiling programs from source are free to download the package and learn just what the early days of the web looked like circa 1993. According to Webmonkey , the package runs surprisingly well on modern Linux systems, and the few niggles that exist - such as poor support for PNG format graphics - are busily being patched out by GitHub community members. The Mosaic browser is the precursor to most modern graphical web browsers, and a piece of history. While being able to run it on your modern system might not have any practical purpose, it’s an exercise in digital archeology for anyone interested in the birth of the web as we know it today. Just don’t try doing your Internet banking on it. Are you impressed by the efforts made to port the Mosaic brower, or could the coders behind the project have found something better to do with their time?
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Hackers resurrect NCSA Mosaic
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