Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dell's Alienware 18

Meet the new Alienware 18, completely redesigned with dual graphics to give you the ultimate gaming experience.

Now, it's clear that Alienware parent Dell stacked the deck by sending us a system configured with nearlyevery high-priced upgrade possible. The Alienware 18 starts at $2,099, and can be ordered with either Windows 7 or Windows 8. Our review configuration included an upgraded Intel Core i7 processor, a 512GB solid-state drive (SSD)/750GB hard drive storage combo, two Nvidia GeForce 780M graphics cards, and a whopping 32GB of RAM, possibly the first time we've tested a laptop with that much memory. The cost? A budget-breaking $4,249.

When you're running a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-4900MQ CPU with 32GB of RAM, and the high-end video cards suggested above, you pretty much know what to expect from application performance. Frankly, even a PC that costs a quarter as much as this one probably has more than enough computing power for your day, even if you're a heavy multitasker, so at some point, it's just about bragging rights. If you're the type of user who really needs this much CPU/RAM horsepower, there's probably a new silo-style Mac Pro in your future. It's worth noting that, as with most other dedicated gaming laptops, heavy workloads cause the internal fans to kick in, and they are just plain loud.
The real test of a gaming laptop is, of course, games. Only the biggest gaming laptops can fit in dual video cards, allowing two GPUs to work together to boost frame rates (Nvidia calls that type of setup SLI). We ran a pair of 4GB GeForce GTX 780M cards, giving us a top-of-the-line mobile experience, times two.




Alienware 18
Price
$4,249
Display size/resolution
18-inch, 1,920x1,080 screen
PC CPU
2.8GHz Intel Core i7-4900MQ
PC memory
32GB 1,600MHZ DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics
(2) 2GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 780M
Storage
512GB SSD + 750GB HD
Optical drive
BD-ROM
Networking
Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0
Operating system
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Android-Powered Nokia Phone Coming Later This Month



The bottom-of-the-range $180 Lumia 520 (pictured at the top of this post), which was announced at last year’s MWC conference and has sold relatively well for a Windows Phone, is still a ways more pricey than the least expensive Droids (sub-$50 Android handsets are available in emerging markets).

Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors



Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
The idea behind Project Tango is to see what kind of applications developers will dream up for this technology. Google hopes that it can unlock new kinds of smart, vision-based applications based on the 3D sensing and vision technology that it has built into the phone. By giving applications an almost human-like understanding of space, developers will be able to create applications that simply weren’t possible before.
The phones are outfitted with a compass and gyros, just like any other phone, but in addition, they feature Kinect-like visual sensors that can scan the room around the phone.


SanDisk world's first 128GB microSD card

SanDisk has unleashed the world's first 128GB microSD card.
Consumers can now store 16 hours of Full HD video, 7,500 songs, 3,200 photos and more than 125 apps,1 all on a single removable card.
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Feb. 24, 2014 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced the new 128GB2 SanDisk Ultra® microSDXC™ UHS-I memory card, the world’s largest capacity microSD card. Smaller than the size of a fingernail, the new SanDisk Ultra microSDXC card enables consumers to use their phones and tablets as if storage limitations were never a concern, allowing users to capture thousands of songs and photos, and hours of video on a single, removable card.

“SanDisk’s high-performance 128GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC memory card will reshape the way users interact with their devices,” said Stuart Robinson, director, Handset Component Technologies, Strategy Analytics. “Until now, consumers had to spread out their content between multiple products because the memory on those devices was not able to hold enough data in one place. This 128GB microSD card is going to be popular as the preferred removable storage option, giving users fast, secure and reliable access to their personal data archives.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Partition Recovery

Painless Partition Recovery

Partition Find & Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible — by locating and mountingpartitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten.


Partition Find & Mount is:
  • Easy to use. You do not need special knowledge to use the software.
  • Safe to your data. There is no possible way you could get things worse.
  • Free for personal use. Use it as much as you like.