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Matrox announces new graphics card with support for up to 8 displays

Written by IT News on 2:59 AM

Matrox Graphics is one of the world's largest providers of specialized graphics solutions for multiple display, but the launch of its new M98188 Octal PCIe x16 graphics, offers customers a choice on a card with support for up to eight DVI or DisplayPort-Single-link outputs . With a PCIe x16 interface, the card is equipped with 2 GB of memory and comes with support for resolutions up to 2560 1600th In addition, the advanced management features sports cards, so better performance for customers using multiple display configurations.

"The M9188 is designed for professional environments that control the visualization of large amounts of data to be on time for important business decisions to improve," says Ron Berty, Business Development Manager, Matrox Graphics. "The extensive multiple monitors allows network operators to ensure the sound management of network of energy transfer or train applications, where maximum performance in all screens. "

One of the key elements of the new card, Montreal, Canada-based company has called the use of the PCIe x16 interface, the single slot design the availability of both 1GB (M9128) and 2GB (M9188) models, support for up to two (M9128 ) or eight (M9188) DVI monitors at 2560 x 1600 resolution, or Single-Link DVI displays with support for resolution 1920 x 1200 per screen.

In addition, the two models come with driver support for Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server, and Linux operating systems and can be combined with other M-series products, for a multi-card configuration. Another important feature is support for independent or stretched desktop modes in all screens.

According to the company, M9128 and M9188 are planned availability in the fourth quarter of this year, along with the unified driver package for ease of use and flexibility. Prices are in U.S. $ 259 and U.S. $ 1995, respectively.

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Dell Is a giant on the worldwide IT market

Written by IT News on 2:57 AM

High-speed printing is a must for any type of activity as at least somewhat concerned about the speed the paperwork is done. Agreements, clauses, statements, brochures, memos, insurance and many other documents of any kind issued by companies every day, often in multiple copies. Bent on increasing efficiency in the office of the data, is the high speed laser printing is evolving rapidly. Yesterday, Dell announced its last three office laser printer is designed for optimum efficiency. These are the 5130cdn Dell, Dell 7130cdn and Dell 3330dn.

Each unit is optimized for a particular set of activities. This is especially Dell 3330dn. Fully focus on high-speed, black and white print, it is a single function printer performance, capable of about 40 pages per minute letter, can throw up to 80,000 pages per extent that it comes with an adjustable tray and an expandable memory and can be purchased in the U.S. from $ 599 for one year Advanced Exchange Service. This product can be called the ultimate workhorse of the printing industry to date.

"Dell has always focused on efficiency, reduced costs and increased productivity for businesses of all sizes, and today we have extended the same winning formula to the printing world," Mike Arterbury, said Global Commercial Director Software & Peripherals at Dell Inc.. "Our portfolio of printers provides customers with valuable and affordable choices and low costs for printing, saving time - and real money."

The second in line is 7130cdn Dell, Dell first LED display. This is useful for printing Pantone-approved colors and write, unlike his two brothers and sisters, who can accurate color reproduction in print tabloid. Available in the U.S. price of $ 2799, has a wide range of functions, such as a large memory, a powerful processor and a first printing of 6.5 seconds, whether dyed or not. The buyers will benefit from one-year Next Business Day (NBD) on-site service after remote diagnosis.

Dell seems 5130cdn speed on 3330dn combine with high-quality color printing capacity 7130cdn. It is the world's fastest single function of letter size office color laser printers. It can create an astounding 47 and 37 double-sided pages per minute. This makes it currently the world's fastest office color laser printers on the market. ColorbyDell In addition, a Dell-developed technologies and provides an excellent print quality with excellent color saturation and sharpness.

Dell was also a built-in remote management tools for IT administrators, namely Dell Color Track Pro. It allows for centralized monitoring and control of 5130cdn, management of printing and toner at the server level. With this and the new toner formulation that mixes paint at a lower temperature, 5130cdn boasts a price per page (CPP) of 1.04c for black and white and color prints of 7.71c. It sells for $ 1549th

"Dell's new commercial printers to add a convincing business portfolio of color and monochrome printers to businesses of all sizes," Keith Kmetz, Vice President of Hardcopy Peripherals and Services at IDC, added. "Dell 5130cdn speed control and usability. And its use makes it attractive to professional organizations that want high-quality color output at a low total cost of ownership."

"Dell's complete line of laser printers provide customers with affordable and convenient, world-class reliability to help them achieve more with less, with minimal downtime and complexity," CK Lim, General Manager of Dell's Global Imaging Business, shared.

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PX-B940SA 12x Blu-ray burner

Written by IT News on 2:47 AM

"Blu-ray quickly becoming the standard for quality playback of movies, and we take it to the next level with the addition of BD writing capabilities," said Christine Hsing, Marketing Manager at Plextor,. " Plextor has always been a leader in the optical market and we are proud to offer our users a simple, all-in-one Blu-ray solution. "

Blu-ray technology as a central issue in the precise and smooth playback of HD audio and video files. While most Blu-ray discs as its main objective the maximum writing speed stays at a reasonable 8x, Plextor PX-B940SA in the unit the best features available through such an entity. Therefore, with SATA interface and 4MB buffer memory, the recorder is an impressive 12x speed writer, currently the highest of these devices.

Besides the high speed writers who offer excellent opportunities for the storage of Blu-ray discs, high-quality playback of movies and music files guaranteed by Cyberlink's BD Suite package, including HD Theater ™ technology. State to eliminate jagged edges and other ugly side effects, playing media files on a higher resolution than intended, this program can actually transform the normal content of high-definition images.

This includes the possibility of increasing the 480p resolution 1080p without the quality loss directly observable. Thus, even normal media files in full had a HD Home Theater multi-display.

Naturally, the disc compatible with other types of optical discs with a write speed of 12x BD-R DL / SL, 2x BD-RE, 16x DVD + R /-R, 8x DVD + RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD + /-R DL, 5x DVD-RAM, 40x CD-R 24x and CD-RW. Supported formats both 8cm and 12cm discs.

The internal PX-B940SA writer 12x BD is now for sale at prices bordering $ 280

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Intel reportedly plans new 30W Nehalem processors for microservers

Written by IT News on 8:08 PM

Intel, the world's leading supplier of computer processors, is reportedly planning a new two-core processor designed for servers and is based on "Clarksdale" core. According to the information available for the new processor will be assessed at only 30W, since it is designed to power a new segment of the computer system, the "micro servers", which first talked about the company at its Developer Forum, held former husband

Said 30W processor is trumpeted by the chip maker at IDF 2009 was held between September 22 and September 24 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, will use Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture will be equipped with a core speed of 2.26GHz. With these specifications, focused Chip Zilla on chip to be used in a new series of low power micro-servers, which would be an alternative for customers looking for an inexpensive solution to a good performance ratio in some applications.

"We are defining a new form factor allows companies to present a uni-processor [machine] may reasonably ... and cost-effective and easy to implement," Jason Waxman, Intel's high-density computing boss said in a recent news article in the Register.

Intel's reference design of the system contains a bound PCB size, full of 1.86GHz quad-core Lynnfield "processor, rated at 45W and linked to four DIMM memory. Although this system a chip already on the market used to it their customers to choose a processor that will be a total power of 25W and 75W max out at idle when the performance increases.

Intel claims that for some customers, this type of solution is a bit comfortable and safe, as it replaces the need for virtualization and provides the right root access only to the consumer.

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NVIDIA to unveil the GeForce GT 240 in mid-November

Written by IT News on 8:01 PM

Aside from the much-awaited line of Fermi-based GeForce graphics card is NVIDIA also planned to reveal a different model, namely the GeForce 240 GT, aimed at the mainstream market, constructed using a new generation of 40nm graphics processor company. The latest rumors have surfaced on the Internet, said card in mid-November, so ATI fans with a choice of DirectX 10.1-compliant solution that reportedly ran around the same level as GeForce 9600 GT models.

Based on the GT215 core, the upcoming GeForce GT 240 graphics card will be based on a 40nm GPU, manufactured at TSMC, will boast support for DirectX 10.1 and will be equipped with 96 stream processors. Although information about the clock speeds have not been given, is generally assumed that the GDDR5 version of this card will run at about the same level as a regular producer of chip GeForce 9600 GSO or models.

One of the biggest problems with this card is that the only strong competition from current and future products AMD will face. This is already the case with the GeForce GT 220, which was launched by the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker a while back. This card is facing heavy competition from AMD's 4670, Radeon 4770 or the recently launched Radeon HD 5700-series, which will be fast enough, even though the yield on 40nm TSMC problems.

Although the GT-240 is an interesting choice for the average PC user, player, computer enthusiasts and early adopters probably anxious to wait for the official debut of the new Fermi-based 40nm GeForce cards, which have to start somewhere before the end of this year, according to recent reports. Unfortunately we have no information on the pricing of over 240 GT, but the rumored release date is not far ahead.

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Free download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

Written by IT News on 7:46 PM

The browser provides virus, popup and spyware protection in a simple, easy to use tabbed interface

firefox features:
Comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
· A tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on;
· Integrated search (powered by Google);
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· Simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
· A streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
· A large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

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Free download cFosSpeed 5.01 Build 1580 Beta

Written by IT News on 7:27 PM

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