Toshiba Touts Laptops with Rewritable HD DVD Drives  





Toshiba ships best notebooks computers featuring rewritable HD DVD drive
Consumers have been healthy to have notebook computers for a piece today with home Blu-ray drives which could too pen to clean Blu-ray disks. Notebooks were too free that would make movies on interior HD DVD drives.

Information Week reports that Toshiba will get dealing in Japan this week the best notebook calculator which integrates a rewriteable HD DVD visual driving. A couple of Toshiba notebooks in the Qosmio Series 2 home will admit these HD DVD rewritable drives. One example will be free with a 17-inch cover featuring a 1920 x 1200 cover answer and one with a 15. 4-inch cover using a 1280 x 800 solution.

Those specifications should mean that the 17-inch notebook would be able to output full 1080p movies from HD DVD discs and the 15.4-inch version will be able to show 720p HD content. Both of these systems are far from what would be considered easily portable.

The Qosmio G40/97E 17-inch screen version is reported to weigh 10.6 pounds while the Qosmio F40/88EBL 15.4-inch version weighs 7.7 pounds. Information Week surmises from the size and heft of the machines they are intended to replace a separate computer and TV in cramped apartments in Japan.

Toshiba also says that both the notebooks will be capable of viewing one show while recording another thanks to dual TV tuners. The HD DVD drives themselves will be able to write to HD DVD recordable media as well as writing to normal DVD media with support for HD Rec extension.

The 15.4-inch Qosmio will retail for around $2,600 USD and the 17-inch version will retail for around $3,500 USD.

The HD DVD rewritable drives used in these Toshiba notebooks shouldn’t be confused with the HD DVD drives used in older Toshiba notebooks like the Satellite X205-SLI1 that would play HD DVD movies and write to standard DVD media only. Rewritable Blu-ray drives have been available for a while now on systems like the Dell XPS m1530.

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Intel Launches Z-P140 PATA SSDs for Mobile Devices  




Intel updates its cable of solid-state drives Earlier this year,
Intel shove itself into the reality of strong country drives (SSDs. The party launched the Z-U130 series of NAND flash-based SSDs which used the basic USB 2. 0 interface. Intel's Z-U130 merchandise household consisted of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models. Performance was quite paltry with read speeds of 28MB/sec and publish speeds of 20MB/sec.

Not one to have an other production waste in an aggressive marketplace, Intel is introducing its review to the Z-U130: the Z-P140. Intel's Z-P140 SSDs forego the USB 2. 0 port and instead take a PATA port. Due to effective promotion, the Z-P140 PATA SSDs standard just 12x18x1. 8mm -- 400 multiplication little than a 1. 8" HDD -- and consider simply 0. 6 grams. Power use is a small 1. 1mW while unused and 300mW during take/publish operations. The Mean-Time Before Failure (MTBF) of the Z-P140 PATA SSDs, which take Intel SD54B and SD58B NAND instant chips, is 2. 5 million hours.

The Z-P140 PATA SSDs are available in 2GB of 4GB modules; however, they can be expanded up to 16GB by using four 4GB modules. In addition, read and write speeds are now faster at 40MB/sec and 30MB/sec respectively.

"Our mission is to provide world-class non-volatile SSD and caching solutions that are designed, optimized and validated to enhance Intel Architecture-based computing platforms," said Pete Hazen, Intel's NAND Products Group director of marketing. "Our customers are finding the Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD to be the right size, fit and performance for their pocketable designs. This is Intel's latest offering as we continue to expand our product line of reliable, feature-rich and high-performing SSDs."

Intel's new line of SSDs aren't likely to give competing SSD manufacturers Samsung, Toshiba or Mtron much pause -- SSDs from those manufacturers come in larger 1.8" and 2.5" form-factors and are at least twice as fast in read/write operations. However, Intel is likely to target cell phone, portable media player (PMP) and UMPC vendors.

In fact, Intel's new SSDs sound like a perfect fit for a probable ASUS Eee PC 16G.

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