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15th May 2007 Archive

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  • Yes! It's the jellybean USB Flash drive

    Definitely an add-on to keep well away from young kids, it's the jelly bean USB Flash drive from Hong Kong-based Brando - though the company reckons its more like a pill than a sweetie. Available in a choice of red, yellow or green, the 2GB drive measures roughly 6.5 x 2 x 2cm. Brando wants $35 (£26/€18) a pill, so buying …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 15 May 2007, 07:47

  • Acer turns to nature to inspire Aspire

    A gem of a machine?

    Acer yesterday parted the seas to reveal the first of a new line of "nature inspired" consumer-friendly laptops, the Aspire 5920 with its "gemstone" design, a curvy casing with a pebble-like shine. Under the hood, the 5920 range packs in Intel's 'Santa Rosa' Centrino Duo platform. The series includes a variety of Core 2 Duo …

    PCs 15 May 2007, 08:58

  • Intel to revamp Core 2 Duo processors on 22 July?

    Price cuts on same the day, it seems

    Intel's next big round of desktop price cuts will come on 22 July, a day that will see the debut of revamped Core 2 Duo processors and a faster four-core Core 2 Quad, it has been claimed. A report on Chinese-language site HKEPC, citing motherboard-maker sources, claims the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700 will go on sale on 22 July …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 May 2007, 09:24

  • Fujitsu roadmaps slimline laptop HDD

    Fujitsu will bring to market an slimline 250GB hard drive for notebooks sometime in July, August or September, it announced today. What counts as slim? According to Fujitsu, something that's 9.5mm thick. The hard drive maker already offers 2.5in products - the standard form-factor for laptop drives - that are that thick but …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 May 2007, 09:50

  • Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external hard drive

    Review As capacious as an elephant's scrotum - and as visually appealing?

    You can go too far to be consumer friendly. Making a device straightforward to set up and get running with some clear, simple guidance is all very well, but it's easy to overdo it and come across chirpy and brainless. Seagate has come perilously close with its FreeAgent Pro external hard drive. Seagate clearly believes …

    Storage 15 May 2007, 11:02

  • Alcatel looks forward to retro-styled 'vintage' slider

    Alcatel Mobile Phones' latest offering may not appeal to phone fans looking for the latest technology, but it looks a solid enough handset for consumers with more modest needs. Dubbed the OT-C825 Vintage Slider, it's anything but old fashioned: the handset has dedicated music playback keys; a 176 x200, 262,144-colour …

    Phones 15 May 2007, 13:34

  • Apple tweaks MacBook specs

    802.11n now a feature not an upgrade

    Apple has updated its MacBook line of consumer computers, upping the processor specifications, setting the base-line memory configuration to 1GB and making 802.11n wireless networking a feature rather than an upgrade. As before, there are three models: two white and one black. All three sport a 13.3in, 1280 x 800 glossy …

    Mac 15 May 2007, 14:16

  • Wacom out to plant Bamboo on consumers' desktops

    Tablets aren't just for digital artists and graphics pros, you know. So tablet maker Wacom would have us believe, and it's made Bamboo just to show us. Priced at a mere £70, Bamboo comes in a stylish black look and combines the traditional pad and 512-pressure level stylus with a set of custom-function keys for quick access …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 15 May 2007, 14:46