ASUS Transformer IOA, hybrid Tablet and PC all-in-One

The Taiwanese manufacturer presents the IOA Transformer, its PC all-in-One with screen-Tablet touch detachable "18.4 and dual-boot Android/Windows 8.

After the tablet which turns into ultrabook and the smartphone which is mu in tablet, here is that Asus unveils the PC all-in-One whose touch screen detaches to become a Tablet under Windows8/Android.

The Taiwanese manufacturer likes to mix uses and with this transforming IOA, us this is served. Indeed, in mode All-in-One, the apparatus with a large database based on a wide foot, it offers an optical drive, a tuner, USB 3.0, Ethernet, HDMI, jack ports, a reader of memory cards and operates with a processor Intel Core Ivy Bridge not defined at this time, all running Windows 8.

Touch screen of 18.4 "is also a provided connections because it can dissociate the database to then become an Android tablet version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the whole Windows8/Android dual-boot.

Original, this concept presented by Asus on its stand at the Computex 2012 is stingy information therefore no detailed technical specifications or date of marketing or tariff have been advanced. Case to follow…

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Samsung Unveils Hybrid a laptop / touch Tablet

The South Korean manufacturer Samsung unveiled at the Computex its concept of laptop with detachable screen becomes touch tablet.

ASUS due to emulate with its concept of apparatus hybrid Tablet/ultrabook to the turn and after Acer and its Iconia W510 is Samsung which makes it to the Computex sauce.

Indeed, the South Korean manufacturer exposes a model of laptop screen is released from the keyboard to become a touch tablet on its stand. The Samsung Hybrid 5 is indeed a laptop whose "11.6 screen is maintained at the keyboard through a broad magnetic socket, taking over the screen detaches and becomes a stand-alone touchscreen tablet.

This digital slate will offer HDMI connectors (not accuracy whether or not this port is in mini format), USB and microSDHC and the connectivity WiFi and 3 G. It weighs only 747 grams for 9 mm thick and runs under Windows 8, a stylus similar to the Galaxy of the mark is also in part to take advantage of the capabilities of the new Microsoft OS.

Two versions of the Samsung Series 5 Hybrid will be proposed, first taking a processor Intel Atom ultra low power to the TDP of 2 Watts and another with a more powerful processor also provided by Intel and offering a slab HD 1920 by 1080 pixels only to it, the version low consumption has not unveiled this information at this time.

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Windows 8: the shelves and hybrid Intel for November?

According to some anonymous sources, the launch of Windows 8 should be around the month of November, when will emerge equipped with shelves of the new OS and an Intel chip.

CNet.com journalists are safe, a first range of Windows 8 tablet equipped with Intel processors will be on the market in November. According to one of the reliable sources of this writing, the time schedule for the launch of the Windows 8 stamped products is relatively tight. Microsoft wants to be the new OS on all fronts, with the support of Intel and AMD processors, as well as ARM chips, and this Office, but also tablets and laptops.

The prototype Intel Letexo, a ultrabook that turns into tablet...

This latter market, Intel would have ambitious plans. Namely offering a selection of at least twelve products with partners about Windows 8, including a good half of shelves x 86 operating a processor Atom platform Clover Trail (of the dual-core engraved in 32 nm). The other half would be hybrid products, namely touch laptop usable as of tablets.

Finally, CNet.com says that Intel is working hard on Bay Trail, the next Atom platform cache chip carved 22 nm (such as the Ivy Bridge) and which includes a smart 3 G / 4 G and a new graphical circuit. There is more than to wait for the formalization of these machines to see if the sources in question are right.

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Intel 313 Series: the new cache SSD hybrid storage

All the technical details of this new range of SSD are finally known. It is not oriented disk storage, but SSD designed for hybrid storage.

Intel formalizes the launch of its new line of flash memory drives by opening the product page on its website and its technical declination "ark" for the 20 GB and 24 GB. The Intel SSD 313 Series come succeed the Series 311 and are specially studied for as disk cache and not in discs for the operating systems or for ultra fast storage for example.

They strengthen the interests of technology home of the skier, the TRS (Smart Response Technology). This new way of coupling a flash disk and a disk tray to power - in part - combine performance and time response of a SSD drive and important storage of a disk trays, as the last Hitachi GST 4 To disk.

The launch of the caster of Santa Clara strategy is clear. The TRS is complemented by two other technologies which will further strengthen the user experience faster by booting the machine and connecting networks wireless very fast and almost transparent manner for the user. The first is called "Rapid Start", could not be more simple to understand, and the second is the aptly named "Smart Connect".

The 313 Series to return to the new flash drives launched by Intel, will decline in two sizes, 20 GB and 24 GB. The 20 GB disk, announced performance are 220 MB/s read and 100 MB/s sequential write. The 24 GB "turning" a little faster writing with 115 MB/s but loses a little read since it is only 160 MB / s.

In this type of configuration, the life of flash cells must be the longest possible, more they will often sought to delay the read and write orders which must be then sent the disc trays. Intel therefore having its flash NAND SLC Series 313, and non-MLC, for longevity, because this type of memory accepts a number more important Scriptures for each cell. On a comparative basis, the SLC would average more than 100,000 orders for writing, while the MLC could hold only about 10 000.

Available in a package 2.5 inches or in version mSATA, these Series 313 have unique interface SATA II 3 Gb/s, which seems well enough for the announced performance and especially the use that will be made of these SSD. To be given, should pay $ 120 for the 20 GB drive and $ 140 for 24 GB or $ 6 /Go to the first disc and $ 5.8 /Go to the second. It is not given, hope that manufacturers did not benefit to increase the rates of the final machines using this technology.

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Cubic hybrid memory for soon?

A RAM sandwich with a somewhat special cubic sauce. It promises to move quickly, but it is not for immediately.

Recent experiments seem to be completed in IBM HMC, or cubic hybrid RAM. Well, this is in fact not really cubic, but the principle is simple. A layer contains circuits for memory, then stacked on several layers. But the interconnection between these layers, for data storage and access to them, can quickly become limiting, because generally located on the outskirts of these. Intel, in association with Micron, developed tubes between the layers, so lifts to electrons, but this time here in the middle and scattered, shortening exchanges, the speed of access, the performance of transfer and also the power consumption.

On this table, Intel shows that this new memory could achieve a bandwidth of 128 GB/s with a VDD (voltage of memory) on a chip of 512 MB, less than the DDR3. Consumption is also lower if we take the column of the report consumption and bandwidth, but overall, these cells of memory more than DDR3 chips heat. Micron Announces also that these strips of RAM hybrid in 32 nm will be produced in a plant of the State of New York, but it is unlikely to see landing this type of memory in our machines immediately knowing that the world of industry must be hand on before manufacturing process.

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Cooler Master presents hybrid blocks with function fanless

Powerful power supplies but that can happen under the 200W ventilation, and offer independent management of the cooling...

This is "a revolution" according to the press release issued by Cooler Master presents a new line of power supplies under the banner "Silent Pro Hybrid". Blocks fully modular, providing centralized control of energy and cooling of the system, delivered with a control panel in the format "5.25.

Certified 80Plus Gold (87% yield), these power supplies incorporate a manager of fans of 7V which allows including direct control - via the front panel, and not through the card-mother - of the 135 mm fan Super Silent Hydraulic Bearings which they are equipped with three other fans may be added. Two potentiometers can independently adjust the rotation speed of the fans of the chassis and power, and users can choose between automatic or manual management modes.

The label of Noise-Free, these blocks hide a "fanless" function that allows to stop the rotation of the fan of food as long as the consumption remains under the 200W. Beyond, the power supply fan automatically calls into road. These blocks are launched in three different power: 850W ($199), 1050W ($249) and 1300W ($299).

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A hard drive hybrid 7 mm?

On one of the blogs of Seagate, one of the leaders of the firm wondered on the interest of a hybrid in the ultrabooks hard disk, the "concept" of portable PC launched by Intel recently put in place by many manufacturers like Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc.

What is interesting, out side marketing, it's that he wondered about the possible creation of a Momentus XT with a thickness of 7 mm, while the classical model is in a more standard format, 9.5 mm. Currently, the ultrabooks use either an SSD-based solution or a solution composed of a hard disk of 7 mm coupled to a small capacity SSD used cache (SSD Caching of Intel). In the first case, it is limited to the level of capacity: SSDS are expensive and the ultrabooks must not - ideally - exceed $1,000, so a 128 GB SSD is usually the limit. In the second case, the space needed is more important than with a hybrid solution such as Seagate.

Still two problems: first, the passage in 7 mm implies a limitation to the level of capacity. Indeed, 7 mm (used by Archos) hard disks are limited to a single shelf and therefore the best 500 GB currently. Then, the problem of the SSD cache, whether in the hybrid hard disk drives or with the Intel solution, is that it remains a cache: If you out of the preset scenario (and therefore the cache), performance crash and found the same level as a conventional hard drive. With the Momentus XT, Seagate partially solves the problem by using a hard drive at 7,200 rpm, but this is not necessarily possible with a hard disk of 7 mm.

In the end, Seagate should propose a Momentus XT (or equivalent in 5,400 rpm) 7 mm thick which will make pleasure lambda users - who prefer 500 GB of storage space to 128 GB - but is not necessarily something that will bring its letters of nobility to the Ultrabooks. The MacBook Air from Apple, which is clearly the Intel model for the ultrabooks, uses only with SSD and it is clearly one of its big advantages.

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LG Working on a Mouse/Scanner Hybrid

LG said that it plans to showcase a mouse/scanner hybrid peripheral next week during IFA 2011. Unfortunately, pricing and availability is still unknown.

Wednesday LG Electronics revealed plans to showcase its new LSM-100 hybrid at the IFA 2011 tradeshow in Berlin which begins September 1. The device is a combination of a mouse and a handheld scanner, allowing the user to simply hold the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse, and then swipe over any material (artwork, document etc) on a flat surface. The resulting scanned image can then be saved as PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, XLS and DOC, or dragged and dropped into the desired application.

"The LSM-100 is also equipped with LG’s Optical Character Recognition technology, which converts scanned text into a Microsoft Word document that can then be edited and manipulated as the user sees fit," the company said. "By eliminating the need to retype text from print media onto the screen, Optical Character Reader saves users a great deal of time."

LG said that the scanner aspect can take in sizes up to A3 (11.7 x 16.5-inches) which is larger than most conventional portable scanners. The LSM-100's scanning technology has also reportedly been upgraded to handle faster pass-over rates, meaning that scanning an A3 sheet won't take forever – it can actually be done "smoothly and quickly."

The specifics about the device's mouse aspects – as in the laser's DPI, response time and overall dimensions – weren't provided, but we expect to hear more about this hybrid gadget next week. Pricing and availability also wasn't given, but in the meantime, check out the video demonstration below. It's a bit dramatic, but it definitely gets the message across as to how it will scan in an A3-sized piece of paper.

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[COMPARISON] HDD - Hybrid - SSD

That has happened since the publication of our two comparisons in the world of SSDS and hard drives ? As the first see their generations evolve at very high speed (we are currently in the 3rd generation of mainstream SSD), all disks hard vis requires less news, physical limitation. Their storage capacity increase less rapidly and technology changes almost more. However, they keep a very important role in the large and low-cost storage (we are in prices around €50 /To for 2TB drives), enemy brothers SSD, with a price exploded go but the performance of any first-order.

A wonderful world where the cohabitation of the two technologies is perfect to combine performance and capacity, velocity and economy. But then, can we not expect a unit combining two technologies solution for the future? The Hybrid disc (understand involving precisely two technologies within) test in this comparison is present to get a first idea.

Like the other comparative, this article first presents each unit with particular detail of components... photos in support. Then we return to the heart of the matter by assessment of performance through a dozen of measures. No action of thermal clearances, noise and vibration will be presented in this article. Please refer to the previous comparative to learn more about these settings.

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Hybrid mice, laser and optical, in Razer

Razer has announced two new versions for the Mamba and the Imperator. The two mice share an interesting innovation: a dual sensor. Proposed for about 10 euros more than current models, mice reach a resolution of 6 400 dpi optical sensor level and a second laser sensor will allow to define precisely the point: the distance between the mouse and the carpet.

Information that is not trivial: players making large gestures must frequently lift the mouse to put it on the carpet, and optical sensors generally continue to work at the time when the mouse is raised. The short time between the "takeoff" and the time where the sensor realizes that it is raised may sometimes involve unexpected movements, which is an embarrassment for the players.

With the laser sensor mouse disables the main sensor (optical) as soon as the mouse leaves the carpet, for greater efficiency.

The Mamba, wireless, is expected in July to €130. Usable with or without wire, she works to 6,400 ppp and supports an acceleration of 50 g. It can operate even during a trip to 5 m/s and it sends the information to the computer to 1 000 Hz. Autonomy (wireless) is 16 hours. The Imperatore, cheaper (€80), is only wireframe, but offers the same benefits.

Passionate players should find the interest, others will turn to medium range, adapted to classical use mice without exploding prices.

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