Two small boxes aluminium in Lian Li

Lian Li presents two new small boxes. One clearly oriented storage data, the other a little more comprehensive, but all two Compact Aluminum...

Lian Li aluminum housings specialist has presented two new references of enclosures directed towards data storage. Small in size, they are indeed presented as being perfect to sin... but not only. Both integrated into the manufacturer's Q Series, they are known as PC - Q12 and PC - Q18 and could make the happiness of the fans of no bulky computers. They support two motherboards mini-ITX format and offer USB 3.0 front ports.

Minimalist, the PC-Q12 can be positioned vertical to horizontal. It proposes four bays 2.5-inch, which is rather a lot given its dimensions (8.8 x 36.5 x 20.8 cm). On the other hand, cannot associate with an on port PCIe graphics card or an optical drive internally. PC - Q12 integrates a 300W power standard 80 more and cooling is provided by a small 80 mm top fan. This box will be available in silver or black for sale price $ 159.

The PC-Q18 leaves him the possibility to mount a more advanced configuration. It is in fact an aesthetic evolution of PC - Q08 which has four bays 3.5 "hotswap, not to mention the lower grid that allows you to add up to two drives, 3.5" additional or three 2.5 "disk. However, the chassis keeps the compact dimensions of 19.9 x 29 x 36.5 cm. There is room for an optical drive 5.25 "and the PC - Q18 can accommodate a dedicated VGA up to a maximum of 34 cm. On the heatpipe, it will be up to 16 cm high. Cooling is provided by two 140 mm fans, one on the front blowing directly on the disks to cool and the other being placed in extraction on top. There, two colors silver, black, and planned for a sale price of $ 159.

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NVIDIA: small point on the Roadmap of Kepler

Small overview of the known information about Kepler, the future generation of graphics with Nvidia cards.

A roadmap of Nvidia has appeared on the Net, promising a battle between the two competitors from the market of the GPU on 28 nm. To begin, the roadmap of the Chameleon is called GeForce Kepler Roadmap. Kepler, Yes, it is this gentleman who found the Act of the same name, including the law of the orbits of the planets. But we we righteous just. Although great mathematician of his time, Kepler has demonstrated the calculation of areas and other mathematical glitches in the 1600s, hence the name of the roadmap for Nvidia...

First, the caster will focus on the new version of DirectX, the 11.1, normally integrated natively in the next version of Windows. R & D has also worked on etching at 28 nm to avoid problems related to the manufacture of transistors at this tiny size has just be put in place by TSMC.

The first processor Nvidia of the road map will be the GeForce Kepler 107, the GK107 of his name, which appears to be the entry of the family. Unfortunately, there is not the number of hearts stated on this GK107, but we know that he will be entitled to a 128-bit bus on of the GDDR5 and will be based on the standard PCI Express 2.0. In the aftermath, the GK106 will him the standard PCI Express 3.0 with a 256-bit bus always in GDDR5.

Finally, the GK104, one of the most efficient, will be a bus of 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0, it goes without saying. For when? Normally in 2012. We should see cards graphics with code GK110 name, combining two chips GK104, to make the SLI directly on a single card. If the burning in TSMC 28 nm process goes well, it is even planned to see maps for 2013 equipped with the GK112 and can rely on a bus of 512-bit GDDR5. A table found on this site tells us a little more, but this is to take in the conditional.

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Free Mobile does not fear the small MVNO

Will free Mobile also harm small virtual operators? Unlikely they...

With contractual conditions and falling wholesale prices, the MVNO (virtual operators) to highlight currently on the market, recruiting new subscribers by leveraging offers low-cost without commitment. A situation which did not fail to bring a welcome competition in the telecom market, requiring major mobile operators to draw specific offers (Sosh at Orange, B & You in Bouygues and Red in SFR)... all to prepare, in addition, the arrival of Free Mobile on the market. A situation favourable to the MVNO that, on the third quarter, attracted new clients 882.000 for a total of 6.8 million customers, evidence that they are more to ignore with more than 10% of the market.

But the arrival of Free Mobile market will net break their progression? Because if the largest MVNO (such as Virgin Mobile, Universal Mobile or mail Mobile) have the means to communicate, the smaller for most only need to rely on the word of mouth. To find out what all these little think actors, and know their reaction to the arrival of Free Mobile, our colleagues from Business Mobile went to interview some of them.

In Zero-package which has 80,000 customers, are reminded that they are MVNO that brought competition to the market and expected Free Mobile "positively". "We think their buzz surf to adapt our offers, we are rather serene" explains Patrick Gentemann, Director. In Budget Telecom which has 25,000 clients, it is about the same speech, the Director of marketing José Caballero declaring: "we have cleared the field, we have shown to consumers that it is possible to strongly lower rates (...)" The historical were very opportunistic and cut the grass under the foot to Free with their offers low cost (...) "The risk is can be found that the MVNO become operators transition for consumers, they are ready to subscribe a few months in a MVNO just to make a good case".

The latter explains finally that, given the fares currently, the offer of Free Mobile could be the final disappointing consumers who expect a real break with the fares. But between the time Free announced his arrival on the motive and intention of divide by two the invoice of the French and today, things have evolved favourably for consumers. Is it still the margin that Free Mobile creates a new shock? The troublemaker seems to think that Yes. Strongly the Announces offers to finally know the tariff Free Mobile positioning.

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Xperia duo: the small bomb of Sony Ericsson for September?

Sony Ericsson could launch its new super-smartphone as soon as the month of September...

 

Found date of new details about the Sony Ericsson Xperia duo. This future high smartphone range has a touch screen of 4.5 inches at the qHD resolution 960 x 540 pixels. It would be designed around a dual-core processor running at 1400 MHz, with 1.5 GB of RAM. The storage of the beast would be given to 8 GB of memory flash. This duo Xperia would benefit from a high-performance sensor Exmor R of 12 megapixel camera (with flash), able to shoot in Full HD 1080p.

It would have also (very large) 2500 mAh battery. The new baby of Sony Ericsson will work under Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). This new monster could be available in the month of September, even if all of this is that rumours... You can also ask the question of the price at which could be displayed a powerful terminal!

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