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Some refresh of Mac lines-up in Q2, a black iMac?

For the Mac fans, you’d have to folk out more for some refreshed Mac hardwares, which is likely on thier way in Q2. According to tips gathered by MacScoop, there is a strong possibility seeing some refresh in the Mac lines-up by the end of June, 2007. The rumored annoucement would be likely next month, April, including a black 24-inch iMac, 8-core Mac Pros, MacBook Pro with more with smaller form factor (15-inch MacBook) and Apple Cinema display that supports HDMI/HDCP.

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M-terminal may kill Microsoft’s software sales?

In the old days most of the comporates were using Unix/mainframe system to host thier backend legacy processing applications. The Unix server had multiple dumb terminals connected to it and allowed multiple users to access the applications from different terminals. Use of Unix/dumb terminal benefits corporates in terms of lower maintenance cost of multiple PC hardware or software licenses yet still able to provide multiple access.

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1 inch portable storage kicks away your usual flash drive

Too many files, pictures, porn clips to carry around, a 4GB flash drive isn’t sufficient for you? This nano-sized 1 inch portable drive’d come in to replace your usual flash drive. The Pocketec 1-inch portable storage measures about 1 inch squared, gives you a storage size of 12GB. It’s compatible with Window 98/ SE/ ME/ 2000/ 2003 server/ XP/ Vista and MAC OS 8.6. A price of $170.00 is too expensive? Then wait for the price drops later! Simply having too much data to bring along? Then don’t wait!

Buy Now $169.95 at PocketTec.net

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AOpen’s foldable PC casing

The AOpen F501 PC housing, which can be folded and flatten for easy transportation. It can fold-unfold rapidly and the package box can easily expand and put together for display and carrying.

This product does only one thing good, i.e saves space for shipping then saves your shipping cost. For the PC dealers, this will surely save your shipping cost as you can ship as many of the foldable units into a standard shipping container. For the end users, when you purchase from local store, you no longer have to suffer from carrying the bulk size of a traditional PC case, which you can just fold and flatten it and carry with one hand. Besides, it will likely cost you a lower shipping cost when buying this PC case online, as the online store could pack it together with some other products for shipping.

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Blu-Ray Internal Recordable Drive For Mac Pro

Blu-Ray is the next generation of disc format that we need to catch up with, well, solely for the sack of its amazingly huge data storage, for all your favorite videos. Despite the crack reported yesterday, lets take a look at a Blu-Ray product, the Blu-Ray Internal Recordable Drive for the Mac users here.

The MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 is completely pre-configured for easy user installation. It supports both the 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs.

For a price of $699.00, you don’t only get a better part, you also get the Toast 8 Titanium software. (This software is worth $80.00). The Toast 8 Titanium manages all your recording functions. It includes features such as letting you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive – drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Besides, the TiVoToGo transfer of Toast 8 also lets you grab shows off your TiVo.

Product Page, Buy Online $699.00 at MceTech

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Centrino Gets Wireless-N The Game!

To long have I heard that laptop wireless internet runs so much slower then it should, sure its true! But every laptop owner seems to complain about it, even me, but thanks for the great people at Intel there is hope just yet for the new line of laptops coming out, this hope comes in the form of the Wireless-N.

XSKN key board skin for Photoshop users

If your Photoshop skills suck, the XSKN keyboard skin will really help out. It is a silicone keyboard skin laid with the appropriate short cut/function keys for Photoshop. If your Photoshop skills are really as bad as mine, no worry, with this keyboard, all the function keys are standing out big, which you can locate any of them easily!

Too bad, it’s now only available for Apple laptops (MacBooks) and desktops. Hope more styles will be coming out soon.

$22.50 At Xskn.com

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Buffalo’s WiFi adaptor gives you a 210 percents signal boost!

The Buffalo WiFi adaptor gives your computer wirless capabilities and a 210 percent of signal boost, which can extend the signal reach up to 170m.

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Optical storage stores tremendous amount of data

Scientists have found way to store images into just a photon. For those who know physics (quantum physics) well, you should know what a photon is. In plain English, a photon, which is an extremely tiny particle that makes up light.

Just imagine, images of thousands or millions of pixels can be stored only on a single photon, which means we’d get some kind of optical storage drive in the future (could be in few years time or shorter), which allows us to store tremendous amount of data!

Source: Rochester , Pressesc.com

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NVIDIA’s new Direct X 10 Video Card.

Just last week at CES NVIDIA has unveiled there new line of Direct X 10 capable video cards in the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 series. This will be the first video card to the market that will enable gamers to take advantage of the new Direct X 10 upgrade found in the soon to be released Windows Vista, and step into what really is the next generation gaming.

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