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Apple Slashes MacBook Air (SSD) Price by $500

Apple has slashed the price on its high-end MacBook Air (SSD) by as much as $500. The price reduction is most significant for those looking to acquire a unit, especially the model featuring a 64GB, solid state drive.Various reports are noting that the price of the 64 GB SSD drive has been dropped by as much as $400, ...

4 July 2008
03:09 GMT

Solid State Devices Will Completely Replace Light Bulbs

In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first electric light bulb using a carbon filament, only to receive the patent for his invention two months later. In was the greatest invention of the 19th century, but although the materials used to construct the light bulb changed slightly over the years, its design remained...

7 March 2008
05:29 GMT

Transcend Starts Shipping Its 32GB SSD

A few months ago the computer hardware manufacturing company Transcend announced that it will design and manufacture a solid state drive, SSD for short, that is aimed at the mobile computer market segment as a replacement or an addition to the traditional hard disk drive.Now the company announced that it will start s...

10 October 2007
02:51 GMT

A New 32GB SATA SSD Coming

Great performance boosts were expected from the solid state drives but until now they kind of failed to deliver, partly as they are the offsprings of some rather new technologies and partly because the associated software drivers are not really worth talking about. Even so, with their limited storage capabilities and...

9 October 2007
03:34 GMT

Alienware Area-51 m9750 Laptop Gets Dual SSDs

Solid state drives are having a field day as more and more high end products like laptops and notebooks are using them as upgrade options as they have no moving parts and so are more resilient to shocks while providing faster data transferring speeds than typical hard disk drives at lower power costs. The main drawba...

11 September 2007
06:58 GMT

JEDEC Will Support SSDs

JEDEC is an industry association which is specialized in setting the manufacturing standards and a number of technical specifications for some of the most computer hardware parts like the dynamic random access memory, DRAM for short. As the solid state drives are becoming increasingly popular and their price tags dro...

31 August 2007
10:50 GMT

SanDisk Launches Cheap Solid State Drives

SanDisk Corporation announced the release of a cheap solid state drive, SSD for short, as the company joins the efforts of bringing personal computers to the developing nations and emerging markets. The uSSD 5000 is a small capacity solid state drive which is intended to replace a more expensive storage unit like a t...

31 August 2007
05:28 GMT

Solid State Drives Have a Sure Future Ahead

Solid State Drives or SSDs for short are rapidly gaining market shares in the all too crowded computer storage market. Once reserved only for time critical enterprise applications and servers, Solid State Drives are nowadays found even in laptops in conjunction with the traditional way of storing data in the hard dis...

25 July 2007
11:12 GMT

Trends in Computer Memory

In order to keep pace with ever faster and more powerful processors, the computer memory (RAM as it is called) had to undergo several major changes these past few years. The RAM is a very important piece of hardware, as it is the link between the processor and the rest of the storage devices. While secondary storage ...

17 July 2007
04:08 GMT

Hughes&Kettner and the Funky Generation: BK300!

Again, a brief piece of news from the Europe's biggest music technology event, the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. USA-Germany combo Hughes&Kettner, one of the world's most revered names when it comes to guitar and bass amplifiers, has showcased their new bass amp, the BK300.The Hughes&Kettner BassKick se...

2 April 2007
06:22 GMT


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