Windows 7 Build 7200 RC2
Wzor confirmed that Windows 7 build RC2 is true. We are just going to assume that RC2 = RTM earlier it was rumored that build 7200 = RC2 and Build 7300 = RTM.
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31.5.2009 Windows 7 RC2 build 7200 is about to release
Why Windows 7 RC2 build 7200? Because Windows 7 is in the RC phase. The Vista RC and XP RC, few years ago, didn't include new functions.
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31.5.2009 Windows 7 Forked, Builds 7200 and 7225 with Service Pack 1
Microsoft has reportedly passed the 7200 build string milestone in the development of Windows 7.
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1.6.2009 Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos & Build 7200 Screenshots
Lately we have seen many rumors spreading about Windows 7 Release candidate 2. Previously it was rumored that Microsoft had no planning of having Windows 7 RC 2 and may directly come up with Windows 7 RTM.
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1.6.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008Seagate introduces 500 GByte
desktop harddrive
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Seagate today announced its
ninth generation 7200 rpm
desktop harddrive. The
Barracuda 7200.9 is launched
in nine versions with up to
500 GByte capacity and support
for the most recent SATA spec
2.5 as well as
third-generation Native
Command Queuing
(NCQ).
The
new product generation
succeeds the previous 7200.8
as Seagate's offering in the
high capacity harddrive (200
GByte and more) market.
Targeting performance and
gaming PCs as well as consumer
and entertainment systems, the
company offers a version of
the 7200.9 for virtually every
segment of today's consumer
segment.
The
3.5-inch harddrives come in
sizes of 40, 80, 120, 160,
200, 250, 300, 400 and 500
GByte with platter capacity of
up to 160 GByte, which equals
a density of 106.35 Gbit per
square inch. Cache sizes range
from 2 to 16 MByte, depending
on the model. The
top-of-the-line 500 GByte
7200.9 uses four platters with
125 GByte capacity each...
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11.10.2005Seagate Announces two new 1TB Drives
Seagate has unveiled two new
hard drive lines that both
offer a maximum 1TB capacity:
the Barracuda 7200.11
(consumer) and the Barracuda
ES.2 (enterprise). Expect both
to arrive sometime this
quarter and note that Seagate
prices the consumer 1TB HDD at
an MSRP of $399. As with
other Seagate drives, the new
Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2
come with five year
warranties.
Seagate
packs the 1TB Barracuda
7200.11 with 32MB of L2 cache,
SATA 3.0Gbps and native
command queuing support. The
Barracuda 7200.11 makes use of
four 250GB platters with
second-generation
perpendicular magnetic
recording technology. The
company claims the new
Barracuda 7200.11 can sustain
a 105MB/s data rate and only
draws 8-watts during idle as
well as 11.6-watts during
seek. Acoustically, the
Barracuda 7200.11 generates
around 27-to-29 decibels of
noise during idle and seeking
tasks. Seagate also offers the
Barracuda 7200.11 in 750GB
(three platters) and 500GB
(two platters) sizes with the
same 32MB buffer and PMR
technology.
Seagate's new Barracuda
ES.2 models are offered with
serial attached SCSI, or SAS,
interfaces. Seagate has also
raised the MTBF rating of the
Barracuda ES.2 to 1.2 million
hours, up 200 thousand hours
from the previous Barracuda
ES.
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26.06.2007Seagate Launches 160GB 7200RPM Notebook Drive
In response to Fujitsu's
MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200RPM SATA
3.0Gb/s notebook hard drive,
Seagate has released its 160GB
Momentus 7200.2, a second
generation 7200RPM hard drive
which uses perpendicular
recording technology. The
Momentus 7200.2 also adds an
optional free-fall sensor that
can detect a free-fall from a
height of just 8 inches. The
drives are also built to
withstand non-operating shocks
of 900 Gs and operating shocks
of 350 Gs. The Momentus 7200.2
series is available now in
capacities of 80GB, 100GB,
120GB and 160GB. According to
Seagate, the Momentus 7200.2
160GB with G-Force protection
will have a street price of
around $188.
" The growing number of
computer users turning to
laptops as their primary PCs
want every inch of capacity,
performance and durability
they enjoy in their desktop
systems. The new Momentus
7200.2 hard drive epitomizes
Seagate's focus on delivering
cutting-edge storage
technologies that make it
easier to move, use and
protect digital information in
the home, in the office and
on-the-go ," said Seagate
vice president and general
manager Michael Wingert.
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14.03.2007Nvidia Announces GeForce 7200 GS
Nvidia has announced the
GeForce 7200 GS, a card that
delivers Vista Premium Ready
graphics performance for a
mere $50. NVIDIA touts
full support for DirectX 9.0,
shader model 3.0 and high
dynamic-range with the
entry-level card. The G72
graphics core, clocked at 450
MHz, is essentially a crippled
GeForce 7300-series core: half
the pipelines. This brings the
total pixel pipelines to two,
each with one texture unit.
PureVideo video processing is
also supported; however,
NVIDIA is unclear if the
GeForce 7200 GS supports
PureVideo HD for
high-definition video decoding
acceleration.
Add-in board manufacturers
are free to equip GeForce 7200
GS graphics cards with 128MB
or 256MB of DDR2 memory
attached to the GPU via a
64-bit memory interface.
NVIDIA recommends 800 MHz for
GeForce 7200 GS graphics
cards. GeForce 7200 GS based
graphics cards will be
available to OEMs, system
builders and retail. NVIDIA
add-in board partners with
GeForce 7200 GS products
include Albatron, ASUS,
Biostar, ECS, EVGA, Foxconn,
Galazy, Gigabyte, Innovision,
Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of
View, PNY Technology, SPARKLE,
XFX, Zogis and Zotac.
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09.05.2007Seagate outs fast, two-platter 1TB drive
Seagate today preempted CES by launching a major update to its
Barracuda drives. The 7200.12 is the first desktop hard drive to fit 500GB of data on to a single platter and manages to hold
1TB by using just two platters versus as many as four on other disks...
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05.01.2009Seagate Barracuda hard drives plagued by failures
Numerous complaints are being reported from customers who own the 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive at the Seagate's online support
forum. The hard drive seems to just freeze during data transfers. Kabatek, Brown and Kellner LLP, a consumer law firm, is considering a lawsuit
against Seagate because of the high failure rates of the Barracuda 7100.11. Seagate, the world's largest Hard drive maker released the 3.5-inch
internal drive, Barracuda 7200.11 in July 2008. The hard drive offers 1.5TB of capacity on four platters and uses a SATA 3GB/sec interface, delivering
a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/sec.
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18.01.2009Try, try again: Seagate issues a second fix for 7200.11 hard drives
Seagate Technologies spokesperson Michael L. Hall gave Betanews an update this afternoon on the company's situation with its Barracuda 7200.11 hard
drives, which have been failing in record numbers. Hall acknowledged that some units manufactured up until last month do have an issue where data is
rendered inaccessible after power-up, and went on to acknowledge that the company's initial fix for the problem only made matters worse.
"While we believe that the vast majority of customers will not experience any disruption related to this issue, as part of our commitment to
customer satisfaction, Seagate is offering a free firmware upgrade to proactively address those with potentially affected products," Hall stated.
"This new firmware upgrade corrects compatibility issues that occurred with the firmware download provided on our support Web site on Jan. 16. We
regret any inconvenience that the firmware issues have caused our customers."..
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22.01.2009Fujitsu to Release World's First 7200-RPM 320 GB 2.5" HDD
Fujitsu Limited today announced its new MHZ2 BJ series of 2.5" hard disk drives that feature a rotational speed of 7200 RPM and capacities up to 320
GB Sales of the new series will begin at the end of June 2008. The new series is designed for use in high-performance PCs, such as high-end notebook
computers and compact desktops.
The MHZ2 BJ series requires only 2.3 W of power for read and write operations, ranking it among the most
power-efficient drives in its class. The series is one of many new products announced as part of Fujitsu's Green Policy Innovation initiative,
unveiled in December 2007 to promote energy-efficient products and services as a way to help customers lower their ecological footprint.
As
PCs offer an increasing number of sophisticated functions, there is an increasing need for high-capacity hard disk drives with improved processing
capabilities.
But with growing worldwide concern over global warming and other environmental problems, there is also a demand for hard disk
drives that consume less electricity.
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24.03.2008Here come the Caviar 1 TB drives
As more manufacturers aim for the 1 TB storage high-water mark, Western Digital pushed the pace further today with the announcement of its new 7200
rpm 3.5-inch SATA Caviar hard drives, in 750 GB and 1 TB capacities...
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11.06.2008Seagate Launches 750GB Hard
Drive
Seagate on Wednesday
introduced its Barracuda
7200.10, the first computer
desktop hard disk to reach the
750-gigabyte storage mark. The
drive, with a retail price of
$559 USD, is 50 percent larger
than the previous 500-gigabyte
marker leader...
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27.04.2006Seagate firmware update bricks 500GB HDDs
Just days since Seagate released a firmware update for a range of hard drives, which were hit by firmware bugs, Tom's Hardware reports that things
don't look much brighter for hard drive giant Seagate. This time the problem is with the SD1A firmware update, for the 500GB hard drives in the
7200.11 series, which many unhappy customers have said completely bricks the hard drive. The problem lies in the firmware update, which causes the
drive to freeze up. As far as un-bricking the devices goes, there has been little success. Some have claimed that downgrading the firmware has fixed
the problems, for the moment.
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22.01.2009Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't official launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for
purchase at Australia's Mwave online store. Priced at AU$377.80 (US$250) Western Digital will be the first ever hard drive maker to
provide users with a 2TB hard disk drive. Image Courtesy: Engadget So far, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 packs 500GB per platter, and has the
highest areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. Western Digital might have reached this areal density with the release of its 2TB hard drive.
Further product specifications are not known yet.
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27.01.2009Seagate plans SSD, 2TB hard drive for next year
Seagate will introduce its first SSD (solid-state drive) storage and 2TB hard drive next year, company CEO Bill Watkins said.
The company's first SSD product will be targeted at enterprises that need speedy storage and can afford to pay a premium for the expensive
drives. Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers as the high prices could deter them for the next few years, Watkins said in an
interview.
The release date and price information for the 2TB hard drive were not available. Seagate released 1TB hard drives,
the Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2, in the middle of 2007.
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30.05.2008Seagate: Vista OS requires 250GB to 1TB of storage
Looking to change computer storage from a commodity to competitive differentiator, hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC launched a new set
of tools today to help its channel partners change the way they take storage to market.
The vendor sees an increasing demand for
storage driven primarily by two trends: the increased storage demands of the Windows Vista operating system and the advent of the digital pack rat,
who stores ever-increasing amounts of songs, pictures and videos.
Consequently says Pete Steege, Seagate's senior marketing
manager, storage is playing an increasingly larger role for system builders.
"We're seeing a couple of trends in the market
adding up to real opportunity for solution providers that we're taking advantage of," said Steege.
The hard drive has gone from
an afterthought, says Steege, to the heart of the machine. Calling Vista the "poster child for storage" he says users need 250GB to 1TB of storage
to fully leverage the operating system. And with the need for backup, that becomes 500GB to 2TB. Seagate's offering in this higher-end space is the
Barracuda 7200.11, its new 1TB drive.
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25.09.2007Seagate first with 1.5TB hard drives
One terabyte hard drives still cramping your decadent data storage lifestyle? No more tears. Seagate is rolling out 1.5TB HDDs this August.
Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will use four platters to cram the scale-tipping new raw capacity into an eleventh generation of its flagship
drive. The storage firm points out its the single largest hard drive capacity bump in the last 50 years.
As the name suggests, the HDD
spins at 7,200RPM. The 3Gb/s SATA I interface has a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/s.
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11.07.2008'Nehalem' Mac Pro unboxed and benchmarked
A MacRumors forum user who got his Nehalem Mac Pro has shared his experiences unboxing the new beast and benchmarked the system's memory and
processor performance in GeekBench Result Browser. Below is the system configuration of the "Nehalem" Mac Pro he got. Processor 065-8315 Two 2.93GHz
Quad-Core Intel XeonMemory 065-8333 6GB (6X1GB)Graphics Card 065-8316 ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MBHard Drive Bay1 065-8537 640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA
3GbOptical Drive 065-7923 One 18x SuperDriveWireless Option 065-7925Mini Display Port Adapter 065-8677Mini Display Port Adapter2 065-8679Fibre Chl
Card 065-7929 The Geekbench benchmark for the 2.93GHz, dual Quad-Core Nehalem system gave a total score of 17,665, giving it the second place in
the list of all GeekBench 2 scores.
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11.03.2009Terabyte Hard Drives Show Stellar Performance
Its the era of the terabyte. That era really launched back in May when Hitachi delivered its 7K1000 terabyte hard drive. However, the 7K1000 was a
five platter, ten head device, while Western Digital and Seagate ship four platter, four head devices. Thats right: The Western Digital WD10EACS and
Seagate 7200.1 offer a cool 250GB per platter. Thats a lot of bits in a small area. Seagates take on a terabyte drive is a more traditional design,
while Western Digital plays the green card. Which drive offers better performance and value?
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02.11.2007Seagate Launches First 1.5TB Desktop Drive
There seems to be no limit in sight as to raw capacity on disk drives, although science would seem to indicate otherwise.
Only
about a year after
introducing 1 terabyte
desktop drives, Seagate Technologies on July 10 unveiled the industry's first 1.5TB desktop drive along with a 500-megabyte (half-terabyte)
notebook hard drive.
The debut of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the 11th generation of Seagate's flagship drive for
desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives -- a half-terabyte increase from
the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
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10.07.2008Sun Launches its First x86 Quad-Core Servers
Adding spark to its Sun Fire line on servers, Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announced its first x86-based quad-core systems Tuesday.
The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 rack-mount servers are the second and third Intel Corp.-based products Sun is releasing after the
companies signed a partnership early this year. Sun shipped an Intel-based blade server, Sun Blade X6250, in June.
The X4450 is a
four-socket, 2U server powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processors, while the 1U Sun Fire X4150 is a two-socket server powered by Intel's
quad-core Xeon 5300 processors. Both servers offer memory capacity ranging from 2G bytes to 128G bytes.
Starting at US$8,895, the
X4450 server will ship worldwide in October, said Rebecca Tong, product line manager at Sun. The X4150, starting at $2,995, will ship in the U.S. this
month and worldwide in October. The X4450 and X4150 will also support Intel's 7200 and 5100 dual-core processors, respectively...
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25.09.2007Dell, CompUSA Gear Up For Vista Launch
With more than 100,000 hours
invested in testing and
validating Microsoft's
Windows Vista, Dell
specialists believe they are
ready for the business launch
of the new operating system on
Thursday. "We're ready to
work with individual consumers
or large enterprises," said
Russ Ray, a senior manager in
Dell's client operating
system product marketing unit
as he described the hardware
manufacturer's game plan for
the launch of Vista. "The
smaller they are, the easier
it is. We're finding that
everybody is interested in
getting his hands on it."
Dell, which says it
accounts for more than 10
percent of Microsoft's
business, said customers with
volume licensing agreements
with Microsoft can use Dell to
factory-install Vista after
they have provided their
Windows Vista image. In
extensive pre-launch testing
of Vista, Office 2007 and
Exchange Server 2007 with its
customers, Dell has found that
the ideal PC hardware
configuration should grow to
take advantage of the advanced
functions included in the
Microsoft products.
A typical Vista-based
configuration should have 2-GB
of RAM, a 256-MB memory card,
a 7200 RPM hard disk and a
dual core processor from AMD
or Intel, according to Dell.
In particular, the processor
requirements represent a new
departure for Dell; for years
the firm was in a monogamous
relationship with Intel, which
was the sole supplier of its
processors. In recent months,
however, Dell has added AMD as
a processor supplier.
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