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Falcon Northwest - FragBook DRX

Processor Name: Intel Core i7-975
Processor Speed: 3.33 GHz
RAM: 6 GB

Screen Size: 17 inches
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 280M GTX
Storage Capacity: 1080 GB
Primary Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW DL with Blu-Ray


 Voodoo (HP) - Envy H171

Core 2 Extreme CPU,
a Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 graphics chipset,
4GB of RAM,
and a hard drive capacity of up to 600GB (using three drives). 


Alienware Area-51 m9750
 
Processor Options
* Intel® Pentium® Processor SU4100 (2M Cache, 1.30 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
* Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz, 800 MHz, 3 MB)
Chipset
* Mobile Intel® GS45 Chipset
Memory Options
* 2GB, 4GB, 8GB DDR312 - 800MHz
Display Options
* 11.6-inch WideHD 1366x768 (720p) LCD
TV Tuner Options
* USB Digital TV Tuner, TV Tuner with Remote
(ada tv tunner gan )
Video Card Options
* 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M
Hard Drive Options
* 160GB13 5,400RPM
* 250GB13, 320GB13, 500GB13 - 7,200RPM
* 256GB13 - Solid State Drive 


Dell XPS M1730
 
Processor model:
Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor
Processor number:
X7900
Processor speed:
2.80GHz with 4 MB cache
RAM:
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
Hard Disk:
400 GB (2x200GB) 7200RPM
Screen size:
17.1" UltraSharp Wide Screen display

Display type:
WUXGA TFT

Max. Screen resolution:
1920x1200

CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/Disk drive:
Blu-ray / DVD / CD Burner (Blu-ray Disc Drive)

Graphics card:
NVIDIA SLI Dual GeForce 8700MGT with 512MB GDDR3 Memory
Video ram:
512 MB


Apple MacBook Pro

Processor and memory
* 2.8GHz or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
* 1066MHz frontside bus
* 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB

Graphics and video support
# NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
# NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
# Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
# Built-in iSight camera
# Mini DisplayPort
Storage
* 500GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive; optional 500GB 7200-rpm hard drive, or 128GB or 256GB

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Get Started With Windows 7 XP Mode

With the release of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions, Microsoft is including a little gift called XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtual machine running Windows XP. I call it a gift since to similarly equip Vista would have incurred the additional cost of a license for XP. Microsoft gives us XP mode as a means to having a fully modern computing environment without having to sacrifice legacy support.

Here's a quick guide to getting up and running with XP Mode.

Enable Hardware Virtualization

XP Mode is a non-starter if your CPU doesn't have hardware virtualization support enabled. To check if your CPU is supported, Intel and AMD both offer utilities to identify your CPU and what features it offers. If your CPU supports virtualization, this feature needs to be enabled in the BIOS.

Download and Install Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode

To download both Virtual PC and XP mode, follow this link. XP Mode is a 472MB file, so set aside some time for both downloading and installation.

First install Virtual PC, then XP Mode. Both installations are straightforward and the default settings will suffice for most situations. When XP Mode setup launches and you'll need to supply a password for the local XP Mode user that XP Mode automatically creates on the virtual machine. Finally you'll need to decide whether or not you want automatic updates. After all this information is gathered, Windows will finalize installation of XP Mode.

When installation is complete XP Mode will launch in Desktop Mode. Here, you have access to the full XP environment. Desktop Mode is useful when you want to use a completely separate desktop environment from your Windows 7 base install. It's important to note that by default, shortcut keystrokes are only passed to XP in Desktop Mode when it's running in full-screen. Also, while you don't have drag and drop capability between the operating systems, they do share a clipboard. Also, you have access to the complete host file system while in Desktop Mode.

Virtualizing Apps with Seamless Mode

Where XP Mode really shines is with Seamless Mode, which lets you launch XP apps straight from your Windows 7 menus. To use Seamless Mode, you first install an app under Desktop Mode, then log out of and close the virtual machine. The app you just installed can then be found on the host PC's Start menu under All Programs, Windows Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode Applications.

When the app is launched from the host OS, XP launches in the background and the app appears as if it were running natively in Windows 7. Apps run this way are called virtual applications. If you don't find the default start menu location to be convenient, you can move the shortcut to any location a traditional shortcut can be placed. If the app you want to virtualize doesn't automatically create a Start menu shortcut, or the app is already included with Windows (Internet Explorer 6.0 for example), you simply need to create a shortcut for it in Desktop Mode under c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu and the app will appear on the host start menu under Windows XP Mode Applications.

Seamless Mode isn't completely seamless; there are couple issues with it. In multi-monitor setups, the virtual application only lives on the primary monitor. Also, virtual apps don't want to play along with the Windows 7 Snap feature. Their Windows needed to be manually resized. It's also important to note that virtual applications and Desktop Mode cannot be used simultaneously. Finally, you'll need to keep in mind that a full OS needs to boot before a virtual app can be run, so a little patience will be needed on that first launch.

Despite its few limitations, IT admins will find that XP Mode provides a viable means of coping with legacy applications while fully modernizing the desktop environment.

By Michael Scalisi

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AMD Demos 48-core ''Magny-Cours'' System

morning everyone, i got this from my mail list.....check it out, AMD make 48 core......awesome

Earlier slated coarsely for 2010, AMD fine-tuned the expected release time-frame of its 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron processors to be within Q1 2010. The company seems to be ready with the processors, and has demonstrated a 4 socket, 48 core machine based on these processors. Magny Cours holds symbolism in being one of the last processor designs by AMD before it moves over to "Bulldozer", the next processor design by AMD built from ground-up. Its release will provide competition to Intel's multi-core processors available at that point.

AMD's Pat Conway at the IEEE Hot Chips 21 conference presented the Magny-Cours design that include several key design changes that boost parallelism and efficiency in a high-density computing environment. Key features include: Move to socket G34 (from socket-F), 12-cores, use of a multi-chip module (MCM) package to house two 6-core dies (nodes), quad-channel DDR3 memory interface, and HyperTransport 3 6.4 GT/s with redesigned multi-node topologies. Let's put some of these under the watch-glass.



Socket and Package
Loading 12 cores onto a single package and maintaining sufficient system and memory bandwidth would have been a challenge. With the Istanbul six-core monolothic die already measuring 346 mm² with a transistor-load of 904 million, making something monolithic twice the size is inconceivable, at least on the existing 45 nm SOI process. The company finally broke its contemptuous stance on multi-chip modules which it ridiculed back in the days of the Pentium D, and designed one of its own. Since each die is a little more than a CPU (in having a dual-channel memory controller, AMD chooses to call it a "node", a cluster of six processing cores that connects to its neighbour on the same package using one of its four 16-bit HyperTransport links. The rest are available to connect to neighbouring sockets and the system in 2P and 4P multi-socket topologies.

The socket itself gets a revamp from the existing 1,207-pin Socket-F, to the 1,974-pin Socket G34. The high pin-count ensures connections to HyperTransport links, four DDR3 memory connections, and other low-level IO.



Multi-Socket Topologies
A Magny-Cours Opteron processor can work in 2P and 4P systems for up to 48 physical processing cores. The multi-socket technologies AMD devised ensures high inter-core and inter-node bandwidth without depending on the system chipset IO for the task. In the 2P topology, one node from each socket uses one of its HyperTransport 16-bit links to connect to the system, the other to the neighbouring node on the package, and the remaining links to connect to the nodes of the neighbouring socket. It is indicated that AMD will make use of 6.4 GT/s links (probably generation 3.1). In 4P systems, it uses 8-bit links instead, to connect to three other sockets, but ensures each node is connected to the other directly, on indirectly over the MCM. With a total of 16 DDR3 DCTs in a 4P system, a staggering 170.4 GB/s of cumulative memory bandwidth is achieved.



Finally, AMD projects a up to 100% scaling with Magny-Cours compared to Istanbul. Its "future-silicon" projected for 2011 is projected to almost double that.

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Intel Atom processor......is it that good?

last sunday i went to notebook and pc center in my town.....and i saw a very cute notebook 

and interesting with it's look, i read the specs, and i found that it cored by intel atom. As a newbie i don't really know about Intel Atom, so i try to look in the internet about this processor specification. And finally this is the Intel Atom specification:

March 3, 2008 Recognizing that personal computing is increasingly going mobile and that the computer industry is rapidly developing new classes of products to connect the next billion people to the Internet, Intel have announced the Intel Atom processor - a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. The company also announced the Intel Centrino Atom processor technology for MID platforms, consisting of multiple chips that enable the best Internet experience in a pocketable device.

The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new micro-architecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility consumers are accustomed to when using a standard PC and the Internet. The design also includes support for multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness. All of this on a chip that measures less than 25 mm², making it Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor yet. These new chips, previously codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, will be manufactured in Intel’s 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today’s mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range. The Intel Centrino Atom processor technology, formerly codenamed “Menlow,” includes the Intel Atom processor, a low-power companion chip with integrated graphics, a wireless radio, and thinner and lighter designs.

In addition to the MID opportunity, Intel believes the demand for a new category of low-cost, Internet-centric mobile computing devices dubbed “netbooks” and basic Internet-centric desktop PCs dubbed “nettops,” will grow substantially over the next several years and the Intel Atom processor is designed to meet the needs of these new market segments. Intel said the Intel Atom processor also has potential for future revenue opportunities in consumer electronic devices, embedded applications and thin clients.
 

Intel formally announced its next-generation mobile device chips products, Atom and Centrino Atom, aimed at helping x86 regain its footing in the embedded and device markets. The chips use a new x86-compatible micro-architecture with an in-order pipeline, similar to ARM. Built on 45 nanometer process technology and using "High-K" metal gate transistor technologies, the Atom processor fits onto a 25mm by 25mm die, even with tons of cache. It will use a tenth the power of its mobile Core2 Duo "ULV" chips, Intel says, while scaling to 1.8GHz speeds.

It is likely that the Atom will reach the market only as part of the Intel Centrino Atom chipset, which combines the CPU with a "Poulsbo" companion chip that integrates northbridge and southbridge. Designed to meet the needs of Intel's "Mobile Internet Device" (MID) specification for handheld devices, the Centrino Atom chipset can also optionally include WiFi, WiMax, and other peripheral chips. The chipset will also be available with a penny-sized, 16GB solid state disk called the Z-P140.

ARM's latest offering, meanwhile, is the Cortex-A8 core, which was recently embraced by Texas Instruments (TI) in its OMAP3 applications processors. Incorporating a dual-issue design that can clock up to 1GHz, the Cortex-A8 is claimed to use less than 300mW when implemented using 65nm technology. TI reports that its benchmarks show the Cortex-A8 performing at up to 1200 Dhrystone MIPS (millions of instructions per second).

ARM vs. Atom

There's much to like about the Intel Atom, writes Williston in EETimes. Yet, he suggests, the media and its readers may have been overwhelmed by the hype machine. Williston offers the following responses to typical arguments from the atomic power lobbyists, at times quoting analysts such as Forward Concepts's Will Strauss to back him up:

  * Atom will beat ARM because it can run Vista. -- No it can't, says Williston. Atom can run Windows CE and Linux, but ARM can do the same.

  * Only Atom offers a "real" Internet experience with Flash video, YouTube, etc. -- "Wrong," writes Williston, pointing to ARM Flash players from BSquare, and an ARM-based YouTube decoder from On2. He might also have noted that Nokia's ARM- and Linux-based Internet tablets use a Mozilla-based browser, with plugins for Flash, Windows Media files, and even Microsoft's Flash-like Silverlight technology.

  * Intel dominates every market it enters. Here, the writer refers the reader to the history books, especially two years ago when Intel sold its PXA line of embedded processors to Marvell after failing to dominate the market for ARM-based SoCs.

  * Atom will win because ARM is proprietary technology. Nope, he writes. ARM chips are available from a number of semiconductor vendors.

  * Intel will win on cost. Not likely, he writes. Using a 65nm process, the Cortex-A8 occupies less than 3mm x 3mm, he notes, while the Atom core probably takes up about 9mm x 9mm of Atom's 25mm x 25mm die size, despite its smaller 45nm process. "With such a huge area disadvantage, it's hard to see how Intel will win on cost," he writes.

  * Intel will win on power. Once again, not likely, he argues. Intel quotes a thermal design power (TDP) of 0.6W to 2W for Atom, he writes, but doesn't specify clock speeds. ARM offers only "typical" power measurements, making comparison difficult. But at best, he suggests, Intel matches ARM on power usage, while "in most scenarios, Atom burns more power."

  * Intel will win because it has the most advanced fabs. Perhaps, he writes, but who cares? "Consumers focus on cost, power and speed," he writes.

In the end, Williston admits that the Intel Atom will likely run faster than ARM chips, especially for applications that exploit Atom's support for dual-threading. He also allows that "the most important versions of Atom are still a year or two away" when the chip will "integrate graphics and a memory controller." This, however, is a bit of a two-edged sword, as the embedded device market is exploding now, and ARM seems to be everywhere, along with Via and other potential competitors not mentioned in the article.

Perhaps the Atom's biggest advantage is its inherently superior support for PC applications, which could bring more well-tested x86 software to set-top boxes (STBs), automotive infotainment devices, ultra-mobile computers, and devices like the TiVo. The advantage is especially acute with games. "If Intel can leverage the large base of existing PC games it could outflank ARM with mobile gaming devices," he writes.

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What japanese trying to do?

i got this one from my milist today.......

 
Now we try to see what the Japanese do:
 
Now what we think about ?

em .... a camera pen  ????? But before we see the rest, try  flasback what people are doing in Japan ..

another one

  and so ......... if you answered that pen above is a camera pen you defintely wrong!!!!!! BECAUSE that "pen" work  LIKE THIS



  As the end result and this


yupp,  Be ready ready for the new era of mobile computer. this stuff definetly will kick off the notebook.....

enjoy

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Phone Code

Do you know that information and the performance of some of the features the phone can known or run using a certain code?

A lot of code that can be used to display the information hidden in a mobile phone. Many useful, for example, when select the phone, we can see the date of purchase and when last phone fixed. Or can also see the version for software you use and the personal identity of a mobile phone.

How, live type code in the desired position standby. Related to the network operator, after the press code, continue pressing the button with the 'call' (usually the image handle green phone).

Nokia Access Code

* # 30 #: Displays the private number to contact you.

* # 73 #: reset phone timers and game scores (on some phones).

* # 7780 #: Restore to factory settings.

* # 2820 #: Bluetooth device IP address.

Off button: Press to move to the short inter-profile.

* # 0000 #: Displays the software version of the phone. The first line shows the software version, the second line shows the date software, third line shows the type of compression used.

* # 9999 #: alternative code if the code * # 0000 # does not work.

* # 06 #: Viewing the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI number).

* # 21 #: check number of the "All Calls" are used.

* # 43 #: to check the status of "Call Waiting".

* # # 61: To check the number that the caller is not transferred when you responsibility. If you activate the call divert / call diversion.

* # # 62: To check the number the caller when the phone is diverted you are out of reach. If you activate the call divert / diversion calls.

* # # 67: To check the number the caller when the phone is diverted you are busy.

** 21 * number #: Enables on "All Calls" in the number of filled.

** 61 * number #: Enables on "No Reply" at the number of filled.

** 67 * number #: Enables on "On Busy" in the number of filled.

* # 7760 #: Show the manufacturer code (for most types of old mobile phones).

* # 92702689 #: raise:
1. Serial number.
2. Date Made (date).
3. Purchase Date (the date of purchase).
4. Date of last repair (the last date for which perbaikan/0000
have not been corrected).
5. Transfer User Data. On the phone to exit this mode
you must restart the phone.

Hard reset

Warning! All mobile phone data will be lost. In conditions not active (die), press the button at the same phone (receiver color green), number 3, and the button *. Then in the third key, press the start / on (on phone). This trick apply in most of the Nokia mobile phone.

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core 2 duo P or T

I little bit confused when i want to buy a new notebook for my sister. i know the other specification that suit to her personality. but the one that make me confuse is the processor, which one should i choose an intel core2 duo P series or T series. So, i grab some of people opinion in both processor. here are the opinion:

1. The T-series have a 677-800mhz FSB, while the P-series have a 1066-mhz FSB. The T-series is older technology than the P-series. The P-series is also 45-nanometer technology, as opposed to the 65-nanometer technology on the T-series. Because of this the P-series uses 10 less watts, 35 vs. 25. The L2 Cache of the T-series ranges from 1mb-6mb, while the range of the P-series is 3mb-6mb. The difference in performance between a similarly clocked T processor and a P processor will be small, unless there is a large difference in FSB (Like 677 vs. 1066) or L2 Cache (like 1mb vs. 3 mb.), in which case the performance level will be noticeably different. If you have similarly priced choices with similar clock rates, you should go with the P series (from answer.yahoo.com).

2.The performance is the main difference among the T and P series. The P series are more energy efficent, have a faster (1,066 MHz) FSB, and are mostly part of the Centrino 2 line. The T series use 10 watts more of power and have a slower (667-800 MHz) FSB. Also, when the two series have the same clock speed, the T series will normally be cheaper by about $100 or so (from answer.yahoo.com).

3.this one i get from official site of intel

The processor number is one of several factors, along with processor brand, specific system configurations and system-level benchmarks, to be considered when choosing the right processor for your computing needs.

Intel processor numbers are based on a variety of features that may include the processor's underlying architecture, cache, Front Side Bus, clock speed, power and other Intel technologies¹. A processor number represents a broad set of features that can influence overall computing experience but is not a measurement of performance.

A higher number within a processor class or family generally indicates more features, but it may be more of one and less of another. Once you decide on a specific processor brand and type, compare processor numbers to verify the processor includes the features you are looking for.

A higher number within a processor class or family generally indicates more features, including: cache, clock speed, Front Side Bus, Intel® QuickPath Interconnect, new instructions, or other Intel technolgies¹. A higher processor number may also have more of one feature and less of another.

Processor numbers for the Intel® Core™2 processor family brands are categorized with an alpha prefix followed by a four digit numerical sequence. The table below explains the alpha prefixes used for the Intel Core 2 processor families.
hope this help you all. thank you

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