Pepcom Show Touts 720p Zune, New NVIDIA Toys, And Phones Galore 66
MojoKid writes "Recently, at the Pepcom Digital Experience show in New York, NVIDIA demonstrated the capabilities of the upcoming Lenovo S12 netbook, which features a single-core Atom CPU and an NVIDIA ION graphics processor. However, probably more interesting to some, NVIDIA was also showing off its new Tegra system-on-a-chip CPU, which will be powering the recently-announced Zune HD portable media player. The device was being demonstrated in a netbook form-factor and was streaming full quality 720p HD video over HDMI. On the networking front, Belkin was displaying its Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit — a speedy alternative to wireless networking."
Crashes Firefox (Score:3, Informative)
I just had my Firefox taken down 5 times in a row the second I opened the link. I get the HTML but once it starts rendering something Firefox 3.0.11 goes kaplut.
Be warned.
The Seagate BlackArmor NAS looks interesting (Score:3, Informative)
I like the fact that Seagate is expanding its line of hardware AES hard disks. For backups (Time Machine, the included SafetyDrill software, Retrospect, Windows's backup utilities) it should provide decent protection of data in case of physical theft.
For a household or SMB, having the ability to install some "fire and forget" backup software that copies to a hard disk that has hardware AES encryption mitigates a lot of security risks. For larger businesses, it allows external drives to be repurposed from division to division just by telling the drive to do a secure erase (which erases the old AES keys making it well nigh impossible to recover the data.)
Belch-kin kit (Score:3, Informative)
"Belkin was displaying its Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit...."
Does this have that wonderfully innovative Belch-kin mis-feature where the device will hijack your connection randomly to show you ads for other Belch-kin products?
Seriously - I would NEVER put Belkin gear any place where it could theoretically modify the communications. Add to that Bletch-kin gear is usually overpriced for what it is....
Re:The Zune HD! Wow! (Score:4, Informative)
>where they conveniently failed to mention that the Zune still had to be physically plugged into a power source to sync
Thats not true. [zune.net] It wont sync automatically on battery power, but it syncs fine if you do a manual sync. You dont want it syncing every few hours only to pick it up a couple of days later and have the battery dead.
>This kind of marketing has been shown over the last 5 years to be completely ineffective against the iPod.
To be fair, the amazing Italian place near me cant compete with McDonalds. Popularity doesnt necessarily translate into quality. Consider how one of the most popular apps for the iphone/ipod is the fart simulator and, well, things arent so cut and dried. Those who side soley with popularity really arent convincing.
Re:Belch-kin kit (Score:4, Informative)
Sound like he was referring to this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205 [slashdot.org]