Low price Windows Home Server from Acer
Acer have an affordable way for you to backup and store your media files. The Acer easyStore is a $400 (1,500SR) Windows Home Server system with 1TB of storage, 3 hot-swappable 3.5-inch hard drive bays for up to 7TB of storage. It is powered by 1.6GHz Atom CPU.
We hope this reaches the Saudi Arabia market very soon.
Acer bypasses Dell and becomes number 2 notebook maker
Acer has beaten Dell in the global notebook market, becoming the second notebook maker after HP. HP have a worldwide market share of %24.1 and Acer is now %18.8. Netbooks was an important factor, %31.6 of Acer’s notebooks are netbooks.
Intel Pine Trail platform for Netbooks
Intel has announced the “Pine Trail” platform which will succeed the current Atom on netbooks. The CPU “pineview” as well as the GPU will be on the same die so it won’t need a graphics processor.
This means Pine Trail will be a two-chip solution, one less than Intel’s current netbook platform. In theory, this should result in cost savings and lower power consumption.
It should be released by the end of this year.
AMD Catalyst 9.5 drivers released
AMD released version 9.5 of their Catalyst video card drivers. It promises performance improvements “Performance gains of up to 11 percent for single GPU and ATI CrossFireX configurations with AA enabled in Unigine Tropics DX9″ on these Radeon cards.
You can read more and download it from AMD’s website.
Hewlett-Packard announced a voluntary recall of about 70,000 lithium ion batteries. The potentially defective batteries can be found on a number of both HP and Compaq branded notebooks. These include the following:
- HP dv2000, dv2500, dv2700, dv6000, dv6500, dv6700, dv9000, dv9500, dv9700
- Compaq A900, C700, F700, V3000, V3500, V3700, V6000, V6500, V6700
- HP G6000, G7000
- Compaq 6720s
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the recalled batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers. So far there have been two reports of overheating and ruptured batteries, which resulted in flames and property damage, but no injuries.
You can check your battery’s serial number on this website. Many stores in Saudi Arabia import some notebooks from the United States so there is a possibilities that some of these notebooks might end up in Saudi Arabia.
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