Greet Windows 7, AMD releases quad-core Cheap

AMD

As part of the desktop platform in mainstream classes, AMD today introduced the Quad-Core their first cheap, less valuable than U.S. $ 100.

With the balance of power of AMD Athlon II X4 quad-core processors, and AMD 785G chipset featured ATI Radeon HD 4200, AMD seemed to welcome the arrival of Windows 7, the HD spec the computer graphics.

When juxtaposed with the processors 'neighbors' that class, but valuable competitive, AMD Athlon processor 620 II X4 more likely to be superior in terms of multi-tasking, in addition to the price that much cheaper.

AMD products in mainstream classes are also designed to be more effective in working with HD graphics. For example ATI Stream Technology, which allows hardware acceleration which makes the conversion rate increased HD video formats.

AMD's products were welcomed with open arms by HP, as topnotch IT companies in the world.

"Our goal is to produce a superior computer performance, and maximize the value of these computers to our customers," said John Cook, Vice President of Marketing, the global PC business, HP, as quoted from Techpowerup, Friday (18/9/2009) .

"Quad-Core Processors AMD's latest offering perfect balance between performance and price. It makes HP provides leading-class PCs for our customers," he added.

This is also in line with the words of Mike Ybarra, as general manager of Microsoft's Windows Product Management.

"Designed for the needs of consumers, Windows 7 will be added to the Windows user experience. With the introduction of Mainstream Desktop Platform AMD and in combination with Windows 7, it will increasingly deliver digital entertainment more attractive," he said.

Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive

After releasing relatively low-performance 2TB hard drives a few months ago, Western Digital announced Tuesday that it's now shipping high-performance versions of these top-capacity drives.

The WD RE4 drive

The new drives are the WD Caviar Black and the WD RE4. According to the company, the former is designed for desktops while the latter is suited for servers and network storage devices.

These two new hard drives are based on WD's 500GB-per-platter technology. They both combine 7200rpm spin speed, 64MB cache, dual-stage actuator technology, SATA 2 (3Gb/s) interface, and an integrated dual processor.

(Dual actuator technology is a head-positioning system with two actuators that improves positional accuracy over the data track. The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy.)

Other features of the two drives include:

• IntelliSeek, a technology that calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.
• StableTrac, a mechanism that makes sure the motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking during read and write operations.
• NoTouch, a ramp-load technology that keeps the recording head from ever touching the disk media to significantly reduce the wear and tear of the recording head and media as well as provide better drive protection in transit.

In addition, the WD RE4 2TB enterprise drive features 1.2 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF) and other power-saving, speed-enhancing, and fail-proofing technologies.

The WD Caviar Black 2TB (model WD2001FASS) drive is available now for $299. The WD RE4 2TB (model WD2003FYYS) drive is currently being qualified by OEMs. Both drives are covered by a five-year, limited warranty.