Just when you though Intel Dual and Quad Core 2 are more than enough for your computing needs, come a new processor from Intel that will eat other processors for breakfast.

Intel Nehalem coming out tomorrow

Enter the new Nehalem with 45nm core, or widely known as Core i7 processor. Benchmarks have proven that the new Intel Nehalem or Core i7 processor provide improvement over 45 to 55 percent than the current Penryn processor. Hyperthreading or HT also make a comeback in Nehalem or core i7 processor.

With four core cpu, with have four logical processor with Hyperthreading (HT) features. So eight processors will appear in your Operating System. That will be eight cores, eight logical processors will make 16 threads. This multiple cores will truly shine in the new Operating System from Microsoft, Windows 7. Windows 7 kernel come with multicore optimization.

Other improvement that Nehalem or Core i7 come with are an integrated memory controller that supports triple-channel DD3 memory, managed cores and caches for energy-efficiency, and lower latencies throughout the processor.

Intel will be having a winner with this one. Hopefully AMD will counter attack with something on par with the Nehalem or Core i7, if not better.

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Asus CEO, Jerry Shen has announced that Asus Eee PC will come with Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista in the second half of next year.

Regarding to the previous post, where Windows 7 will support two touch screen notebook and claimed by Asus that they will ship notebook with two touchscreen functionality with Windows 7, the latest news that Asus Eee PC will come with Windows 7 is not a surprise to the Industry.

I would say that Asus is moving on the right track with the future implementation of Windows 7 on their hardware.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer has revealed that Windows 7 will support Multi touch user interface.

This fact was made more interesting by ASUS claiming that they will ship new notebooks that have dual screen, with both screen having touchscreen functionality in the first quater of next year. This notebooks will have touch screen on both side and will ship with Windows 7.

If Windows 7 really does support Multi Touch user interface, and ASUS will ship their dual touchscreen notebook as claimed, we can be sure that other manufacturer will follow ASUS dual touchscreen notebook, and this design could be the future of mobile computing.

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Seagate have announced that the will be releasing Seagate 1.5 TeraByte (TB) hard disk drive for desktop and 500 GigaByte (GB) notebook hard disk drive in August 2008.The Seagate Baraccuda 7200.11 for the desktop featuring 1.5TB of storage are the eleventh generation of Seagate hard disk drive.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 will spin at 7200RPM, and the 3Gb/s SATA I interface has a data rate of up to 120MB/s. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 will also be available in 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB, and 160GB storage capacities with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

Not forgetting notebook user, the new Seagate Momentus with 500GB of storage will be available for notebook user alongside the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB. Seagate Momentus 2.5-inch drives will be offered in 5400RPM and 7200RPM storage capacities with 8MB of cache and 16MB of cache.

According to Seagate, the Seagate Momentus come with a free-fall sensor technology that will prevent the Seagate Momentus drive becoming damage when dropped.

Pricing is still unavailable at the moment, but you can be sure it will be competetively price. Well, better start saving those notes from now.

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I wrote about random blue screen error message in my previous post when the random blue screen error message appear when one of my friend overclocked his processor. Another main factor that can cause random blue screen error message would be a faulty Random Access Memory (RAM) module. Even though the percentage of a RAM module became faulty is low, it does happen once in a while.

Most of motherboard nowadays integrate SPD (Serial Presence Detect) for RAM module speed setting in their motherboard, it is advisable to set the RAM module frequency to your default RAM module.

Serial Presence Detect (SPD) refers to a standardized way to automatically access information about a RAM module. It is the serial version of Parallel Presence Detect (PPD).

Sometimes SPD (Serial Presence Detect) can misconfigured the appropriate value for your RAM module, thus causing random blue screen error message. Usually, random blue screen error message caused by faulty RAM will appear when your Windows load, or during Windows operation.

If you encounter random blue screen error message after installing a new RAM module, make sure you do a quick check on your system BIOS on the RAM module setting. Random blue screen error message caused by faulty RAM module will disappear after the faulty RAM module is changed, or the RAM module setting are reset back to default.

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AMD have unveiled Puma, its new third-generation mobile platform in a web streamed press event. AMD Puma is based on AMD’s codename Griffin processor which the official name is Turion Ultra, and the chipset used for the AMD Puma is the RS780M.

AMD says the core to AMD Puma is energy efficiency, each of the cores of the AMD Puma will be able to run at different speeds to help achieve a balance between efficiency and power , and amazingly will be able to shift speeds while executing threads.All AMD Puma based products will be based on the Griffin processors and RS780M, along with a WiFi adaptor and an optional graphics card. Griffin processors, which will be a dual-core offering, will be equipped with 1MB of L2 cache per core and support up to 8GB of DDR2-667 and DDR2-800 SODIMM RAM.

The RS780M chipset support HDMI and HDCP + Audio, and the chipset can support two display controllers. The RS780M chipset is fully-featured and comes with an integrated DirectX 10 graphics support which AMD claim is up to five times faster than the competitor which is Intel’s X3100 IGP.

One of the highlighted feature of the RS780M chipset used in AMD Puma is the PowerXpress technology which allows the system to switch between external and integrated graphics when changing between AC and DC power without the need for a reboot. Also included is the Hybrid CrossfireX, a good news for mobile gamers. This Hybrid CrossfireX technology allows the integrated graphics hardware to work in tandem with the separate graphics controller to offer more power for gamers.

According to AMD, AMD Puma based notebooks will be available towards the end of Q2.

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It is easy to diagnose, troubleshoot and repair blue screen error message if the same blue screen error message occure everytime the computer crash. But what if you get random blue screen error messages everytime the computer crash?

That’s what happened to my friend just now, when he call me through the phone.

The first thing I ask him is what was the last he thing he do to his windows before the random blue screen error messages occur evertime his computer crash. He told me he didn’t install anything before the random blue screen error messages appear. Then I ask him if he did anything with his hardware. He told me he add a new RAM module to his computer before the random blue error messages appear.

I told him to remove the new RAM module, and see if it solved the problem.

15 minutes later he call me again and told me the random blue screen messages still appear. I ask him again, besides adding the new RAM module, is there anything else that he did with his hardware before the random blue screen error messages appear everytime his computer crash that he forget to told me about. Suddenly he remember he overclocked his processor.

He overclocked his Intel Celeron 2.0Ghz to a whopping 2.6Ghz!

Overclocking is changing your processor speed to a higher value to squeeze out more performance from your processor. This technique can also be applied to RAM, graphic card, or anything that can be overclock

I told him to downclock it back to 2.0Ghz, install the new RAM module back, start the computer, wait and see if the random blue screen error messages everytime the computer crashes still occur. He doesn’t call me till now, and it has been 3 hours. I guess the random blue screen error messages problem have been solved.

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This is a cool gadget by Epos, Epos Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive.

Taken from their website:

The Next Generation in Flash Memory Devices
The EPOS-enabled Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive provides all the benefits of a digital pen with the addition of full Flash memory capabilities. Completely portable, users can write, sketch and draw freely anywhere, using regular paper, while the device simultaneously captures and stores all handwritten text and drawings in real-time to the Flash memory.

Write it, Store it, Send it
A multi-functional tool, stored data can be later uploaded to a PC via a standard USB port. Once uploaded, handwritten information can be transformed to text using standard handwriting recognition software, and notes and drawings can be edited and shared via email and messaging applications.

Providing all the benefits of a regular Flash drive, the Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive stores hundreds of pages of handwritten text and drawings as well as image, music, and video files, etc.

The Office in Your Pocket
Small, compact and completely wireless, the Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive can be used at home, school and at work. The perfect alternative to carrying a heavy laptop, it is ideal for taking notes and jotting down diagrams in both the meeting room and the classroom. It can also be used for assisting sales force, technicians and delivery persons in the field for a variety of form filling and enterprise applications.

You can check more detail product specification here.

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A pen drive use to be a portable tool to store files and data. I still remember the days when owning a 64MB pen drive is consider a luxury gadget, and now the storage size of pen drive have gone up to a whopping 20GB? And still counting.

What are the other uses for a pen drive? Here are some:

1. Portable applications - truly a breakthrough in computing. If you interested in using portable apps on your pen drive, head over here for a list of available portable applications.
2. Booting other operating system - It can be said that most major Linux distro nowadays provide live cd functionality to use with their distro, meaning you can boot and use linux without ever installing linux on your hard disk drive. Great, but by using your pen drive to boot Linux, or any other operating sytem available that can boot from a pen drive, you can use the optical media drive (cd-rom, cd-rw, etc.) in your live environment. This really helps when running these live operating system from laptop or a PCs with just one optical drive.
3. Microsoft Windows Vista ready boost - The “ready boost” is a function in Microsoft Windows Vista that allow you to use your pen drive as a RAM module. Don’t expect it to perform as physical RAM module though.
4. Portable antivirus scanner - Regarding the portable apps to use on Pen Drive, you can install portable Antivirus program on your pen drive, and use it to scan any system you plug your pen drive in.

Those are some of the uses of a pen drive that I can think of.

What do you use your pendrive for? beside file storage and the one that I listed above. Please share.

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I just pick up a new motherboard, Biostar P4M900-M4 for my customer, since his system have been giving him trouble, and after a thorough diagnosed and troubleshooting, the culprit turn out to be a faulty Motherboard.

The Biostar P4M900-M4 motherboard can be categorized as a low end budget motherboard for consumer.

I just want to share the Biostar P4M900-M4 motherboard Award BIOS beep code, for future reference for those who want to keep this information during future troubleshooting or diagnosing system error, by referring to Award BIOS beep code.

Beep Sound
One long beep followed by two short beeps - Video card not found or video card memory bad
High low siren sound - CPU Overheated, System will shut down automatically
One short beep when system boot up - No error found during Power On Self Test (POST)
Long beeps every other second - No DRAM detected or install

Usually, the motherboard Award BIOS beep code is the same for motherboard that are using Award BIOS.

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