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      Apple Introduces World’s First Thunderbolt Display

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      Apple today unveiled the new Apple Thunderbolt Display, the world's first display with Thunderbolt I/O technology and the ultimate docking station for your [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]Mac notebook. With just a single cable, users can connect a Thunderbolt-enabled Mac to the 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt Display and access its FaceTime camera, high quality audio, and Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt ports. Designed specifically for Mac notebooks, the new display features an elegant, thin, aluminum and glass enclosure, and includes a MagSafe connector that charges your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.


      "The Apple Thunderbolt Display is the ultimate docking station for your Mac notebook," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With just one cable, users can dock with their new display and connect to high performance peripherals, network connections and audio devices."
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      AMD to launch unlocked A8-3870 Llano APU

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      According to DonanimHaber, AMD is preparing to unleash a new flaghsip A-series Fusion processor[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] by the end of the year. The A8-3870 is expected to ship with a core clock frequency of up to 3.1GHz along with an unlocked multiplier for effortless overclocking -- a feature that many missed on the recently launched A8-3850.
      Besides elevating the clock speed by 200MHz and making the multiplier adjustable, the A8-3870 should be mostly identical to the 3850. It'll have four processing cores alongside a 600MHz Radeon HD 6550D graphics core, a 4MB L2 cache (no L3 cache), support for up to 1866MHz DDR3 dual-channel RAM, and a 100W TDP.
      The A8-3850's locked multiplier makes it more difficult to overclock the processor cores because you're forced to raise the clock speed of the graphics engine and memory controller as well. We didn't have much hope for overclocking the APU, but we increased the clock speed of our review unit by 25% without adjusting the voltage.
      That's a respectable increase and it granted Llano a 13% to 31% boost in our software benchmarks, putting it that much farther ahead of Sandy Bridge in single-chip gaming performance. With the A8-3870's added flexibility, it's fair to expect even better results than that, especially if you're willing to tinker with the voltage settings.
      This news follows less than a week after word broke of AMD's plans for a triple-core A-series processor. Expected to launch as the A6-3500, the part is virtually identical to AMD's pending A6-3600 (four processing cores clocked at 2.1GHz alongside a Radeon HD 6530D graphics core), except one of the CPU cores is disabled.
      Source: techspot.com
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      Seagate preps enterprise-grade Pulsar XT.2 SSD

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      Originally announced in March, Seagate is finally prepared to launch its Pulsar XT.2 server-grade solid-state drives later this month. The new 2.5-inch drives are available in 100GB, 200GB, and [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]400GB packages that utilize SLC NAND flash memory and 6Gb/s SAS or SATA for enterprise-worthy speed and stability. There's also talk of an 800GB model, but it isn't currently listed on Seagate's product page.
      The Pulsar XT.2's performance is identically advertised across all capacities, with a maximum read speed of 360MB/s (writes aren't advertised, but 300MB/s is reported at various sites). Although most SSD announcements focus on speed, Seagate spends more time emphasizing stability. In fact, the company's press release claims that most SSD suppliers are oblivious to that aspect of enterprise drives.
      "Most SSD suppliers aren't fully aware of the needs of the enterprise," said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis. "It isn't just a fast interface like SAS, Fibre Channel, or PCIe that they need, and it isn't just IOPS levels in the tens to hundreds of thousands. Without data integrity and reliability, an SSD is worthless to most enterprise users." However, Seagate has acknowledged that requirement from the get-go.
      The Pulsar XT.2 meets the Storage Performance Council's most rigorous standards for consistent and sustainable performance, regardless of the workload complexity or fluctuating server I/O intensity. Such conditions often lead to erratic performance, but the Pulsar XT.2 produced a result of 20,008.82 SPC-1 IOPS with an average response time of 2.05 milliseconds, and that was consistent for four hours.
      Pricing isn't clear, but The Register reports that the Pulsar XT.2 will cost about $0.32 per IOPS (based on the SPC-1C performance above). That's a drastic improvement over Seagate's mechanical drives. With an IOPS of 180.48, the 500GB Barracuda costs about $2.50 per IOPS. The Pulsar XT.2 is the only SSD that's been SPC-tested, so comparisons against other flash drives are currently impossible.
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