Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Lenovo X300 Ad: MacBook Air Parody
I was just over at Gizmodo browsing through interesting posts and came up to this video. Lenovo has done a very good job of showing a couple of limitations on the MacBook Air and then making sure that viewers see clearly how the X300 is just as thin but superior in some ways. There is one very important feature of the X300 that needs to be mentioned: the pixel format on the 13.3″ LED backlit LCD is 1440 x 900, which is quite a bit more than the MacBook Air’s 1280 x 800.
Apple 20″ and 24″ iMac Upgraded
Image courtesy: Apple Inc.
20″ 2.4GHz iMac
RAM: 1GB DDR2
HDD: 250GB 7200RPM SATA
Optical: Slot-load 8x SuperDrive
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128MB GDDR3
Price: $1200
Options for 20″ 2.4GHz:
RAM: 4GB DDR2
HDD: 500GB SATA
20″ 2.66GHz iMac
RAM: 2GB DDR2
HDD: 320GB 7200RPM SATA
Optical: Slot-load 8x SuperDrive
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 256MB GDDR3
Price: $1500
Options for 20″ 2.66GHz:
RAM: 4GB DDR2
HDD: 750GB SATA
24″ 2.8GHz iMac
RAM: 2GB DDR2
HDD: 320GB 7200RPM SATA
Optical: Slot-load 8x SuperDrive
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 256BM GDDR3
Options for 24″:
CPU: 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 4GB DDR2
HDD: 1TB SATA
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512MB
All of these units incorporate new Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs that have a L2 cache of 6MB and a faster 1066MHz FSB. The CPUs are manufactured with state-of-the-art 45-nm process technology that should yield smaller footprints and faster processing.
Totoku ME551i2 Medical LCD Monitor
Totoku ME551i2
Size: 21.3″
Pixel Format: 2560 x 2048
Contrast Ratio: 800:1
Brightness: 750 cd/m2 (max), 410 cd/m2 (default)
Viewing Angle: 170/170
Input: DVI 1.0, USB 2.0 (upstream 1, downstream 2)
Other: DICOM-compliant, only display compatible with OsiriX 64-bit version, luminance sensor
The 5MP display is geared toward digital mammography. The incorporated a-Sentinel II system features a luminance sensor and luminance control circuit. The luminance sensor is integrated into the front bezel and consistently monitors and stabilizes luminance on the screen by communicating with the backlight sensor. Its a-Uniformity Congruence system equalizes luminance across the display for accurate brightness uniformity, which is critical in medial imaging applications. Totoku’s website states that the ME551i2 medical monitor is capable of display 2048 shades of gray (per sub-pixel) with an integrated viewer. The ME551i2 has a 11.9-bit lookup table (LUT) that allows a pallet of 3826 shades of gray and can display 2048 shades with a specialized view and 256 shades without.
iPhone Shortage?
Of course there’s an iPhone shortage. Not because there is so much international demand, but because there is so much international demand relative to supply. And supply of the 8GB and 16GB first generation iPhone is dwindling. This is nothing new. Apple almost always dries up the channel for a given product when a new, better, advanced version of it is about to be born. There are many others who have voiced the same conclusion and I will join that chorus: Apple has already developed the second generation iPhone and is probably testing it right now and getting ready to volume manufacture it so that a few hundred thousand units (at least) are available when June 29, 2008, the iPhone’s first anniversary, comes around.
