Gyration Air Mouse Elite Works with Mac

The wireless mouse world gets a new boost with the entry of Gyration Air Mouse Elite.

This mouse proves to be a great possession for the travelers and businessmen who often need to travel and use their laptop in public meetings and project sites. Although there is nothing much new in this air mouse, there are some functions that will be helpful for the users.

The air mouse concept has already made it clear that no wired connection between it and the PC is required; it frees the user from getting hassled in the hotspots of the cables. The installation of the air mouse is just very simple, though at present, the Gyration Air Mouse Elite is compatible with the Mac computers only. The cost of the mouse also is pretty reasonable, only $80, something which anybody can afford.

The function of the Gyration Air Mouse Elite is just like a regular computer mouse and there is nothing new add-on. The only visible difference is that you can carry it without any hotspots and you will not have to look for any port to put its cord. Simply by placing it within the contact area of the PC, you can run it. It has 8 buttons, 3 are which programmable. This works only on OS X. The configurations might not have something new and innovative in it but again, that is not the issue as it works smoothly.

The good thing about the Gyration Air Mouse Elite is that it is very much user-friendly and responsive. Every command of the user is promptly followed and most of those are accurate enough.

Although there are drawbacks, these are just very common with some other optical mouse as well and hence, these can be ignored. The cons of the air mouse are that it does not respond to some software and sometimes, it creates problem in double-clicking. Another thing about the mouse is that even though it is portable by nature, still you can stretch it to a limit where the cradle charger works.

But in spite of all those pros and cons, at first look and a demo of the Gyration Air Mouse Elite will inspire you only to go for it and use it for your computer works.

Source: http://www.walyou.com/blog/2010/11/08/gyration-air-mouse-elite-works-with-mac/

Hard drives and storage: 250GB Maxtor Momentus XT 2.5 inch Hard Disk Drive - ST92505610AS on CCL now

The new 250GB Maxtor Momentus XT 2.5 inch Hard Disk Drive - ST92505610AS is now available for order on CCL, offering super-fast loading times for power users.

Seagate's new solid state hybrid drive is designed to rival high-end SSD gaming drives for performance and in company testing the new Maxtor Momentus easily outstrips 10,000 RPM and 7,200 RPM disk drives in OS loading and program launches.

In further testing, the drive also scored highly in the PCMark Vantage benchmark for heat output and vibration.

The speed performance of the new drive may be of particular interest to gamers and users of other graphic-intensive applications.

Seagate adds: "The Momentus XT drive is designed for all standard laptop PCs and is OS-, driver- and software-independent, making this drive easy to integrate and easy to use."

Source: http://www.cclonline.com/news/newsArticle.asp?articleid=800211122&headline=Hard%20drives%20and%20storage:%20250GB%20Maxtor%20Momentus%20XT%202.5%20inch%20Hard%20Disk%20Drive%20-%20ST92505610AS%20on%20CCL%20now&tid=cclnews

New Marvell Quad-Core CPU Is Aimed at HPC and Servers

After a fairly long time during which ARM stated its intention to power processors aimed at the enterprise market, Marvell seems to have finally turned this goal into a reality with the ARMADA XP.

So far, the x86 architecture has practically owned not just the consumer, but the enterprise market as well.

This is quite obvious from the fact that servers, data centers and HPC (high-performance computing) systems, supercomputers as it were, use either AMD or Intel chips.

Now, Marvell has issued a press release to announce that it has completed the very first ARM-based chip that is to be used in the making of such applications.

It is known as ARMADA XP and, on just 10 watts of power, provides a performance of 16.600 DMIPS.

It is a quad-core chip whose frequency can go as high as 1.6 GHz and which has 2 MB of L2 cache and a memory interface of 64 bits, with support for DDR3, DDR3 and DDR3L memory, plus ECC.

Said chips also has the benefits of four PCI-e Gen 2.0 units, multiple USB ports, up to 16 high-speed multi-functional Marvell SERDES lanes (PCI-e, SATA, SGMII, QSGMII) as well as four Gigabit networking ports.

The Marvell ARMADA XP is already sampling to customers.

"Marvell's introduction of a powerful solution for enterprise-class cloud computing applications is a very important milestone in the mobile Internet revolution - cloud computing mobile servers like those powered by the ARMADA XP are the key link in what I envision to be a seamless, unified ecosystem of mobile connected devices, information appliances and smart 'furnishings,'" said Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell.

"Marvell's leadership in mobility, consumer, storage, enterprise networking and Wi-Fi products completes the circuit, delivering a powerful end-to-end total solution to anyone connected to the new global mesh, from consumers to small business and the enterprise," Dai added.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Marvell-Quad-Core-CPU-Is-Aimed-at-HPC-and-Servers-165338.shtml

Toshiba-Made MacBook Air SSD Hardware Now Available to All

If you were wanting to get your hands on some of the Toshiba-made SSD hardware that found its way into the latest MacBook Airs, you’re in luck. Toshiba has announced that their Blade X-gale SSDs are now available for the masses. Offering up speeds of 220MB/s read and 180MB/s write, the X-gale hardware will certainly add some pep to your computer’s step. Though not the fastest SSD on the market, they are certainly faster than your standard platter-based drives.

The X-gale SSD drives will come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities. Pricing is not yet available.

Source: http://gadgetsteria.com/2010/11/08/toshiba-made-macbook-air-ssd-hardware-now-available-to-all/