Hardware

quinta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2010

Seagate Ships 1.5 Billionth Hard Disk Drive

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20101110191847_Seagate_Ships_1_5_Billionth_Hard_Disk_Drive.html

Seagate Ships Half of a Billion HDDs in Two and Half Years

quarta-feira, 10 de novembro de 2010

Report: iPhone 4 Is Most Fragile Smartphone

URL: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/report-iphone-4-is-most-fragile-smartphone/

The glass iPhone 4 is more likely to slip out of your hand, eat the ground and break than other phones, according to a report.

A study by third-party warranty company SquareTrade tracked 50,000 different phones over one year to analyze their accident rates (that is, how often customers reported drops or spills), as well as their non-accident malfunction rates (i.e., how likely the phones are to fail on their own).

The iPhone 4 had the highest accident rate of 13.8 percent, but a reported non-accident malfunction rate of 2.1 percent, according to SquareTrade. That means the iPhone 4 is the most reliable phone over a year — so long as you don’t drop it.

However, the iPhone 4’s higher accident rate is nothing to sneeze at. SquareTrade notes that 90 percent of the iPhone 4’s failures were due to accidental damage. So that makes’ the iPhone 4 than other phones, it’s the most fragile handset.

Motorola and HTC phones were almost as accident-prone as the iPhone 4, both with an accident rate of 12.2 percent.

Bottom line: The more glass a device has, the more likely it is to drop and break. (Glass is more fragile than plastic? Shocking.)

“The bigger issue for consumers is the vulnerability of phones to accidental damage, especially as the market evolves more and more to include large glass displays,” SquareTrade said in its study [pdf].

For comparison, BlackBerry smartphones had a 6.7-percent accident rate but a 6.3-percent malfunction rate — suggesting they’re the least reliable because they’re more likely to fail on their own even if they’re not dropped.

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sexta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2010

Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sfdN-ZtASNs/story01.htm

An anonymous reader writes "SweClockers.com has gotten it hands on a Intel Sandy Bridge motherboard running Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, the long awaited successor of age-old BIOS. Among the differences is a significantly more user-friendly interface, the ability to boot from drivers larger than 2 TB and faster boot times. Check it out, on video, in Swedish." Here's an Google's translation of the article.

Intel Light Peak on track for release in first half of 2011?

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/04/intel-light-peak-on-track-for-release-in-first-half-of-2011/

10Gbps. In both directions. At the same time. That's been the tantalizing promise of Intel's Light Peak optical interconnect, and now we're hearing its penchant for speed is overflowing into the company's roadmap. CNET cites a source familiar with developments behind the scenes in reporting that Light Peak is expected to arrive in the early part of next year, slightly accelerating the already known plans for delivering the technology at some point in 2011. We've already been graced with a set of Light Peak-enabled prototypes, so you could've guessed things were gathering pace, but it's always good to get the odd bit of anonymous confirmation that things are moving along swiftly. And hey, when Light Peak hardware finally drops, we can just switch gears and start salivating over improvements that'll lift that 10Gbps ceiling even further.

Intel Light Peak on track for release in first half of 2011? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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