To help ease the pain of upgrading to their new Windows 7 operating system Microsoft has released a neat Windows 7 USB installer. The utility, Windows 7 USB Download Tool, creates a bootable flash drive from a downloaded .iso file, or disk image, of Windows 7, and can be purchased from Microsoft’s online store.
Acer has launched a new Eco-friendly monitor, the Acer S243Lbmi 24 Inch LCD Monitor.
The Acer S243Lbmi is a 24 inch LCD monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, and it uses just 17.2w of power due to the use of LED technology.
HP has launched a new monitor which has been designed for Windows 7, the HP Compaq L2105tm.
The HP Compaq L2105tm is the first Windows 7 certified monitor, the 21.5 inch monitor features optical touch technology which includes two cameras, a sensor and an infrared light, together with a reflective film.
Silicon Power has launched a new range of rugged portable hard drive, the Silicon Power Armor A50.
The Silicon Power Armor A50 comes in a range of different sizes, which include 250GB, 320GB, 500GB and 640GB, as you can see from the photos they feature a stylish design, with an aluminum case.
In conjunction with the launch of the new Windows 7, Microsoft [MSFT] has today started to sell Windows PCs in its online store.
As well as a range of laptops, netbooks and desktop PCs, Microsoft is also selling third party software via it’s online store.
Viewsonic has added a new nettop PC to its range with the launch of the Viewsonic VOT132.
The Viewsonic VOT132 features a dual core Intel Atom 300 processor, 2GB of RAM, and it also features NVIDIA’s Ion platform with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics card, plus built in 02.11 b/g/n WiFi.
AMD has officially released its new line of graphics cards the ATi Radeon HD 5770 & 5750 which will be available shortly to purchase.
The HD 5770 is equipped with with GDDR5 RAM, 1.04 billion 40nm transistors, 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 64 Z/Stencil POP units and 16 color POP units and will offer you a core clock of 850MHz and a memory clock of 1.2GHz.
Shenzen the Chinese manufacturer has just launched a new MID called the Witstech A81 MID which is powered by a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU and will run Windows CE 6.0 operation system.
It also has a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen display with a 800 x 480 resolution and comes equipped with 2GB of internal memory.
Onkyo has added a new nettop PC to its range with the launch of the Onkyo P305A3, which features NVIDIA’s Ion platform.
The Onkyo P305A3 comes with a 1.6GHx Intel Atom N230 processor, NVIDIA’s Ion chipset, a GeForce 9400M graphics card and 2GB of RAM.
Other specifications include a 160GB hard drive, a slot loading DVD burner, a 5-in-1 card reader, built in WiFi, four USB 2.0 ports, eSATA and HDMI.
Dane-Elec has announced the launch of a new range of USB 3.0 external hard drive and solid state drives, which will offer data transfer speeds of up to 250MB/s.
The new range of external hard drives will be available in 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives and will come in a variety of sizes from 500GB up to 2TB.
Acer has upgraded its AspireRevo Nettop PC, the latest model in the range is the Acer AspireRevo R3610-U901.
The new Acer AspireRevo comes with an Intel Atom 330 Processor (1.6GHz), and integrated NVIDIA Ion graphics, memory comes in the form of 2GB of DDR2 RAM and it comes with a 160GB SATA hard drive.
Samsung has launched a new 3.5 inch external hard drive, the STORY Station which is the first external hard drive to offer reduced idle power consumption.
The Samsung STORY Station has a lower power consumption of just 0.09W from the conventional level of 2.5W which is a reducing of over 95%, and this is the lowest power level for any external hard drive.
