New Precision Tower Workstations Launched by Dell

Computer giant Dell has launched three new tower workstations, Dell Precision T7500, T5500 and T3500. These workstations will meet the needs of the professionals in media, biosciences economic modeling and engineering.

Dell Precisions T7500:
Dell Precisions T7500 supports up to two quad-core processors and up to 192GB of three-channel DDR3 ECC memory up to 1066 or 1333MHz. It provides more than 1 billion configuration options. The workstation features dual native Gen 2 PCIe x 16 graphics slots of up to 450 watts and Nvidia SLI technology.

Dell Precision T5500:
Dell Precision T5500 sports Intel Xeon dual sockets in a small footprint system. The workstation has a 72GB memory capacity and graphics slots of up to 300 watts.

Dell Precision T3500:
Dell Precision T3500 tower workstation provides DDR3 ECC memory up to 24GB along with a built-in memory controller. Thus, you can perform your applications and programs at great speed and low latency.

As the reviews, Dell Precision T7500 and T5500 support up to 350% more memory bandwidth with dual processors.Brett McAnally, Director of Dell Product Group said, “With the new Dell Precision workstations, we’re taking a revolutionary step forward in performance, enabling professionals to do more than ever with the ISV applications they need for business-critical tasks.

He went on saying, “By combining industry-leading ISV certifications, energy efficiency, configurability and services we can better help workstation customers lower ownership costs and maximize uptime.”

How about a Car without a Single Button?

You won’t see a single button on this vehicle from the doors to the interior to the infotainment system,” said Jason Monroe, a spokesman for Chrysler, while demonstrating Chrysler’s 200C concept, a four-door electric car. Mr. Monroe helped lead the electronics development of the 200C’s iQ Power touch-screen system, first introduced at this year’s Detroit auto show.
Source: NYT

The production-ready system was patented by the Nartron Corporation, which also owns the technology for the human-interface design used by other companies, including Apple. That may help explain the iPhone-inspired features behind iQ Power. “It’s what Apple did with the iPhone,” said Norman Rautiola, Natron’s chief executive.

Specifically, iQ Power lets drivers use any smartphone as a virtual key fob to control a host of functions, including locking and unlocking the vehicle’s doors and trunk and rolling the windows up and down. With their smartphones, users can also access a live interior shot of the vehicle as well as check on the status of their home’s security alarm, carbon dioxide and smoke detectors.
By touching and dragging a virtual trackball on the car’s curved dashboard, the driver and front-seat passenger can also control the vehicle’s music library, which replicates Apple’s album art cover-flow feature. The media library moves with the phone, so users can customize and take their settings with them.

The passenger side of the 200C deploys a UConnect tablet so passengers can access the car’s entertainment features and send recommendations to the driver. Passengers can also access the settings through a console-mounted passenger interface.

According to Mr. Rautiola, the 200C is expected to be released in 2012.

An Expensive Luxury Mobile Phone for the Rich

Swiss luxury accessory maker GoldVish is back. After blinding our eyes with the world’s most expensive dumb phone in the GoldVish LeMillion, which bore a seven figure price tag, they’re now rolling out a more affordable contraption. Dubbed the GoldVish Revolution, the new handset shaves off on the luxury a bit, only costing roughly £340,000. Blame the worldwide economy.

In all honesty, the phone looks like your run-of-the-mill dumb phone, with precious metals, shiny stones and a precision timepiece slapped in various places. Bearing form that suggests it borrowed inspiration from 2000-era handsets and TV remotes doesn’t help either. Still, with 18 carats of white and rose gold plus 29 carats of VVS-1 graded diamonds, no one can doubt the luxury tag one bit.

GoldVish claims the phone comes with the “latest technology,” although made no specific mention of what those are. As far as I know, the latest tech are smart operating systems, touch controls and web integration, although I doubt any of that comes with this handset. It bears keeping in mind that this phone is a piece of jewelry with phone functions integrated, instead of the other way around.

The limited edition GoldVish Revolution will only see nine units roll out. Release date has not been disclosed.

Eee PC T91 Netbook including touch screen

What could be better than a small, low-cost, easy to use Netbook laptop? How about a small, low-cost, easy to use Netbook laptop with a swiveling touch screen? Conceptually similar to the recently updated Intel Classmate PC, the new Eee PC T91 has a rotating display that can be spun 180 degrees and folded down, akin to what you'd see in something like the Lenovo X60

Even though the system still has only an standard 9-inch display, Asus managed to stuff in a GPS antenna, a TV Tuner, and an FM Transmitter, making it a bit of an overachiever for the Netbook market.

Inside, it's still a standard configuration of the Intel Atom CPU and Windows XP. Price and availability details should be forthcoming, but Asus does say the T91 will be available in a variety of colors.

SanDisk Sansa slotRadio launched

Now, SanDisk is following Slacker's line of thinking, albeit with a much more basic premise that involves simplicity and a low-cost device, rather than fancy wireless technology and the ability to tailor music to your liking. Instead, SanDisk's new MP3 player, dubbed slotRadio, uses preloaded MicroSD cards filled with 1,000 handpicked songs arranged into playlists.

The device is clearly not for everyone, but for mainstream listeners who balk at the idea of spending their time tailoring playlists, it could be just the ticket. And considering the relatively low cost of the songs overall, the slotRadio could make a great secondary player for many users.

So what exactly is the cost? It breaks down to about four cents per song. Each slotRadio card includes 1,000 songs and carries an expected MSRP of $39.99. The device itself comes with a Billboard top tracks card that offers seven playlists--Alternative, Contemporary, Country, R&B/Hip Hop, Rock, Workout, and Chillout--and will sell for $99.99. Of course, the catch of getting the songs so cheap is that you don't get to pick them yourself, and they're also locked to the MicroSD card, so you can't transfer them to your computer or any other device (although the cards are expected to be compatible with with the Sansa Fuze).

You also can't toy with the order of the tracks, though of course you can skip the ones you don't like. In my two weeks of using the slotRadio player, which included a preproduction card that had a mishmash of decade- and genre-based stations, I found that the selections were pretty solid mainstream hits ranging from the 60's to today. Going forward, SanDisk will offer cards geared towards specific genres--all Rock subgenres, for example--as well as themed versions, such as decades and moods.