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.