Isaiah's Tech

AMD has announced the new ATI FirePro 2450 graphics card which has quad-monitor support. "The FirePro 2450 comes equipped with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, variable speed fan sink, maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1 support, native PCI-E x16 and x1, and [like I said] support for up to four independent DVI or VGA monitors." That's incredible, seeing how it only takes up one PCI-E slot in you computer. "The new card consumes less than 18W on average for 2D business usage, and no more than 32W when fully stressed." The FirePro 2450 is now available for just $499 USD.

I don't know the speed of normal SSDs, but A-DATA is reportedly rolling out a "high-speed" SSD line for notebooks. "The 300 Plus series takes advantage of a new memory controller to maintain constant 250MB per second read speeds as well as 160MB per second while writing data. It also has an uncommonly large 64MB cache to keep the system fed with information even in characteristically slower sequential reads." There will be 4 versions of the SSDs: a 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and a 256GB. They will all be available soon, but A-DATA hasn't given a shipping date or a price for that matter.

If you can't manage to fork over at least $1,000 USD on LG's watch phone, you can always go for the alternative. The Hyundai MB-910 watch phone has a 132 x 176 resolution (which is slightly larger than LG's), but only has 65K colours. The Hyundai watch phone also has: a 400mAh battery (enough for 70 hours of standby / 3 hours of talk time), SMS, MMS, email, video / music playback, but it lacks 3G. A watch phone without 3G may not be as big as a loss as we think it is, since a watch phone is new technology and may not even entirely take advantage of 3G anyway. If you're still interested in this watch phone by Hyundai, you're looking at spending only £200 ($277 USD) and this includes a Bluetooth headset.

MSI VX600 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/msi-announces-the-vx600-15-4-inch-notebook/
ATI FirePro 2450 (and picture): http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_announces_ati_firepro_2450_graphics_card_with_quadmonitor_support
A-DATA's SSDs (and picture): http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/10/a.data.300.plus.ssd/
Hyundai MB-910 Watch Phone (and picture): http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/03/10/hyundai-announces-mb-910-watch-phone/

A new rumour has it that this is the Samsung A877 and it will be released later this month, March 29th to be exact. The A877 will have a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen (WQVGA resolution with TouchWiz), a 3MP camera with geotagging, GPS, HSDPA and, as you can see, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Like i said it will be released later this month (March 29), through AT&T.

In Lenovo's attempts to go green they have introduced their new ThinkCentre A58 and ThinkCentre M58e desktop PCs. While there is a lot of bickering going on, flaming the author of the article on Engadget, because of his biased opinion on these desktops, these actually look decent to me at least. These 2 desktops have up to 1TB of HDD storage, up to 4GB of RAM and their fastest processor is the Core 2 Quad CPU, which is pretty fast. Of course, there is the optional Blu-ray optical drive, if that's what you're looking for. These desktops will start out at a base price of just $399 USD, so they're worth a second look. Remember that these desktops are leaning towards the green side.

IBuyPower is known (or unknown for some) for their gaming desktop PCs. Today is no different, but with an added bonus. The Gamer Fire 640 and Gamer Paladin F830 has the latest processors from AMD and Intel (respectively) combined with 22-inch Samsung SyncMaster LCDs. The bonus? They are both packing NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision into each of their rigs. The Gamer Fire 640 has the "AMD Phenom II X3 720 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a GeForce 9800GTX+ (512MB), dual-layer DVD writer and Vista Home Premium 64-bit." The Paladin, on the other hand, has Intel's Core i7 920 CPU, 6GB of RAM, a Blu-ray optical drive and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 GPU. The base prices for the Gamer Fire 640 and the Gamer Paladin F830 are $1,349 USD and $1,999 USD, respectively.

Do you simply adore computer gaming mice with adjustable weights? Well if you do, this Sharkoon Rush FireGlider gaming mouse may be for you. It has a no-slip grip, a "flame covered paint job", 6 programmable buttons and a maximum resolution of 3,600 DPI. The bottom of the mouse has teflon so that your mouse will glide nice and smooth on your mousepad or whatever surface you lay the mouse on. You can adjust the weight of the mouse to be anywhere from 118 - 135 grams and the mouse itself will cost about €25 ($32 USD).

Samsung A877 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/samsung-a877-with-amoled-touchscreen-coming-to-atandt-this-month/
Lenovo ThinkCentre A58 and M58e (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/lenovo-intros-small-green-thinkcentre-a58-and-m58e-desktops/
IBuyPower's 3D Desktops (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/ibuypower-trots-out-geforce-3d-vision-equipped-desktops/
Sharkoon Rush FireGlider (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sharkoon-rush-fireglider-gaming-mouse-comes-with-weights-flame/