Tag: USB 3.0
Sony VAIO Z Teardown Video Shows Tech Inside Super Thin Notebook
The Sony VAIO Z is thinner than a MacBook Air and uses an external Thunderbolt connection to link up to a much more powerful external GPU. In order to make the VAIO Z so thin, engineers had to change the approach to how your laptop is put together. Instead of stacking parts, like is common on most [...]
Gateway NV Series Refresh: Speedier, More Social Media Options
Gateway has updated their NV entertainment series of notebooks, offering what they bill as “everyday HD entertainment and seemless social networking” with a shortcut key to open your favorite site like Facebook, Flickr or YouTube. The 15.6-inch HD display features a widescreen backlit LED with 1366×768 resolution. The laptop’s patterned lid comes with either a geometric [...]
Sony Vaio Z: Thinner Than MacBook Air, External Dock with Powerful GPU
The new Sony VAIO Z has arrived with a thinner figure than the MacBook Air, carbon Fiber cover and an external Light Peak connectable dock that delivers a Blu-Ray player and high power graphics when you are at home. Even without the dock, the 13″ VAIO Z is no slouch — and you wouldn’t expect [...]
Sony Vaio F Notebooks Arrive Packing a Multimedia Punch
Not one to conform to standard screen sizes Sony has refreshed the 16.4” VAIO F notebooks with a collection of features which give you all the multimedia prowess you need in a package that is still trim enough to go in your backpack when you can’t leave home without a 1080p display. The new VAIO [...]
Sony Bringing ThunderBolt USB 3.0 Combo Port to Life with Ultimate Mobile PC
Hold up there. Remember the Sony VAIO Ultimate Mobile PC we showed you in late April? That’s right the thin VAIO Hybrid PC which is supposed to pack a Thunderbolt port to connect you to an external dock that may contain a separate GPU. A closer look at the ports shown in the leaked slide by Gula Digital [...]
Intel Not Adding USB 3.0 Support Until 2012
Intel will not be adding USB 3.0 support to its chipset until 2012 with the new “Ivy Bridge” platform. By then, they are probably hoping that their own Thunderbolt standard will start to take hold. The promise of USB support comes at the Intel developers conference in Beijing, China from their VP of Architecture Kirk [...]
AMD Closer to Making USB 3.0 the New USB Standard
USB 3.0 support is hit or miss on notebooks right now in part due to a lack of an Intel or AMD Chipset that supports USB 3.0, which has left vendors to rely on a secondary chipset to add USB 3.0 support. AMD is changing this now with the new AMD A75 and A70M chipsets that will natively support [...]
Apple Patents Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 iOS Dock Connector
Apple is hard at work on delivering a better iPhone and iPad dock, or that’s what a recent patent for a hybrid DisplayPort, USB 3.0, Thunderbolt connector. The new dock uses the same 30 pin design found on the standard iPhone and iPad cables, but with the inclusion of all these connectivity options, a single cable could pull data [...]
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Seagate GoFlex Slim Announced, Win a Pencil Thin Hard Drive [Contest]
Seagate has just announced the Seagate GoFlex Slim, a 320GB USB 3.0 hard drive that is as slim as a pencil and includes a blazing fast 7200RPM hard drive in an incredibly portable package. The Seagate GoFlex Slim has a USB 3.0 connection and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. The GoFlex slim wraps a [...]
RunCore USB 3.0 Express SSD Packs 64GB SSD & USB 3.0 in a Slim Package
RunCore has a great solution for anyone with a spare Expresscard slot and a need for storage and USB 3.0 capabilities, the RunCore USB 3.0 Express SSD. This Expresscard 34 adapter includes a 64GB SSD and two USB 3.0 ports so that you can add extra storage and faster USB ports in the same package. [...]
