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Apple MacBook & MacBook Pro both support 6GB of RAM

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 31st 2008 1 Comment

Memory company Ramjet are advertizing an upgrade kit for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro that would give each notebook 6GB of RAM in total. The amount – which is 2GB higher than the figure Apple themselves claim is supported – is comprised of a 2GB DDR3 chip and a 4GB DDR3 chip. Unlike with 8GB, which the NVIDIA chipsets used should officially support but, as those have tried it have discovered, leads to system instabilities, 6GB seems to be a balance between performance and playing happily with OS X’s current limitations.

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Kingston HyperX DDR3 Triple-Channel Memory launches

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 30th 2008 No Comments

hx ddr3 3pack hires 413x480 Kingston announced yesterday their HyperX DDR3 Triple-Channel Memory that was designed with the Intel X58 motherboards in mind. They also meet the 1.65 volt platform recommendation for Core i7.

This new product features 2GHz memory and are available in kits of three 1GB modules. They will also be Intel XMP or Extreme Memory Profile ready. These are the fastest triple-channel memory DDR3 products available right now.

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Sharp LCD Panel gets memory

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 30th 2008 No Comments

Sharp recently showed off a new LC panel that’s outfitted with memory, so that even if it loses its power source, it will still keeps the last displayed content on. The new panel was exhibited at FPD International 2008, and from the looks of it, has made quite a splash.

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Apple MacBook 3rd-party RAM causing instabilities?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 30th 2008 No Comments

Some new MacBook users are reporting problems when attempting to upgrade their Apple laptops with third-party RAM. The new, aluminum MacBook can support up to 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, with the standard configuration being a pair of single 1GB chips. In replacing those with third-party memory - including seemingly-identical spec chips from big-name brands such as Crucial – some owners have found their MacBooks suddenly prone to crashing.

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Use 4GB SD cards with Wii: more space & faster speeds

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 23rd 2008 No Comments

A moderate frustration about the Nintendo Wii is its stubborn refusal to recognize SD cards larger than 2GB in capacity. Given that larger, 4GB cards often support higher transfer rates – and, obviously, offer more storage – the frugal-fiends at Cheap Ass Gamer have come up with a system to create 4GB SD cards that, by pretending to be under 2GB, fool the Wii into accepting them.

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Toshiba spends $1B on 30% of SanDisk production capacity

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Oct 20th 2008 No Comments

toshiba16gigabit Anyone else feel like companies are buying up other companies left and right? Well, Toshiba has just announced that they bought 30% of the production capacity of SanDisk’s NAND flash memory. And the price tag? $1 billion!

Initially, Toshiba wanted to buy out SanDisk. Samsung made a bid as well. But now with Toshiba’s input, SanDisk will be able to make flash memory faster and cheaper.

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Eye-fi gets Twitter

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Oct 10th 2008 No Comments

eyeficards Eye-fi is already a well known product. Their SD card already has an added geotracking function that makes it so you can automatically associate any pictures taken and then put on the card with the location they were taken in.

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USB Liquid Flash Drive keeps thumb drives interesting

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 7th 2008 1 Comment

There’s a seemingly endless supply of gimmicky USB thumb drives out there these days but this one is just too cool to ignore. It’s pretty standard in the specs department but it can house liquid and not break!

Available from CNK Promotions, this USB thumb drive has an acrylic casing that is hollow, making it perfect for filling up with a brightly colored liquid. You can order the drive with a logo of your choosing, as well. And with storage space of up to 8GB you can pack away a lot of information in one very small, very cool-looking device.

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Samsung 50nm 2GB DDR3 chips are industry’s smallest

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 29th 2008 No Comments

Samsung have taken the wraps off of the industry’s smallest 2GB DDR3 memory chips, built using 50nm processes, which allows for 60-percent higher productivity than DDR2 chips of an equivalent density. It opens the door for up to 16GB RIMMS (Registered In-line Memory Modules) that save 40-percent of the power required for the same RIMM based on 1GB DDR3 chips.

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Electric Field RAM memory could be faster, more energy efficient

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 26th 2008 No Comments

mram Japanese scientists have discovered a method of changing magnetic domains – such as those used in RAM and hard-drives – using magnetic fields rather than the current process of electromagnets, in a system that could see storage become faster and more energy efficient. Magnetic domains, tiny regions inside magnetic materials that behave as individual magnets and can be flipped from north to south, are currently manipulated by an electromagnet, encoding binary 1 or 0. With the new system that electromagnet is bypassed: applying voltage to a nearby electrode creates an electric field that shifts the domains.