FPSLabs : The Weekly Hardware Recap of February 28th 2008

ASUS, abit, Corsair and DFI headline new product launches this week while big name manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba and Apple unveil new gaming systems and product refreshes.

Systems
Shuttle Introduces Cube Size $199 Linux PC
Dell Launches XPS 630 Desktop
Apple Introducing new MacBook and MacBook Pro models
Acer preps 16in and 18.4in Blu-ray notebooks

Motherboards
abit Announces the I-G31 Motherboard
ASUS Launches the Latest Z7S WS
DFI Changed X48-T3R PCB Layout

Cooling
ASUS Limited-edition Triton 79 AMAzing Brings Forth A New Dimension for CPU Cooling

Power Supplies
Corsair Announces World’s First 1000 Watt Power Supply Certified for 3-way NVIDIA SLI

Video Cards
ASUS Launches EAH3650 SILENT Series with New V-Cool Heatsink for 0dB Cooling

Storage
Corsair Announces New 16GB “GT” High Performance USB 2.0 Flash Drive
Toshiba Launches New 1.8-inch HDD with Serial ATA Interface
Hitachi Announces New 320GB 5400 RPM Travelstar Hard Drives
Fujitsu to Release 2.5″ Hard Disk Drive with World-Class 500 GB Capacity

Sound Cards
ASUS Launches Xonar DX Sound Card

Memory
PQI Announces DDR2-1066 4GB Dual Channel Kit
Lexar Media Announces Special Edition Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 2GB Memory Modules
Hynix announces launch of 2-Rank 8GB PC2-4200 RDIMM, featuring MetaRAM’s MetaSDRAM™ technology

Cool Stuff
Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph - a nanotechnology concept device

This week has been filled mostly with companies announcing upcoming goodies at CeBIT which is set to run from March 4th to the 9th in Hannover, Germany. Although many of our readers pride themselves in building their own systems, Dell is continually pushing its XPS brand as a strong core of the company beyond the Alienware acquisition in March of 2006. Beyond the usual hardware news comes word of after just one year of collaborating together, the University of Cambridge and Nokia have developed a conceptual device based on nano-technology. The primary features that nano-technology would allow is a type of flexible device capable of taking on various shapes. Imagine using the device as a cellphone and quickly molding it into a camera shape that allows the user to comfortably take pictures with ease. Additional transparency and self-cleaning properties makes the Morph concept sound like the stuff out of science fiction, but both entities hope to create phones with these types of features for the high-end market within the next seven years. I’m willing to bet it might take a bit longer, but I can’t wait for the day where having to clean the grime and fingerprints off the newest Apple iPhone is a thing of the past.

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