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MSI Wind U100

Category of small cheap notebooks became very popular and there is no wonder why most of big brands want a piece of cake for themselves. But Asus got all of them off-guard. Because of that we’ve been waiting rather long for Eee’s true rival . We’ve already mentioned MSI’s agility which allowed them again to be first with new product on market. Their trump card wears name Wind and model that InsideHW had tested is MSI Wind U100. ...

 

Puma Platform for Notebooks

The long waited AMD platform for notebooks under the name PUMA is finally introduced and InsideHW had a chance to test notebook based on this platform. To all users that have been waiting cheap integrated graphics with good performances, time has come. Intel Centrino was so far “untouchable” in field of portable computers but AMD Puma, by all appearance, got a necessary quality to fight for highest position. ...

 

Prestigio Data Safe II Fashion Edition

USB hard disks lately become very popular. This especially goes for 2.5’’models. The reasons for that can be found in their usefulness and practicality. Yet, we are living in times when it is necessary to transfer huge amounts of data from place to place. At first, manufacturers on market fought with larger and larger capacity of these devices. Lately, when capacity stopped being key factor, manufacturers turned to HDD case design. On that field, Prestigio went step ahead of its competitors and launched Prestigio data Safe II Fashion Edition. ...

 

ATI 48xx Architecture

At the end of June, in Spain, we were introduced to a new series of 48xx graphics cards from ATI. We saw then only RV770PRO (4850) but at this moment 4870 (RV770XT) is also available. Even though our sources from AMD didn’t unveil why 4870 wasn’t shown on launching, we assume that some problems with quantities of available GDDR5 memory occurred. Considering that 4850 uses GDDR3 memory, it is no surprise that many retailers had them on stock. ATI 4870 will be sold, in beginning, exclusively with GDDR5 memory (this is the first graphics card that uses this memory) but AMD leaves a possibility that some innovative partner might launch later version that uses GDDR3 memory. ...

 

Sapphire HD 4850

It’s rare occasion to have on test, on the same month, new generation products from two big rivals (nVIDIA and ATI). This is really good news because ATI had some serious delays with R600 and that is one of reasons why it was so indifferently received on market. ATI realized that now must roll up its sleeves to catch up nVIDIA, because at that point seemed that nVIDIA unreachably moved away. ...

 
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Radeon HD 3870 gets a new 3DMark record! PDF Print
Written by Enis Sahinovic   
Monday, 10 December 2007
The Futuremark 3DMark06 record has been broken yet again. Guys from InsideHW’s editorial team, Nebojsa Todorovic and Dusan Srbljak, along with few other enthusiasts from overclocking team SX Team managed to achieve an impressive 16.216 3DMarks and set a new 3DMark06 record for the AMD’s RV670-based Radeon HD 3870 graphics card.

   

What is truly amazing about this record is fact that they’ve broken the record without using any of the fancy cooling solutions. Yes, you’ve read it right: Intel Q6600 quad-core processor (overclocked to 4GHz) and Radeon HD 3870 graphics card (891/1386MHz) with a good old-fashioned air cooling were sufficient for this record. Naturally, they’ve had a few tricks up their sleeves for this record. If you’re interested in details about this record and their new plans, make sure to visit this thread.
 
InsideHW journalists denied to visit Computex PDF Print
Written by Enis Sahinovic   
Friday, 01 June 2007
ImageAs some of you might know, Taiwan has just a few embassies located around the world due to complicated political relations with Republic of China. Taiwan and China are world's largest manufacturers of hardware and Taiwan is also host of popular IT business expo Computex that we had chance to attend during last few years. However, Taiwan's Embassy in Budapest, Hungary decided not to let us visit the Computex in Taipei this year. Namely, my colleague Zeljko Djuric and myself applied for Taiwan visa 2 weeks ago in Budapest, even we preferred Vienna, but they didn't let us apply there because Budapest was named as responsible for our countries of origin. They even said that it's better for us because whole process takes less time. If only we knew...

Along with visa applications, we provided invitations from our Taiwan partners and even from TAITRA, Taiwan Trade Center responsible for organization of expo itself. We made sure to explain and write down that our visa should be from June 1st in order to arrive to Taiwan and attend Computex. However, one week later, Taiwan Embassy in Budapest decided to let us know that they won't issue visas next week because whole process takes three weeks!?

We tried to talk to them and even our friends from Taiwan and TAITRA called them, but without any success. They've simply decided to give us visas next week, forcing us to miss the Computex. "Visa process takes 3 weeks", they claim. Last year, Zeljko got his visa for 7 days. Remember Taiwan Embassy in Vienna? Our friend and colleague, Theo Valich from Inquirer, visited Vienna on Wednesday and got his visa within 2 hours after applying. This information casts some doubt on "3 weeks process", doesn't it? It would be so much easier to accept that our visa applications were denied for whatever reason, but instead they were delayed.

For reasons we cannot understand, Taiwan Embassy in Budapest decided not to let journalists attend Computex show in Taipei casting so much doubt about whole thing, since TAITRA is promoting Computex whole year, inviting us for press conferences during CeBIT and so on. We suppose that if we were from traditional press, whole thing would get related even to basic journalists rights.

Unfortunately, this will affect our business negatively because we were setting up meetings and accepting various invitations for press conferences for weeks. We sincerely apologize to all of our partners and colleagues that we were supposed to meet during Computex. We still have great memories of Taiwan and Computex from last year. Hopefully, such things won't happen in future and we hope that our colleagues from press won't have to go through same process.

Enis Sahinovic
Editor-in-Chief
 
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