Friday April 25, 2008
- Seagate Celebrates First Billionth HD Shipped - Lionel - 22:33:13
In a press release, Seagate claims to be the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives. The first HD was featuring 5 MB in 1979 and its price was 1500 USD. Until now, price per MB dropped dramatically: 1,350,000 fold, while maximal storage capacity increased by a factor 20,000. Of course, one should not forget that for marketing reason, one KB became smaller, moving from its original 1024 Bytes to 1000 Bytes (only on a marketing point of view).
[translation by Linathael]
- 512 GB SSD in 2009 - Lionel - 22:26:44
If we are often talking about SSD, it remains currently a product for a niche market, and only available for rather rich users. If performance are already there, the storage capacity of such drives remain low. This could evolve quickly, and as soon as next year.
Toshiba expects to release a SSD featuring 256 GB of storage space as early as Q1 2009 thank to new chips engraved at 43 nm and being produced "en masse" at the end of the year. As SSD is a "marketing hotcake", the company decided to communicate about later project and its expectation to release an even larger SDD model featuring 512 GB (with 32 nm engraved chips).
For consumer's interest, it would be great to have other manufacturers to follow Toshiba, otherwise with the lack of competition we will not experience a rapid drop of prices. Such potential will also only turn true if they can cut manufacturing costs of such memory chips, in order to offer lower capacity SSD (such as 128GB) at an affordable price.
[translation by Linathael]
- Safari 3.1.1 for Windows: Three Exploits Inside - Lionel - 22:17:45
After having promoted successfully iTunes for Windows, Apple is trying to repeat the story with Safari 3 by promoting its speed among other features.
However, three security issues have been spotted and could lead external users to perform some exploit on remote computer via Safari 3. If two of those issues might only lead to a system cash, the third one would give the ability to modify the URL address displayed on top of the browser window, making it a perfect tool for "phishers"
For sure Apple will have to react quickly to avoid Safari to become the less secured browser on Windows.
[translation by Linathael]
- The iMac - next Tuesday? - Lionel - 16:03:23
As is often in the news right now, it is that the iMac will be updated next Tuesday.
We take the risk to predict it having had serious and abundant information supporting this.
The new iMac should thus arrive next Tuesday, finally (if nothing changes before then).
[translation by crispin]
- Update of BootCamp - Lionel - 08:04:45
Apple has released an update of BootCamp. It fixes some bugs and improves the compatibility and supports SP3 of XP. To download:
BootCamp for Windows XP
BootCamp for Windows Vista 32 bits
BootCamp for WindowsVista 64 bit
[translation by crispin]
