Items tagged with Toshiba
It's a question worth asking, but the answer is still probably a couple of years out, at best. Will 3D finally make a lasting impression? Unless you've been living under a rock over the past year, you will have noticed that the movie industry, the consumer electronics industry and big time TV makers have all been...
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Super Talent announced the new UltraDrive DX SSDs with two levels of security. Co-branded with Toshiba, the new drives will be sold through Super Talent's North American retail and distribution channels. The first level of security in the UltraDrive DX supports password protection with an encrypted password. For additional protection, the...
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Toshiba unveiled the Toshiba Satellite T100 Series, a new class of ultra-thin laptops that offer all-day battery life and an affordable starting price of $449.99. Designed to feature the comfort and convenience of a standard laptop in an ultra-thin package, the new Satellite T100 Series measures less than one inch thick and weighs as little...
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Toshiba introduced its new Qosmio X500 Series today. Featuring Windows 7, an Intel Core i7 processor, Intel’s Turbo Boost Technology, DDR3 system memory, and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M graphics, the Qosmio X500 provides high-performance technologies to enable excellent gaming performance and smooth rendering and encoding...
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Haven't you heard? There's a new connector in town! Over at IDF this week, the SATA IO Working Group is on hand to tout its newest interface standard, the low-profile mini-SATA (mSATA). Designed mainly to give a formal connector to smaller SSDs that fit into netbooks and notebooks, the standard is being shown off by Toshiba, which has added...
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The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (typically referred to as the Cell or Cell BE) processor used in Sony's PS3 was actually a joint venture between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, but IBM and Sony have commercialized the architecture far more than their partner. That could change within a year or two; the electronics manufacturer has announced
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Toshiba introduced a new family of high-performance 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs, including a unit with a capacity of up to 500GB. There are four new models in the MKxx56GSY series, which deliver more than a 13% performance improvement in disk operations compared to previous 7,200 RPM drives from Toshiba. The drives also...
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Docking Stations. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase? If you're anything like us, you're thinking of that device your corporate owner gave you on your first day in the cube, and you're probably thankful it's there. But for those that try to use docking stations at home, having to connect your machine to the...
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The burgeoning SSD (solid state drive) market has been a modest success story over the past few years. Drive performance and capacity have both increased at a fair clip, while initial sky-high costs have at least fallen into the stratosphere. The two major factors keeping sSD's from broader market penetration are available capacity and...
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Talk about a brag book. Toshiba is releasing a new line of credit card-thin hard disk drives, with up to 160GB of capacity — enough to store upwards of 45,000 digital photos, 42,000 digital music files or 130 digital videos. The smallest is 60GB - remember how just a few years ago, 1GB seemed like unending storage space? The MKxx34GAL family...
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After Toshiba showed a prototype of its JournE tablet computer at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin, many are wondering if Toshiba will beat Apple to the tablet computer market. Thus far, Apple has remained mum on the subject of a tablet computer, despite many rumors and supposed sightings of a possible device. Toshiba’s JournE multimedia...
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Toshiba told us it was coming, and now the world can finally mark it down: the company famous for supporting HD DVD while everyone else sided with Blu-ray has finally decided to product its very own BD deck. Some might view this as the real death of HD DVD, as for the longest time, Toshiba would have nothing to do with the rival format that...
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Time keeps on ticking, and hard drives keep on growing. With desktop HDDs already sitting at 2TB and the solid state arena growing larger members each month, it only makes sense to see a new benchmark set for the world of 2.5" notebook drives. Toshiba has today introduced what it's calling the industry's largest 2.5" laptop hard drive, and...
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We already knew as much, but today Toshiba has made it extra official: it's joining the Blu-ray camp. For those unaware (yes, all six of you), Toshiba was far and away HD DVD's largest supporter during the format's boom years. After a long, hard-fought battle with Blu-ray that spanned nearly 24 months, HD DVD finally...
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Growing tired of solid state news yet? Nah, impossible, right? As the HDD looks increasingly aged, SSDs are stepping in at an alarming rate to replace 'em. Though, all the power saving, speed and durability in the world won't matter if prices don't stoop down to reasonable levels, and that'll only occur with more competition in the sector....
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Toshiba announced the launch of the world’s first 64GB SDXC memory card that is capable of operating at the world's fastest data transfer rate for reading and writing to a flash memory card. The new card meets the specifications of the new SD Memory Standard, Ver. 3.00, UHS104. In addition to the new 64GB SDXC memory card, Toshiba also unveiled...
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Toshiba announced the new Toshiba 3.5-inch External HDD today, marking the company’s first entry into the 3.5-inch external HDD market. The new Toshiba 3.5-inch External HDD features dual connectivity with high-speed USB 2.0 and eSATA ports and a software application that lets customers back up and restore selected files as well as an entire...
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Wal-Mart isn’t the only retailer who is trying to sell you your next notebook. Best Buy recently introduced the second series of customized laptops that were designed as a direct result of consumer input. The new Next Class line of laptops were created to meet the needs of college students. The four-unit line was manufactured in partnership...
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At this point, you've got to do something pretty special for your HDTV to stand out. After all, an HDTV is an HDTV, right? With nearly every set these days--from the cheapest to the most expensive--boasting a 1080p panel a frame that's at least marginally thin, the over-crowded market is becoming tougher and tougher to penetrate. Toshiba's...
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Data analysis firm IDC has released sales and shipment figures for the PC industry in Q2 2009. It's a glass half-full/half-empty sort of report; the PC industry shrank 3.1 percent in Q2 2009 compared to Q2 2008, but that 3.1 percent dip was just half of the 6.3 percent contraction IDC initially predicted. IDC attributes the difference to "a...
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Digital photo frames have been gaining traction in the market for years now, and with prices on them continually spiraling downward, more and more of 'em are being used as gifts and whatnot to decorate the modern home. Rather than just joining the herd, Toshiba has decided to spice its latest digital media frames up a bit with Wi-Fi and widgets....
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At long last, the inevitable has occurred. Nearly 1.5 years after the curtain fell and HD DVD was deemed dead, Toshiba--HD DVD's biggest fan, backer and producer of players--has agreed to join those on the other side. After years of fighting, the Blu-ray format won out over the other HD disc format, HD DVD, though Toshiba never once showed...
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