iMac line-up Refreshed with New Processor and GPU

Apple baru saja me refresh produk iMac nya dengan prosesor Intel Sandy Bridge quad-core terbaru dan GPU terbaru dari AMD. Apple memproduksi iMac terbaru ini dalam 2 varian, 21.5 inci dan 27 inci. Apple tetap menyematkan layar LCD berteknologi IPS seperti pendahulunya. iMac terbaru ini dibanderol mulai dari harga $1199 untuk versi yang 21.5 inci dengan prosesor quad-core i5 2.5 GHz, 500GB HDD, dan GPU AMD Radeon HD 6750M. Tapi para pengguna komputer berat seperti gamer atau desainer, akan tergiur melihat spek iMac 27 inci dengan prosesor quad-core i7 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon HD 6970M, dan RAM sebesar 8GB. iMac 27" inci ini bisa ditebus dengan harga $1999. Apple juga menyematkan port Thunderbolt pada iMac terbaru ini. Belum familiar dengan port Thunderbolt? Klik di sini untuk mengetahui port Thunderbolt lebih lanjut.

    

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HP Luncurkan PC Gaming Terbaru

Hewlett Packard (HP), salah satu produsen komputer di Indonesia, meluncurkan PC Gaming terbarunya, HP Blackbird 002. HP mengklaim komputer ini sangat mudah dicustomize atau di kostumisasi. Pihak HP sendiri menyediakan berbagai macam pilihan, dari prosesor sampai motherboard. Harganya sekitar $6500 atau sekitar Rp. 60 juta. Berikut ini adalah spesifikasi Blackbird 002 :

Motherboards

• EVGA 780i
• Asus Maximus Formula X38

Processor

Intel® Core™ Micro architecture

• Up to SSE 3 support
• Energy efficiency optimization
• Thermal cut-outs to mitigate damage from system overclocking

Configurations

• Intel® Core2™ Duo 2.66GHz [E6750]; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Duo 3.0GHz [E6850]; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Duo 2.66GHz [E8200]; 6MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Duo 3.0GHz [E8400]; 6MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Quad 2.40GHz [Q6600]; 8MB of L2 cache; 1066 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Quad 2.66GHz [Q9450]; 12MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Quad 2.83GHz [Q9550]; 12MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
• Intel® Core2™ Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz [QX6850]; 8MB of L2 cache; 1333MHz
• Intel® Core2™ Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz [QX9650]; 12MB of L2 cache; 1333MHz

Memory

• 2 or 4 GB 667 MHz PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
• 2 or 4 GB 800 MHz CORSAIR PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
• 2 or 4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready

Four DIMM slots supporting up to 4 GB of main memory

256-bit-wide memory architecture

Graphics and Displays

Two Doublewide, 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one or more of the following graphic cards installed:

• NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, with 768MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, with 768MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)

• ATI RADEON HD3870 XT, with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid-cooling)
• ATI RADEON HD3870 X2, with 1GB of GDDR4 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI

Supports both ATI Crossfire and NVDIA SLI multiple graphic card configurations

Four slots to support NVIDIA SLI or ATI Crossfire configurations with two PCIe graphics cards

Dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.



Support for analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels at 85HZ

DVI to VGA adapter included

Dual-display support for extended desktops and video cloning modes

Physics

• AGEIA PhysX™ 100 Series PCI-E Accelerator Card

Networking

Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports that can support jumbo frames with low latency on gigabit connections

Storage

Flexible RAID capabilities

Five independent Serial ATA hard drive bays

Up to 5TB of internal storage using drives with the following capacities:

• Hard drive bays 1 – 5 can be configured with the following drives
  
  • 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA (Western Digital Raptor)
  • 320GB 7200 rpm SATA
  • 500GB 7200 rpm SATA
  • 750GB 7200 rpm SATA
  • 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA
  
  

Two Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)

• Writes DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
• Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 4x speed
• Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
• Writes CD-R discs at up to 40x speed
• Writes CD-RW discs at up to 24x speed
• Reads CDs at up to 24x speed

A single 5 1/4 bay for Blu-ray and HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe BD-R/RE SL/DL read and write compatible

• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL
• CD Family, DVD-ROM read compatible
• HD DVD-ROM/R read compatible

Electrical and environmental requirements

• Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)
• Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz single phase
• Current: Maximum of 12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)
• Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
• Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
• Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet

Peripherals and audio

Back panel:

• One PS/2 mouse port
• One PS/2 keyboard port
• Two eSATA ports
• One IEEE1394 port
• LCD screen (for diagnostics and status)
• LCD back light button (some boards only)
• SPDIF out and optical out port
• Two RJ-45 (Gigabit Ethernet) ports (number depends on MB)
• Four USB 2.0 ports (number depends on MB)

Top panel:

• 15 in 1 multi-card reader
• One IEEE1394 port
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• One 1/8" microphone jack
• One 1/8" headphone jack

Audio Options

• ADI onboard audio
• Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer
• Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional

Features

• Speaker and Headphone connections: Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
• Flexijack: Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out / Digital I/O via shared 3.5mm mini jack
• Auxiliary Line level Input: 4-pin Molex connector

Expansion slots

• 3 PCIe x16 slots (The two blue PCIe x16 slots operate with a full compliment of 16 PCI Express lanes, while the third white slot operates with only 8)
• 1 PCIe x1 slot
• 2 PCI v2.2 slots

Operating System and Software

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
• Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Security

• Grisoft AVG Professional (1 year base for all models)
• Grisoft AVG Professional (2 year upgrade available)
• Grisoft AVG Internet Security (2 year license available

Productivity

• Adobe® Reader®
• Microsoft® Office Pro 2007
• Microsoft® Office Small Business Edition 2007
• Microsoft® Office Basic 2007

Media Software

• CyberLink PowerDirector
• CyberLink Power2Go
• CyberLink DVD Play
• CyberLink Label Print

Supplemental Discs

• Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Installation DVD
• Driver and Applications Recovery DVD

Size and weight

• Height: 598.64 mm (23.5 inches)
• Width: 266.96 mm (9 inches)
• Length: 557.23 mm (22 inches)
• Weight (full configuration): 72 pounds (32.659 kg)

(*) Jika ingin mengetahui lebih jauh, bisa mengunjungi website resmi BlackBird 002 atau klik di sini

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Acer Ancam HP dan Dell

Perang PC Gaming semakin seru. Setelah Hewlett Packard (HP) merilis Blackbird 002 dan Dell dengan XPS 730, Acer juga tidak mau kalah dan segera merilis PC gaming baru. Acer memberi kejutan untuk para maniak game komputer dengan merilis Acer Aspire Predator. Acer Aspire Predator ini memakai casing yang unik dengan cover depan yang dapat diangkat dan sisi samping inovatif untuk slot ekspansi. Cover depan menyembunyikan sebuah slot ekspansi lagi, port front-mounted, dan multibay harddrive. Pengguna Acer Aspire Predator dapat mengganti atau menambah harddisk tanpa membuka casingnya. Menggunakan processor yang dapat dipilih sesuai kemauan pengguna. Acer memberi pilihan Intel Core 2 Duo atau Core 2 Quad yang telah di overclock. Diperkuat pula dengan video card nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, dan sebuah mainboard nVIDIA nForce 780 dengan kapasitas memori up-to 8 GB. Acer Aspire Predator dengan versi kelas kakap atau high end dilengkapi dengan dua atau bahkan tiga video card nVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX dan dual optical drive yang mendukung blu-ray. Acer menyematkan Harddisk sebesar 1 TB (Terabyte) pada seri ini. Acer Aspire Predator terbagi menjadi 4 versi, yakni Sniper, Trooper, Crusher, dan yang tertinggi Eliminator.

 

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