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Real gamers hate marketers’ lures. Those suits ambush gamers with branded drinks, razors, and PCs. Just create great products instead of selling extreme attitude and garish designs. The ASUS ROG G73Jh-A2 will impress the authentic gaming crowd as a strong laptop. But its high-end internals and neutral case will find appeal beyond the gaming-set target: Anyone looking for a big-screen portable should consider this model. While the G73Jh skimps on some media features–no Blu-ray player, for example–its nimble performance can make it your primary rig for anything from BioShock 2 to Adobe CS5.
The $1599 G73Jh swings hard in our benchmarking, rating an overall 89 in its performance score while rattling off 111 points in our WorldBench 6 test suite. An Intel Core i7 Q 720 running at 1.6GHz powers nearly any application, from content-creation to gaming. In the Unreal Tournament 3 test (at high-quality, 1024-by-768-resolution settings), the laptop pulled in an average of 92.5 frames per second; that shows enough power to keep any current title smooth.
We pushed the system further, testing the latest titles, including Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033. Both look and play great. With the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 GPU and a gigabyte of dedicated graphics RAM, it might be a while before some upcoming title causes this system to break a sweat.
The G73Jh feels like a solid laptop. At 8 pounds and with a huge footprint, you’re not going to tote this around without a toll to your chiropractor. But somehow, the PC feels more agile than its weight suggests, comfortably sitting on a your lap.
The big surface area lets the keyboard and touchpad stretch out. The laptop includes a full number pad, but those keys are slightly narrower than normal. The keyboard feels tight and responsive to typing, and the big wrist rest helps you stay comfortable. You even have enough room (barely) to use the included Razer Abyssus mouse directly on the wrist rest.
That simple two-button-and-scroll mouse includes high-speed modes to better track your movement. I didn’t notice any difference with those settings, but the pointer feels light and good in-hand overall. The track pad misses, however. While the big surface feels great for moving the cursor, it includes a teeter-totter button for left- and right-clicks. Push near the middle, and you’ll have to use a lot of pressure. Push directly in the center, and it won’t click at all.
The 17.3-inch, 1920-by-1080-pixel screen looks great in most situations. You can view multiple spreadsheets or get absorbed into games and movies. Text looks clean, and it shows off a bright range of color. Contrast is good, but it sometimes suffers under the slightly glossy surface; the laptop can handle a fairly bright room, but reflections can overpower the image near windows or outside. The screen also doesn’t tilt back quite far enough. You’ll probably never have a problem with its angle on a desk, but you might want it to lean a little further if it’s perched on your lap.
With a 1080p display, strong video processor, and target audience of gamers, the G73Jh begs for Blu-ray support. Unfortunately, that kind of drive didn’t make the cut. Instead, you get a DVD- and CD-burner. Hard disks fare batter, with this model including two 500GB drives in a RAID array.
Feb
Here are five things I’d like to see the iPad incorporate, perhaps through the next update to the iPhone OS.
Wireless sync. The iPad is not a Mac. That means it doesn’t run the full iTunes client, so you can’t share music from another computer over your home network. Instead, like an iPod or iPhone, you must physically connect it to the computer on which your music is stored, then wait for the music to travel over the wire. This is, frankly, absurd. If you want me to use the iPad to listen to music in my home, don’t make me walk over to my computer and attach it every time I want to load some new tunes. Wireless sync would also be great for syncing other material like pictures, videos, and apps. How hard can it be? Microsoft’s Zune player has had wireless sync for three iterations and more than two years.
Cloud-based music service. Even if the iPad had wireless sync, the most affordable model has only 16GB of storage. This isn’t enough for most music lovers’ digital collections, especially if they’re going to use the iPad for other functions like electronic books and photos. So how about taking that Lala acquisition and using it? Instead of having to load music onto the iPad itself, I could sync it from my computer to Lala’s online music locker service, then stream it over the Web directly to my device. Bye-bye, storage limits. Best of all, every time I update my music collection, it’s updated everywhere simultaneously. This is such a no-brainer I’d be stunned if Apple doesn’t make it available shortly after the iPad launches.
Music-sharing with third-party apps. There are some surprisingly sophisticated DJ apps for iPhone, like TouchDJ and DJ Mixer, that let you play two songs at the same time and mix them together like a mulitrack DJ set-up. These apps would be much easier to use on the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen. But they all share one big shortcoming: they can’t just play songs that you’ve already loaded onto your device. Instead, you have to re-load songs into the DJ apps, either from a sync application running on your computer or over a Web server. This isn’t the fault of the app designers–it’s a limitation that Apple places on the iPhone and iPod Touch. I hope Apple figures out a way around it soon.
Queuing. I like to play DJ. As one song plays, it sparks associations with other songs. It would be nice to be able to load these other songs into a “now playing” queue. The Zune’s had this feature since its inception, but I can’t do it on the iPod Touch or the iPhone–instead, I have to wait for the current song to end, then start up a new song. (And no, I don’t want to do this with playlists on the computer and then sync those playlists to the device. That misses the entire point of spontaneity.)
Decent speakers (and amp). Naturally, the first thing I did with the iPad was check out its music playback. I could barely hear it, even with the volume maxed out. It’s true that the room was crowded with gadget fans scrambling for their first look at the device, but even so, the speakers sounded no louder than the iPhone’s. But this isn’t a phone. It’s also not a Mac, where music isn’t the primary focus for most users. It’s a consumer electronics device. It would be great if I could set it up in my living room or bedroom without having to attach it to another device. Peripheral makers might complain–iHome does great work creating audio accessories for the iPhone–but if this is truly going to be a new product category.
Jan
Acer’s green, biodegradable notebooks
Filed Under (news, tech) by fazle321 on 18-01-2010
Tagged Under : acer, laptop, news, technology
The computer maker unveiled two new notebooks on Friday that have already received kudos from the international environmental group. The Acer Aspire 3811TZ and Aspire 3811TZG are designed to be energy efficient, recyclable, and biodegradable, thereby winning high marks from Greenpeace, which rates PCs and other electronics for their environmental friendliness.
As part of its green initiatives, Acer said it built the two new Aspires to be free of PVCs (polyvinyl chloride) and BFRs (brominated flame retardants).
PVC is a cheap but durable plastic that has been criticized by Greenpeace for not being biodegradable and for emitting toxic substances into the environment. BFRs are chemicals added to plastics to make them more flame resistance, but these have also been accused of leeching into the environment. Their use in products for babies and children has especially concerned many groups. With the exception of the power cables, all components for both Aspires are free of these toxins.
“The chemical characteristics of PVC and BFRs may generate toxic substances like dioxins and furans at products’ end-of-life, therefore, the reduction of PVC and BFRs in Acer products will help protect our environment from being poisoned by electronics goods,” Acer said in a statement.
The new Aspires are also designed to cut energy use–both models can save up to 40 percent of the energy consumption of traditional notebooks, providing more than 8 hours of battery life, said Acer. Further, the company designed the units to be easily recycled. With more modular parts than in traditional notebooks, users can also extend the life of the Apires by replacing certain components.
Oct
Need For Speed-Shift Ost Soundtrack-2009
Filed Under (Soundtrack, bollywood, ost, tech) by fazle321 on 05-10-2009
Tagged Under : download, games, need for speed, nfs, ost, Soundtrack
Genre…..: Soundtrack
Jakosc:…: 128-320 kbps 44 kHz
Year……: 2009
Format….: MP3
Size……: 96,76 MB
Playtime..: 01:42:38 min.
01. Buraka Som Sistema feat. Pongolove – Kalemba (Wegue-Wegue)
02. Chase And Status feat. Plan B – Pieces
03. Deadmau5 – Ghosts N Stuff
04. Eagles Of Death Metal – Anything ‘Cept the Truth
05. Fort Knox 5 feat. Asheru – Insight (The Nextmen Remix)
06. Gallows – I Dread The Night
07. In Case Of Fire – This Time We Stand
08. Jamal – Pull Up
09. Kanye West – Paranoid (Part 2)
10. Kasabian – Underdog
11. The King Blues – The Streets Are Ours
12. Mala Rodriguez – Te Convierto
13. Mando Diao – Mean Street
14. MSTRKRFT feat. E-40 – Click Click
15. N.A.S.A. feat. Spank Rock, MIA, Santigold and Nick Zinner – Whachadoin?
16. The Prodigy – Run With The Wolves
17. The Qemists feat Mike Patton – Lost Weekend
18. Regular John – Transmitter
19. Rootbeer – Under Control
20. Shinichi Osawa – Electro 411 (Lies In Disguise Mix)
21. Spoon Harris & Obernik – Baditude
22. TOKIO – Dogonim
23. Twisted Wheel – Oh, What Have You Done?
24. Two Fingers feat. Sway – High Life
Download Need For Speed: Shift Soundtrack
