New Microsoft Surface

Microsoft will introduce tablet Surface Mini at its meeting.

It is alleged that Microsoft will position small tablet not as a complete replacement for your laptop, but rather as a compact electronic assistant. Also Microsoft not positioned this tablet as a gaming console. Only big Surface tablets are replacement for laptop. 


Surface Mini will be sold with a stylus.

Likely this laptop will be has 7,5 inch display with 1400 x 1050 pixels, operating system is Windows 8.1. The exact parameters are will be known at the release.

SanDisk releases 4-terabyte SSD-drive Optimus Max

The company released the SanDisk SSD capacity of 4 TB and thereby reduced the maximum distance between the traditional HDD and SSD. The novelty is not focused on ordinary consumers, but the business sector.

This drive was named Optimus Max. In the sequential read / write mode speed approximately 400 MB/s. Drive is equipped with error correction technology, data protection and disaster recovery. Furthermore, it maintains one to three complete rewrites information stored on it during the day.


Drive is manufactured by new SSD 19 nm technology. SSD uses SAS interface 6 GB/s.


The company wants to produce in the future SSDs volume 6 TB and 8 TB. Exact date sales are not reported.

HTC One M8 for music lovers

HTC introduced a special version of the smartphone One M8 for music lovers Harman Kardon edition.

Design of HTC One M8 Harman Kardon edition combines golden wheel inserts and black the rest of the body, on the back of the bottom is unobtrusive logo Harman / Kardon.

This smartphone comes with a special version of the headphones Harman / Kardon AE-S.

Also HTC One M8 Harman Kardon edition comes with a special application HARMAN Clari-Fi, which improves the usual MP3-files, making the sound richer. In addition, the smartphone "out of the box" can play 24bit/192kHz FLAC-files.

Display of the smartphone is 5 inch with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution, processor 4 cores Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2,36 GHz, 2 GB RAM, and 16 or 32 GB flash memory, also smartphone has a slot for microSD card. This version of phone in it not different from the original phone.

Google refuses to Nexus

The company wants to replace the mobile devices Nexus on line Android Silver.

Instead, Google will offer a new line of high-end smartphones and tablets - Android Silver.

The initiative is aimed at further strengthening the position Google in Android-environment. Google wants to create operating system for mobile devices without any third-party applications, as well as timely firmware update - in the style of the operating system Apple iOS, which is delivered to all compatible products in the same day.

Google is going to subsidize the cost of developing and marketing partners who will be carrying equipment. Possible candidates for cooperation are: LG, Motorola, Samsung, HTC and Sony.

Now, smartphones Nexus remains a flagships of company.

New Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime

Company Samsung will be release a new flagship Samsung KQ or Galaxy S5 SM-G906, with a metal casing and screen 2K (QHD). Unlike Samsung S5, this phone will have a metal case. This phone also called Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime.

The smartphone will be have a Snapdragon 805 2,5 GHz processor with 4 cores, operating system Android 4.4.2, 3 GB RAM and 32 GB memory for data. Also display of smartphone 5,2 inch with 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution. Technical parameters can changes before release.

Phone on the market have not yet, also not reported the exact release date.

How to copy Windows 8 image on USB drive. Windows-To-Go

Have you ever heard of that would be convenient to continue to work with your files and settings to another computer?

Microsoft demonstrated the function of Windows-To-Go, which allows you to copy the image of Windows 8 on USB-drive for later download on any computer system. After downloading, you can continue work with your files and applications.

According to Microsoft, this feature is aimed at business users, not the home. That is, instead of taking in a business trip hard working laptop, you can take, for example, a netbook or small laptop and boot into your copy of Windows from USB-drive. But Microsoft declined to comment on the cost of using this function.

Function may work with the specification as USB 2.0 and 3.0. Recommended storage size is 32GB. It should also be noted that the computer is running a copy of Windows-To-Go with USB-drive, can't be translated into hibernation. If you suddenly get the USB-drive from the computer when the OS is running, system will be wait about 60 seconds. If during this time to return the USB-drive in place, the computer resumes. If not - Session Windows-To-Go is closed. Also all unsaved changes will be lost.

Microsoft products were not had similar functions. It's convenient.

NVIDIA releases new video adapters

NVIDIA preparing to release GeForce GT 705, GT 710 and GT 720 videoadapters. New items will not differ significantly from the videoadapters GeForce GT 620 and GT 630.

GeForce GT 705 will be have: graphic processor GF119, 48 cores CUDA, 64-bit memory bus, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, core frequency 810 MHz, RAM frequency 1796 MHz.

GeForce GT 710 will be have: graphic processor GK208, 192 cores CUDA, 64-bit memory bus, 512 MB DDR3, core frequency 823 MHz, RAM frequency 1800 MHz.

GeForce GT 720 will be have: graphic processor GK208, 384 cores CUDA, 64-bit memory bus, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, core frequency 902 MHz, RAM frequency 1800 MHz.

Videocards are based on new architectures.