Archive for March, 2010

iPad’s release may be delayed

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Apple’s iPad listing may be delayed until April. It is learned that this problem occurs because the iPhone (mobile Internet) sales exceeded expectations, prompting its second-quarter sales forecast from 720 million to 7.9 million. That consumers who are looking forward to iPad is not a good news, because aspects of capacity reasons, so that should have been listed at the end of an extension iPad tablet PCs.

To industry sources, production problems made iPad is confined in the United States, because in March it only produces about 30 million units, and this figure is far below the company’s initial estimate of 1 million units. The production delays may also affect the entire Apple’s 800,000 units in April expected production.

HP is refreshing its ultraportable laptop with Core i5, i7 chips

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Hewlett-Packard is refreshing its business ultraportable laptop and hybrid laptop-tablet with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, becoming one of the first major PC makers to squeeze these powerful processors into a small, lightweight design.

Intel announced the Core i series of processors last year, but to date the chips have been limited mostly to desktops and large-screen laptops. HP’s compact EliteBook 2540p and 2740p have 12-inch screens and weigh in at about 3.4 and 3.8 pounds, respectively.

The 2540p can be configured with standard-power Core i5 or Core i7 processors or a Core i7 that draws less power–a so-called low-voltage processor. Graphics are provided by Intel’s integrated graphics silicon.

Like the prior-generation 2530p model, the 2540p can be ordered with or without a built-in optical drive. Units without an optical drive, can take 2.5-inch 7200RPM SATA II hard disk drives ranging up to 500GB in capacity. Units ordered with an optical drive use smaller 1.8-inch 5400RPM SATA II drives, ranging up to 320GB in capacity.

The 2540p is also available with 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch solid-state drives that max out at 160GB.

Other features include USB 2.0, VGA, DisplayPort, 1394a, and gigabit Ethernet ports. And an option for an integrated EV-DO/HSPA 3G modem is available too.

Battery life for the 2540p is rated by HP at up to 10 hours with a nine-cell battery and 8 hours with a 6-cell battery.

HP has also updated its convertible laptop–which can be used as a laptop or a tablet–with the 2740p model (updating the prior-generation 2730p). The 2740p has specifications similar to the 2540p but does not offer the option for a 2.5-inch 7200rpm hard disk drive.

HP rolled out other business models too on Monday. The ProBook 4320s (13.3-inch screen), HP ProBook 4420s (14-inch), HP ProBook 4520s (15.6-inch) and HP ProBook 4720s (17.3-inch).

All of HP’s new offerings come with HP DayStarter, which allows access to key information before Windows boots up.

The HP EliteBook 2540p starts at $1,099 and is expected to be available in the United States in April. The 2740p starts at $1,599 and is also slated to be available in April. The ProBook s-series starts at $719 and will be available this month.

Toshiba will make full use of renewable energy and battery

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Toshiba, January 18, 2010, announced receipt of the Okinawa Electric Power in 2010 in the autumn of Miyako Island, began to “off-island micro-grid system empirical test” a package of orders for related equipment. Toshiba will build in order to balance the power of battery changes taking place in a new generation of renewable energy power system load.

Miyako Island, the pilot will be in the existing thermal power plant (20000 1500kW, 4 Wan kW), gas turbine power generation (10000 5000kW) and wind power generation (900kW × 4 Zuo, 600kW × 1 Wing), based on the new solar energy power generation systems (3MW and 1MW) and battery (4MW and 200kW). Scheduled to balance the changes taking place in the use of battery power and solar power wind power output at the same time, verify the voltage increase, the remaining electricity countermeasures and frequency adjustment system stability. The empirical tests have been elected to the Office of Resources and Energy, METI openly solicited for “Heisei 21 year island-independent verification system, new energy into the cause of” at home.

Toshiba will be a new set of solar power systems and battery as its representative, the package provides the power regulator, communication network and control power supply monitoring system “μEMS”. In the 4MW of solar power generation system, 3MW solar power is set as 1 million watts, 1MW of 600kW vision for factory, 400kW envisaged for residential. But not in the physical set up factories and residential solar power generation systems, but rather concentrated in one place, as a simulation of user demand for electricity. There are also plans in the area simulated factories and residential demand for electricity.

Battery, in addition to 4MW of the NAS (sodium sulfur) battery and power system interconnection, there will be in residential settings 200kW rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Envisaged 4kW solar power systems installed in 100 homes, 25 homes in the household setting 8kW lithium-ion rechargeable battery.

Lithium-ion rechargeable battery developed by Toshiba, the negative use of lithium titanate (LTO), charge-discharge cycle characteristics of high, you can quickly charge and discharge “SCiB”. In addition, 3MW of the one million-watt solar power conditioner using 12 units of 250kW rated power of the Toshiba product. Scheduled to simulate factory rated at 10kW power purchase regulator, rated for residential purchase for 4kW power regulator.

Sharp’s solar power generation systems manufactured using polysilicon solar cells. Scheduled to power stations and battery using fiber optic cable communications network. Allegedly There is currently no plan to set up a smart meter.