Intel® Core™2 Quad processor

Introducing the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor for desktop PCs, designed to handle massive compute and visualization workloads enabled by powerful multi-core technology. Providing all the bandwidth you need for next-generation highly-threaded applications, the latest four-core Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter desktop PC and workstation experiences.

Plus, with optional Intel® vPro™ technology, you have the ability to remotely isolate, diagnose, and repair infected desktop and mobile workstations wirelessly and outside of the firewall, even if the PC is off, or the OS is unresponsive.

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Features and benefits

With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache¹ and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus the Intel Core 2 Quad desktops processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.

Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

Plus, with these processors you get great Intel® technologies built in²:

Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance

Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core processors, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem.

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of multimedia, encryption, scientific and financial applications by significantly improving performance when executing Intel® Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE/SSE2/SSE3) instructions.

Intel® HD Boost³, implementing new Intel® Streaming SIMD Extension 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions for even greater multimedia performance and faster high definition video editing and encoding.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)², enabling greater security, manageability, and utilization.Future ready, designed to perform in highly threaded programs with powerful Intel® multi-core technology.

AMD's new mobile processor - Turion Ultra

Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in. Nvidia will release its new GeForce GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, AMD its Radeon 4850 and 4870 as well as its Puma notebook platform.
According to our sources at a top-tier OEM/ODM, AMD will be announcing Puma as well as the Griffin processor on June 3 (local time), the first day of the show. Puma will consist of the Griffin CPU, which we now know will be called “Turion Ultra”, a mobile version of the 780G chipset (RS780M), the Mobility Radeon 3200 graphics chip (integrated in the mobile 780G chipset) as well as Wi-Fi chips from the usual suspects (Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell, Ralink).

Puma will show up in all major notebook form factors (12.1”, 13.3”, 15.4” and 17") and will be on display with ATI Mobility Radeon 3450, 3650 and 3850 discrete graphics chips. SSDs will be available as an option, albeit in a very limited fashion: Puma will aim for the volume business and consumer markets and SSD simply are still “too expensive” for these segments. That scenario should change with the arrival of AMD’s 2009 Shrike mobile platform (better known for its Fusion processor), which is expected to see a greater adoption of SSD devices.

At this time, we have no information whether Puma and its Turion Ultra will be available in volume from day one. Stay tuned for more information coming soon.
Despite the fact that a first Intel Montevina notebook has been announced already, don’t expect the platform to debut at Computex. Montevina notebooks are likely to have a significant presence at the show, but our sources indicated that the platform will not be launched until later in the month.

Apple - Powerful Batteries

"Lithium-ion polymer batteries pack in a higher power density than nickel-based batteries. This gives you a longer battery life in a lighter package, as lithium is the lightest metal. You can also recharge a lithium-ion polymer battery whenever convenient, without the full charge or discharge cycle necessary to keep nickel-based batteries at peak performance. (Over time, crystals build up in nickel-based batteries and prevent you from charging them completely, necessitating an inconvenient full discharge.)"

Mac photo edit features

ore than 1.5 million users worldwide swear by GraphicConverter X | Classic – from amateur photographers to professional designers. The press has dubbed the program the equivalent of the 'Swiss penknife' describing it as a 'universal genius for photo editing on the Mac' and this high performance program costs just 29.95 Euros / 34.95 USD.
GraphicConverter offers you everything you need and would expect for an all-round editing software for your Mac with ease of use, an excellent range of functions, stability and reliability."

Brinck Elektronik -A Parameter

"Efter 33 år i elektronikbranchen har Thomas Brinck solgt BRINCK Elektronik & Handel ApS til Helmholt A/S i Struer. Overtagelsen har fundet sted pr. 1-4-2008.

Helmholt A/S er bl.a. dansk Velleman distributør og importør af elektronikkomponenter, værktøj og instrumenter m.v. Helmholt stiftede i 2005 elektronikkæden ELEXTRA.dk, hvor foreløbig 6 danske special-elektronikforretninger samarbejder om indkøb, markedsføring og drift af fælles netbutik.

Brinck Elektronik vil fortsætte som en selvstændig forretning, men er dog indtrådt i ELEXTRA kædesamarbejdet. Derved udbygges vore muligheder for at tilbyde et stort elektronik-produktprogram for såvel professionelle som private. Desuden giver det vore kunder forbedrede muligheder for online varesøgning og køb over nettet via netbutikken på www.elextra.dk.

Som ny forretningsfører er ansat Ole Friderichsen, forhenv. indehaver af Åge Nielsens eftf. Erhvervskunder og uddannelsessteder, som tidligere er blevet betjent hos Åge Nielsens eftf. er velkomne til at kontakte Ole Friderichsen for kontooprettelse og videreførelse af godt samarbejde.

Efter overtagelsen afholder vi oprydningsudsalg på mange restpartier, så besøg os og se de mange tilbud i forretningen. Priserne er superlave, da vi hurtigst muligt skal have skabt plads til mange nye varer.
Desuden fortsætter de tidligere ugers tilbud - så længe lager haves. Mange flere tilbud er på vej bl.a. på kondensatorer, lytter, stik og halvledere, og kan du købe større mængder, kan du få yderligere rabat.

Mac malware threat

"Mac owners have been urged to be wary of a new threat that targets the Apple computer as well as Windows-based PCs.

Researchers at security firm Sophos have discovered the OSX/RSPlug Trojan horse, which is being distributed on websites offering fake HDTV software.
'Mac users are no different to Windows users when it comes to falling for social-engineering tricks like this - they are just as likely to install and run this program on their computer if they believe it will help them watch high-definition TV,' said Graham Cluley of Sophos."

Apple attacks antivirus

software on a Mac or on Linux. There's just no point when there's almost nothing out there. And it's not as if there's no downside to running it: since this software needs to get pretty deep into the system, it often causes bad problems -- and, ironically enough security problems -- if it malfunctions or if the programmers make a blunder. That is constantly happening on Windows, and has from time-time on the Mac, too, as alert tech-news watchers wil know. Apple had to drop MacAfee from the .mac subscription after it screwed people's machines, and Symatec's Norton AV was doing some really stupid and dangerous things with permissions.

Parallels Desktop - 4.0 Of Mac

"Parallels is pleased to announce the launch of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, the newest version of our industry-leading desktop virtualization software. The most complete solution for running, managing and optimizing Windows on Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac comes complete with the most user-friendly OS integration features, enterprise-class performance and a powerful suite of complementary Windows security and data protection software.
As a sign of our appreciation to loyal customers such as you, Parallels is offering FREE upgrades to Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac for all eligible customers who have purchased Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac since September 1st, 2008.

These upgrades will be processed differently based on customer location and original method of purchase."

Parallels

Parallels v4.0, billed as speeding Windows virtualisation on Macs, has been slated by some users for slowing their systems to a crawl instead. Some are demanding their money back.
Parallels software enables Macs to run Windows concurrently with Mac OS X as an application alongside other Mac OS X applications. Files can be shared between the two environments and external disks can be seen in both as well. Version four was released on November 4 and added things like a better GUI, support for up to 8-core processors, and better integration of Windows and Mac applications but the main billed event was the speed boost."