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Despite a sudden lack of support, the plasma ain’t dead yet. Just days after announcing its ritzy new Bordeaux PAVV Fabrizio 650 LCD HDTVs over in South Korea, the same company has introduced a new line catering to the unshakable PDP fans across the globe. The Fabrizio PAVV 450 Series includes a 42- and 50-inch version with Sammy’s own Crystal Engine, 0.001 millisecond response time, “Mega Contrast,” and a trio of HDMI sockets. Outside of that, details are still being kept under wraps, but hopefully we’ll know more after these get a US ship date. Wait, these are coming to America, right Samsung?

[Via Akihabara News]

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Samsung outs Fabrizio PAVV 450 Series plasma HDTVs in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You read that right, 6Gbps. Seagate and AMD will be showing-off a prototype Barracuda hard disk drive with AMD prototype 6Gbps SATA chipset for the first time this week at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans. Yup, a world’s first. Fortunately, the third generation SATA interface remains backward compatible with your old SATA 3Gbps and SATA 1.5Gbps disks and devices — cables and connectors too. SATA revision 3.0 also brings enhanced power efficiency with improved Native Command Queuing for applications with heavy transactional workloads. No update to the official launch timeline was made so we’ll assume that the first half of 2009 for retail devices is still in the bag. Hey, you weren’t planning to purchase a new laptop or desktop before then anyway were you. Were you?

[Via CNET]

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Seagate demos world’s first SATA 6Gbps hard disk as speed-freaks swoon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The full name of this car-seat tray contains, like a fractal or a strand of DNA, the entirety of the product itself. Behold, the Portable Car Auto Seat Mount Tray Laptop Table Cup Holder.

The flip-down tray is very similar to those found on the back of airline seats and presumably, although it isn’t listed, contains the best function of the in-flight table: If somebody especially annoying is sitting behind you, a quick, jerky reclining of your own seat will send scalding liquid into the passenger’s lap. It’s a method I find ideal for keeping errant children in line.

The tray, while hideous, actually looks pretty useful, especially in its laptop bearing ability. Oddly, though, it also clamps onto the steering wheel, a spectacularly bad idea, although the blurb warns us against doing this while driving.

On the other hand, perhaps the target demographic – "a salesman or insurance adjuster who needs to give estimate via his laptop right on the spot" – might consider using this whilst driving at high speed on a deserted, winding country lane. With their eyes closed. Just a suggestion. $15.

Product page [Sourcing Map via Core 77]

This article was written on July 07, 2008 by CyberNet.

In Firefox 3 Mozilla wanted to make dragging and dropping items in the browser a little more intuitive, and so they decided to show a preview of the item your dragging underneath the mouse cursor. On Windows and Macs the image should be translucent like the tab preview shown in the screenshot above, but on Linux the preview image is not transparent.

I’ve been wanting to disable the preview image for quite some time because it’s more difficult when trying to drag and drop things. For example, I frequently bookmark sites by dragging the tab into the bookmark sidebar, and I always drop the tab onto the folder where I want the bookmark to reside. Sometimes the preview image gets in the way, kind of like it does in the screenshot above where it’s a little difficult to see the “drop indicator.”

How can you disable this feature? Miles left a comment on one of our Firefox tips pointing to a setting that will instantly disable the preview image. To do this you need to open the about:config and find the nglayout.enable_drag_images setting. Set the value to false by double-clicking on it, and the changes will be applied without needing to restart the browser. Refer to this article if you need help using about:config.

Once the setting has been changed to false anything that you try to drag and drop will merely show a box outline instead of the preview image, and this makes it a lot easier to see where exactly you’ll be dropping the item.

A million thanks to Miles for digging up this hidden gem!

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We have two shiny new Apple rumors for you today, one hot but unlikely, and one fairly straightforward. First, the obvious one: the new, improved version of Mac OS X – Snow Leopard – will be shipping on June 8th.

This predictive magic has been worked by the Baltimore Sun’s Apple expert and fortune teller David Zeiler. His sleuthing took mixture of facts and combined them into this tasty rumor — Amazon has a lot of Snow Leopard books scheduled to go on sale in June, Apple WWDC (a developer conference) will “probably” start on June 8th and lastly, at last year’s WWDC Steve Jobs promised the new OS in around a year.

Add to the the rumblings that come through Gadget Lab every day (other than those from Priya before her first Red Bull of the morning), which indicate that builds of the new OS are being seeded to developers with an increasing frequency over the past months, and we have rather convincing piece of speculation. But speculation is all it is right now.

Next up, and far more juicy (although far less likely) is the long wished-for Apple tablet, which is either a giant iPhone with a real keyboard or a tiny MacBook, depending on your point of view. Digitimes has discovered that Taiwan-based manufacturer Wintek "is currently working with Apple to develop some new products". These are, apparently, touch-sensitive screens which are "for Apple’s new netbook" which will start shipping in the third quarter of the year.

We’re skeptical, but hopeful. I’d love a bigger iPod Touch, especially if it had a keyboard. At least I think I would — right now the 13” MacBook has the perfect size, balanced for portability and usability, and my iPod Touch slips unnoticeably into my jeans pocket. One thing is sure, though. If Apple does make a netbook, it won’t be called a netbook, and it won’t be anything like what we might predict.

Prediction: Snow Leopard release date is June 8 [Baltimore Sun]

Wintek to supply touch panels for Apple netbook, says paper [DigiTimes]

Fake image credit [Frato]