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X2 promises a clutch of elusive iTablets for Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Want a speedy, drop-proof SSD in your laptop? In all but the largest of ’em, you’ve got just two choices: pay through the nose for a reasonable amount of storage, or settle for a cheaper boot drive at the expense of capacity. Hitachi and LG are pulling a Monty Hall by opening door number three — an optical drive with a built-in 32GB or 64GB SSD. Dubbed the HyDrive and currently being showcased at mysterydrive.net, the product is presently being labeled a “concept,” but a set of impressive demo videos already show the ODD / SSD combo booting, multitasking and error-correcting Keanu Reeves like a trained pro. We’ll have more details at Computex, at which point we’ll let you know whether to be hesitantly expectant or gravely disappointed. Personally, hybrid HDDs be damned — we want one of these suckers yesterday. Videos after the break.

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Hitachi and LG tease HyDrive: an optical reader with loads of NAND (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 23:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s no secret that we’ve been big fans of NVIDIA’s automatic graphics switching Optimus technology, but we’ve had one major complaint — there’s just not enough systems with it on the market. While ASUS has been employing the technology in most of its new systems, others, like Lenovo and HP, have been quite tight-lipped on the GPU tech. But apparently that’s about to change. When we crossed paths with NVIDIA’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales Rene Haas at the Netbook Summit, he revealed that at least four more major manufacturers will be using Optimus by the end of the summer. He wouldn’t share any details on brands, but he did say that there should be a total of 50 Optimus lappies on the market by the fall. Of course, we don’t know how many of those will be made by ASUS or will be Ion 2 netbooks, but it surely looks like the momentum is growing, and we’re hoping to learn more at Computex next week. Fingers crossed that we can count the Alienware M11x among them.

Four more major laptop manufacturers will use NVIDIA Optimus by the fall originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 17:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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During this morning’s press conference on the new Core i3, i5 and i7 ULV processors, Intel PC Client Group Vice President Mooly Eden revealed that Chipzilla will launch that special “tablet solution” we had heard about at Computex next week. No details were given on this “dedicated silicon for the tablet space,” but we can assume that it’s going to fall into the Atom line up. Whether it will be an extension of the Moorestown family or just be an outgrowth of the Pineview platform found in netbooks and nettops remains to be seen, but you can bet on us listening up for more info when we’re live from Taipei next week. Hit the link below if you want to hear this guy spill the beans.

Intel to announce dedicated tablet silicon at Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 11:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It seems like we’ve been talking about external graphics cards forever, but how many do you recall that look quite as raw and ready as this? The Graphics Upgrade Solution, set for a full unveiling at Computex, is MSI’s latest answer to the eternal problem that is gaming on the move. Serving as a conduit — via its own PCI Express interface and the oft-neglected ExpressCard slot — between desktop GPUs and laptops, the GUS comes with its own power brick that can support cards with up to an 84W TDP. That, together with the limited bandwidth on offer, makes the ATI Radeon HD 5670 bundle pretty much the top of the GUS pile, but at somewhere around $229 that doesn’t look like a terrible deal at all. Alternatively, you can buy the bare unit for around $100 and make use of some old GPU to give a little extra pep to your laptop. It’s all good.

MSI Graphics Upgrade Solution seeks an ExpressCard slot to call home originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 08:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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