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After a brief tease earlier this summer, AMD just announced pricing and availability for its new market-leading FirePro W9000 graphics processing unit — the $3,999 GPU is available now through AMD resellers, and is compatible with Supermicro SuperWorkstations. Joining that “world’s most powerful” rig are the W8000, W7000 and W5000, which sell for $1,599, $899 and $599, respectively, and can each power six 30-inch 4K displays. Power-hungry pros will want to opt for the top-of-the-line model in order to take advantage of four TFLOPs single precision or one TFLOP double precision, along with 6 gigs of high-speed GDDR5 RAM. The W8000, on the other hand, offers 3.23 TFLOPs single precision and 806 GFLOPs double precision, followed by the W7000 with 2.4 TFLOPs / 152 GFLOPs, both with 4 gigs of RAM, along with the W5000, which packs 1.27 TFLOPs single and 80 GFLOPs double, with 2 GB of GDDR5 RAM.

Design pros with slightly more modest demands may find the FirePro A300 APU more in line with their budgets — we don’t have precise pricing to share, since third parties will ship their own configs, but terms like “entry-level” and “mainstream” make it clear that you won’t be drawing in more than a couple zeros in the checkbook to make your purchase. The integrated solution utilizes AMD’s Turbo Core tech, supports Eyefinity and Discrete Compute Offload, and can power horizontal display arrays of up to 10,240 x 1,600 pixels. You’ll find all the nitty-gritty in the pair of press releases after the break.

Update: Our pals over at HotHardware have just pushed out a review of the W8000 and W9000, but found the results to be a bit of a letdown. Hit up their post for the full skinny.

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AMD announces $4k FirePro W9000 GPU, entry-level FirePro A300 APU for CAD and graphics pros originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell just put out its new hardcore business laptops onto its storefront. Both the Precision M4700 and M6700 come with Ivy Bridge CPUs and a wealth of build-to-order options including Red Hat Linux — after all, this is Dell we’re talking about here. The 15-inch M4700 is available for $1,049 (£999 in the UK) plus tax and shipping, while the 17-inch M6700 has a base price of $1,849 (£1,349 in the UK).

[Thanks, Nick]

Update: And now, with PR! In case you’re not itchin’ to dig into the details, let us hit the highlights for you. In addition to the 6 pound M4700 and 7.6 pound M6700, Round Rock also rolled out a new 17-inch Covet Edition laptop that sports a ruby red skin and an edge-to-edge 1920×1080 IPS display covered in Gorilla Glass 2. Speaking of screens, the less flashy Precision units also have the HD IPS display option, and all three PCs come with a nine-cell, 97Wh battery. As for storage, a wealth of spinning and solid state options are available, for a max of 2.8TB that can be configured in RAID 0, 1 or 5. Appetite whetted? There’s more after the break, and you can head on over to the source link below to put in your order.

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Dell Precision M4700, M6700 business laptops suit up (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Enterprise has been on what we’d call a very leisurely trip around the East coast, but it’s finally time for the original Space Shuttle to settle down. As of Thursday, the only way to glimpse the prototype spacecraft will be under an inflatable roof at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. It’s a quiet yet noble end for the vehicle, which didn’t go on formal missions but set the ground– sorry, spacework for the Shuttles that came later. If you’re interested in seeing more animated forms of the Enterprise’s legacy, you can either sit down to watch its namesake TV franchise or follow the private expeditions that owe it a debt of gratitude.

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Space Shuttle Enterprise ready to go on display, space travel gets its fitting tribute originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a bid to avoid making suit-wearing execs continually eye their data use when traveling to Europe with your smartphone, T-Mobile has announced a $50 per month plan for business customers, which offers half a gig of data on both 3G and 4G (where available). Once you hit beyond that threshold, you won’t be charged for overuse, but your speeds will be throttled. The plan will connect to 28 countries, including likes of the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and will launch for that sweaty business meeting in Paris next month.

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T-Mobile US offers new Europe-wide 500MB roaming plan for $50 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A 2.5-inch drive spinning at speeds up to 10,000RPM? Sure, we’ve seen it before, but only with enough room for 600GB worth of data. Toshiba, however, has trumped its forebears by upping the capacity to 900GB with its new 2.5-inch HDD, dubbed the AL13SE. 300GB, 450GB and 600GB flavors are offered as well, and all of them spin at up to 10,500RPM and promise a 32% increase in sustained transfer rates over previous-gen drives. Additionally, the AL13SE sends and receives data via a 6Gbps SAS 2.0 connection to make life easier on IT guys than those SATA drives most of us use. Unfortunately, Tosh isn’t telling how much the new drives will cost, nor when they’ll be available for purchase, but you can dig into all the drive details you can handle in the PR after the break and at the source link below.

Continue reading Toshiba’s new 2.5-inch AL13SE hard drives: up to 900GB of 10,500RPM storage

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Toshiba’s new 2.5-inch AL13SE hard drives: up to 900GB of 10,500RPM storage originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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