Archive for July, 2008

There’s a tech rumors around us about a Mac tablet to get a gulp of oxygen after Apple executives revealed a hint at a “Future Product Transition,” followed by whispers of a “MacBook Touch” slated for the fall.

Apple tech rumor No. 1: Monday’s quarterly earnings report from Apple, during which CFO Peter Oppenheimer mentioned several times about a “Future Product Transition, which I can’t discuss it today.”

Of course, that touched off a frenzy of speculation, ranging from a revamp of the Apple MacBook and Apple MacBook Pro notebooks (rumors of which were recently fanned by purported spy shots of new casings) to the new Apple iPods, or even “a new form factor of devices that are smaller than a laptop but larger than an Apple iPhone,” as the New York Times put it.

Purdue University scientists have taken a new method from air conditioner technology in their next innovation for a whole new way to cool down ever-more powerful pc/ computer chips. Their new experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant through tiny channels cut into chips, is intended for the high-demand power electronics found in radar system and advanced weapons systems such as laser-based weapons, said Issam Mudawar, an engineer in medical field (professor at Purdue).

A team member: Mudawar, who’s in lead of the research, said the air-condition computer chips cooling system should be able to cool the chips that produce higher than 1000 watts of heat for about every half-inch square of circuitry. He said that would be a fivefold increase over the heat-removing abilities of existing systems that typically rely on air-cooling to waft heat away from microprocessors.

“Basically what we’re doing is opening the window of opportunity in terms of heat dissipation, so that chip developers can make more aggressive chips, more demanding chips,” said Mudawar.

Did you ever wonder does turning off a TV, Monitor or LCD computer screen to save energy will damage the screen itself? We’re worried about frequently powering our monitor/screen on and off numerous times in a day. Will it shorten and effect the lifespan of the screen?

This problem likely stems from many readers’ childhood days, when our parents said that frequently turning the lights on and off would make the bulbs burn out. Dad was probably just annoyed at our behavior… but was he right?

Taken from Yahoo Tech News, an author posed the question of the problem whether monitors and LCDs can be damaged by frequent power cycling to a number of manufacturers of these screens and got quite much the same response from everyone he asked: There’s no risk. Don’t worry about it. The power we’re savings from having an unused monitor screen turn off far outweigh any cost associated with the risk of damage to the monitor, which is pretty much dollars.

It seems we have to get up soon to buy the new Apple iPhone. For your information, the new Apple iPhone is “coming soon”.

The first and mostly: The new Apple iPhone 3G will go on market at 8 a.m. next Friday at AT&T retail stores and Apple phone stores. So, do planning on lining up? To be the first one to get it? You’d better be ready well before the sunrise going up. Beside that, AT&T also has finally clarified Apple iPhone pricing for current AT&T subscribers who want the Apple iPhone 3G.

In a nutshell, if you’re -upgrade eligible- (by log into your AT&T account to see if you are), you will be able to buy the new Apple iPhone for the cheap discounted price of $199:8GB version or $299:16GB model. AT&T is somewhat vague about the eligibility criteria, although your credit history plus the time remaining on your contract are the main factors. As additional, you will also have to pay a small fee of $18 as “upgrade fee.”