DC-ACPCDP, the Latest Acrylic Cowboy PC Tower

It's been a while since Digital Cowboy introduced an new acrylic PC case.

Just enough to hold your motherboard (ATX and Micro ATX), your power supply, HDD and ODD, these acrylic PC cases are extremely popular among Japanese geeks.

With a strict minimum the new DC-ACPCDP/B gives you, on top of the basic ATX / Micro ATX 2 LED and a power OFF/ON, a reset button, and a holder to carry your setting around.





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AspireRevo, Acer’s first Nvidia Ion-Based Nettop

Finally someone made it, the first nettop (Atom powered desktop) powered by Nvidia's extremely promising Ion-Platform that supports full HD Video quality and Blu-ray video quality on an Atom based device.

The AspireRevo is also not your average Atom. As it's powered by an Atom 230, it can take up to 4GB of RAM, 250GB of HDD, a 4 in 1 card reader, HDMI and VGA out, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0… The ideal little desktop that I'd love to plug under each TV at home.

SANTA CLARA, CA-APRIL 7, 2009-NVIDIA and Acer reshaped the PC landscape today by setting a new standard for small PCs with the introduction of the world's first NVIDIA® ION™ -based PC, the Acer AspireRevo.

No larger than a typical hardcover book, the AspireRevo is a fully capable desktop with advanced graphics and impressive multimedia features. Equipped with NVIDIA ION graphics, the system can handle a wide variety of computing needs including high definition video, gaming, sharing digital photos, surfing the web, and other tasks consumers expect from full-size systems.

The AspireRevo represents a sharp break from 20 years of big, power hungry, and expensive PCs by delivering a full PC experience in a small, energy efficient, and affordable system. NVIDIA ION graphics make this possible with performance that is 5-10 times faster than traditional PCs with integrated graphics.


"The AspireRevo is small and quiet enough to go anywhere, yet big enough to handle all the needs of your digital lifestyle," said Gianpiero Morbello, corporate vice president of marketing for Acer. "It's perfectly suited for the living room, because NVIDIA ION provides a brilliant graphics experience with digital photos, watching video, and playing family-friendly games."

"The Acer AspireRevo with our new NVIDIA ION GPU is so small and powerful it's unbelievable," said Dan Vivoli, senior vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "Watch Blu-ray movies1 and HD movie trailers, or clean up jerky, dim cell phone videos for internet streaming. This is the perfect PC for today's consumers."

The NVIDIA ION graphics processor in the AspireRevo supports:

• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Outstanding 1080p HD video with true-fidelity 7.1 audio
• Popular games including Spore, Call of Duty 4, and Sim City 5
• DirectX 10 graphics with advanced digital display connectivity
• Accelerated video enhancement and transcoding using NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology

About NVIDIA ION graphics processors
NVIDIA ION graphics processors turn up the visuals on small PCs with up to 10X faster graphics performance than similar systems. ION graphics processors provide support for premium Windows Vista features, outstanding media capabilities including 1080p high definition video and Blu-ray movies, and support for popular PC games.

1 Requires an external Blu-ray movie player.

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Clevery Mini HomeServer SP9C WHS

Clevery is a quite well known store in Akihabara and they announced this morning their new Mini HomeServer SP9C WHS offered with Windows Home Server for 65800 Yen (490€) and 2TB of HDD (2x1TB), 1GB of RAM PC5300, an Intel Atom 330 Dual Core at 1.6GHz, DVD… Definitively the perfect little Torrent station or NAS for the rest of us.

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Acer and e-Machine Japan Introduces a New Atom Powered Desktop

Here 's the EL1600 e-Machine, a nice little underpowered desktop with the usual ATOM 230 (1.6GHz), 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD, 945GC Express Chipset, DVD Super Multi, and a motherboard that allows you to add a PCI Express one free slot and Windows XP Home.

Definitely not the ultra killer that you may have expected, but for 35,000 Yen (2€70), this may be the perfect micro FTP server, NAS thingy, or ultimate Torrent machine… Oh, and a regular PC for your kids or grandma.

If you are interested in getting something more powerful but with the same body, Acer and e-Machine Japan also has the EL1800 powered by an Pentium E5200, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of HDD, Nvidia 7100+nForce 630i.

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Corega's Latest Four Bay RAID HDD Enclosure

If you you have no interest in a NAS but still need a solid RAID backup solution for your PC or home server, Corega's latest 4 bay RAID HDD enclosure is made for you. Behold the CG-HDC4EU3500!

Supporting RAID 0/1/3/5/10, it can be connected to PC or Mac via eSATA or USB and has been confirmed to work with 1.5TB HDDs, giving you up to 6TB of disk space in Raid 0. and 3TB in Raid 10.

It will be sold in Japan for around (€225).

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O.T Stealth.Com Releases a Powerful Rugged Fanless Mini PC

O.T Stealth.Com Releases a Powerful Rugged Fanless Mini PC

Early January Stealth.com (Toronto) introduced the LPC-650, an Ultra Compact desktop PC powered by a Core 2 Dou… And yesterday for us in Japan or Friday in North America, Stealth.com announced the LPC-625F a fanless mini Core2Duo
In Just 200 x 200 x 60mm Stealth.com succeed to fit a Penryn Dual Core P8400 CPU (optional P9500), from 1 to 4GB of RAM, 120 to 500GB of HDD Sata with optional SSD, Intel GMA X4500, HDMI & DVI Out, WiFi… For $1,595… Way more expensive than a Mini but also way more powerful too.

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512GB SSDs from Toshiba

512GB SSDs from Toshiba

Toshiba introduced their latest SSD wonder, the industry's first 2.5” 512GB SSD, the THNS512GG8B.
We don't have any details on the price, however, Toshiba announced that it will display this almighty beast next January at the CES 2009.

TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) today announced the expansion of their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte (GB) SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-Level Cell NAND. The new drives provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems, and will be showcased at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 to 11, 2009.

In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules. Samples of the new drives will be available in first quarter (January to March) 2009, with mass production in the second quarter (April to June) 2009.

Toshiba's second-generation SSDs bring increased capacity and performance for notebook computers, utilizing an advanced MLC controller which is also compatible with further advanced process, that achieves higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance. The drives enable improved system responsiveness with a maximum sequential read speed of 240MB per second (MBps) and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps, enabling an improvement in overall computing experience, and faster boot and application loading times. The drives also offer AES data encryption to prevent unauthorized data access.

"The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications,” said Mr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."

Toshiba and many market analysts expect SSDs to begin to gain significant traction in the market in 2009, growing to approximately 10% of the notebook market by 2010, and 25% of the notebook market by 2012. Toshiba expects the value/performance of its MLC NAND-based SSD line-up to help speed the acceptance of solid state storage.

Toshiba will continue to promote innovations that widen the horizons of the NAND Flash market and support its continued leadership in that market. The company will spur demand for SSD in notebook PCs, netbooks and digital consumer products by enhancing its lineup, offering products with different densities and interfaces in a range of packages, while advancing device performance.

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NextGear A450X1

NextGear A450X1, The Latest Gamer Desktop from Mouse Computer Japan

Here's the NEXTGEAR A450X1, the latest powerful, gamer oriented desktop from Mouse Computer Japan. Powered by an AMD Phenom X4 CPU 9750 (2.4GHz), it has 4GB of RAM (DDR2 PC2-6400), 640GB of SATA II HDD, a DVD Multi Recorder, an ATI Radeon HD4870 with 512MB of VRAM, and is sold with either Vista or XP Home for 119,910 Yen (980€)

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Pink Aspire One

A Pink and Cheaper Acer Aspire One in Japan

Acer Japan will cut the price of their Aspire One by 5,000 Yen (42€). It's available in Pink, Gold, Brown, and traditional Blue Sapphire.

Nothing new for specs, 8.9” LCD with WSVGA resolution, an ATOM N270 (1.60GHz), 1GB of RAM, and 945GSE Express chipset.

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Onkyo HDC-1.0 Dektop PC

Onkyo downgraded their HDC-1.0 Dektop PC designed for Audiophile

Onkyo Japan announced a "downgrade" of their HDC-1.0 Audio PC that we introduced 2 years ago

Our Music Nettop now comes with an Intel Atom 230 CPU (1.6GHz), an Intel 945GC Express Chipset, 1GB of memory, 160GB of HDD, a DVD SuperMulti Drive, 6 USB 2.0 ports, and Windows XP Home.
The objective of this new Dekstop PC was to reduce the price from 200,000yens to 59,800Yens. That means, you won't have built-in Amplifier, or other nice features that were available on the previous version.

Lastly, you’ll be able to choose between three setting:

- The HDC-1L (Desktop PC only)
- The HDC-1LGX (with two speakers): Maximum Output power of 2x15W
- The HDC-1LGX/19W1 (Two speakers and 19’’ LCD screen with a resolution of 1,440x900 included.)

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Princeton Japan's 5TB NAS: The DN-503AH-PDC

4TB not enough for you? What about 5TB? Princeton Japan just announced the launch of a new 5TB NAS, the DN-503AH-PDC, an average NAS with RAID 0/1/5 and 6 support.

With five HDDs, each 1TB , Princeton succeed building one of the largest consumer NASs yet.

It will be sold in Japan from the middle of December, no word yet on price.

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CFD to release 2.5'' SATA SSD in Japan

CFD to release 2.5'' SATA SSD in Japan

Here’s another 2.5’’ SATA Solid State Drive from CFD in Japan with a choice between 30GB/60GB/120GB of storage capacity.

As for performance, this MLC-based SSD provides a reading speed of 150MB/s and a writing speed of 90MB/s.

The price? 9,000 Yen (70€) for the 30GB version, 16,800 Yen (130€) for the 60GB version and 30,000 Yen (240€) for the 120GB.

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Elsa Nvidia Quadro NVS 450

Need a New Display Port Video Card? Why Not Get Four?

Here's the ELSA NVidia Quadro NVS 450, a PCI Express2.0 card with 512MB of GDDR3 VRAM. It features not one but four display ports enabling the trader inside you to use four 2560x1600 LCDs at the same time.

You may notice this card may not be perfect for FarCry2, but if you want to watch four Blu-rays at the same time and in complete piece (passive cooling), this card maybe perfect for you!

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Two New Full HD LCDs from Acer Japan

Two New Full HD LCDs from Acer Japan

Introducing Acer Japan's H223HQbmid a 21.5” LCD, and H243Hbmid a 24” LCD, . Both with a very interesting screen resolution of 1920x1080. While many LCDs are 1920x1200, Acer chose to follow the HD trend for these two entry level LCDs starting from 250€ to 330€.

Specwise, the 21.5” has a 20000:1 contrast ratio and a brightness of 300cd/m2, while the 24” has a 40000:1 contrast ratio with the same brightness. Otherwise the view angle of our LDCs is 160/170 and a 72% color reproduction in the NTSC spectrum. Since we're talking about Full HD screens, Acer made sure to provide them with an HDMI port.

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Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS

SyncMaster 2494HS, Now also in Japan

Samsung Japan juste announced the launch of their new SyncMaster 2494HS, a 23.6” LCD and its 1920x1080 resolution. Receiving Samsung’s dynamic contrast system, this LCD can achieve a contrast ratio up to 50000:1 with a brightness of 300cd/ms and a 5ms speed. The SyncMaster 2494HS also feature an HDMI, DVI (HDCP) and D-SUB port.
If you are interested in this new LCD, you should expect 330€ sales price in Japan.

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NEC's New Valuestar R LUI with On-demand System

NEC's New Valuestar R LUI with On-demand System

Do you remember NEC's LUI desktop PC series? We talked a lot about it here: (Lui is Back! Here's a Stunning UMPC and On Demand System from Japan). We introduced one a month ago, the Valuestar LUI Desktop PC which integrates an on-demand service function.

As a reminder, the on-demand system allows different client, like notebook and UMPC that are not equipped with any OS, processor, or software, to benefit from the features of one computer. It's a server and designed for this use. It comes with Vista Home Premium, an Intel Core Quad Processor, 2 GB of RAM, 500 GB of HDD, or Blu Ray disc drive.

With the Valuestar LUI, you can to benefit from software that cannot be used on an UMPC or notebook, like Photoshop. It looks like an interesting solution, particularly for professional with a good Internet connection. The specifications were changed a bit, now it comes with a slimmer tower.

Specifications:

VR970/RG

Release Date: 11/06
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU – Q6600
Memory: 2GB (2GB x 1) ( up to 4GB)
HDD: 500GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400
Driver: Blu-Ray
Display: 19-Inch (1,440x900)

VR500/RG

Release Date: 11/06
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU – E4500
Memory: 2GB (2GB x 1) (up to 4GB)
HDD: 500GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400
Driver: DVD Super-Multi Drive
Display: 19-Inch (1,440x900)

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2 New NAS from COREGA

2 New NAS from COREGA

NAS, better known as Network Attached Storage, are gods wonder... If you are a Media Freak like I am, you must own a NAS PERIOD !

And there are you are 2 more NAS for your own pleasure, the CG-HDC2U3100 and CG-NSC1000GT. The First Support RAID 0/1 while the other one only, and the other one also support DLNA as well as RAID 0/1/5/10/5+Spare. Both NAS Support a maximum of 2TB.

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Buffalo Japan Upgrade its TeraStation Pro to 6TB

Buffalo Japan Upgrade its TeraStation Pro to 6TB

If you happen to have around 1580€ to waist and badly need 6TB of Space for your Huge Porn Collection, you will be happy to learn that Buffalo Japan just announced its TS-H6.0TGL/R5, a 6TB NAS... Yep that’s huge !

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ASG7700: Acer's New Desktop

ASG7700: Acer's New Desktop Beast Available Now in Japan

Acer's new ASG7700-A11 desktop is available now in Japan. This new Hellcat comes with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 (3.00GHz), two GeForce 9800 GTX graphic cards, NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI chipset, 4GB of memory (up to 8GB), 1TB of SATA HDD (7,200rpm), Blu-ray disc drive, six USB ports, a multicard reader, two eSATA ports, four DVI-I ports, and two S-video outputs.

329,800 Yen (2250€).

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Two New Hitachi Cinemastar DVR Hard Drives

Two New Hitachi Cinemastar DVR Hard Drives

Hitachi has introduced two new 3.5" & 2.5" Cinemastar HDDs optimized for use in digital video recorders. Our new HDDs are available in 1TB (the 7K1000.B) and 320GB versions (the 5K320). So why did Hitachi say they're developed for DVRs?

Because the 7200rpm HDD (7K1000.B) stores up to 247 hours of HD video and supports more than 10 simultaneous data streams. It’s a very quiet hard disc that can run in continuous operation 24x7.

No word on price, but Hitachi announced they’ll begin shiping the 7K1000.B in August.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 30, 2008 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today introduced two new CinemaStar™ hard drives optimized for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar™ 7K1000.B is available in a broad range of capacities up to one terabyte (1TB) and the CinemaStar 5K320 delivers up to 320GB of capacity and incorporates innovative Hitachi CoolSpin™ technology.

CoolSpin drives use a motor speed optimized for low power and acoustics, enabling Hitachi to deliver the industry’s quietest, most energy-efficient 3.5-inch hard drives. Hitachi CoolSpin enables a new generation of DVRs and set-top boxes that store more hours of video, run more quietly and use less power.

The new Hitachi CinemaStar drives include the following:

Drive mechanics designed for continuous 24x7 operation

Silent-seek acoustics for nearly inaudible operation

Three low-power idle modes for best-in-class power utilization and heat emission

Smart Command Transport (SCT) and SmoothStream technology optimizes the drive for uninterrupted audio and video streaming

Expanded temperature range to enable fan-free DVR designs

Ramp load/unload design to increase shock protection and power savings

Thermal monitoring and fly-height control to enhance drive reliability during lengthy video encoding/decoding sessions

Optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) for increased protection against data loss

Proven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology helps to ensure maximum stability, reliability and data integrity

CinemaStar 7K1000.B

The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is based on the recently-introduced, second-generation Hitachi 7,200 RPM terabyte hard drive family. The new 3.5-inch drives, available in capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB, leverage seven generations of power management technology to deliver best-in-class low power and thermal emissions. Hitachi used HiVERT technology, first pioneered on 2.5-inch Travelstar drives, to increase the power efficiency characteristics of the drive. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B enables device manufacturers to develop DVRs that run cooler and require less power, which ultimately leads to longer product life.

All CinemaStar products are enhanced with silent-seek acoustics to deliver bedroom-quiet operation, and a Hitachi patented load/unload ramp mechanism that helps prevent disk wear and protects the disk during non-operation. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is also built using the industry’s most reliable perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology for maximum stability, reliability and data integrity.

1TB CinemaStar hard drives can hold up to 247 hours of MPEG-4 encoded high definition video1 and can support more than 10 simultaneous data streams.

CinemaStar 5K320

The CinemaStar 5K320 provides up to 320GB capacity and features innovative CoolSpin technology to deliver a new level of power efficiency and quiet operation for digital video applications. Key to CoolSpin technology is an optimization of motor speed to provide an ideal balance of performance, power utilization and acoustics.

Both CinemaStar drives announced today combine a targeted 1.2M hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)3 and extended operating temperature range to maximize DVR lifespan. At 3.1W idle power, the CinemaStar 5K320 helps meet low power compliance targets for consumer electronics devices and allow consumers to save on their energy costs.

The digital video recorder market continues to experience robust growth. IDC estimates that shipments of hard drives for personal video recording applications will grow at a 14% annual growth rate between 2007-20122.

“Hitachi has been making dramatic improvements in power savings generation to generation and our CoolSpin product line in particular, sets new standards for power-efficient audio/visual hard drives,” said Larry Swezey, director, Consumer and Commercial HDD Marketing and Strategy, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. “The Hitachi CinemaStar drives are designed to excel in DVR and set-top box applications, where cool operation, quiet acoustics and overall power efficiency are of critical importance.”

Availability

The CinemaStar 7K1000.B will begin shipping to customers worldwide in August and the CinemaStar 5K320 is expected to ship in September, 2008.

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