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ASUS Transformer Book T100 Now Shipping with HDD Keyboard Dock

2014-04-24T22:21:35Z

ASUS today announced that the Transformer Book T100 is now shipping with a 500GB HDD keyboard dock. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 is a 10.1-inch ultraportable with an Intel® Atom™ ‘Bay Trail’ quad-core processor and detachable HD display than can be used as a standalone Windows 8.1 tablet. Featuring a sleek design and durable finish, the Transformer Book T100 with the HDD keyboard dock remains one of the lightest ultraportables, weighing it at just 2.5lbs, while the tablet remains one of the lightest in the 10-inch category at 1.2lbs. The Transformer Book T100 is also pre-installed with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 with full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, the perfect productivity solution for both school and work.

Availability & Pricing
The ASUS Transformer Book T100 with HDD keyboard dock is currently available at Amazon, Newegg, Tiger Direct, and other select retailers starting at MSRP $399.99.

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About ASUS
ASUS is a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor and maker of the world’s best-selling, most award-winning, motherboards. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets and smartphones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,256 awards in 2013 and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC™. ASUS has more than 12,500 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 3,800 engineers. Company revenue for 2012 was approximately US$14 billion.

PR Contacts for North American Market:
Nick Mijuskovic
Technical Marketing – ASUS Computer International
Nick_Mijuskovic@asus.com

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IK Multimedia and Orange Amps Announce “Tiny Terror” Giveaway thru April 30th

2014-04-23T18:35:11Z

IK Multimedia and Orange® Amps Announce
“Tiny Terror” Giveaway thru April 30th, 2014!
One Week Remaining!

In celebration of the new AmpliTube Orange Models available for iOS;
IK and Orange are giving out $2200 in prizes for musicians!

April 23, 2014 - IK Multimedia, the global leader in digital modeling technology, announced a collaboration with Orange Amplification® to kick off the exciting release of AmpliTube Orange for iPhone/iPad by giving musicians the chance to win over $2200 in hardware and software music creation prizes! Entries will be accepted on the IK Multimedia website through April 30th, 2014!

“We’ve been creating amp-modeling gear for over 12 years now and you have GOT to hear it to believe us when we say: this is the best one yet – AmpliTube Orange is a real-time mobile Orange amplifier and effects studio featuring digital models of 5 classic and modern Orange guitar amplifiers and one Orange bass amplifier. Each amp and cab model has been meticulously recreated, both visually and in sound to deliver spot-on Orange tone any time, everywhere.”

Davide Barbi, CTO IK Multimedia.

Prize package #1, $1400 in value:

Tiny Terror amp head: The original Lunchbox amplifier, Value: $599.99
AmpliTube Orange for iPhone/iPod touch or AmpliTube Orange for iPad real-time mobile Orange Amps and Effects, Value: $14.99 each
AmpliTube Orange: The official Orange amp & cab collection for Mac/PC, Value: $99.99
iLoud: The first studio-quality portable speaker designed for musicians and audiophiles, Value: $299.99
iLoud Travel Bag: The gig bag for iLoud, Value: $39.99
iRig HD: High-quality digital guitar interface for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac, Value: $99.99
iRig BlueBoard: Bluetooth MIDI pedalboard for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac, Value: $99.99
iRig: Guitar & instrument interface adapter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Value: $39.99
iLine: Mobile music cable kit, Value: $59.99
Book of Orange: A book about the history of Orange Amplification, Value: $49.99

Secondary Prize Package, over $800 in total value:

AmpliTube Orange for iPhone/iPod touch or iPad
AmpliTube Orange for Mac/PC
iLoud
iLoud Travel Bag
iRig HD
iRig BlueBoard
iRig
iLine
Book of Orange

The “Tiny Terror” is an amp for both the studio and the stage; the original “Lunchbox” amp with more than 30,000 units sold. All valve, 15-watt portable guitar head. Featuring a unique two stage preamp which has a massive tonal range using just three controls. When driven, this little amp has almost as much gain as most four stage lead channels! The Tiny Terror puts a lot of high-priced, boutique amps to shame with its clean crunch to full on overdrive sounds. At mid gain settings this valve head has masses of vintage British character; the Tiny Terror has been built to the same rugged specification as the bigger Orange amps and its portability makes it perfect for gigging around town or rehearsing. The Tiny Terror switches from 15 to 7 watts for studio use and recording.

For a chance to win, please visit the IK website entry page. Entries will be accepted no later than April 30, 2014, midnight EST. Winners will randomly be selected on May 2, 2014 and IK Multimedia will notify the winner via email.

www.ikmultimedia.com/orangegiveaway

For more information about AmpliTube Orange, please visit: www.ikmultimedia.com/orange

For more information about IK’s range of interfaces and accessories for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac/PC, please visitwww.ikmultimedia.com/interfaces

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Swiftech Announces New FlagShip Apogee XL CPU Waterblock

2014-04-22T05:47:35Z

Swiftech Announces New FlagShip Apogee XL CPU Waterblock. Long Beach, April 19, 2014, 13:30 PST – Rouchon Industries Inc., d/b/a/ Swiftech® today announced the release of their new Apogee™ XL flagship waterblock. The XL promises enhanced thermal and hydraulic performance compared to its long line of award winning predecessors, and it ships with 4 interchangeable color plates to allow modders to match the block lighting to that of their custom build, a welcome feature for all enthusiast builders. The Apogee™ XL is compatible with all current Intel® and AMD® desktop processors, and ships with installation hardware for both. Legacy Intel® processors compatible with socket 775 and 1366 are also supported in option. “The Apogee™ XL is manufactured in high volume since it will also be at the core of the upcoming and highly anticipated H220-X CPU cooling kit, and because of these economies of scale, we are able to offer it for sale at a very reasonable $64.95 MSRP”, said Gabriel Rouchon, Swiftech’s chairman and CEO.

The product is now shipping to Swiftech® Channel partners worldwide.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Specs Revealed

2014-04-11T16:39:35Z

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Specs Revealed today by website Tyden.cz. For NVIDIA fans waiting to see what their favorite green team is up to it seems the cat has been let out of the bag and the first specs (Albeit Rumored) have arrived on the net in a timely fashion. This new card will feature Maxwell architecture and will feature SMM (Streaming Multiprocessor Maxwell) SIMD designs, which were introduced in the TX 750 Ti that made its debut a few weeks back now. Although only a rumor at this time this story is floating around the web.

The new GPU core is called the GM 204 and should be able to put a wallop on the GK110 as newer technology usually wins the performance war. Obviously we will see more of just about everything, more CUDA, more memory, TMUs, ROPs etc and maybe more. NVIDIA will most likely start off at the lower end and slowly push their way into the higher-end more expensive type cards. For now this is what we have seen and the supposed specs are listed below. This information is not directly from NVIDIA corporate so there may be some changes in the final specs, but for now at least it seems the new 8 series is coming very soon.

20 nm GM204 silicon
7.9 billion transistors
3,200 CUDA cores
200 TMUs
32 ROPs
5.7 TFLOP/s single-precision floating-point throughput
256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
4 GB standard memory amount
238 GB/s memory bandwidth
Clock speeds of 900 MHz core, 950 MHz GPU Boost
7.40 GHz memory
230W Minimum Power

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Logitech Announces G502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse

2014-04-10T19:06:02Z

Logitech has announced the release of a new mouse in it’s G line of products, the G502 Proteus Core, a mouse focused on customization and fitting any gamer’s preference.

Along with the ability adjust the mouse’s weight using up to 5 3.5g weights, the Proteus Core will also offer 11 customizable buttons for users to set up whatever macros they find useful, as well as the ability to set it’s dpi between 200 and 12,000. An interesting new feature of the mouse is its ability to read and calibrate itself based upon the kind of surface players use it on, allowing for optimal performance regardless of environment.

“With the world’s best sensor technology, complete surface, weight and balance tuning and mechanical switches, we have made a mouse that dominates,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, general manager of the Logitech gaming business. “The Logitech G team believes that when hype fades, science wins!” The Proteus Core will be available later this month in the U.S. and Europe for an MSRP of $80.

Source: Polygon

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Sony Announces Full-Frame Low Light A7s with 4K Output at NAB 2014

2014-04-08T23:08:38Z

The A7s is a pretty big deal for Sony: it marks their first still camera with the ability to record 4K. The Alpha 7s was announced this week at the low-key NAB show in Las Vegas.

The A7 is based off of the same body found in the A7 and A7R, but on the inside, the A7s is a bit different. The A7s houses a lower-resolution 12-megapixel sensor, but is still full-frame. This 12 megapixel Exmor CSMOS is combined with Sony’s own BIONZ X image processor, giving a huge sensitivity range of ISO 50 – 409600. This brings what makes this camera special: the ability to shoot 4K video in almost utter darkness. However, this feature comes with a limitation: only being able to store 1080p video internally. For all the 4K videos you’re going to shoot, you’ll need to attach the camera with an external drive. This comes off as a bit disappointing, because Panasonic’s Lunix DMC-GH4, Sony’s to-be competition, can store 4K internally.

Sony also says that the A7s is the first camera that uses the entire with of the sensor for 4K video recording, thus allowing recorders to unlock all of the sensor’s features. But, a comparison to the GH4 again, the A7s only does 8-bit 4:2:2 capture, versus the GH4’s 10-bit capture. However, the larger 35.8×23.9 mm sensor in Sony’s A7s should allow for a better total range over the GH4 (which has a 17.3×13 mm sensor), even if does use Sony’s lower-end AF contrast system.

And as for codecs, Sony has included the XAC S format, along with our usual suite of AVCHD and MP4. The XAC S format allows for HD recording at a 50 MBPS data rate using a lower compression.

Sony hasn’t released pricing information at this time, but we are expecting around $2,500.

Source: Engadget

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NVIDIA Debuts GeForce Experience 2.0: What’s New? (Features Overview)

2014-04-07T12:59:25Z

NVIDIA Debuts GeForce Experience 2.0 on Monday April 7^th. Its early Monday morning and we are happy to announce the latest release of NVIDIA’s control center for gaming, other wise known by the moniker GeForce Experience 2.0. 2.0 really brings a lot of new things to the portable gaming world and gamers who find themselves doing a lot of laptop gaming will now be able to do a multitude things previously only available to the desktop.

Since its first iteration in May of 2013 the GeForce Experience has been a growing entity that seems to be getting better step by step. When version 1.0 was released there were 80 game titles available and an almost overnight 1 million installs of the software GUI.

By October NVIDIA had implemented SHADOWPLAY, where users could now capture their game playing footage much better than FRAPS, and GAMESTREAM allowing users to play 100 games by way of their SHEILD through the NVIDIA cloud.

By November Adjustable OPS was announced and now 120 game titles were supported with 18M installs. For Christmas NVIDIA let loose they’re TWITCH Broadcast option allowing users to “Live” broadcast their gaming so they could now show off their mad skills to the world. At this point there were also 130 games titles supported and 24 million people had jumped on GeForce Experience bandwagon. TWITCH has become a very popular way for people to share and NVIDIA was smart to add this into their feature set.

Today NVIDIA announces 4 new things with the release of GeForce Experience 2.0 and many of them seem to be focused on the laptop and mobile sector, but not there are also a few new cool things all around with 2.0. SHADOWPLAY on Notebooks, GAMESTREAM on Notebooks, Battery Boost, and Desktop Capture are all new things that are being introduced today by team green. With this release also comes a brand new DX 12 capable driver the new 337.50, which replaces the 335.23 driver offering substantial performance gains and better overall performance than MANTLE can currently muster.

Now you will be able to have all of your games on your laptop optimized for not only better playing, but also 2X longer gaming times. This will run automatically in the background with very little system resources being used. NIDIA’s Battery Boost is a step in the right direction for laptop gaming as there is a huge divide between desktop and laptop GPU/CPU power and now with GeForce Experience 2.0 your games will automatically be set to what is best for your system. You will also now be able to capture and broadcast all of your games from your laptop as well as stream all of your titles to the NVIDIA SHEILD via GAMESTREAM.

Full Desktop Capture is another feature of 2.0 and will now allow users to capture images from your desktop. This new feature will be used for capturing Windowed and Borderless Windowed Games in both DirectX and OpenGL games. This is something that is currently only for the desktop and one of the features not having to do with the mobile market, yet. Another desktop feature is custom encoding and new broadcast options. You can now create a custom output resolutions as well as custom Bit Rate and Framerates, Auto-pause using the Alt-Tab keys, broadcast at 60 FPS and 2.0 now allows Auto Game Naming. All in all you can see NVIDIA wants to make your gaming environment even better and easier than ever with GeForce Experience 2.0 and it will be available for download by the time you are reading this at 6AM PST. If you are an NVIDIA fan it has never been easier to keep your games up to date, configured for there best playing options and with the latest drivers always installed. Are you Experienced? If you have a new NVIDIA card and are not using the GeForce Experience you are seriously missing out on something cool from team green. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow where we have a comparison of the older 335.23 driver against the new 337.50, and the results are very nice so check out the site later today for that article.

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iPhone Air Concepts Give us a Taste of What Apple May Have to Come

2014-04-04T20:07:10Z

Three images of Apple’s next-gen iPhone have been supposedly leaked from Foxconn, Apple’s go-to supplier based in China. These pictures show a never seen before iPhone under testing in one of Apple’s testing facilities; two of the photos showing shots of the next-gen Apple flagship with the third vaguely displaying a diagram to parts of the rumored new iPhone design.

If you recall, a leaked photo in February turned out to be fake renderings. We’re not sure if these specific photos are real or not, but they resemble leaks that were floating around last week.

GforGames takes credit for spotting these three potential leaks on Weibo, a popular social network in China. Design-wise, it embodies a similar design to HTC’s One M8 and Apple’s very own iPad Air. On the current iPhone 5s, there is some glass on the back, but here, were the metal breaks there are just what look to be antenna bands; again similar to what HTC did in the M7 and M8.

If you look carefully, it appears that lens on the camera sticks out a little bit. Also, the flash design on the 5s is MIA, which is odd because the dual-LED flash on the 5s was a great move by Apple and provided more accurate pictures when utilizing the flash. Also, the background of each of the photos resembles the machines in the iPhone 5 design video by Apple. This may be a bit of a stretch, but it may just be something to ponder and keep your eyes on.

Just remember, this is not an “s” year for Apple’s iPhone line, so it’s not too early to get excited!

Source: Tech Crunch

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Samsung Releases 28-inch 4k Monitor and it’s Only $700

2014-04-04T20:07:10Z

2014 is said to be the year of 4K, but will it be the year of 4K for you? Maybe it’s time to start thinking about going 4K because Samsung has announced that their 28-inch 4K UD590 monitor will soon hit U.S. shelves for only $700.

The UD590 is a 28-inch monitor with a resolution of 3840×2160 (4K), featuring a TN panel and pushing 157 PPI. It is capable of displaying 10-bit color, or 1 billion colors, which, in theory, would result in precise color accuracy. It has a 60Hz refresh rate paired with a 1ms GTG response time, for all you gamers out there.

The 28-inch 4K panel has seen the spotlight in South Korea for a couple months now, but Samsung is ready to send it to U.S. shores. Simply put, the UD590 has a minimal, yet elegant, design. It has silver and black bezels that look quite classy. Since we are in 2014, there are no DVI connectors to be found, rather; two HDMI connectors and a lone DisplayPort (which is required to run the native 4K resolution at the 60Hz refresh rate).

Let’s clear the air a bit about the 10-bit TN panel. There are two primary technologies in LCD displays today: TN and IPS. TN has the advantage of being faster and cheaper while IPS boasts much wider viewing angles. What makes this Samsung monitor unique is that it has 10-bit color at a $700 price point. Usually one would have to spend well over $1000 on an IPS monitor for this billion-color feature, but here, Samsung is offering 10-bit on a TN monitor, which is quite special.

However, before buying this, or any, 4K monitor, you have to think: is it worth it? 4K usually comes with a huge price tag and having such a high resolution may look UI elements in your OS of choice look a bit too small for your taste. And if you’re looking to game at 4K, get ready to buy some wallet-draining Titans. 4K makes a great amount of sense for designers and professional photographers, and with Samsung’s 10-bit support, it would be ideal for the creative folks out there.

At this point in time it’s probably better to save some dough and go 1440p, but there’s that geek inside me, and all of us, that wants to press that darn buy-now button while salivating over 4K glory.

Source: Extreme Tech

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New Details Leaked About AMD’s Dual-GPU R9 295X2

2014-04-02T00:50:40Z

In just a week’s time AMD’s new dual-GPU card is expected to arrive on the market, but a recent leak has given us a bit of insight as to what to expect before the NDA lifts and a torrent of official information releases.

The official name for the card looks to be the R9 295X2, featuring two Hawaii XT GPUs and 8GB of memory. It’s reported that the card will take somewhere around 500W of power, and will make use of a hybrid cooling solution in which the Hawaii cores will use closed-loop liquid cooling with the rest of the card just using air. Lastly it looks as though the card will have at least five output options including one DVI-D port and 4 mini-DisplayPorts to support multiple screen setups, 4k, and potentially even 8k displays.

The announcement and release of this card is AMD’s response to the super high priced $3,000 Nvidia Titan Z, also featuring a dual-GPU setup. With less memory and most likely a bit less power in comparison, the R9 295X2 will most likely serve as a more affordable, albeit still really expensive card. A number of reviewers have apparently received briefcases said to contain the new card, but no more information than that is going to get out until the NDA lifts with the card’s assumed release date of a week from today, April 8th.

Source: Tech Spot

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