The Japanese manufacturer Hitachi marketed slimmest hard drive for laptops. TravelStar Z5K500 is “fat” only 7 mm, but it offers impressive capacity of 500 GB. The model is implemented in 2.5-inch form factor and works with the speed of the spindle 5400 rpm. There are 8 MB of cache and Technology Advanced Format, which improves efficiency in the allocation of disk space. TravelStar Z5K500 a SATA-interface and consumes 1.8 watts in active use. Mechanical parts of the device generates only 2.1 dB noise. The first laptops with new disc will appear on the market early next year. The price of the model are not reported. Hitachi holds the current record for the slim hard drive. Its 320-gigabyte model has a thickness of only 9.5 mm.

Maxdata is an international company with headquarters in Germany (the town of Marl) and was established in 1987. Has its own representative in Britain, France, Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland. Maxdata is one of the leading Western European companies in the field of computer technology. Trademarks are: Maxdata – computers, laptops, netbooks, Belinea – Monitor.
The world market Belinea brand known since 1991. Only for last 4 years the company became a leader in Germany and became a best-selling brand of monitors. Belinea today occupies a leading position in Germany, Austrian and other European markets. One of the largest companies have chosen production Belinea corporate standard. Among them are: BASF, Daimler-Benz, Debis Systemhaus, Deutsche Bank AG, Fissler, Karlsberg, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Mars, Edeka, Ministry of Defense of Germany.
Maxdata not own factory, which is not required for modern manufacturing integration. Similarly, work DELL, for the most part, HP and many other giants of the computer equipment. Although Maxdata used production lines of South-East Asia, it leads its own research and development and its products have won many new innovations and technical solutions. Asian integration is by no means the “Bulgarian type, examples of which are ordering logo trademark on lower quality standard technique (NEO, SANG, Lieder, Elite and others.) Quality control of the Germans is cruel – leading them Engineers inspected the spot Counterpart in every factory, production quality.
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After IBM has withdrawn from the market of laptops is felt an urgent need for reliable high-end laptops. Sole market leader ThinkPad raised very high level of quality and reliability. Other large manufacturers since the time of the ThinkPad business had prepared a series of good quality. Similar to ThinkPad T-series is from DELL Latitude, from Toshiba is TECRA. Along often defective “satellites”, the Bulgarian consumer is left with the impression of poor reliability of laptops TOSHIBA. Tecra However, “S-class, Toshiba and unlike the image and expensive Qosmio series is designed to work – engineering, design, diagnostics and others. In our office we have several models TECRA from different generations, including dual-core model. Is commendable that all TECRA models with external video card (ATI Radeon, NVidia GeForce or professional Quadro). TECRA interesting feature of the model is setting the volume, which is based on the classic disk controller rather than buttons “+” and “-” or “<” and “>”. (more…)