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Hitachi TravelStar Z5K500 is the slimmest hard drive for laptops

Viliyana Filipova — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:30:08 +0000

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.

Belinea Monitors

Viliyana Filipova — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:34:03 +0000

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.
Belinea is among the first firms to give a three-year warranty for its products. Standards that meet Belinea monitors are ISO 9001 and 13406-2, and these are not counterfeit patches (as is done in our country), and real indicators of large European corporate clients. Significantly, analysis of service and reliability of a large number of computer makers magazine «PC Magazine / UK», Belinea monitors are absolute winners.
Belinea is among the most popular brands on the Bulgarian market – this is probably due to lack of industry in Bulgaria, and from there, and corporate clients. The only big Bulgarian client can be colossal 400-thousand public administration, procurement of equipment but there are bound to very dark transactions, clientelism, corruption and ultimately take second hand monitors of DELL with prices double over the most expensive Eizo monitors .
Why Belienea monitors are so cheap is probably the most end customers are asking? Reason for this are:
- Maxdata is a corporation with huge financial resources and guaranteed corporate clients with a very large volume orders, and this allows Belinea be prepaid and ordered in large quantities of their produce OEM-partners. This of course leads to a very low cost;
- Germany company does not aggressively marketing strategy as most American companies, but we know that sometimes the price of a product are calculated over 30% of expenditure on advertising and management. Eventually they reached a phenomenon – the quality of Belinea monitors is comparable with that of companies like NEC, Hitachi, Sony, and the prices are as of the second echelon – Daewoo, CTX, MAG.
Belinea has an extremely wide range of models. Commendable, the company that mass requires exceptional prices with professional monitors matrices, especially PVA monitors on Samsung.
Qualities of Belinea monitors are not seen only by corporate bosses, because Germany are permanent displays winners overviews and reviews of most major computer publications: PC Magazine, PC Direct, CHIP Tip, PC GO, CHIP, Tomorrow, PC Professional, MacWorld , Linux, PC WELT Top 5, Somputer Bild, Magazine für computer Technik, Macwelt, PC Advisor, Stiftung Warentest, PC INTERN, PC Player, ComOnline, PC PRO.

TOSHIBA TECRA is the Japanese ThinkPad

Viliyana Filipova — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:59:09 +0000

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 “>”. TOSHIBA TECRA M5. Traditional, refined and very stylish design business – black and dark gray metallic, metal lid. Very solid hull and hinges. Incredibly comfortable keyboard and joystick, which is very close to the benchmark ThinkPad. Extremely agile and economical processor Intel Core DUO T2600 (2.17GHz) laptop made suitable for heavy applications. Graphic orientation of the laptop is due to productive graphics card – NVidia Quadro NVS110M. Display, despite its 14 inches offers good resolution – 1400 * 1050, which is suitable for graphic design, modeling and simulation, processing photographs. Unique system for reporting the movement and stopping work on a hard disk is successfully copied from the Thinkpad in the Tecra M5, but is supported by the hardware protection similar to that in business laptops, HP. Fingerprint scanner has excellent visibility, and unlike a cheap laptop detects finger saved without error. Special attention deserves grid bottom of the laptop, which helps air circulation and stability at work even in the hottest days. Unlike some older series Toshiba, this model is completely silent. The laptop has all the extras without the camera, which is unnecessary and even banned at work in big companies.