The motherboard schematic for DELL VOSTRO 1200 Mainboard,
CPU: Intel Mobile Yonah/Merom
North Bridge: NB Crestline
South Bridge: Intel ICH8
OEM: Compal Electronics, Inc
Project Name : LA-3821P, Supra 1.0 (Merom +Crestline+ICH8) 12"
Rev: 0.3

Attachment : VOSTRO 1200 [668,71Kb]

Schematic Motherboard ABIT KN9 SLI
Processor : AMD 940 M2
Chipset    : Nvidia MCP55P

Taiwan has a new MSI laptop for demanding gamers, with special emphasis on design. MSI GE620DX fact, the adoption of a brushed metal, making it a more professional look than conventional products. Under the skin is all the computing power needed for a fun without limits, with Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce 555m.

GPU memory is 2 GB, enough to help keep the games with highly detailed textures. The laptop may still benefit from the integrated graphics subsystem on the Core i7 2630QM 2 GHz, which is automatically activated Optimus technology, such as the work load is a force.

The hardware consists of a 15.6-inch. screen (1366 x 768 pixels), up to 8GB DDR3 memory, up to 750 GB hard drive, optical drive, DVD or Blu-ray, two USB 30. ports, HDMI, HD 720 p TruStudio Pro webcam and a THX sound system. There are traditional connectivity options, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth and WiFi 802.11 b/g/n

No information around the expected date of sale, a prize of $ 1,290 for the version with Core i5 and 4 GB of RAM.

Replace your desktop PC with the Toshiba Satellite A355-S6879 laptop, featuring all the power and hard drive space you expect from a top-of-the-line desktop but in an easily mobile package. Stylishly designed, this Toshiba Satellite features a large, bright 16-inch LCD (1366 x 768)--with a true 16:9 aspect ratio and 720p native high-definition resolution. Its also great for using as a media center, with Toshibas Express Media Player enabling you to bypass the system and access CDs and DVDs with a touch of button. The dual-layer DVD±RW drive also burns CDs and offers LabelFlash print functionality. A 1.3 megapixel digital web camera built into the LCDs bezel lets you quickly snap photos and participate in live video chats.

• Corsair SSDs | No Overprovisioning

This is an article wirtten by Mike Clements at the Corsair blog about overprovisioning and the the Corsair SSDs announced without this overprovisioned space.

Much has been written about overprovisioning and its implementation on SSDs. In short, overprovisioning, or OP, is a portion of storage space on an SSD that is reserved for use only by the SSD controller. The three most common reasons are wear leveling, the replacement of bad blocks, and read-modify-writes. Overprovisioning serves to help increase both the longevity and performance of SSDs and it is a very common practice among SSD manufacturers.

However, some users would like to be able to buy their SSDs without the built in overprovisioning and make the decision to OP, or not to OP for themselves. They prefer the flexibility of decision when to OP and how much space to use based on their specific needs. Corsair has announced and is now offering SSDs without this overprovisioned space.


 
Corsair SSDs with overprovisioning space typically have used 7% of the total SSD storage capacity. This means that users now have a choice with these new drives to use them with or without overprovisioning. Users can manually overprovision the drives if they wish or, they can leave them at their full capacity with no overprovisioning and enjoy the extra space.

For users of 256GB SSDs, this means they can have an extra 16GB of storage capacity on their drive over the equivalent 240GB overprovisioned SSD. Of course, RAID users will benefit even more as the number of drives are increased.

In reading some of that aforementioned information about overprovisioning, Ive found a great deal of very useful information over at Anandtech. Heres a diagram from one of Anands SSD articles highlighting how overprovisioning works.


To OP, or not to OP. That is the question. Whether tis nobler to the PC performance...






Data taken from http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/corsair-ssds-with-zero-overprovisioning-space/ (accessed on Jan 26, 2013)