SandForce SSD (Solid State Drive) harddrives coming soon

  I have a SSD (Solid State Drive) in my Alienware gaming laptop and it loads way faster than the old school hard drives.  SSD's have no moving parts so no spin up time for any platters.  Instead of platters and a read/write magnetic heads, SSD's have memory chips.  Great to see more and more companies make them and hopefully that will also have an impact on lowering the price for consumers as it slowly becomes a standard.

  Excerpt from site: "The other advantage SuperSSpeed’s new product range brings is the significantly faster write speeds, along with the faster access time. Benchmarks show a 91% score improvement in the popular AS SSD benchmark, when comparing the speed of a normal Kingston HyperX 120 GB SSD drive using MLC memory to the 120 GB SSD from SuperSSpeed that uses SLC NAND flash. The write speed is greatly increased from a normal 162 MB/s to a super-fast 475 MB/s. This is a 293% improvement."

Source: http://guru3d.com/news/slc-sandforce-ssds-coming-to-the-market/

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Well Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City for the PS3 has been released and I missed the midnight release and it is too late to go to the local Gamestop and pick it up. So I am waiting patiently until they open today (in about 9.5 hours).

I am hoping this game lives up to the great story of 2 and 3 which are my favorites. I am also hoping my broke ass friends (I am a broke ass now adays as well) will get a copy and play some co-op through the story. I am still a bit confused on the whole gameplay details will pan out such as the three groups -military, umbrella, and the bio weapons(zombies ect) and how it will all come together as a story which should be very interesting.

New iPad running a bit warm?

There has been several reports about the 3rd generation iPad getting warm or even hot. Mostly while doing processor intensive tasks such as gaming. In my opinion I believe this is to be expected since more intensive use of the graphics and cpu units create more heat on just about any device. Even my iPod Touch (3rd generation) get warm (not hot) while playing games such as Battlefield Bad Company 2 (great game by the way) or watching long movies. So people shouldn't "freak-out" over the new iPad getting warm. Just don't go out in the summer time outside in 100 degree heat in direct sun trying to play on your iPad. Common sense people. Check out these articles below.
Articles:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57401047-37/ipad-heat-tests-round-one-warmer-but-not-yet-a-problem/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-ipad-consumer-reports-says-tablet-runs-hot/2012/03/20/gIQAvpKzPS_story.html?tid=pm_pop

http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2012/03/our-test-finds-new-ipad-hits-116-degrees-while-running-games.html

Google Glasses

These geeky but amazing 720P (so far) display on glasses is a big step forward.

"The front-facing camera will track hand and arm gestures and translate them into controls of the Android-based software environment."

Article: http://www.slashgear.com/google-glasses-wow-geeks-23214944/

Power outtage due to snow storm.

Well here in Virginia we had some snow (up to 6 inches or more in some spots) it is melting fast but last night around 10:00pm my power abruptly went out shutting my server down (hard shutdowns make me freak out). So the main website is down but this blog is hosted on blogger.com so this will be up. I am hogging my parents internet and updating via netbook. I won't have power till at the earliest Wed. 22. Oh well gotta ruff it. Will be fully operational as soon as possible!

New Windows 8 Logo

A short article on the new Microsoft Windows 8 logo. Check it out.


Article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/new-windows-logo-shows-microsoft-is-going-all-in-with-windows-8/

Frightfest in Scotland and more dead news

Frightfest is taking place in Scotland as part of the Glasgow Film Festival programme. I love zombie movies, especially the typical apocalyptic zombie movies. I am a classics guy my favorite is "Day of The Dead-1985" which stars Joe Pilato as the order shouting to the point of making me laugh, not that its not a serious movie, his lines still make me chuckle and they mention him in the linked article below. I also like Dawn of the Dead (new and old) and similar others. I never get tired of zombie movies. Check out the article for more info below.

Article: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/features/301096-gff_2012_horror