LaCie unveils 500GB silverscreen multimedia hard drive

Up to 500GB* multimedia hard drive for DivX; movies, photos or music

- Multimedia from computer to your TV
- Plug directly into a TV for instant viewing, no computer needed
- Silent operation to ensure optimum movie एक्ष्पेरिएन्के

Specifications

Stockholm, September 24th 2007 – Today LaCie premieres its new LaCie silverscreen, a large-capacity multimedia hard drive with the ability to plug directly into television sets for instant playback of stored movies, music or photos. LaCie silverscreen is ideal for people who want to enjoy their digital entertainment collections without a computer. The quiet black drive comes in 320GB and 500GB capacities.

“The LaCie silverscreen is an excellent value for the vast majority of people with extensive libraries of digital entertainment content. This product provides easy playback of the most popular audio and video formats,” said Salem Tirane, LaCie Multimedia Product Manager. “The high capacity and intuitive interface puts entire libraries of digital music, movies and photos at users’ fingertips from the comfort of the living room.”

The LaCie silverscreen is designed to instantly play back a wide range of movie, music and picture file formats, including the popular compressed DivX®, JPEG and MP3 formats. After uploading multimedia from any PC or Mac through the USB interface, LaCie silverscreen creates a home theater experience with surround sound thanks to the optical digital output that supports compressed Dolby® Digital 5.1. A handy remote control is included for easy menu surfing and playback. The LaCie silverscreen is also capable of upscaling video content to high-definition TV displays via its optional component cable. The DivX-certified LaCie silverscreen ensures solid compatibility with the preferred movie sharing format.

The LaCie silverscreen stores up to 500 DivX® movies, 160,000 MP3s, or 500,000 photos**.

*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 10–15% less).
**Calculations are based on 900MB per MPEG-4 (DivX®) movie, 1MB per JPEG photo file, and 3MB per MP3 song. These values often vary.

Asus intros U1E ultra-portable laptop

We just caught sight of three new Asus laptops, but it looks like that's not all the company has up its sleeve, with its ultra-portable U1E model now also making its first appearance। This one boasts an even smaller form factor than the company's just-announced 12.1-inch, 3.3 pound U6S laptop, in this case shrinking things down to an 11.1-inch WXGA display and a mere 2.2 pound carrying weight (albeit with only a 3 cell battery). Otherwise, you'll get an Intel Core Duo ULV7500 processor, up to 2GB of RAM, a 100GB hard drive, and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, with an external DVD burner thrown in for good measure. A nine cell battery is also available for those that actually want to get some work done, with it apparently promising upwards of six hours of running time. Look for this one to be available next month, in Italy at least, for €1,999 (or $2,844).

Specifications

The Asus U1E, ultralight from the dimensions ridottissime, is born in order to answer to the requirements of who is always in travel, giving to contempo the performance in a position to satisfying also the more demanding in terms than performances.

Asus Italy widens the own offer of notebook, introducing Asus U1E, new model of the fortunate series Asus U1, characterized from a refined aspect and elegant, thanks to a cover black shining, profiles in stainless steel and I use it of material searches to you, which the carbon fiber and the black skin that impreziosisce its poggiapolsi.

Addressed to the lovers of the design and who search maximum mobility, new the ultracapacities them Asus to enclose hardly in one chassis extremely compact and the weight 1Kg, all the solutions technologically more advances in order to satisfy the more demanding customers in terms than performances. With a diamond screen LCD from 11.1” WXGA, the ultracapacities them Asus U1E is equipped with processore Ultra Low Voltage to low Intel consumption the 2 Cores Pair U7500, hard disk from 100GB and 2GB of memory DDRII 667MHz onboard.

Particularly innovative it is then special panel LCD with retroilluminazione to LED, that it concurs to save energy and to offer an optimal image, exalted from the ASUS Splendid Color Enhancement Engine, for perfectly defined colors always vividi and details. In order to answer totally to the needs of mobility of businessman often outside the office or in travel, new integral solution signed ASUS on the facade a webcam, that it allows to participate, comfortably and with semplicità, to conventions or seminaries of job at a distance.

Decidedly interesting are then the possibilities on the plan of the connettività offered from ASUS U1E that, thanks to the WiFi technology in the standards 802.11abg, concur the connection to Internet without threads in whichever atmosphere. The technology Bluetooth 2,0 enhanced given given installments allows the transfer to the maximum peripheral cellular speed with or other qualified ones. On the plan of the emergency, the taiwanese company has integrated some functionalities in order to guarantee the maximum protection of the own data, between which the presence of a reader of digital prints integrated them, that it contributes to prevent to not authorized persons to approach inside informations

With the battery from 9 cells in equipment, in fact, ASUS U1E concurs to work for beyond 6 hours before having to resort to the aid of the local p0wer source. It will be available in Italy from the month of October with prices to the public of 1.999 enclosed Euro Vat.

Technical detailed lists Asus U1E:
Processore: Intel Core Pair ULV7500
Chipset: Piece of furniture Intel 945GM Express
Operating system: Seen Windows Business
Memory: DDRII 667MHz
Screen: 11.1 " WXGA LED backlight Glare Technology ASUS Video Intelligence
Hard disk: HDD 100 GB
Optical unit: Super DVD external Fines DL
Networking: 10/100/1000, 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth V2.0+EDR+A2DP, Wireless 3945ABG
Doors: 4x USB 2,0, 1x IEEE 1394, 1x VGA, 1x New Card, 1x 5V DC-out
Dimensions: 26.1x19x1.79-2.9cm
Weight: 1kg (with battery from 3 cells)
Battery: 2 enclosed Batteries (from 3 and 9 cells)
Other: Built-in 0.3 mega-pixel webcam, Fingerprint scanner & TPM (Trusted Platform Module), Ag and mouse included