Well looky looky what we have here. Some say storage = snore-age. Know what? Those people are mostly right. Except when you get in the world’s first notebook that contains a grand freaking total of one terabyte (!) of hard disk space .

First impressions? The m70 comes with Vista Home Premium (Meh.) and weighs a bone crushing 9-pounds. Seriously, it’s pushing the limits of portability. Asus still hasn’t gotten back to us yet about how much the unit’s price. Our IT guru said it’ll probably cost about $2500-$3000 considering the specs.

To give you an idea of what it would take to fill up the hard drive, hit the jump to see the breakdown on how much porn, MP3s, DVDs, games, and pictures would be needed to fill the roomy storage.

1 terabyte of storage by the numbers:

1TB = 1,024 GB = 1,048,576 MB = 1,073,741,824 KB

Porn: Debbie Does Dallas (838 MB in AVI format) =
1,251 porn flicks

DVD Rips: Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back  (4.36 GB) =
235 copies.

Pics: 1.3 megapixel stills from the integrated webcam ( recorded as 516 KB jpgs) =
2,080,895 images.

Games: Crysis (6.03 GB) = 169 copies of Crytek-crippling craziness.

MP3s: Stars are Blind, by Paris Hilton (7.3MB) =
143,640,256 brain damaging tracks. Interestingly, this is the soundtrack they play in Hell.

Additional reporting by Nate Ralph.

(Photos by James Merithew for Wired.com.)

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I don’t know about you, but somehow many people still equate Asians, especially the Chinese, to be too thrifty for their own good. I suppose it is payback time for Microsoft as they are working on price cuts for its Xbox 360 console in Asia, trimming the recommended retail price by a measly 5% to nearly 20% in a quartet of areas throughout the region. South Korea benefits the least with a 5% cut, while Taiwan’s 20GB model will receive a 17% discount. Singapore benefits the most from this price revision exercise with a 19.5% drop. As for Sony, they took the opposite route in Singapore by raising its 40GB PS3 price to $394. Guess accountants from those two companies are busy trying to predict the impact of these price moves, while Nintendo execs sit back and continue smiling smugly knowing that their Wii and DS will still sell well at the current pricing that has remained unchanged for a fair bit now.

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Good news for T-Mobile subscribers. According to a leaked internal document obtained by TMO News, it appears the other GSM carrier here in the States is finally getting ready to launch its own honest to goodness 3-G network on Thursday — kind of. The document names NYC as ground zero with more than 20 other major cities and markets that will also get 3-G’d by the end of the year.

The catch (and it’s a big one) is that T-Mobile subscribers will be getting a decidedly feeble 3-G at first. Part of the memo points out that initial offerings will be voice only. So while 3-G in name, for all your data needs, you’ll still be relying on sluggardly EDGE.

In this early phase of our network evolution, 3G is a new technology for carrying wireless voice calls and supporting existing data capabilities on our network. In future phases, this next generation network will power ‘high-speed’ (3G) products and services that connect customers in new and exciting ways. … Inform customers who are interested in high-speed data that the first phase of our 3G roll out supports voice only.

While some industry insiders have pointed out that this is in line with how other carriers launched their own 3-G networks, the simple fact may be that T-Mobile doesn’t have enough 3-G phones to justify the data play just yet. Still, it seems rather odd to make a big announcement like this and then qualify it by admitting the only alluring part of offering 3-G service won’t be available to customers until later in the year. Why not just hold off?

According to a T-Mobile spokesperson, the carrier’s UMTS (3-G) network will utilize the 1700/2100 MHz bands, as opposed to AT&T’s 850/1900 MHz 3-G bands.

Previously, the carrier said it would spend an estimated $10.3 billion between 2007 and 2009 for 2G and 3G network deployments.

T-Mobile was the big winner of the 2006 Advance Wireless Services (AWS) auction — bringing home over $4.2 billion worth of spectrum. Unfortunely, waiting for the government to vacate that spectrum seems to have also been the major reason for the 3-G delay.

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Need space?

This DualBay USB 2.0 external enclosure combines up to 2x SATA I or SATA II 1000 gigabyte (GB) hard disks each for a massive 2.0 terabyte (TB). The Dual Bay SATA Hot Swap JOBD Enclosure supports two hard drives of different sizes, brand & RPM so no need to waste puny smaller hard drives. A built-in powerful 4 x 4cm fan, provides excellent cooling and reliable operation. Also, the One Touch Backup and Secure Door with lock to ensure the safety of your precious data.

Gimmie!

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If you have been trying to avoid MySpace but couldn’t just do it because you have accumulated too many contacts in your profile that you don’t want to lose, well soon, you just might ban MySpace from your online life for good. MySpace is set to launch a new feature, albeit an annoying one; MySpace Karaoke.

This could probably be the worst application ever to hit MySpace, not because it is technologically flawed, but because it is definitely a feature that many would find annoying, including yours truly. To be launched on Tuesday, MySpace Karaoke will, heaven forbid, allow users to belt out their favorite songs, record their renditions and stick them up on their MySpace profile, so that their MySpace contacts can rate their performance, no matter how awfully good or bad those performances are.

With a microphone, MySpace users who have the guts can choose from around 2,000 to 3,000 songs that are currently available in MySpace Karaoke and start annoying the wits out of their MySpace contacts. According to MySpace, these song selections are all copyrighted materials, so users would not have to worry about infringing on copyrights when recording their versions of Beyonce’s Irresistable, or Incubus’ Love Hurts.

The application can be accessed at ksolo.myspace.com, but thank goodness when I was trying to access the site a message prompted me that the feature is not applicable in my region. I must be having a lucky day!

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 30th 2008 at 12:00AM
Remember those “world’s thinnest” X-Series LCD HDTVs we spotted earlier this year? On their way over from Japan to the US, Sharp has whipped up a partnership with AMIMON in order to offer a wireless HDTV link based on the latter company’s WHDI technology. Apparently the 37-, 42- and 46-inch displays will be sold in both nations with an optional wireless video transmitter (read: each set is “wireless ready”), giving users the ability to send uncompressed HD to their HDTV from up to 100-feet away. As for US pricing and availability, Sharp’s not quite ready to dish out those points, and while we’re not exactly sure if this is the launch that finally gets wireless HD headed in right direction, it certainly can’t hurt matters. Full release posted after the jump.

Gallery: Sharp’s X-Series LCD HDTVs offered with WHDI wireless link

SHARP to Offer Ultra-thin LCD TV with Wireless HDTV Link by AMIMON

AMIMON’s WHDI Technology Enables High Quality and Robust
Wireless Uncompressed HDTV Link to Sharp’s New X-Series LCD TVs

Santa Clara, Calif. and Osaka, Japan – April 30, 2008 – AMIMON Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor technology for wireless high-definition (HD) video, has partnered with leading LCD TV manufacturer Sharp Corporation to offer a wireless HDTV link for the Sharp X-Series ultra-thin LCD TVs. AMIMON’s WHDI™ technology, capable of delivering uncompressed HD video streams wirelessly, will simplify the installation of Sharp’s ultra-thin LCD TVs by eliminating the need for an audio/video cable between the TV panel and the separate tuner unit.

AMIMON’s WHDI technology uses a unique video-modem approach to deliver wireless uncompressed HDTV. With a range of over 100 feet (30 meters), through multiple walls and with latency of less than one millisecond, WHDI technology offers universal wireless whole-home HD connectivity with quality equivalent to that achieved with HDMI™.

“WHDI is becoming the technology of choice for wireless HDTV,” said Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen, chairman and CEO of AMIMON Inc. “With AMIMON’s WHDI technology, consumers can enjoy wireless ultra-thin TV displays that are easy to install and easy on the eyes.”

Sharp’s new X-series models, which come in 37-, 42- and 46-inch screen sizes and are only 3.44 cm thick (at their thinnest part), go on sale in Japan in April. This series adopts a discrete component configuration that separates the display section from the tuner section, and these two sections can be connected with a cable or by using an optional wireless video transmitter unit that employs AMIMON’s WHDI technology.

About Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation is a worldwide developer of innovative products and core technologies that play a key role in shaping the future of electronics. As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses.

Sharp Corporation employs about 58,900 people in the world (as of December 31, 2007) and recorded consolidated annual sales of 3,127,771 million yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. For more information, please visit Sharp’s Web site at http://sharp-world.com/index.html.

About AMIMON

AMIMON is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among CE video devices. AMIMON’s uncompressed Wireless High-Definition Interface (WHDI™) enables HDTV manufacturers to offer consumers wireless flat panel displays that can interface wirelessly to all HD video sources throughout the home at a quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces such as HDMI™.

The company is headquartered in Herzlia, Israel, with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., USA; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea. More information is available at: www.AMIMON.com.

WHDI is a trademark of AMIMON, Ltd. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are those of their respective holders.

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by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 30th 2008 at 12:37AM
Tsinghua Tongfang has managed to produce at least one mildly interesting MP4 PMP in the past, so we’re not too surprised at the company’s new PMC-M880, which features semi-high-def nice-looking PAL video out at 720 X 576 resolution in addition to the usual array of MP4 features. On the go, you’ll be looking at a 400 X 240 3-inch screen, which is decent, and we’re sort of digging on that funky red / black industrial design. Too bad we’ll never see this one leave China, eh? A shot of the video output after the break.

[Via MP4 Nation, thanks Yuipsj]

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Genius has announced two new multimedia tablets designed specifically for graphic designers and artists, the G-Pen M609 and G-Pen M712. Both tablets are plug and play ready and will work with either Windows Vista or Mac OS X, and have a high resolution (4,000 LPI) screen display. The G-Pen M609 comes with a display measuring 9” x 5.5” (wide) / 7.25” x 5.5” (standard) while the slightly bigger G-Pen 712 touts a bigger display measuring 12” x 7.25” (wide) / x 9.5” x 7.25” (standard).

To make it easy for users to access Office, the Internet and other Vista or Mac functions, Genius has created the G-Pen M609 with 34 hot keys while the M609 has 26 hot keys. Other features of these two new Genius tablets include; rolling pads for scrolling/zooming/increasing volume, as well as hot keys that can be use for creating, writing, drawing, sketching and signing emails. The two tablets also come with a cordless pen. The G-Pen M712 is preloaded with Photoshop Elements 5.0, PhotoImpact 12SE, Macro Key Manager and Office while the G-Pen M609 has all the same software except for PhotoShop Elements 5.0.

Finally, the pricing, the G-Pen M712 retails for $249 while the G-Pen M609 retails for $195 and both are currently available.

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