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Hands-on: Get ready for bigger sounds from the X-mini II
Juniper Foo | Jan 21, 2009
Generation two sees the tweeter tweaked with a splash of color. (Credit: XM-I)
Update, April 24: The X-mini II is now out at a retail price of US$35.
It's a mark of achievement when competitors start making clones of your product. Apple's one such trendsetter. XM-I may be another. Though definitely not in the big boys league, the Singapore-based company has blown us away over the years with its "little speakers, mighty sounds" innovative spunk. Having scored a red dot winner with its first X-mini outing, and following this up with the X-mini Max stereo and its clever magnetic hamburger halves, it's now continuing the momentum with the X-mini II.
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Apple now selling used products online in China
Anne Dujmovic | Jan 21, 2009
Apple announced Tuesday it has opened an online store selling used products in China in an effort to expand its business there, according to a Reuters report.
The new store is offering discounts of up to 22 percent on various refurbished products. Apple said on its Web site that the products had been previously sold, then returned, and had undergone quality tests, Reuters reported.
An Apple representative in China would not say how many products are available on the site. But the store was featuring such items as an iPod shuffle for 308 yuan (US$45) and an iMac for 14,000 yuan, according to Reuters.
Via CNET News
Seagate offers fix for faulty 7200.11 hard drives
Craig Simms | Jan 21, 2009
Seagate yesterday released a fix to a bug in its current generation of drives that caused them to become undetectable by a computer. Users have found, however, that the fix breaks 500GB drives--the fix has since been retracted.
A member of Seagate's community forums raised the issue in November 2008, with Seagate taking close to two months to offer a fix.
The bug affects a significant portion of not only Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives, but Barracuda ES.2 SATA and Maxtor DiamondMax 22 drives. Forums across the internet have been filled with warnings not to buy drives that feature the SD15 revision of firmware; however, Seagate's own documentation shows that SD16, SD17, SD18 and SD19 are also affected within certain model numbers.
This is not the first time Seagate has had a firmware issue with the 7200.11 series of drives. The SD04 and SD14 firmware revisions were found to be under-performing because they weren't accessing the full cache of the drives, and were replaced with version AD14 to fix this.
The new SD1A firmware was meant to be preventative only, but some users have found success updating and reviving already dead drives, according to Seagate's forums.
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Acer intros updated, small desktop
Rich Brown | Jan 21, 2009
We normally can't get too excited about model refreshes, but Acer's newly announced Aspire X1700 PC made us take notice with its specs. Basically an updated version of the Aspire X1200 from last fall, the Aspire X1700 now has an Intel Pentium Dual Core processor (compared with an AMD chip on the older model), and a 640GB hard drive that's twice as large as before. More importantly, it also has a discrete 512MB GeForce G100 graphics card inside.
Acer's new Aspire X1700 with optional LCD monitor.
(Credit: Acer)
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Li Jianye's design brings Cover Flow to life
Justin Yu | Jan 21, 2009
This iShelf design by Li Jianye takes the iTunes Cover Flow idea and brings it to real life. Think about it too hard and you might notice its small inadequacies (it can only hold five jewel cases and doesn't rotate), but it's the cleverly ironic idea that counts, right? Plus, you can put it on your shelf and brag to your Mac friends that you don't need the PC version of iTunes to make you happy. The iShelf is currently still in the prototype stages of design and might never see the light of day.
More pics after the jump.
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