Epson Unveils Stylus R390 Printer
Nycil George, Dec 26, 2006 1724 hrs IST
Epson has announced the launch of the Epson Stylus Photo R390 printer, designed for photo enthusiasts looking for direct printing.
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Epson has announced the launch of the Epson Stylus Photo R390 printer, designed for photo enthusiasts looking for direct printing.


The Stylus Photo R390 crunches print jobs at speeds of up to 30 pages per minute for both black text and colour prints. For photo prints, the speed is 4R-sized photographs in 13 seconds each. The Stylus Photo R390 comes with a generous, super bright, 3.5-inch LCD screen for easy viewing. To make printing straightforward, the photo selection controls located on both sides of the screen enable hassle-free navigation and printing options. The advanced printer is able to operate as a stand-alone, and supports printing without a PC. Backed with ports for PictBridge devices, USB Direct Print, IrDA, and optional Bluetooth, wired and wireless printing is achieved with similar efficiency. In addition, the card slot bay accepts all popular memory card formats. The printer incorporates the Epson Claria Photo System, a twin system consisting of Claria PhotoEnhance software and Claria Photographic inks. While the Claria PhotoEnhance software automatically corrects colour and lighting imperfections in digital images, Claria Photographic inks help in bridging the gap between home printing and photo lab printing. The new inks offer richer colour tones, excellent depth, stunning clarity, and improved glossiness. The printer includes Epson's award-winning Micro Piezo system for reliability and consistency in printing. Paired with Epson's Advanced Variable Sized Droplet Technology (VSDT), ink droplets in five different sizes can be procured, starting from 1.5 picolitre. The new printer is already available for a price of Rs 15,000

Compaq Presario CQ2009F

Compaq Presario CQ2009F Desktop PC


Compaq's energy-efficient CQ2009F desktop computer
There are lots of websites that will talk about the exciting scientific research moving forward on powering our homes with fuel made from algae or other exotic substances.
Hey, I like algae as much as the next guy, but in the meantime, we get most of our energy from ‘dirty’ sources like oil, coal and nuclear.
So…what really gets me in a tizzy is when manufacturers makes quantum leaps forward in terms of efficiency, materials and affordability.
My last desktop computer was a Compaq. I bought it around late 2001 or early 2002. I spent around $1000 on it. It weighed approximately 27 lbs and (as I found out when I reviwed the Kill-a-Watt last year) used between 70-109 watts of electricity.
That old Compaq performed admirably for a while, even if it did look clunky and take up a significant chunk of my workspace. But then it started suddenly turning itself on and off without warning. And this thing was loud. It’s not fun to be wakened in the middle of the night by the giant ‘whoosh/click/whirrr’ of your computer coming to life.
I had two choices – hire a computer exorcist or buy a new machine.
After looking high and low, I surprised myself by settling on another Compaq.
Compaq doesn’t get much respect these days. Businesses are focused on brands like Dell and Lenovo. The hipsters all love their Apples or maybe their Acer eee box.
But I think the Compaq CQ2009F surpasses them all. Here’s what I like:
1. Energy efficiency. My old desktop needed 70-109 watts of electricity. As measured by the Kill-a-Watt, the CQ2009F so far seems to draw only 29-32 watts no matter what it’s doing. That’s an efficiency improvement of approximately 60-70 percent!

Another view of the compact CQ2009F desktop computer
2. Size/materials. As mentioned, my old desktop weighed approximately 27 lbs and took up a massive amount of desk space. The CQ2009F is much smaller (4.41″ x 10.71″ x 9.69″). It weighs only 7 lbs and requires much less space on the desk. That’s a 74 percent weight reduction! So this desktop obviously needs much less in the way of raw materials – and since those raw materials tend to be made of plastic (oil) or metal, less is certainly better from an environmental standpoint.
3. Noise pollution. The CQ2009F is much quieter and unobtrusive than my old machine. Less noise pollution is always a good thing.
4. Features. Energy efficient machines are always great, but they’re especially impressive when their feature set matches what other machines can do. In this case, I really wanted the ability to read and burn DVDs. The Asus eee box and some of the other tiny desktops don’t have any DVD/CD drive, but the CQ2009F has one built in. It also has a handy little card reader so I can take the SD card right from my digital camera and plug it into the desktop without worrying about finding a USB cable.
5. Design. Remember when PCs used to be boring beige or grey boxes? The CQ2009F is sleek and sexy, slightly curvaceous, but not outrageous.
6. Price. It’s nice when someone builds a great eco-friendly product, but if that product is out of reach for all buy a few millionaires (i.e. the Tesla electric car), then the practical environmental benefit is minimal. What’s so beautiful about the CQ2009F is that it costs less than $300 (not including monitor)! That’s a very competitive price these days and far less than I paid for a much less efficient machine just 7-8 years ago.
Why would anyone in the market for a desktop PC buy any other machine? I can think of just a few reasons:
- You’re a serious gamer or video producer and need more RAM/power for your PC. (The CQ2009F has plenty of juice for typical home word processing and Internet browsing, but probably not enough for heavy gaming or video editing.)
- You want the smaller size and more efficient energy use (20 watts, according to Asus) of the eee box and you don’t care about having the DVD drive.
- You’re a Mac user, in which the Mac mini is probably your best eco-friendly bet (as discussed on Metaefficient).
Incidentally, the Dell Studio Hybrid also looks like a good eco-friendly option for PC fans, but it is a bit more pricey than the Compaq CQ2009F and according to the same Metaefficient article, a bit more power-hungry (26-44 watts).

Lenovo A58 and M58 e

Lenovo A58 and M58 e

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Despite economic recession and declining sales in the computer industry, the company Lenovo has announced a couple of new models of desktop computers. A58 and M58e, from ThinkCentre series, designed primarily to deal with office tasks.
Computers are equipped with processors series Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPU, graphics processing is integrated into a motherboard chip. To store data used by hard disks, which it can be as high as 1 terabyte. Depending on customer requirements,

A58 and M58e reading drive can be equipped with Blu-ray discs. The maximum amount of RAM is 4 GB.Series A focuses on the small business sector, in turn, M-series computers are designed for office use and partly for the performance of the media functions.
The kit contains a proprietary keyboard with integrated fingerprint scanner. Lenovo Computers come with a three-year warranty and a set of proprietary tools from Intel (for the M-series). The cost of desktop configurations, A58 and M58e starts at $ 400.
SourceLenovo adds two desktop PCs to its business lineup

Dell Studio XPS 435

DellCom Presents Dell Studio XPS 435 Desktop Computer1 commentBy Frans de Rozari
Posted on 27 Feb 2009 at 12:41am

Hey guys! Here a new desktop computer from dell, the new desktop computer model is Studio XPS 435 and the specs for its new desktop computer from DellCom is based on 3.2GHz Intel Core i7 processor extreme edition on X58 chipset, up to 24GB DDR3 3-channel memory and 4.5 TB hard disk drive, ATI Radeon HD4870, Blu-ray disc drive, 15-in-1 card reader, and eight USB 2.0 ports, it’s turbo boost technology an 8-threaded performance capability on 4 cores make you easy to working on the web, recording television or editing video content and bring your screen to life with a high-performance.
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Dell XPS 700

Dell XPS 700 Series Desktop Computer

Dell's new XPS 700 series of desktop computers for gamers is nicknamed "Heavy Ordnance" and these big, beautiful systems live up to the name. Their unique grills on the front of the chassis exude the power that lines the interior of these gaming PCs. And they're not as expensive as you might think. The baseline XPS 700 start at a decent price for a dedicated gaming desktop that includes a great display, the 20-inch widescreen UltraSharp flat panel. This monitor delivers bright colors and sharp images for gaming or watching DVD movies, and it's large and brilliant enough that you'll never miss your big gaming CRT. The display matches the chassis of these desktops well: The 2.5mm thick aluminum tower features customizable LEDs on the front and back, so you can add your own personality touches to the unique tower. There are six heat pipes and aluminum fans on the inside of the tower to keep your system running cool, and the 750-watt power supply gives you plenty of juice for what's inside.That price gives you an excellent set of tower components, including a 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6300. This CPU features two processing units on a single chip, boosting your performance when you're running intensive tasks such as high-end games. Dell pairs that processor with 1GB of 677MHz DDR2 memory, a good amount for a high-end gaming system. You can double the memory for $115. This steps you up to 2GB of speedy 667MHz DDR2 RAM, more than most games will even touch, so you've got plenty of room to grow. The motherboard inside the XPS 700 supports NVIDIA's SLi (scalable link interface) video cards. Basically, it comes with two slots and lets you use twin video boards in tandem for greatly enhanced graphics performance. The default option is two NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS video cards, each with 256MB of dedicated video memory. You can step up to twin 7900 GTX cards with 512MB for additional performance, but it's a $500 upgrade. Storage space starts out a quarter of a terabyte with the 250GB 7,200rpm hard drive. This drive offers a great amount of space for game installs and multimedia file storage, but these systems also support larger and faster RAID options. For example, you can step up to 320GB of storage space on twin 160GB drives spinning at 10,000rpm for even faster performance. This configuration will unfortunately add close to $460 to the sticker price, however. If storage is more important than speed, for about the same price you can opt for a full terabyte of space on twin 500GB 7,200rpm drives and not have to worry about running out of room for a long, long time. Dell includes a nice optical drive setup on these desktops as well. The primary drive is a 16X DVD writer with double layer capability. This drive can burn to CDs and DVDs as well as the newer double layer DVDs that let you store up to 8.5GB or four hours of high-end video on a single disk. The XPS 700 systems also come with a plain DVD-ROM drive, which makes disk-to-disk burns an easy task. Audio is also top notch inside the XPS 700. The Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card delivers Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, great for those high-end gaming headphones. These systems ship with a 10-watt speaker that clips onto the UltraSharp LCD--it's not thunderous, but it is quite aesthetic and provides decent sound for movie watching. The XPS 700 can optionally ship with Windows XP Media Center edition, so you can add a TV tuner so and use your system as a digital video recorder to watch and record television. A dual TV tuner with remote control that allows you to record two shows at once adds $150 to the price of the system. Dell includes a basic optical mouse and USB keyboard with these gaming desktop computers. They serve as standard input devices, but most gamers already have their preferred input device combo at the ready. There's a one-year limited warranty on these desktop computers for gamers, which is fairly standard for gaming PCs. Dell's well-designed XPS 700 systems are priced very competitively for desktop computers for gamers so you can bring home the Heavy Ordnance without overbearing your gaming budget. Pros: Great component list, nicely priced with 20-inch LCD Cons: Upgrades fairly expensive
Warranty1-year limited