Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA3650 Review

Notebook Check has reviewed the FSC Amilo SA3650 using the integrated video and also the XGP with a Radeon 3870.

Notebook specifications:
Processor AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86 2.4 GHz
Mainboard AMD M780G
Memory 4096 MB, 2x 2048 DDR2 PC-6400 Samsung 6-6-6-18-24
Graphics adapter ATI Radeon HD3200
Display 13.3 Zoll 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, BrilliantView, Glossy
Harddisk Fujitsu MHZ2320BH G2, 320GB 5400rpm SATA-II
Soundcard Realtek ALC888

Connections:
1 Express Card 54mm, 5 USB, 1 Firewire, 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington Lock, 1 eSata, Audio Connections: Headphones (SPDIF), Microphone, Line-In, Card Reader: 15-in-1 Cardreader, Webcam, XGP Port (Graphic Booster)

Networking:
Realtek RTL8168C/8111C Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC , Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter , V2.1 Bluetooth

Optical drive Optiarc DVD RW AD-7640S
Size height x width x depth (in mm): 42 x 317 x 235
Weight 2.25 kg Power Supply: 0.45 kg
Battery Lithium-Ion, 6 cell Sanyo 2.6A
Price 1250 Euro
Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
Additional features Graphic Booster (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 - 512 MB, Core: 648 MHz, Memory: 999 MHz, GDDR3), 24 Months Warranty

Verdict:
The fastest 13.3 inch notebook currently available. This is certainly the basic statement of the preceding test of the FSC Amio SA3650 notebook. The notebook itself is only to a small extent responsible for the immense power thrust. This is primarily due to the external Amilo Graphic Booster which provides the average equipped notebook with a high performance graphic card of the type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870.

Merry Christmas

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Below is a Christmas Tree made by Vic's fans:

AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership

XFX, known for its high-performance NVIDIA™-based products, is pleased to announce the addition of AMD/ATI as a new technology partner. A world leader in graphics cards, motherboards and computer accessories, is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the elite group of successful AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new products based on the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series GPUs to consumers, beginning in early 2009.

“With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, AMD redefined the graphics market and delivered graphics cards for gamers in every segment,” said Michael Chiu, Chairman and CEO, Pine Technologies Holdings, makers of XFX graphics cards. “It wasn’t just AMD gaming prowess that caught our attention; the company’s technology leadership in multimedia performance, including video transcoding, HD content playback and surround sound audio, made it clear that AMD was and continues to be a great fit for users everywhere. We are excited by this partnership as it allows us to incorporate current and future ATI graphics technology into our graphics card designs, enabling our R&D teams to develop an even wider range of XFX graphics products for consumers in every region and every segment.”

About XFX

XFX is a global presence in the world of electronic gaming. With its focus on taking gaming to the extreme, XFX has developed an exciting array of video cards and accessories that are designed to maximize the entire entertainment experience. A division of PINE Technologies, XFX operates its own manufacturing facility and maintains an R&D team that features some of the industry’s most renowned talents. Learn more about XFX at http://www.xfxforce.com/

Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition "KUMA"

Most of the news out of AMD lately has been out of ATI with their video cards lately and most new attention is focused on Phenom II which should be coming out very soon from AMD. But AMD is also launching a new CPU series codenamed Kuma.

AMD today announced the Athlon X2 7750 – a STARS-based processor that is a brand new dual-core processor based on the Kuma core. Since this processor is based off the Phenom core it has L3 cache, this should make it competitive in terms of both price and performance to the $82.99 Intel E5200 dual-core processor. The AMD Athlon X2 7750 is launching today with a $79 price tag.

The AMD Athlon X2 7750 is a dual-core processor with a 2.7GHz clock frequency. This is a Black Edition processor, which means that even though it comes set at 200MHz x 13.5, it has an unlocked multiplier that you can change for improved overclocking. The Athlon X2 7750 has 2 x 512MB of L2 Cache and 2MB shared of L3 Cache. The Athlon X2 7750 uses the same HyperTransport 3.0 bus that Phenom processors used. The Athlon X2 7750 has the HT set to run at 1800MHz an will work just fine in any socket AM2+ motherboard. The X2 7750 features a maximum Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 95 Watts, which means that it should be able to work in nearly any motherboard with the proper socket.

Some Reviews:
AMDZone
TweakTown
Legit Reviews
Guru3D
Hexus
Overclockers Club
X-Bit Labs

Getting To See Phenom II Before It Launches

After AMD showed off the new Phenom II processors and the Dragon platform to the media they went one step further and did a private showing to select forum members that were able to come to a scheduled showing in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

Legit Reviews put an alert out to forum members about the event and XstollieX jumped at the chance and made it to the Chicago event (December 9th). By going to the event he was able to get a sneak peak at Phenom II a month before it launches and will be getting one when they launch next month.

The first thing he saw were two large displays. Each one was connected to the new Dragon platform set up in the new Antec Skeleton cases. Each machine was running the Phenom II X4 940, a Gigabyte 790GX motherboard, and an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. To show off what these machines could do they had the game Race Driver: Grid set up with the full Logitech driving seat, wheel and pedals. The games were set at the highest resolution and ran flawlessly. They had Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Company of Heroes, and last but not least Crysis.

Then he found table with two more computers set up on it, both were connected to 50 inch displays, and both playing Crysis. The computer on the left was AMD’s new Dragon Platform, and the computer on the right was the new Intel Core i7 @3.2GHz. Both machines were running the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. The two computers side by side ran great on the highest settings.



The last area was more of a spectator event. This was the overclocking demo/contest. For this there were two teams. The first was from AMD and the second team was from Finland. The contest was done in two parts. The first part was air-cooling and the second was done using Liquid Nitrogen. Each team was randomly given Five of the Phenom II X4 940 chips cooled by a Cooler Master Z600 in a push-pull configuration. The goal of this was to achieve the highest stable overclock. Stability was tested with two loops of the Crysis CPU test. Each team worked side by side with only 30 minutes to achieve their highest stable clock. Both teams were using the Gigabyte 790GX motherboard and the 4870 X2 graphics card. The result was astonishing. Team AMD achieved a 3.94GHz clock speed and Team Finland fell just short with a 3.9GHz.

After a short break for the overclockers, the fun began. Liquid Nitrogen was used to cool the CPU. Using liquid nitrogen they were able to bring the temperature of the chip’s close to -180 degrees. Using the new AMD Dragon platform Team Finland won this round achieving a core clock of 6.0GHz. Team AMD fell just short at about 5.9GHz. After they ran the Crysis CPU for two loops they ran 3DMark05. It scored ~35,000 3dmarks when all was said and done.

Catalyst 8.12 now Available

With the release of ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream™ technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide.

ATI Stream™ enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream™ enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.

Also introduced the ATI Avivo Video Converter, an application that use ATI Stream technology. Owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve incredible performance levels in video transcoding.

You may download the Catalyst 8.12 here at : http://game.amd.com

OpenCL 1.0 spec released

The Khronos Group has released the first version of the OpenCL specification. The 1.0 spec has been ratified by a large number of companies, including AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, and many others. Since this is a public release, developers can grab the spec itself and documentation right now through this page.

The OpenCL programming standard and associated technologies are aimed at better enabling developers to write vendor-neutral applications that can execute on either the CPU or GPU within a system. This allows developers to easily take advantage of whichever processor is best suited for the task at hand.

AMD is a founding and contributing member of the OpenCL working group in The Khronos Group, and has consistently been one of the most vocal and active proponents of the standard. AMD is committed to getting this valuable new technology into the hands of programmers as quickly as possible, and is rapidly evolving its free ATI Stream SDK to make it happen. AMD is making good progress on its OpenCL-compliant offering and plans to release a developer version of the ATI Stream SDK with support for OpenCL 1.0 for content developers in the first half of 2009. Working from early specifications of OpenCL, AMD’s engineering team has already started running code on its initial implementation.

AMD has announced its plans to release the free download of ATI Catalyst™ driver update, version 8.12, which will instantly unlock new ATI Stream acceleration capabilities already built into millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics cards. The driver is available for download on or around December 10.

About ATI Stream
ATI Stream is a set of advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD graphics processors (GPU), working in concert with the system’s central processor (CPU), to accelerate applications beyond just graphics. This enables better balanced platforms capable of running demanding computing tasks faster than ever. For more information on ATI Stream and the ATI Stream SDK visit www.amd.com/stream.

Core i7 'Nehalem' also have TLB issue

If you open Intel’s official document that is stored here, on page 37 AAJ1 Clarification of TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFERS (TLBS) Invalidation part, you will see that Intel says that in some rare cases improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior and can hang your OS or result with incorrect data.

Here is the word to word quote: "In rare instances, improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior, such as system hangs or incorrect data. Developers of operating systems should take this documentation into account when designing TLB invalidation algorithms. For the processors affected, Intel has provided a recommended update to system and BIOS vendors to incorporate into their BIOS to resolve this issue."

Mobo Makers Announced AM3 Support

Asus have announced that 15 of their Socket AM2+ motherboards will support AMD's AM3 CPUs. This seems to be most of the newer boards to come out the past year from the AMD 700 series, and Nvidia GeForce 8000 and 7000 products.

Gigabyte also have announced a wide range of motherboards which will support the AM2+ and AM3 45nm versions of AMD's processors. It looks like they're going deeper as they support Nvidia's 750 chipset as well as 790FX boards with the dated SB600 chipset.

MSI has put up a similar list of 26 motherboards that can accommodate the upcoming processors through BIOS updates.

Other motherboard makers:
Biostar
ECS Elitegroup
Jetway
J&W

Phenom II Overclocks Well

As we all know, the Phenom II (codename Deneb) will be AMD's second 45 nm part (the first is officially the Shanghai server part) that is scheduled to hit Q1 09. This heavily redesigned processor based on the Phenom architecture has already showed some significant per clock performance gains over the older product, and AMD considers this to be their best design ever in terms of performance, functionality, and eventual clockspeed. The first desktop products are expected to hit 3 GHz at the top end, but AMD has been hinting that the Phenom IIs can do a lot more in the hands of an enthusiast.

The first leaks were that the Phenom II could hit 4 GHz on air cooling. Yesterday AMD had some actual demonstrations at their AMD Austin Tech Day gathering, and the Phenom II was able to hit 5 GHz at 1.6v by using dry ice cooling. Dry ice is CO2, and it goes directly from solid to gas (sublimation) at a temperature of -109.3 F (-78.5C for the rest of the world) at 1 atmosphere.

The original Barcelona is a 65 nm part and really the first of its architecture. Since its release and the subsequent shuffling around of design teams, AMD has refocused their energy on delivering a design that would not only have a better per clock performance than the older part, but allow the design to scale in clockspeed on AMD's new 45 nm process. So far what we have seen shows that AMD has done very well.

With AMD's constant process improvement program, and tweaks to the Phenom II design that we typically see in the manufacturing stage, AMD could theoretically have a 3.4 to 3.6 GHz processor at moderate TDP levels (125 watts) that would more adequately perform against the Core i7 within the next 8 months.

For now, we have to sit and wait for the Phenom II to hit the market. Intel certainly needs the competition, and this product might just deliver enough of it to keep things interesting.



The die shot of the 45 nm Phenom II. 2 MB of L2 (512 KB per core) and 6 MB of L3 shared makes this an interesting part. Throw in some serious refinements to the underlying Phenom architecture, and suddenly AMD has a chip that can much more adequately compete with what Intel has out there currently (and upcoming).





Read here :
AMDZone
TechReport
Legit Reviews
AMD Austin Tech Day - Phenom II Dry Ice / LN2 leaked info

Introducing AMD "Dragon" and Phenom II

AMD plans to bring higher-performance and more energy efficient 45nm processor technology to the desktop PC market in Q1 2009 with the AMD platform codenamed “Dragon”. This platform will be the second generation AMD performance desktop platform, featuring all next-generation components in comparison to the first generation AMD “Spider” platform released in 2008. The AMD “Dragon” platform is designed to harness the power of fusion by optimizing the performance of new 45nm AMD Phenom™ II X4 quad-core processors with award-winning AMD 700 Series chipsets and award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series graphics.




For introduction slides explaining AMD Dragon, please download here:
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Branding logo of AMD Dragon, the replacement platform for Spider:

Opteron 45nm Quad-Core "Shanghai" Available

AMD today announced widespread availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivering up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle. With IT decision-makers looking to do more with less, the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor can help drive data center efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualization performance and increased performance-per-watt. Global OEMs are expected to immediately offer enterprise and SMB customers more than 25 systems, available between launch today and the end of the year, based on the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed “Shanghai”

The latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors at the 75-watt ACP ranging from 2.3 to 2.7 GHz are available immediately, with enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE (55-watt) and SE (105-watt) processors planned to follow in Q1 2009.

“Shanghai” will be a truly global product launch for AMD. A major online and print marketing campaign in support of the launch kicks off today and launch events are happening worldwide beginning today and continuing over the next few weeks.

Anandtech has tested out AMD's "Shanghai" Opteron with a few database tests.

As you've seen, AMD is still competitive with Intel's 3.0 GHz Harpertown in the database workloads that we've shown here. We were quite surprised that Shanghai was able to meet and, in some cases, pass Harpertown at various workload levels in some of the benchmarks. Obviously, when it comes to power, AMD is still leading this space by a significant margin. FB-DIMMs obliterate any power efficiency in Intel's processors, especially when you have eight (or more in some cases) of them present in a server.

"Shanghai" stories:
Computerworld-AMD speeds up, shrinks its Shanghai quad-core
Infoworld-AMD bails out IT
ZDNet blogs-AMD: Does the resurrection start with ‘Shanghai’?
Information Week- AMD Refreshes Opteron With 45nm 'Shanghai' Quad-Core Processors
CRN-First Look: AMD's 'Shanghai' Opteron
Reuters-AMD announces fast, energy-saving chip

Shanghai 45nm wafer:

85 Server Motherboards and Barebones Servers for Shanghai

More than 85 server motherboards and barebones servers are validated to support the upcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor and are available today. Leading server infrastructure providers including ASUS, Supermicro, and Tyan are currently shipping high-performance server motherboards.

These boards are optimized for OEMs, ODMs, solution providers and business customers to take full advantage of the enhanced power management and virtualization capabilities and unprecedented levels of price/performance-per-watt delivered by the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed “Shanghai”

EE Times believes AMD is back on track with Shanghai.

Advanced Micro Devices is back on track with its latest 45 nm Shanghai processor driving an uptick in sales in high-end server markets, according to a handful of integrators. Longer term, high performance computing (HPC) companies expect to see neck-and neck competition between AMD and Intel as both move to six-core server processors in 2009.

ATI Radeon HD 4850 Becomes The Most Popular Graphics Card in the U.S. Retail

The recently released market share numbers by Jon Peddie Research clearly show that ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, is starting to fight back market share from the arch-rival Nvidia. According to another market tracking firm, NPD, the latest products by ATI – Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 – are indeed gaining popularity in the U.S. retail market.

Even though 7 out of top 10 spots are still occupied by Nvidia GeForce graphics cards, the best selling graphics board in the U.S. retail in September was Visiontek Radeon HD 4850 512MB, reports TG Daily web-site citing NPD Group. The whole list looks as follows:

1. Visiontek 512MB GDDR3 ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 4197 (units)
2. PNY 512MB DDR2 Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT : 4106
3. PNY 512MB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT : 3080
4. BFG 512MB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS : 3079
5. Visiontek 512MB GDDR5 ATI Radeon HD 4870 : 3052
6. EVGA 384MB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO : 3011
7. EVGA 256MB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT : 2670
8. EVGA 512MB GDDR3 Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT : 2634
9. EVGA 512MB GDDR3 Nvidia 8800 GT : 2561
10. Asustek 512MB GDDR3 ATI Radeon HD 4850 : 2509

It should be noted that the majority of advanced graphics cards are acquired from online stores due to their lower pricing. However, since retail buyers are not usually as technically savvy as those who use electronic stores, the success of rather expensive graphics cards based on ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 may be an indicator that gamers begin to feel confidence in ATI’s performance-mainstream products.

Despite of financial crisis, total available market of graphics adapters increased dramatically in the third quarter of 2008. According to figures released by JPR, in Q3 2008 over 111 million graphics adapters (both standalone and integrated) were shipped. During the same quarter last year, only 91 million graphics products were shipped, and 94 million units shipped in Q2 2008, which means that shipments of graphics cores increased 22.5% year over year and 17.8% quarter-to-quarter, an unbelievable boost in general and especially noteworthy considering the current market conditions.



ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, was the biggest winner in Q3 2008 thanks to successful launch of ATI Radeon HD 4000-series products. The company managed to boost its shipments by 33.8% and increase its market share to 20.6%. Intel Corp. also managed to boost shipments of its chipsets with integrated graphics processors (IGPs) by 23%. Nvidia Corp. did not manage to increase its sales inline with market trends and only reported 4.4% increase in shipments during the quarter as well as market share decline to 27.8%. Also, despite of positive market conditions, Silicon Integrated Systems reported 28.9% decrease in IGP shipments in Q3, whereas Via Technologies/S3 Graphics succeeded in increasing its graphics products sales by 2.1%.



Mr. Peddie noted that Q4 2008 should be an interesting quarter as ATI and Nvidia are not expected to release any more new GPUs given the large number of introductions in the last three quarters, and Intel and AMD have stabilized on their integrated offerings.

Hercules eCAFE Netbook

Hercules eCafe netbook is AMD Geode powered. Technical specifications:

* AMD Geode LX 800
* 512MB DDR RAM
* 8" LED-backlit LCD screen (1024x600 interpolated)
* 1.8" 20GB P-ATA HDD
* Ethernet 10/100
* WiFi 802.11 b/g
* 2 USB ports
* 1 multiformat card reader (SD/SDHC/MMC/MS)
* 80 key keyboard
* Integrated touchpad
* Integrated 300,000 pixel webcam
* Integrated microphone
* Audio input and output
* Integrated stereo speakers
* 4000 mAh battery (4 cells)
* 100-240V, 50/60Hz power adapter

ATI Radeon HD 4830 - Resetting the performance bar below $150

Today we see the introduction of the Radeon HD 4830 which is to be priced at or below $130. This part is poised to split the difference between the 4670 and 4850, and filling in this market segment should finish rounding out AMD's line up of RV7xx based cards for now.

This new model is, like the 4850 and 4870, based on RV770 silicon, but in its tamest form yet. On the 4830, two of the RV770's 10 SIMD units have been disabled, reducing shader power (and likely performance) somewhat. Since those SIMD units are tied to texture management units, the GPU's TMU count has dropped proportionately. The end result: the Radeon HD 4830 has a total of 128 shader execution units—or 640 stream processors, and can filter up to 32 textures per clock.

The 4830 keeps all four of the RV770's render back-ends and associated memory controllers intact, leaving it with an aggregate 256-bit memory interface. The card's GPU core runs at 575MHz, and it comes with 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz (or 1800MT/s).

The Radeon 4830 is probably the least exciting of the 4800 cards being the lowest-end of the 4800 series. That said is still a very solid card and somewhat comparable to a GeForce 8800 or 9800 GT though the two seem to trade off at times. But ATI has lower power consumption and DX 10.1 support which is a bonus. This one isn't quite as clear though as others as a GeForce 9800 GT is a little cheaper than a Radeon 4830. You can pick up a GeForce 9800 GT for $100 after rebate. However, immediately at launch you can get a Radeon 4830 for $120 after rebate.

“The $100-$150 graphics card price band represents the ‘sweet spot’ of the desktop PC graphics market where the consumer gets the most graphics performance per dollar spent,” said Dean McCarron, founder and principal, Mercury Research. “This is where the latest graphics technologies reach the mainstream PC audience, and this is the level that most PC games target.”

The ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card delivers outstanding value to gamers. With the launch of this card, even the most intimidating games that were previously unplayable on a graphics card selling for less than $150 can now be enjoyed at playable frame rates, even when using image enhancements such as anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. For those gamers looking to get even more performance out of their gaming rigs, ATI Radeon HD 4830 cards support ATI CrossFireX technology allowing gamers to combine as many as four cards in one PC.

Reviews:
AMDZone
AnandTech
Tech Report
Fudzilla
Hexus
Bjorn3D
Techpowerup
Guru3D
PC Games Hardware

F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 7th Concert - Osaka

Overall - today's last show is the BEST of all 7, a number of surprises, the guys performances and fan's participation and today's seat was quite good.

Thank U messages:

Ken (spoke in Mandarin): Today's the last show, after today don't know when will be the next time F4 will reunite. I wish the other 3 to have their own successful path and I believe the next time when we reunite, each person will have their own genuine "sky".

Zai (in Japanese and Mandarin): .... Thank U, I would like to thank my 3 other friends. Thank U...

Vann (in English): Thank U Jesus, Thank U Lord... other F3... everybody present... family and friends. He ended saying "F4 Forever".

Jerry (in Mandarin): .... In my heart, the other 3 are the best brothers. No matter what happened before, we are the best. Thank U Ken, Thank U Vanness, Thank U Zai Zai.

News coverage:
UDN Entertainment
Ming Pao
Apple Daily



The F4 along with around 200 staffs, friends and family members hold a celebration party at Imperial Hotel right after the concert.


Zai Zai said he felt very lucky that he escape from the recent stock financial crisis that affected many people, thanks to his financial advisor who recommended him to clear nearly 520 equity funds before the crisis happenned.

F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 6th Concert - Osaka

Today Taiwan medias wrote a few comments on Zai Zai as they were invited to see F4 Japan Concert at Osaka. Their review are supposed to be on F4 but seems they are targeting on Vic more than other F3...

Ming Pao
UDN Entertainment



On Vic's performance, the reporter wrote:

Zai Zai caught a really bad cold when he returned to Taiwan for a break. Except for his voice sounding coarse for a little while amid the concert because he was trying to hold back coughing, he was very professional. He has broken his limit and did a sexy show and role playing. He played the roles of a night club owner, pilot, and doctor.

F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 5th Concert - Osaka

TONITE is the first night of F4 Concert in Osaka. Our friends in Osaka, Japan seem so excited now for the last 3 concerts tonight and over the weekends. They're like having a big party in Japan right now for 3 consecutive days. This fan is the 1st to put up the flower basket at Osaka...

V.I.C website renewal

Zai Zai official fanclub (Vic International Cooperation aka V.I.C) has change their webpage design and layout...


Here is Vic official fanclub link:

http://www.vic-fanclub.com/

Black & White Trailer

This summer,the most unlucky two policeman ever...
With two totally different values...
But are forced to work together...
One Alfie loves flirting and cares nothing but saving his skin...
The other man who is too aggresive on cases drives everyone crazy...

Three of them who are supposed never get together with...
But were involved by fate...
Tracing one drug deal seems simple...
But bring out a serial breathtaking inside stories...
The real enemies however come from where you've never imagined...
And the brightness of reality is going to emerge from the dark...
The value of abyss between darkness and brightness...
For justice,never give up...



Download link here :
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z31dilou0zz
http://www.mediafire.com/?k1fybndzzxz
http://www.mediafire.com/?rohnmd2x4za
http://www.rayfile.com/files/5f638528-968b-11dd-9900-0014221b798a/

Synopsis:
Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One does nothing except for drinking coffee and living a luxurious lifestyle while waiting for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice is the pillar of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals… a little overzealously for his superior’s liking. When a case brought these two top crime solvers together, sparks flied and a little light peeked into this dark city where the nation's President is on friendly terms with the local mafia and twins kill people while drinking milkshake.

Cast:
Vic Zhou (周渝民) as Pi Zi
Mark Zhao (趙又廷) as Ying Xiong
Ivy Chen as Chen Lin
Janine Chang as Lan Xi Ying
Xiu Jie Kai as Xiao Ma
Paul Chun as Mob boss Chen
Xu Ai Xin (徐愛心) as Twin sister
Zou Cheng En (鄒承恩) as Twin brother
Tang Guo Zhong (唐國忠)
Kageyama Yukihiko (蔭山征彥)
Kingone Wang
Zhou Xiao An (周孝安)
Wu Zhong Qiang (吳仲強)
Li Lu (李律)

F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 4th Concert - Tokyo

Today concert concluded perfectly. The atmosphere was warmer than yesterday, the four member of F4 also have more interactions than yesterday. Nobody sit on their chair. All fans stood up to dance and sang together with F4. The show took time almost 4 hours, yet everything goes smoothly.

Flowers from Da S (Barbie Xu) & Xiao S was so special because she is ex-girlfriend of Zai Zai. Leaflets distributed at the concert to every person. The organizers sure know how to promote other F4 projects.

Today, Angie Chai & the author of Hana Yori Dango - Yoko Kamio was at the concert. Jerry said when introducing them: "Thanks... because without them, F4 will never exist."

You may see the video footage inside the concert, the fans, interview at back stage - posted on YouTube:




News:
Yahoo HK
Liberty Times
UDN Entertainment News
TOA News
Oricon

Official : AMD Splits

AMD along with Abu Dhabi, has created a joint venture known as "The Foundry Company." This will leave AMD as a design house and will give the newly found company AMD's manufacturing assets - including the Fabs in Germany. Time will tell how this works out. AMD's stock opened $1/share higher today than it closed yesterday.

The new company is planning to launch early next year with 3,000 employees worldwide. The new company is a foundry and appears to be willing to work with more than just Advanced Micro Devices. Additionally, AMD still plans to break ground in New York for Fab 4x.

F4 Japan Tour 2008 - 3rd Concert - Tokyo

F4 Japan Tour 2008 heading to Nippon Budokan, Tokyo. Their concert made a realization towards the Japan's Fuji Television Network so a special featured story about the F4 concert will be broadcast on Wednesday, October 8, at Fuji TV station.

NIPPON BUDOKAN entrance photos taken in the afternoon before the concert began. We could clearly see the BIG WELCOME towards F4 judging from the big board put up in front the concert venue.

Flowers were seen from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong.

Flowers basket from Wu Zun (Fahrenheit), Erika Toda and her co-star (Tea Fight) were seen too.

At first, F4 was targeting students but now not only students, people from all ages would love to see F4.

First concert in Tokyo concluded with some unexpected accidents happened to them. During rehearsal, due to the change of the stage, Ken did not realize there were steps when they finished the singing. He walked backwards then fell down to the steps. He was sent to the hospital in Chiyoda. After X-ray examination, the injury was found to be just pulled muscles. Ken only took some pain medication and rushed back to the venue to start the concert on time.


While Zai Zai singing his solo song "Mask/Ma Sai Ke", the raising stage got stuck in the middle of the performance. Zai Zai finished his performance without showing any sign of being disturbed by what was going on. The organizer announced need to stopped the show in order to fix the mechanical problem of the stage. After about 8-10 minutes the problem was solved. Zai Zai did another complete version of "Mask" all over again. On the stage he can't help but laughed quietly during his 2nd time of singing "Mask". Then Jerry tripped down the stairs when he walked down from the stage at 1st Encore. But he did not get hurt.

Media coverage:
Liberty Times
UDN Entertainment News
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Acer Aspire 5530G

Acer Aspire 5530G, which as part of their Aspire line up, features both looks and affordability. Inside this Acer kitty, you'll find that it's powered by AMD's 65nm Turion X2 RM70 (2.0GHz) processor, has 3GB of DDR2 RAM, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 for its graphics chipset. As far as entertainment functions go, the 5530G has what's needed, including Dolby Surround Sound, a 15.4-inch screen for viewing your videos. Let's see what the Aspire 5530G has in store for potential buyers.

Processor and Chipset AMD Turion X2 RM-70 (2.0GHz, 1MB L2) and AMD M780G

Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

System Memory 3GB DDR2, 2 x DDR2 SO-DIMM slots

Video ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 1919MB total available graphics memory, 256MB Dedicated, 1663MB TurboCache (shared system memory)

15.4-inch WXGA widescreen display Native resolution 1280 x 800

HDD 320GB SATA (Western Digital WDC WD3200BEVT) 5400RPM 8MB cache

Audio Dolby Surround Sound 5.1 channel surround sound output HD Audio support 2 x Speakers 1 x Subwoofer

AMD has always played it closer to the lower end of the budget spectrum, offering decent performance at a competitive price, and this is continued in the Acer Aspire 5530G. Acer is moreover quite well known for its competitively priced offerings and this Puma based Acer Aspire 5530G is no different. Retailing at a very affordable S$ 1498, the unit is well worth the cash for its entertainment features, solid build and overall decent (for its specs) performance capability.




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