Toshiba subsidiary OCZ is adding more power to its budget solid state drives, promising this year’s model offer “increased real-world performance” over previous efforts.
The Trion 150, starting at $50 for 120 gigabytes of storage and offering up to 960GB for $270, is the follow-up to OCZ’s Trion 100 line of SSDs. According to the spec page, the drive offers up to 550 megabytes per second read speeds and write speeds of 530MB/s, and up to 90K random write performance and 64K random read performance.
These aren’t high-end numbers, but at a price point this low that’s not surprising. The website for the drive mentions repeatedly that the NAND flash cells are from Toshiba, which is in not unusual. Toshiba is one of the world’s largest producers of flash memory.
The drive comes in four sizes: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB. The performance and reliability varies between models, as seen in the chart below.
OCZ has a mixed reputation for reliability, particularly with their discount line. This is something OCZ is hoping to fight with a relatively generous three year warranty. Their web site states USA residents should, in the event of a faulty drive, be able to talk to a representative within 24 hours, and (pending troubleshooting) have a new drive shipped to them within 24 hours of that conversation.
Overall it’s a compelling price point for a decent amount of power, and should look pretty tempting to anyone still using a conventional hard drive in their rig.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.