LaCie has now launched four new products which uses a hard disk on 1,3-inches. The hard disks and produced by Samsung and it is available on 30 and 40 GB. 1,3 Inches is the same as the size of a Compact Flash II memory card.

LaCie USB Key Max

The “Little Disk” series from LaCie now got the smallest extern disks. You can also find this small hard disk in the new product “USB Key Max” earlier known as Carte Orange. This USB-disk will also be available on 30 GB (orange) and 40 GB (black). Both of the disk uses power straight from the USB cable which is integrated in the disk. The hard disk comes with a speed of 3600 rpm and 2 mb cache. For “Little Disk” the transfer speed reaches up to 30 MB/s while USB Keu Max reaches 15 MB/s. LaCie’s 30 GB version costs around 130$ and the 40 GB version costs around 160$. Key Max 30 GB version costs however only 110-120$ while the 40 GB version costs 150$.

From February this year you can order the products from LaCies onlinestore.

ATI recently introduced their new line CATALYST drivers, the first drivers from ATI in 2008. You will find new features in the  8.1 drivers, a new function called MultiView which offers a complete hardware acceleration on several OpenGL graphics adapters. It is fair and equitable sharing of hardware resources with a second and third graphics adapter so that a 3D application has the same performance when running on the second or third monitor that when it is running on the screen principal. Meanwhile ATI fixed a number of bugs including bugfixes under Bioshock, Half-Life 2: Episode 2,  FEAR, World In Conflict and Oblivion to name a few. The Corssfire performance will also be greatly increased with the new drivers, so if you are using Crossfire you will be able to enjoy a better frame rate on many of the newest DX10 games. You can download the newest drivers here.