The boss from Seagate, William Watkins expresses his doubts to SSD (Solid State Drive) based storage facilities in a interview with Cnet. So far SSD got a big handicap when it comes to storage possibilities and the prices is way to high and especially if the price will be based on each GB. According Watkins, Segate things that SSD is a good choice for certain niches were you are looking for performance but the sale won’t start before they can get a higher amount of storage space. A few good thing with SSD is the low power usage and the extreme searching speed.

The best solution now would be a hybird disk, this disk will have the same speed as SSD because of the huge cache amount and also the big storage place like the old magnetic disks we use today has.

KDE is a desk board environment that earlier only existed for Linux, but now you can also get a test version for Windows. KDE only supports Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003, Vista support will however be released later. Under the installation you will get loads of choices to choose from. Most of them are easy but when you choose you packages you should really choose dbus-msvc, kdebase-msvc, kdewin32-msvc, qt-msvc and kdegames-msvc, if not you may get some problems. KDE for windows is now available at windows.kde.org

Be aware over that the Windows version of KDE is just in alpha and can be unstable in certain ways

Sony has just developed a laser for Blu-ray which is much smaller than the previous lasers. With this technology the Blu-ray players will be smaller and cheaper. The new laser is not just smaller but it also costs a lot less money for Sony to produce it. The laser is only 3 mm thick and Sony wants to put it in 2,5″ -players in laptops. The fight and development between Blu-eay and HD DVD will probably make the prices drop very soon. Earlier this month Toshiba reduced their prices for HD DVD a lot. This made however HD DVD the cheapest format, so its good news for us Blu-ray lovers and Sony that they finally found a way to reduce the price as well. Blu-way has however a lot more people on their side and especially after the movie company Warner Bros decided to use only Blu-ray for their future films.

AMD found a critical error in Phenom on November last year, after this they got forced to wait with the launch of 9700 and 9900. However, according to Digitimes both AMD Phenom 9700 and 9900 will be demonstrated at Cebit in the beginning of March. The 9100E model on 1,8 GHz/65W will also be there. These models are baed on the new B3 version of the Phenom core and should not have any errors.

So far the processors will only be shown at Cebit and won’t be on the market before July/August 2008. Phenom 9700 and 9900 was originally meant to be clocked to 2,4 and 2,6 GHz. Since these products won’t be able before July/August AMD is talking about clocking them even further in a hope that they will beat Intel. However this has not been confirmed yet.

LG Electronics has  launched Long Stretch Display, this is a LCD screen with the format 16:5. 16:5 is a unfamiliar format so far and very extreme ate some points. The screen is mainly to be used for digital commercial for example at airports or other places where it could be handy with such a long screen. As far as i can see this screen is not any useful for private persons, so don’t change your newly bought widscreen yet with this extreme project.

The thought behind this format is that it can be placed on unusual places where the roof is not high, maybe in a small subway. LG Electronics will launch 2 versions of this screen. M2900BT-S is 765 MM wide and 308 MM high. This screen supports a resolution of  1366 x 480 pixels. The bigger model  M3800BT-S is 987 MM wide and 329 MM high with a resolution of 1366 x 398 pixels.You will find both of these screens in the store in April. The M2900BT-S will cost around 1150 Euro and M3800BT-S will be on around 1950 Euro.