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Panasonic and new best friend Sanyo plan one week storage battery for the home

Dec 23rd 2009 12:13PM on Engadget

@gerrrg Even then, the battery would cost a fortune.

495 KWh/mth, 115.5 KWh/week. Compare to laptop batteries, which can cost $150 for 60Wh. This battery would cost roughly $289K, more than a quarter million dollars! The cost of these things will need to drop by at least a factor of ten to become worthwhile, and the price of lithium ion batteries hasn't changed much in half a decade...

Western Digital 'advanced format' promises slight boost in usable space

Dec 11th 2009 5:35PM on Engadget

@RedChaos I just bought *five* 2TB Green drives on NewEgg for a file server. Sigh.

Panasonic now in control of Sanyo, promises to be nice

Dec 10th 2009 10:52AM on Engadget

Don't mess with my supply of Eneloops and we'll be cool, Panasonic.

On that note, isn't it interesting how Eneloop has become such a recognized and trusted brand when it comes to NiMH batteries? I mean, sure, Duracell or Energizer might have more brand recognition overall, but "Duracell Pre-charged Rechargables" don't have the same kind of recognition as "Eneloop".

Intel SSD firmware 02HD brings back Trim support, sans bugs

Dec 2nd 2009 1:33PM on Engadget

@nAv I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Intel's G1 series of drives cost a small fortune for us early adopters. Intel is adding support for TRIM to the G2 drives *only*, despite the fact that there's no reason it can't be added to the G1 drives as well.

Those of us that bought G1 drives are finding that just a few months after purchase we're already using an effectively unsupported product.

Intel SSD firmware 02HD brings back Trim support, sans bugs

Dec 2nd 2009 11:52AM on Engadget

Hey, Intel! How about you add TRIM support to the G1 drives that your early adopters paid $700+ for? Huh? How about not screwing your existing customers?

Square iPhone payment system gets itself a website, showcased in public

Dec 1st 2009 5:00PM on Engadget

This is stupid. There are already cell network supporting credit card terminals for legitimate businesses to process payments when they don't have access to a credit card (like a booth at a convention or trade show). And there are already wireless based ones for use in restaurants or stores.

This is just a glorified iPhone-based card skimmer.

Programmer adds IE 9 graphics acceleration to Firefox

Nov 26th 2009 10:34AM on Engadget

People don't seem to understand. They're just adding another back-end to Cairo (the graphics middleware that Firefox uses).

Cairo already supports OpenGL as a back-end; I don't know why it's not used on Linux/OSX. Certainly considering the broken xrender performance in nVidia drivers, it'd lead to huge speed boosts.

Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices

Nov 12th 2009 10:45AM on Engadget

I bought a similar device for my iPhone, the Tekkeon TekCharge MP1550. Cost me about $20 on Amazon.

It takes 4xAA batteries, has a mini USB port to let you charge NiMH batteries inside from a computer, and can power pretty much any USB device.

They also make a variety of adapters for devices that don't support USB. It comes with a bunch, and you can even buy one for the Nintendo DS.

ZiiLABS ZMS-08 offers Cortex A8-powered Full HD and Flash acceleration for netbooks

Nov 9th 2009 1:10PM on Engadget

OpenGL ES 2.0? In a netbook? I don't know... netbooks are where you're going to start wanting to run PC OpenGL apps, and OpenGL ES 2.0 isn't necessarily compatible with apps that expect the full OpenGL spec to be supported...

OpenGL ES 2.0 is all about programmability... Perhaps some sort of translation driver could attempt to offer more complete OpenGL support that most Linux apps will expect.

Apple killing Atom support, dreams of netbook hackintoshers in next Snow Leopard release?

Nov 2nd 2009 1:44PM on Engadget

Wait, I must be missing something here. The Atom is ABI-compatible with the Core 2 Duo; it has identical exposed features as far as the OS is concerned. It also uses the same chipset as some of Apple's existing products (the 945GM).

I don't see how the Atom would require (or could even feature) any specific "support" to be removed.

In other words, it sounds to me like Apple is blocking, not disabling.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

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