Daily Reviews Summary 03/06/11

The CeBIT 2011 computer fair in Hanover showed also in this year a lot of new products.
On the following 11 pages of our CeBIT 2011 report you will see over 130 pictures with some new products of the IT-industry.
This ocinside.de CeBIT 2011 report is hardware related and contains new mobile products, 3D products, motherboards, mediaplayer, chassis, cooler, PSUs, SSDs and memory modules.
It is only available in German language, but it is worth watching the pictures or use a translation tool to discover the latest trends.

Intel took the SSD realm by storm this week with the long awaited release of their first 510 series SATA 3 SSD. Although consumers were anxious for the news, reviewers had to remain tight lipped having received their pre-release sample a day or so prior and being sworn to silence until Intels release date of 29 Feb 11. We can say first hand that this was a very difficult task as Intel floored reviewers on their disassembly of the SSD itself. Situated front and center was a Marvell 9174 SATA 3 controller soldered to the SSD circuit board (PCB) rather than the Intel controller that everyone had expected.

Intel certainly treated this as the 'Colonels Recipe' and, outside of Intel, their wasn't a person who had the information prior to opening the drive. In fact, Intel even waited until the very last minute to get samples to reviewers which was a bit uncharacteristic as we learned with our review of the Intel 310 mSATA SSD a few weeks prior.

After our review of the GS1000i headphones we were inundated with emails, asking if we could review Grado's most expensive headphones, the elusive Professional Series 1000 (PS1000). With a staggering retail price around £1,700 these are a serious purchase, for a very serious music lover.

Having an expensive set of headphones is pointless if the rest of the system build is incapable of delivering the quality of signal we need. This is where Graham Slee comes into the equation.

Those who thought the Brazos platform would be revolutionary might be disappointed because it's not. The new solution is, without a doubt, slightly faster than Pine Trail, but it belongs to the same class in terms of processor performance. Neither solution can compete with three-year-old low-end desktop processors.