ThinkStation C20 redefining expectations for a small dual socket workstation. Meanwhile, the ThinkStation C20x offers an extra boost of memory and more powerful processors, making it the highest performance workstation of this form factor.

The Lenovo ThinkStation C20 and C20x which is a rack mounted workstation are powered by dual-processors and offers professional features like ISV certified drivers, ECC RAM and a tool-less chassis. The system also include massive RAM storage with 6 DIMM slots in the C20 and a mind-boggling 12 DIMM slots in the rack mounted C20x, in total delivering upto 48-GB RAM in the C20 and 96-GB in the C20x workstation.

Lenovo designed the ThinkStation C20 and C20x workstations with the ultra-compact, number-crunching performance needed to drive financial markets.

With space at a premium at standard traders’ desks, the C20′s small size — it’s 46% smaller than the Dell Precision T5500 and 31 percent smaller than the HP Z600 workstation, without compromising on performance.

Its size allows for more ThinkStation workstations to be installed in a rack or trader desk versus the competition. An analyst can also attach and run up to eight monitors.

Lenovo engineered many industry “firsts” to package high performance into such a compact design. New Lenovo-developed technologies include a patented slim, rotatable optical drive and a tri-channel cooling system.

The Lenovo C20 and C20x workstations offer:

• Choices of Intel Xeon 5600 Series processors
• Up to 96GB of DDR3 memory on the C20x with 12 available DIMM slots
• Up to two NVIDIA FX4800 class graphics
• Native SAS support on the C20x
• Certified for compatibility with SBFI Trading and Control Room Furniture

According to Andrew Plumbly, International Business Director, SBFI, Ltd, that the smaller size and reduced heat output of the ThinkStation C20 and C20x workstations will provide greater flexibility for users who have high processing requirements and are a great match for our products which will enable users to do more with the space they have.

Pricing and Availability
The ThinkStation C20 and C20x workstations will be available in mid-June with models of the C20 on the web starting at approximately $1,199 through business partners.

The world’s first 3D PC has all of the following three functionalities:

• The ability to record 3D video using two built-in cameras
• The ability to watch Blu-ray 3D(TM) movies
• The ability to convert commercially available 2D DVDs into 3D

The 3D videos available on YouTube and other Internet sites need to be compatible with the circular polarization technology employed in this product to be viewable and Fujitsu does not guarantee that all 3D videos on the Internet can be viewed in 3D.

Commercially available 2D DVD movies conversion to 3D is not available for Blu-ray Disc movies.

FH550/3AM: All-in-one entertainment desktop PC model with full 3D functionality

Expected to commence shipment for the Japanese market will begin June 17, 2010, the The FH550/3AM, an all-in-one PC featuring a 20″ widescreen LCD, is the world’s first model to be integrated with three types of 3D functions viz. 3D contents viewing, conversion from 2D to 3D, and 3D contents creation.

View Blu-ray 3D(TM) contents

The FH550/3AM is compatible with next-generation Blu-ray 3D standard, enabling users to enjoy 3D Blu-ray contents at home. Furthermore, it is also possible for users to view 3D videos available on YouTube and other Internet sites.

Convert 2D videos and watch them in 3D

Users can convert commercially available 2D DVD movies in real time and watch them in 3D. In addition, 2D to 3D conversion is available for various PC games.

Record 3D videos using a 3D web camera

Two built-in web cameras enable the recording of original 3D videos with sound, as well as taking 3D photographs. With this function, users can send 3D video letters, bringing to life messages, to friends and family.

The computer employs circular polarization technology for 3D video display, enabling a flicker-free, easy-to-see 3D viewing environment. In addition, the PC includes a variety of 3D contents and games, allowing users to enjoy the world of 3D immediately after purchasing.

With the aim of enhancing its global presence and product competitiveness, beginning with this series, Fujitsu has unified its PC product names worldwide under the global brands LIFEBOOK (for notebook PCs, formerly FMV-BIBLO) and ESPRIMO (for desktop PCs, formerly FMV-DESKPOWER).

IP Video Systems’ V2D XP 100 small form factor design brings our state-of-the-art Ultra HD encoding and decoding technologies to the remote office. Optimized for real-time ultra HD high-resolution video and desktop graphics sharing and collaboration, the V2D XP 100 offers unparalleled interactive experience among users on a global basis.

The small, compact design – 1.75” x 6.25” x 9.5” (H X W x D) – allows the V2D XP 100 to be easily installed in a conference area, meeting room or office environment.

The XP 100 is fully TeleCollaboration capable, offering the same ultra HD resolution support (4 megapixels and beyond) as their other XP product line offerings.

The V2D XP 100 integrates easily with our XMPP-based, Version 3.x Management Software, allowing role-based and rule-based stream access in any secure environment. With the XP 100 real-time collaboration, video conferencing with multiple stream recording, and distribution over IP networks becomes more accessible than ever.

IP Video Systems’ V2D XP 100 provides a full dual-link DVI-I input/output interface for local monitor loop back and remote video overlay in decoder mode with remote desktop application control using the local USB keyboard and mouse.

IP Video Systems’ Digital Media Servers (DMS 100/200/1200/1500) are capable of recording and storing video streams encoded with V2D encoders/decoders as well as standards-based stream formats including UDP, DIS, MPEG4, MPEG-2 TS and H.264. IP Video Systems also offers a software desktop client viewer that lets enterprises manage multiple HD video TeleCollaboration sessions with real-time viewing, recording, and distribution over IP networks.

IP Video Systems products are used worldwide in visual collaboration applications ranging from real-time simulation and training in defense, to remote operations and monitoring in oil & gas exploration, and real-time training in medical and remote surgical procedures.

To learn more about the V2D XP-100 and IP Video Systems visit www.ipvideosys.com

The SharkRack’s new cabinets will be 84 inches tall accommodating up to 44U of usable rack space. The data center cabnets will also feature a width of 30 inches and a depth of 48 inches.

Key features of the new Integrity line of Data Center Cambets:

(1) EIA-310-D compliant- meaning that all equipment certified under this standard is “Integrity Cabinet Ready” including equipment from leading manufacturers of servers and networking gear.

(2) Can accommodate cabinet power strips with lengths up to 78 inches permitting the increased use of Smart and Switched units.

(3) Dynamic and static load ratings of 2500 pounds.

(4) European Commission RoHS compliant.

(5) Will feature SharkRack’s patented “SharkFin” perforation pattern.

SharkRack’s engineering team has advised the new cabinets have already been made available for order and claims that this new line of cabinet will help meet the demand of their customers who utilize denser high computing environments and the Integrity line not only supports blade and other high density servers but also high density and high range switches as well.

For more information about the Integrity cabinets, visit www.sharkrack.com.

Equipped with a 21.5-inch widescreen panel which offers maximum native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, the entry-level priced VAIO J-Series’s displays high-definition content in Full HD. Select models feature a Blu-ray Disc optical drive so you can enjoy movies in stunning 1080p high definition.

Featuring a stylish, compact design the Sony VAIO J-Series All-in-One PC comes with an adjustable stand to help you adjust it to meet your desired viewing or touch angle or simply to decrease the slant for space-saving. A wireless keyboard and mouse that can easily be stored under the unit’s display are included.

Sony claims that the J Series allows consumers interact with their PC enabling them to tap, drag, zoom, rotate and engage with their content and entertainment like never before. And with its attractive price point, this cutting-edge technology will reach a whole new audience.

The J Series comes with three unique hardware buttons—VAIO, ASSIST and DISPLAY OFF to get you to where you want to go with a touch of a button.

Launch directly into Sony’s own Media Gallery software by pushing the designated VAIO button and simplify your music library. With Media Gallery you can automatically create 21 unique channels of music based on beat, tone, rhythm and other elements. It also enables you to rediscover forgotten favorites by recommending content you already own based on your unique listening and viewing habits.

Sony VAIO J-Series all-in-one PC facilitate simple do-it-yourself PC maintenance procedures by pressing the ASSIST button and launching the included VAIO Care software program. Finally a DISPLAY OFF button is included so you can turn off your screen for privacy or to perform nighttime applications without sending your PC into hibernation.

By utilizing built-in wireless 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi technology and your wireless router (required, sold separately), users can position the model virtually anywhere in your home and access the Internet, email or home network.

Sony VAIO J-Series All-in-one PC also features a built-in webcam with face-tracking technology and microphone allowing video chat with colleagues and friends. Included Webcam Message Board software makes it easy to create video messages or leave handwritten notes on the screen. A third-party internet service provider is required.

Sony VAIO J-Series All-in-one PC packs a powerful 2010 Intel Core processor, loads of RAM, and an optional dedicated NVIDIA GeForce series dedicated graphics for graphic-intense gaming and movies. It also comes with Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional 64-bit operating system preinstalled.

The VAIO J-Series Touch All-in-one PC will start at about $900. It is available for pre-orders today online at www.sonystyle.com/pr/jseries. It will also be sold at Sony Style stores and select retailers around the country starting next month.

Adding to the already powerful lineup of HP Performance Displays, the 30- inch diagonal display provides 30-bits per pixel color resolution and 1.07 billion displayable colors, compared to 16.7 million colors available on most 30-inch diagonal panels.

Ideal for professionals in animation, game development, broadcast, design and graphic arts where accurate color is imperative, the HP ZR30w achieves more than 64 times the colors available on mainstream LCDs. With a wide gamut panel that covers 100 percent of sRGB and 99 percent of Adobe RGB, reds, blues and greens are visibly deeper.

“HP continues to drive innovation in the monitor space with solutions that push the boundaries of traditional panel technology,” said Jun Kim, Vice President and General Manager, Display Business Unit, HP. “The HP ZR30w is the latest example of our commitment to provide customers with the technology they demand to push the limits of creativity and increase ROI.”

The new HP ZR30w features 4.1 million pixels, to achieve maximum accuracy, and touts a resolution of 2560 x 1600 in a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, for brilliant visual performance.

Building on the HP ZR30w’s wide viewing angles and outstanding visual performance technologies, the monitor is equipped with DisplayPort and DVI-D inputs, an integrated 4-port USB hub and an HP Quick Release for simple out-of-the-box set up.

The HP ZR30w enables maximum comfort and best visual positioning with a 6-way adjustable stand that provides tilt, swivel and height adaptability.

The performance monitor features a brushed aluminum industrial design that is complementary to HP’s Z Workstations, and uses a minimum of 25 percent post-consumer recycled resin. Additionally, the monitor houses a lower power panel and comes with an 85 percent efficient power supply.

HP also introduced the Compaq S1922 and Compaq S2021 Widescreen LCD Monitors that are designed for small and medium businesses that want value and reliability.

The Compaq S1922 and S2021’s VGA inputs make “plug and play” connectivity quick and easy, while adjustable tilt settings enable best visual positioning and VESA mounting capabilities free up desk space. The monitors also offer guaranteed out-of-the-box compatibility with HP business products and HP monitor options.

Available in 18.5- and 20-inch diagonal sizes, both displays feature a broad 16:9 aspect ratios, fast 5 ms response times and 5,000:1 dynamic contrast ratios. The Compaq S1922 features wide resolutions to 1366 x 768, while the Compaq S2021 offers resolutions to 1600 x 900.

Both Compaq monitors use lower power consumption panels that contain 50 percent less mercury than other four lamp LCD monitors on the market.

Pricing and availability

The HP ZR30w LCD Monitor is available for a starting price of U.S. $1,299 while the Compaq S1922 and S2021 are available in the U.S. at $125 and $140, respectively.

This is the strictest memory testing standard in the industry, designed for dedicated gamers and overclockers, but becoming increasingly popular with more mainstream audiences. Few pass XMP with such flying colors, demonstrating the quality and sheer capabilities of ASUS hardware.

ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard features ASUS Xtreme Design, aimed at enthusiasts, gamers and benchmarkers. Testing has established its great performance and stability, explaining the achievement of the new record.

The X58 chipset-based P6X58D Premium boosted the triple channel DDR3 to 2333MHz together with an Intel Core i7-980X processor and Kingston HyperX triple-channel DDR3 memory.

In another milestone, the Intel P55-based ASUS P7P55D-E Series of motherboards recently hosted record-breaking dual-channel DDR3 memory clocked at 2.5GHz, the fastest ever of its type.

The AMD 890FX-based Republic of Gamers Crosshair IV Formula motherboard has also gained from extreme testing and envelope pushing, featuring the first high performance dual channel DDR3 for AMD users.

ASUS also showcased its latest technologies, including Dual Intelligent Processors and Core Unlocker on motherboards, as well as the latest NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics cards.

With one in every three PCs worldwide featuring an ASUS motherboard, the pioneering company takes its leadership role to heart, leveraging resources and expertise to come up with ever more creative technology.

As the premier provider of motherboards and graphics cards, ASUS shows the way with exclusive features such as Core Unlocker, Turbo Unlocker and the Dual Intelligent Processors architecture. Additional recent innovations include the first widescale implementation of USB 3.0 and user-friendly autotuning for superior overclocking.

New Technology Motherboards

Based on a legacy of unrivalled leadership in motherboard design and manufacture, ASUS continues to innovate with new ideas that enable and empower consumers. The new Turbo Unlocker optimizes CPU ratios and boosts performance whenever added workload handling is needed. The new technology extends to the latest Unlocked Intel® Core processors, and offers significant performance improvements for better multitasking media-intensive tasks.

“The desktop performance tuning market is an exciting one where ASUS and Intel have been leaders for many years,”commented Zane Ball, General Manager of the Desktop Platforms Division at Intel. “Turbo Unlocker is a powerful utility that will enable performance tuners to take full advantage of Intel Extreme Edition and Unlocked enthusiast processors.”

The Dual Intelligent Processors bring even more innovation, featuring the TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) and EPU (Energy Processing Unit) in a dual-processing architecture that eases system loads while maximizing power efficiency across the board. No one other than ASUS has been able to deliver all these at a great value to consumers and with absolute reliability – these are the results of decades-long leadership.

New motherboards such as the M4A89/M4A88/M4A87 Series also deliver Core Unlocker to activate latent AMD CPU cores for added performance, the most complete and effective solution of its kind.

New Technology Graphics Cards

ASUS has focused efforts on becoming a vanguard in graphics cards, seamlessly ushering new technology, to be displayed at Computex. This includes the latest graphics engine from NVIDIA, helping enthusiasts make use of ASUS leadership in a timely manner.

The new ENGTX400 series graphics cards from ASUS are based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 400 series technology, formerly known as Fermi, and add to the design with exclusives such as Voltage Tweak, which can speed up the GPU by up to 50%.

The ample power of these DX11 cards takes gaming and graphics to a whole new level, made even better looking through intelligent image improvement technologies such as ASUS Splendid HD. They further add full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, extending the three dimensional gaming and movie experience to the home, even on multiple screens.

As the forefront provider of graphics cards worldwide, ASUS is perfectly positioned to offer solutions tailored to the needs of the community, while at the same time giving it the resources to invest in future technologies.

This easy-to-install add-on card enables speed enthusiasts to connect USB 3.0-compatible peripherals to their desktop PC and experience data transfer rates up to ten times faster than USB 2.0 with optimized power efficiency.

For users who are not prepared to upgrade their entire computer system for the sole purpose of adding USB 3.0 functionality, Transcend’s PCIe USB 3.0 Expansion Card is a perfect solution that allows them to join the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 revolution.

The card’s PCI Express 2.0 single lane connection interface is compatible with virtually all current motherboards, and guarantees unrestricted two-way communication between the computer and any USB devices plugged into the card.

The USB 3.0 Expansion Card is equipped with two external USB ports that fully support the new USB 3.0 standard with connection bandwidth of up to 5Gb/s, which is ten times faster than USB 2.0 specifications.

With Transcend`s USB 3.0 Expansion Card, users can finally take the full advantage of their USB 3.0 external hard drives and USB flash drives without being limited by the insufficient bandwidth of the previous USB technologies.

The USB 3.0 card is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1, so users can rest assured that their older devices will still work with the new interface.

Besides offering faster transfer rates, the Transcend PCI Express USB 3.0 card supplies 900mA of power per USB port, allowing about 80% more power to be available for connected devices (USB 2.0 only provides 500mA) allowing power-hungry devices will operate with increased stability, and battery-powered devices will be able to charge more quickly.

The PCI Express USB 3.0 Expansion Card is fully compatible with Windows 7, and is backed by Transcend’s 2-year warranty.

Google is seeking to challenge the predominance of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, which currently runs on more than 90 percent of all personal computers worldwide but considered by security experts as more vulnerable for threats from virus and hacking threats due to its inherent buggy code structure.

Google claims that providing open source platforms will allow the market to make the best determination about what operating system will work best in the mass market.

The initial release of Chrome system has been designed to work on laptop PCs, Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of the Chrome project told reporters at the Computex PC show.

Chrome OS for personal computers is believed to leverage web apps, HTML5’s offline modes, background processing, and notifications, company claims.

Google also indicated that the Chrome Web Store will also open at the same time (around Q3 this year) to enable users download Web applications that can be installed on the Chrome OS for personal computers.

Interestingly, only Acer was recently rumoured to be amongst Google’s first manufacturing partners for Chrome OS – a rumour that the laptop maker was quick to scotch. Google said ‘but we expect to hear more announcements on that front very soon’.

“Chrome OS for PC is one of the few future operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work,” Pichai said. “You don’t need to redesign Gmail for it to work on Chrome. Facebook does not need to write a new app for Chrome.”

The Chrome operating system will be centred around the web browser, with all software including high-end applications such as those used in photo and video editing housed in external servers known as a cloud.