Dell has announced a couple of new consumer desktops. The Dimension 4550 goes for AU$1699 (including delivery) and has a 2.4 GHz P4, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB hard drive and 14" viewable monitor. The Dimension 8250 has a 2.66 GHz P4, double the RAM and hard disk space, and includes a 16x DVD and 16" viewable screen for AU$2,699 (including delivery). Both come with Windows XP, and have an option for the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 3-D graphics card, as well as a host of other add-on options.
For the small business user, Dell has introduced the PowerEdge 1600SC, which starts at around AU$2,200. It's a dual-processor machine, and Dell provides an "easy-to-use interface" for small business owners. It uses Intel Xeon processors, and can be configured quite heavily.
Canon Australia has gone ballistic again this week, bringing out a range of products. First, a couple of entry level Bubble Jet printers, both of which produce 2400 x 1200 dpi resolution, according to Canon. The AU$179 i320 delivers up to 10 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white and up to seven ppm in colour, and has a compact design. The s330 can print 14 ppm black and white and 10 ppm in colour, and goes for AU$249. Both printers feature borderless photo printing.
A more upmarket printer is available from Canon in the form of the LASER SHOT LBP-1120, which retails for AU$499. It prints at 600 x 600 dpi, but uses Canon's Automatic Image Refinement, which is claimed to deliver the equivalent of 2400 x 600 dpi.
Two new scanners are also on the market, the AU$499 CanoScan 5000F and the AU$599 CanoScan 8000F. They both offer a resolution output of 2400 x 4800 and have multi-scan functions, according to Canon. The only difference we can see between the two is the 8000F can scan up to 12 frames of 35mm film in a single pass while the 5000F can scan only three frames.
GFI has beefed up its anti-spam measures on the GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7.1. It's a server-based solution that checks the content, header and source of an e-mail to identify it as spam. It goes for US$225 for 10 mailboxes, and a 60 day free trial is available on the site.
Toshiba has released the TLP-260 LCD multimedia projector, which weighs in at 3.2 kilograms. Toshiba reckons it can project crisp, clear images and pure colour reproduction from the PAL, NTSC, SECAM and S-Video signal input with SVGA. It can also do 16:9 for cinema style viewing. It has an RRP of AU$5,299.
Draco Systems Design has released an object storage manager, Draco OSM. The system is browser based, avoiding client downloads, and can run on "virtually any OS", according to Draco. There's a test-drive of the product available, but no apparent costing.
HHD Software has released a serial port monitoring utility, Serial Monitor 2.10. It operates on Windows NT4.0, 2000 and XP, and is designed to let users monitor the data sent and received through serial ports, reverse engineer serial protocols and even test software which makes use of serial ports. It requires 32MB RAM and 5MB HD, and costs US$69.99. There's a trial version available, which is limited to 100 session usage.
Apple has announced a new notebook line, the Titanium PowerBook G4, which has PowerPC G4 processors running at up to 1 GHz and a SuperDrive, which can read and burn CDs and DVDs. The line starts at AU$4,995, and goes up from there.
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