The summer is not the best time for our notebook: With the increasing temperatures, the cooling system of the laptop can go into crisis, unable to dispose of the heat from the processor, video card and hard drive. Fans and heat pipe are no longer enough to restore to normal temperature inside the houses, causing slowdowns, crashes and sudden increased wear.

Not always cleaning the chassis and replace the thermal grease can solve the problem completely. The only remedy in such cases is to make use of an external cooling system, such as a cooling base (also known coolerpad). In the market there are different bases of cooling and power systems that use different technologies, adapting to different needs (leisure, work or study). Can be divided into two macro-categories: active and passive cooling bases, depending on the presence or absence of fans or other moving parts.

Active cooling systems Zalman NC1000 and NC2000

The house offers two models Korean modern design, ergonomic, designed to minimize fatigue of the user can set at will the height of the legs. The two models NC1000 (for notebooks up to 15 ") and NC2000 (for notebooks up to 17") consist of a layer of aluminum 3mm, elegantly curved with excellent cooling. The design is a single body, composed of different materials for an elegant result in a smaller footprint.

Onda Communication, a leader in the field of mobile telecommunications and computers, in agreement with Siano Mobile Silicon, a leading supplier of advanced solutions for MDTV, and CyberLink, a world leader in digital entertainment and multimedia software, has submitted T he first PC card for mobile digital TV (MDTV), a modem that supports DVB-H and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access). Addressed to the market for desktop and laptop computers, the PC Card DVB-H/HSDPA will be initially marketed by TIM, with the codename DT501HS, allowing users to access, anywhere and with ease, a wide spectrum of multimedia and data transmission, such as movies, music and sporting events.

"We consider this product as a natural extension of our current products DVB-H and HSDPA" said Michelangelo Agrusti, president of Wave. "Italy was the first European country to commercially develop the DVB-H, and the service now covers the entire territory. This new product now allows consumers to turn their desktop or notebook PC in the center of all multimedia applications and data and can simultaneously access the TV and interactive services. With a laptop, the customer can not only receive the content but also store, edit, forward, obtaining more value from your subscription DVB-H.

In July last year we had reported the U.S. launch of a Connect Card Asus T500 3G HSDPA ExpressCard, a PCMCIA card for notebooks that allows users to connect to the Internet through cellular networks UMTS / HSDPA, but on this occasion we were not able to provide information about his availability.

The news is that Asus to distribute the card UMTS / HSDPA 3G ExpressCard T500 also on the Italian market, starting from the month of November, at a price of 199 euros.