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HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 Desktop PC

HP Firebird is fast, light and hard hitting. HP Firebird strikes a critical balance between style, performance, energy efficiency and a space-saving footprint.

HP Firebird’s thermal management was created to take advantage of natural convection to move cool air through the machine, as well as incorporating liquid cooling elements to keep core temps down. The addition of Voodoo’s signature factory-sealed liquid cooling system delivers no-maintenance operation, quiet running and solid reliability. Add an ultra-efficient power supply that’s kept outside the case, and the only thing that’ll be overheating is the competition.

Balanced Performance:

Everyone wants power, but few people want to drive a tank. HP Firebird blends an optimum combination of size, power, speed and stealth, in order to deliver balanced performance at levels beyond its price competition. High-end components like Intel® quad core processors, NVIDIA® GeForce® SLI graphics cards, and ample hard drive space won’t leave you wanting for performance. Plus, HP Firebird’s advanced hands-off thermal and power management delivers the performance you need, when you need it, while maintaining low acoustics, low power consumption and impressive efficiency.

Operating System:

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1

Motherboard:

NVIDIA® nForce® 760S SLI MCP

Processors:

Intel® Core 2™ Quad 2.66 GHz [Q9400]; 6MB L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB (802 model)

Intel® Core 2™ Quad 2.83 GHz [Q9550]; 12MB L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB (803 model)

Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

Memory:

4 GB PC2-6400/DDR2-800 MHz (2x2048MB)

Two DIMM slots supporting up to 8 GB of memory

Graphics:

Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800S with 512 MB GDDR3 in SLI configuration

The NVIDIA® GeForce® 9M-series of small form factor graphic technologies provides NVIDIA’s latest graphics technology in energy saving packages.

* HybridPower™ Technology

* NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD

Power Supply:

External power adapter for improved thermal management

* 350 watt external power adapter

Thermal Management:

Voodoo System Monitoring for thermal and acoustic management

* Factory sealed liquid cooling for processor, graphics card and motherboards

Networking and Wireless:

10/100/1000 Base-T (RJ45)

WLAN 802.11 b/g/n with internal antenna (803 model only)

Bluetooth™ with internal antenna (803 model only)

Audio and Peripherals:

Realtek Onboard Audio to support high definition Audio 5.1

Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Mini-PCIe module (803 model only)

Expansion:

ExpressCard™/54 external expansion slot

5-in-1 Digital Media Reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS-PRO, XD)

2 PCI-E x1 Mini Sockets slots (803 model has 1 slot occupied)

1 Mini-PCI socket for HP custom Audio card expansion (803 model only)

Keyboard and Mouse:

HP wireless optical mouse

HP low-profile wireless keyboard

Storage:

Two independent Serial ATA 2.5" hard drive bays with disk carriers. Non-OS disks are hot swappable.

2x 250 GB 5400 rpm SATA (802 model)

2x 320 GB 5400 rpm SATA (803 model)

Optical Drive:

Slim Slot-load SuperMulti DVD Burner (802 model only)

Slim Slot-load Combination Blu-ray HD Player & SuperMulti DVD Burner (803 model only)

Security:

Grisoft AVG Professional (1 year base standard)

Multimedia:

CyberLink Power2Go

CyberLink DVD Play

CyberLink PowerDirector (803 model only)

External Chassis:

All Aluminum chassis with easy access door

Kensington® lock slot

External top and bottom lighting with user settable colors

Clear door and interior lighting with user settable colors (803 model only)

Dimensions:

Width: 7.5"

Depth: 17.8"

Height front & rear: 18.9"

Weight: 24.4 lbs.

Electrical and Environmental Requirements:

Line Voltage: 100-120V AC

Frequency: 60Hz single phase

Current: Maximum of 12A

Operating Temperature: 50 deg. To 95 deg. F(10 to 35C)

Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing

Maximum Altitude: 10,000 feet

HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC

This is a next-generation, touch-enabled desktop with a 22" widescreen display. Also features integrated webcam and microphone.

Detailed Specs:

Processor Class: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Cache Size: 2 MB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Number of Installed Processors: 1
Installed Memory: 4 GB
Max System Memory: 8 GB
Memory Technology: DDR2
Memory Socket: SODIMM
Drive Controllers: Serial ATA
Interface Connection: Audio - Line In (1/8" Mini)|Audio - Line Out (1/8" Mini)|Audio - RCA Digital Coax (S/PDIF)|Bluetooth|Ethernet - RJ45|FireWire 400/IEEE 1394 - 4 pin|USB - Universal Serial Bus 2.0
Number of PCI-Express x1 Slots: 2
Number of PCI-Express x16 Slots: 1
Slots: Memory Stick|MultiMedia Card (MMC)|SD Card|SDHC Card|xD-Picture Card
Included Drives: DVD+-RW DL
Hard Drive Capacity: 500 GB
Number of Storage Drives Included: 1
Included Devices: Integrated Webcam|Keyboard|Microphone|Mouse
Included Monitor: Yes
Display Type: LCD
Display Size: 22 in
Max Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Video Bus: PCI Express x16
Included Speakers: Yes
Included Network Card: Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps)|Wireless Ethernet - IEEE802.11 Draft N|Wireless Ethernet - IEEE802.11b|Wireless Ethernet - IEEE802.11g
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Case
Chassis Style: All-In-One Desktop
Height: 19.45 in
Width: 26.18 in
Depth: 4.33 in
Warranty Information: 1 Year Limited Warranty

NASA New Worlds Mission

Kepler Mission Is a NASA Space Telescope Designed to Discover Earth-like Planets Orbiting Other Stars. Using a space Photometer Developed by NASA, it will observe the brightness of over 100,000 stars over 3.5 years to detect periodic Transits of a star by its planets as it orbits our Sun. The mission is named in honor of German astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Objectives :

· Determine how many terrestrial and larger planets there are in or near the habitable Zone of a wide variety of spectral types of stars.

· Determine the range of sizes and shapes of the orbits of these planets.

· Estimate how many planets there are in multiple-star systems.

· Determine the range of orbit size, brightness, size, mass and density of short-period giant planets.

· Identify additional members of each discovered planetary system using other techniques.

· Determine the properties of those stars that harbor planetary systems.

There are three possibilities for the New Worlds Mission:

1. New Worlds Discoverer would use either an existing space telescope (like the soon to be launched James Webb telescope), or a several meter diameter visible light telescope dedicated to finding exoplanets. The size of the starshade could be optimized for the observing telescope. The possibility of two starshades is also a consideration. One starshade to point towards the desired target while the other moves into position for the next target. This would eliminate the time delay in observing different systems and allow for many more targets to be observed in the same timespan.
2. New Worlds Observer would use two spacecraft and two starshades increase the angular resolution and allow better analysis of the exoplanet's composition
3. New Worlds Imager would use five spacecraft/starshades. This would allow observers to resolve the planet and obtain true planetary imaging.

General information:

· Organization:NASA

· Contractor : Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

· Launch date : March 7, 2009 03:49:57.465 UTC

· Launched from : Space Launch Complex 17-BCape Canaveral Air Force

· Station.

· Launch vehicle :Delta II.

· Mission length : 3.5 years

· Mass : 1,039 kilograms

· Type of orbit : Earth-trailing heliocentric

Status:

The observatory was launched on March 7, 2009 at 03:49:57 UTC (March 6, 10:49:57 EST) aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.The launch was a complete success and all three stages were successfully completed by 04:55 UTC. The spacecraft will be in a commissioning phase for approximately 60 days, undergoing calibration and testing before beginning scientific observation. It has so far returned good readings and calibration of the photometer has begun.

World largest laser is ready to fire

US engineers have completed the world most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself.

The size of a football field, comprises of 192 separate laser beams, each travelling 300m in a one thousandth of a second to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser.

While the NIF laser is expected to be used for a wide range of high energy and high density physics experiments, its primary purpose is to help government physicists ensure the reliability of the nations nuclear weapons as they become older.

The NNSA, a semi-independent arm of the Energy Department, oversees nuclear weapons programs.

The NIF laser was proposed in the early 1990s, when the project's cost was put at $1 billion.Construction began in 1997. Its early years were marked by setbacks including trouble, eventually overcome, in keeping its critical optics perfectly clean and free of dust.

NIF is expected to ramp up power gradually in a series of experiments over the next year, culminating at a power level in 2010 to achieve what scientists call fusion ignition. enough heat and pressure to fuse hydrogen atoms in a tiny cylindrical target. so that more energy is released than is generated by the laser beams themselves.

That is what happens when a hydrogen bomb explodes and inside the sun, at its centre. It's also what scientists would one day like to achieve on a continuing basis to produce a clean, safe form of energy by fusing atoms instead of splits them apart.

Edward Moses, director of the NIF project who has led its development since 1999, said he is ever more confident that NIF will achieve fusion ignition.

NIF's 192 laser beams produce 60 to 70 times more energy than a 60-beam system at the University of Rochester, which is the second most powerful laser.

In addition to helping diagnose the functioning of nuclear warheads, the NIF laser is expected to be used in astrophysics, allowing scientists to mimic conditions inside planets and new solar systems.