Toshiba  introduced their latest SSD wonder, the industry’s first 2.5” 512GB SSD, the THNS512GG8B.
We don’t have any details on the price, however, Toshiba announced that it wil displayl this almighty beast next January at the CES 2009.
TOKYO–Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) today announced the expansion of their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry’s first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte (GB) SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-Level Cell NAND. The new drives provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems, and will be showcased at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 to 11, 2009.

Toshiba will continue to promote innovations that widen the horizons of the NAND Flash market and support its continued leadership in that market. The company will spur demand for SSD in notebook PCs, netbooks and digital consumer products by enhancing its lineup, offering products with different densities and interfaces in a range of packages, while advancing device performance.

We only just learned about the HDMI upgrade to the Asus Eee Box line with the B204 and B206 models, but there’s another update coming in the B203: A Celeron instead of Atom.Liliputing is reporting via an Italian Eee PC site that the Intel C220 Celeron upgrade is pretty much the only difference between the B203 and the original Eee Box B202. The chip replaces the Intel Atom chip that currently dominates the line.

The rest is pretty standard stuff. It runs Windows XP (Asus “recommends” Vista, cha-ching!), and comes with an 80, 120 or 160GB hard drive. There’s also 4 USB ports, a flash card reader, DVI out, Ethernet port and wifi. Pricing wasn’t available, but Liliputing expects it to check in slightly lower than the Atom version.

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