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Pinnacle Micro was started by the Blum family:
William Blum and Nellie Blum, both 59, and their son Scott Blum, 29.
After a 30-year career at mostly big firms in Silicon Valley, William
Blum started the firm in 1987 as a maker of add-on memory boards. Memory
boards made some money, but it did not take Blum long to realize that
the memory was destined to be a commodity. Looking for a less
commodity-like product, the Blums decided to become resellers of Sony's
magneto-optical disk drive. Customers complained that the drive was too
slow and expensive. So the Blums decided to invest in some research and
development on the side, secretly opening a lab in Colorado with the
mission of making a rewritable, high-density drive as fast as a magnetic
hard disk. In 1992, Pinnacle began selling a disk drive with the
capacity, access, and retrieval speed of a hard disk, but the important
difference is that the disk could be plucked out like a floppy.
Pinnacle's current model packs 650 meagabytes of information on a disk.
It is not the first time we review a keyboard from Gigabyte as we tested their KM7600 series which was targeted at the generic PC user. Then a year later Gigabyte started with the AIVIA keyboard series targeted at gamers, once we reviewed the K8100 we where certainly impressed as their first ever entry in the gaming scene keyboards wise had been a successful one.
More recently mechanical keyboards have become the norm for gamers though and as such Gigabyte decided to drop the good old dome based keyboards and pursued the cherry MX switch based keys as well. As such today we'll have a peek at the all new Aivia Osmium keyboard. For their first real 'mechy' quite an impressive product.
The Osmium has been released under Gigabyte's Aivia branding and comes with a lot of features that should be appealing to you as a gamer. For example integrated USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports (through a HUB). The Osmium is a mechanical keyboard, as such is has been equipped with RED flavored switches (preferred by many). These keys have will be long-lived and can withstand a severe beating bringing you the stuff you as a gamer like so much.
We have seen it on several keyboard before already, but the Osmium is equipped with anti-ghosting capability which means multi-key presses at the same time are an option, again something gamers are after. You can press many keys at the same time without the keyboard input coming towards a grinding halt, using my ten fingers simultaneously was not an issue.
The Osmium comes with several macro-keys, some local storage for the macro profiles and quick cycling through macro-profiles.
The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI), therefore 1 gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB or Gbyte, but not Gb (lower case b) which is typically used for the gigabit.
Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes. For instance, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined the unit accordingly for the use in power switchgear.[2] In 2000, however, IEEE adopted the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recommendation, which uses the metric prefix interpretation.
Today the usage of the unit gigabyte continues to depend on the context. When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 109 bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker. This also applies to data transmission quantities over telecommunication circuits, as the telecommunications and computer networking industries have always used the SI prefixes with their standards-based meaning. When referring to RAM sizes it most often (see binary prefix adoption) has a binary interpretation of 10243 bytes, i.e. as an alias for gibibyte. File systems and software often list file sizes or free space in some mixture of SI units and binary units; they sometimes use SI prefixes to refer to binary interpretation – that is using a label of gigabyte or GB for a number computed in terms of gibibytes (GiB), continuing the confusion.
In order to address this the International Electrotechnical Commission has been promoting the use of the term gibibyte for the binary definition. This position is endorsed by other standards organizations including the IEEE, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), but the binary prefixes have seen limited acceptance. The JEDEC industry consortium continues to recommend the IEEE 100 nomenclature of using the metric prefixes kilo, mega and giga in their binary interpretation for memory manufacturing designations
Secondary lines in the company's product portfolio include desktop computer, laptops, tablet computers,[2] Ultrabooks (Gigabyte U2442N[3] scheduled for release in Q2 2012[4]), server motherboards, server racks, optical disc drives, liquid crystal display (LCD), monitors, keyboards, mice, cooling components, mobile phones (GSmart) and high end mobile phone products (personal digital assistant (PDA) phone, TV phone etc.), networking equipment, power supplies, and a line of computer cases.
Gigabyte was the first company in the world to produce a software controlled power supply for desktop computers, the ODIN GT series.
April 2011: Gigabyte S1080 is a tablet computer powered by an Intel Atom processor. A dual booting version is expected, i.e., each time it starts it can run one of two operating systems: Android, or Windows 7
keyboard:
It is not the first time we review a keyboard from Gigabyte as we tested their KM7600 series which was targeted at the generic PC user. Then a year later Gigabyte started with the AIVIA keyboard series targeted at gamers, once we reviewed the K8100 we where certainly impressed as their first ever entry in the gaming scene keyboards wise had been a successful one.
More recently mechanical keyboards have become the norm for gamers though and as such Gigabyte decided to drop the good old dome based keyboards and pursued the cherry MX switch based keys as well. As such today we'll have a peek at the all new Aivia Osmium keyboard. For their first real 'mechy' quite an impressive product.
The Osmium has been released under Gigabyte's Aivia branding and comes with a lot of features that should be appealing to you as a gamer. For example integrated USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports (through a HUB). The Osmium is a mechanical keyboard, as such is has been equipped with RED flavored switches (preferred by many). These keys have will be long-lived and can withstand a severe beating bringing you the stuff you as a gamer like so much.
We have seen it on several keyboard before already, but the Osmium is equipped with anti-ghosting capability which means multi-key presses at the same time are an option, again something gamers are after. You can press many keys at the same time without the keyboard input coming towards a grinding halt, using my ten fingers simultaneously was not an issue.
The Osmium comes with several macro-keys, some local storage for the macro profiles and quick cycling through macro-profiles.
Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes. For instance, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined the unit accordingly for the use in power switchgear.[2] In 2000, however, IEEE adopted the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recommendation, which uses the metric prefix interpretation.
Today the usage of the unit gigabyte continues to depend on the context. When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 109 bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker. This also applies to data transmission quantities over telecommunication circuits, as the telecommunications and computer networking industries have always used the SI prefixes with their standards-based meaning. When referring to RAM sizes it most often (see binary prefix adoption) has a binary interpretation of 10243 bytes, i.e. as an alias for gibibyte. File systems and software often list file sizes or free space in some mixture of SI units and binary units; they sometimes use SI prefixes to refer to binary interpretation – that is using a label of gigabyte or GB for a number computed in terms of gibibytes (GiB), continuing the confusion.
In order to address this the International Electrotechnical Commission has been promoting the use of the term gibibyte for the binary definition. This position is endorsed by other standards organizations including the IEEE, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), but the binary prefixes have seen limited acceptance. The JEDEC industry consortium continues to recommend the IEEE 100 nomenclature of using the metric prefixes kilo, mega and giga in their binary interpretation for memory manufacturing designations
Company
Established in 1986, its major customers include custom boutique PC manufacturers such as Alienware and Falcon Northwest. Mr. Yeh Pei-Cheng founded GigaByte Technology Co. Ltd. in 1986 and has been its Chairman since 1986.[1] Gigabyte is considered a Tier 1 motherboard manufacturer (based on units sold) along with Micro-Star International (MSI), Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Asus.Products
In addition to the design and manufacture of motherboards hosting AMD and Intel processors, the company also makes graphics cards built around the AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, such as the GeForce GTX590 and Radeon HD 7970.Secondary lines in the company's product portfolio include desktop computer, laptops, tablet computers,[2] Ultrabooks (Gigabyte U2442N[3] scheduled for release in Q2 2012[4]), server motherboards, server racks, optical disc drives, liquid crystal display (LCD), monitors, keyboards, mice, cooling components, mobile phones (GSmart) and high end mobile phone products (personal digital assistant (PDA) phone, TV phone etc.), networking equipment, power supplies, and a line of computer cases.
Gigabyte was the first company in the world to produce a software controlled power supply for desktop computers, the ODIN GT series.
April 2011: Gigabyte S1080 is a tablet computer powered by an Intel Atom processor. A dual booting version is expected, i.e., each time it starts it can run one of two operating systems: Android, or Windows 7
keyboard:
It is not the first time we review a keyboard from Gigabyte as we tested their KM7600 series which was targeted at the generic PC user. Then a year later Gigabyte started with the AIVIA keyboard series targeted at gamers, once we reviewed the K8100 we where certainly impressed as their first ever entry in the gaming scene keyboards wise had been a successful one.
More recently mechanical keyboards have become the norm for gamers though and as such Gigabyte decided to drop the good old dome based keyboards and pursued the cherry MX switch based keys as well. As such today we'll have a peek at the all new Aivia Osmium keyboard. For their first real 'mechy' quite an impressive product.
The Osmium has been released under Gigabyte's Aivia branding and comes with a lot of features that should be appealing to you as a gamer. For example integrated USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports (through a HUB). The Osmium is a mechanical keyboard, as such is has been equipped with RED flavored switches (preferred by many). These keys have will be long-lived and can withstand a severe beating bringing you the stuff you as a gamer like so much.
We have seen it on several keyboard before already, but the Osmium is equipped with anti-ghosting capability which means multi-key presses at the same time are an option, again something gamers are after. You can press many keys at the same time without the keyboard input coming towards a grinding halt, using my ten fingers simultaneously was not an issue.
The Osmium comes with several macro-keys, some local storage for the macro profiles and quick cycling through macro-profiles.
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