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Owners of second-gen MacBook Airs have gained much-requested Trim support for the SSDs in their skinny computers thanks to Apple’s latest OS X update.

The Trim command can be issued to compatible solid-state drives to tell them which data are no longer considered in use and so can be erased by the drive itself.

This essentially ensures subsequent writes can be made to blocks the SSD knows to be empty, saving it from having to check and, if necessary, erase the block before writing the new data.

The upshot: faster writes and no performance degradation over time, because blocks marked empty actually are empty.

Apple add the Trim command to the version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard code for the latest MacBook Pros, released earlier this year and which have SSD build-to-order options.

Older SSD-equipped Macs, including the SSD-only Airs, lacked Trim support until last week’s release of Mac OS X 10.6.8, Air-owning forum posters at MacRumors have discovered.

Across-the-range Trim support wasn’t previously expected to debut until Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Do the Air drives also support Trim?

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NVIDIA have another leak and this one is quite good, they’ve been showing an unnamed GPU running in SLI, powering Crysis 2. The clip below shows the DirectX 11 version of Crysis 2 running at 1080p with tessellation enabled via the high-resolution texture pack. It runs very smooth considering the game is not only maxed out, but running in DX11 and including high-res textures! Impressive NVIDIA!  
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Today, at the press event held in Singapore, Sony Ericsson unveils another Xperia member, the Xperia ray.

With a 3.3” screen and running the latest Android platform for smartphones (Gingerbread 2.3), the phone packs in a powerful 1Ghz processor, Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine, a 8.1mp camera with Exmor R™ for mobile and HD video functionality. At only 9.4mm thin, Xperia™ ray incorporates market leading design for which Sony Ericsson has become known.

 
To add to a full set of specifications, the phone incorporates a front facing camera and a scratch resistant screen with excellent resolution and brightness and integrated touch keys.  Sony Ericsson’s unique integration of Facebook inside Xperia™  delivers a unique consumer experience for greater social interaction. In combinatio

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If you were to check out Xbox live Tile on your Windows Phone 7 today, you will be delighted as the long awaiting game Angry birds has landed on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Check it and play it today on your WP7.