Drive a Hybrid Car and Reduce Fuel Costs
With gas prices tipping over $4 a gallon and continuing to rise, more consumers are looking to hybrid cars for a near term solution to the increasing cost of getting from A to B. The old excuses of hybrid cars being “too expensive” and the idea that the hybrid premium was a deterrent, simply no longer apply.
It is now possible to recoup the 2k to 3k hybrid premium in a shorter timescale than was previously possible. For instance at $3 a gallon one could expect to get around 20 miles down the road. Now, to travel the same distance costs $4. Calculating that a motorist will do an average of 50 miles a day he or she will now pay $10 a day for gas, as against $7.50 when it was $3 a gallon.
Multiplied by a year that amounts to around $2,700, on fuel costs at $3 a gallon. However that is now costing $3,600 at today’s $4 a gallon. In other words every $1 increase in a gallon of gas costs the average consumer an extra $900 a year in fuel costs alone.
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PLAYSTATION®3 Tech Specs
PLAYSTATION®3 40GB system
Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi*
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Wireless Controller Bluetooth (up to 7)
A/V Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI**: HDMI out - (x1 / HDMI)
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Blu-ray/DVD/CD DRIVE “read only”
I/O
USB 2.0 X 2
Dimensions
Approximately 325mm (W) x 98mm (H) x 274mm (D)
Weight
Approximately 5 kg
CPU
Cell Broadband Engine™
GPU
RSX
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM
256MB GDDR3 VRAM
Hard Drive
2.5′ Serial ATA (40GB)
Samsung plans 256GB SSD drive
Samsung Electronics plans to launch within this year a flash memory-based solid-state disk that boasts a 256GB capacity and high-speed interface, it said Monday. The drive, which was unveiled in prototype form at a Samsung event in Taipei, has the same form factor as a 9.5-millimeter high 2.5-inch hard-disk drive for which it is designed to be a drop-in replacement. Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an emerging type of storage device that use flash memory chips in place of the spinning magnetic disks used in hard-disk drives.
The memory chips mean the drives are more sturdy and typically have a higher performance but the per-byte storage cost is also much higher, so they are generally more expensive. That has largely restricted them to niche applications but as flash prices come down they are expected to become more widely used. The prototype drive announced today by the company has a read speed of 200M bytes per second (Bps) and a sequential write speed of 160M Bps, said Samsung. Samples of the drive will be available to customers from September with mass production due by the end of the year. A version with a similar form factor to a 1.8-inch drive is also expected to be available in the fourth quarter of the year, the company said.
