On June 26, 2009, Asus, a leading producer and innovator of notebooks, announced the launch
of its 16-inch G60 notebook, along with its 15.6-inch cousin, G51.

The two notebooks are gaming powerhouses. One of which snared the "Best Choice" award in
the Digital Entertainment Products category at the recently concluded Computex 2009.

G60 features a robot-inspired mecha design with game-centric interface elements. G60 is just one
of Asus’ "Republic of Gamers" laptops designed to realize the dreams of hard-core gamers.

ASUS G60 features up to 2 GHz of Intel Core 2 Quad Processor, a Windows Vista operating system,
4 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, 16 inches HD LED backlight, a superb discrete graphics of NVidia GeForce GTX 260M with DDR3 1GB VRAM, up to 1 TB of SSD, a Blue-ray drive and a 2 megapixel camera.

With such specification, G60 is a dream come true laptop of mobile gamers and graphics enthusiasts
alike.

The price of the Asus G60 is at least $1500 for the minimum configuration.

Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com

STEVE JOBS RECOVERING FROM TRANSPLANT SURGERY
Reported by Gerardo Velasco

For those Mac fans, Apple’s CEO and cofounder, Steve Jobs, underwent a liver transplant two months ago and is still recovering to this day. It has been reported by CNN’s Health News that Steve Jobs will be able to continue being Apple’s strong and energetic CEO and cofounder.

However, there have been some rising issues with Steve Jobs’ recent liver transplant. Not an issue at his own personal health, but rather an issue on just how fast he was able to get his transplant. With so many patients in line for a liver transplant such as Steve Jobs, are those with enough money able to "jump" ahead of the list? Another detail that was rather odd in Steve Job’s transplant is the surgery took place at a hospital in Tennessee, 2,000 miles from Jobs’ home in northern California, but why Tennessee?

While many questions still leave us answered, we are glad to see Steve Job’s recovering and also healthy and well to this day.

FIREFOX 3.5 UNLEASHES NEW SPEED, SMART FEATURES
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Mozilla made Firefox 3.5 available for download on June 30, 2009 after a series of release candidate versions releases. Firefox 3.5 delivers newfound speed and features.

According to Mike Beltzner, the Director of Firefox Development, Firefox 3.5 is fastest Firefox ever.

Firefox 3.5’s top new features include:

• improved performance – resulted from smaller memory footprint, enhanced memory management
• location-aware browsing
• private browsing mode
• one-click bookmarking  – for faster bookmarking, searching and organizing favorite websites
• password manager
• smart location bar
• instant website ID to help protect yourself against scams and unsafe transactions
• full zoom and
• native look and feel

Many tech analysts opined that Firefox 3.5 will accelerate the downfall of Internet Explorer while making a strong defense against other fast browsers such as Safari and Google Chrome.

Firefox 3.5 can be installed in seconds. While the majority of users are happy with the enhancements,
some upgraders complained that they experienced crashes and what does Firefox 3.5 tell them: "Well, this is embarrassing." – I guess it is indeed.

INTRODUCING HTC HERO: THE SECOND ANDROID PHONE
Reported by Jonatan Escobar

HTC has announced its next Android phone, the HTC Hero, at a press event in London this month. The phone features the Google Android operating system.

It is a smart touch screen phone that boasts a five-megapixel auto-focus camera letting you to easily capture and add high quality images and video to your gallery. It has 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with a screen resolution of 320????480 pixels for sharp and bright viewing.

The phone will also be the first phone to run Adobe Flash, allowing you to fully access websites loaded with animation and flash content.

The HTC Hero will be available in seven different colors including black, white, yellow, pink, gold, ted and turquoise. The HTC will make its debut with the European market in July, followed by Asia and the US, later in 2009. However there were no details on price or availability of the HTC Hero yet.

SNEAK PEAK: LEFT 4 DEAD 2
Reported by Jordan Haleakala

Valve is releasing their second installment to the Left 4 Dead series, Left 4 Dead 2.  Left 4 Dead 2 takes place during the same time allotment as the first Left 4 Dead but is located in the southern United States, New Orleans. 

The story shows that the infection did not just happen on a small scale in the eastern parts of the United States. Following a new set of characters through a new set of levels and environments Left 4 Dead 2 is aimed to be better than the first. 

I am a big fan of Left 4 Dead and am really looking forward to getting this game.  Left 4 Dead 2 is to be released on November 17th, 2009.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: LAUREN SCHEFF
Reported by Demitri Aleksejev

Our geek of the week for episode 9 is Lauren Scheff.

Demitri: How would you divide yourself being a geek and a rockstar?
Scheff: Being a geek or rock star: I don’t have to decide for the two but it’s simple as this: I am a geek because I love technology and I love computers and I guess that’s how we associate being a geek with. I’m a nerdy guy with glasses ‘coz I wear glasses when I’m not doing interviews and videos on the Internet. So, I love it, I’m a geek and I just think I’m more of a rocker geek.

Demitri: What made you love technology?
Scheff:: What got me into technology was music. I used to record in the analog world and I love it to death. Still but, when computers came around and digital recording came around, it just was so much faster and easier and convenient so that’s kinda my first introduction to computers I’m working on. By 1995 and 1996, the Internet was blown up and it was just non-stop. I’ve never been without a computer since. And I used it for everything. So, I Ioved it. That’s the way I communicate, that’s how I conduct business, that’s how I create music, also in the computer. It’s good to be a geek. Tech Conclave rocks.

Lauren Scheff’s website: http://www.scheffxp.com
Scheff’s Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ScheffXP

If you have questions, suggestions, or comments about this episode, e-mail me at techconclave (at) gmail.  (dot) com or better yet, visit our website at http://www.techconclave.com

I want to thank Lauren Scheff for participating this show as well as people who gave me work in the past few days because I recently lost my job. It motivated me to move on and keep the show going.

So please subscribe to Tech Conclave, and always remember that it’s only in this show that geeks from all over the world rally together to say that it’s good to be a geek.

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