Patriot Box Office Alpine: Android Based Media Streamer

Patriot's Box Office helped the memory company diversify and now it's giving Android a try with the PBO Alpine. Patriot showed me a very early concept of the Alpine running Android 2.2. The experience obviously needs a lot of work but the promise is an affordable Android based media streamer that allows you to run Android apps.

There's no market support of course since this isn't an official Google TV deployment, but you could always sideload. Given that this is a concept there's still the chance that Patriot could take the Alpine in a more Google TV-like route when Google makes the source available. Patriot had no additional information on the Alpine so forgive the lack of SoC details. We'll update this post if we come across any more information. {gallery 1115}]]>

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Patriot Memory Debuts Torqx TRB SSDs

Patriot Memory has been around for a long time and has lots of RAM and SSDs in its lineup for computer users and enthusiasts. Patriot has expanded its line of SSDs today with the unveiling of a couple new SSDs in the Torqx TRB line.

The new SSDs both use controllers from JMicron. The 64GB Torqx SSD uses the new JM616 controller and is good for up to 260MB/s read speed and 115MB/s write speeds. The 32GB Torqx SSD uses the JM612 controller and is good for up to 145MB/s read and 60MB/s write speed.

Both of the SSDs are covered with a 3-year warranty. The SSDs use the SATA interface

and support TRIM and RAID. They also have a 64MB cache and need only 0.5W of power at standby and 5.3W when in use.

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