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- Fixed additional security issues with Security Account Manager Remote Protocol, HTTP.sys, secondary logon, Microsoft Graphics component, .NET Framework, CSRSS, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer 11. Wer bereits ein registrierter Windows Insider ist und sich nicht nur mit Stabilitäts- und Sicherheitsupdates zufriedengeben will, der sei abschließend daran erinnert, dass Tester im Fast Ring seit letzter Woche auch die Insider Preview Build 14316 auf ihrem PC installieren können. Diese Version gibt dank einer langen Liste an Neuerungen den bislang aussagekräftigsten Ausblick auf das im kommenden Sommer erscheinende Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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“It is Glastonbury weekend. Jemima has arranged a luxury yurt with some close friends including George Osborne, Hugh Grant and the little guy from Muse. They wouldn’t miss it for anything. The Stones are playing.”Something for the Weekend, Sir? Shut up shut up shut up. Some annoying tit is typing away on his laptop as I’m trying to snooze on the train – except it doesn’t sound like he’s typing so much as rummaging through a bag of Scrabble tiles. It’s a horrible clattery, clickety, plasticky noise. Shut up shut up shut up, you twat.I’m on the train heading home after attending an industry summer ball at a swanky central London hotel. I confess that the industry in question was not related to IT. Actually, if you’d been there with me, you could have guessed straight away that it wasn’t a computing event: there were women in attendance. I’m not talking about a few token fe-nerds, either, but a good 60-70 per cent of the revellers, most of them CEOs and senior managers in their businesses, accompanied by their male staff underlings. The organisers had chosen to give a ‘James Bond’ theme to the event, which is pretty easy for us blokes in black tie. A smattering of bald blokes chose white tuxedos and carried fluffy toy cats, thus transforming themselves effortlessly into Ernst Stavro Blofeld.It turns out that, dressed up in an evening suit and dickie, I muster a passing resemblance to Daniel Craig. Either that or a bunch of random people who’d never met each other before had spontaneously chosen to take the piss. Anyway, the 20th person to tell me this ends up sitting next to me after we boarded my train home. He then launches into a loud, five-minute monologue about the relative merits of every James Bond film.This brings the one-sided chat to a close, allowing me to slouch into silence, perchance to kip. I have already staked out my surroundings: practically everyone is fiddling with their mobiles of course, but thankfully they are all touchscreen iPhones and Androids and none of those Blackberrys with their excruciating snippety snappity buttons. Two minutes into a peculiar reverie involving a sinister Mollie Sugden as a kind of Mrs Slocombe/Blofeld crossbreed, stroking her pussy menacingly, I am awoken by the aforementioned computer user clattering away at his laptop keys like he’s stacking Mah Jong bricks – right behind me, at top volume, at 11:45pm.Why do people attack their keyboards in such peculiar ways? I work with a guy who types slowly but with perfectly regular taps. It’s like someone set off a metronome in the office and left it ticking for up to 15 minutes at a time. This only slightly offsets the whack-a-mole colleague whom I have mentioned before in this column.Perhaps it’s how they were taught, or not taught, to deal with keyboards in general. Older geezers tend to be quite violent, I suspect, because they learnt using rusty Petite typewriters. Personally, I try to be as soft as possible, in rebellion against my mum’s overly physical teaching method while giving me piano lessons when I was a kid. If I hit a bum note, she’d shout “No, not there!” and grab the offending finger before insisting “Here!” while hammering it repeatedly on the correct key dang-dang-dang-dang. That said, geezers get the job done and it’s usually spelt correctly. Youngsters have the disadvantage of having learnt to type using their thumbs, which explains a great deal when you think about it. One wonders how the heck they manage to cope with the two kinds of numeric keypad: the one on their computers with 7-8-9 on the top row and the one on their phones with 1-2-3. Boring them shitless with tales of the origins of counting machines is not going to help.Illustrating the challenge was an incident observed at first hand this week. 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This was also the first time I noticed that the numbers are arranged anti-clockwise around the dial, which makes even less sense than designing counting machines to have 7-8-9 on the top row. Clearly, in the old days, product design for numeric-entry devices was pants and no one knew what they were doing.Perhaps the most significant change in the latest Sputnik is that it's now powered by a fourth-generation (aka "Haswell") Intel Core processor – either an i5-4200U at 2.6GHz or an i7-4500U at 3.0GHz, depending on configuration – up from the third-generation "Ivy Bridge" chip in the last model.That means the onboard graphics get a slight upgrade as well, from Intel HD 4000 to HD 4400. Benchmarks show the newer graphics core gives maybe a 20 to 30 per cent performance boost versus the old one.The display is the same 13.3-inch, 1920-by-1080, LED backlit panel as the earlier model, but it has now been upgraded to a touchscreen.
The other specs are all similar to the last Sputnik's. The new model comes with 8GB of dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz, either a 128GB or a 256GB mSATA solid state drive, and Intel dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.0.As before, the installed operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – the most recent long-term support version – and Dell has made sure all of the hardware works with Linux out of the box. For example, Dell reportedly collaborated with Canonical and Synaptics to get the new touch display working.If anything does go wrong, however, each laptop also comes with one year of Dell professional support, including on-site service after a support tech diagnoses the problem remotely.In addition, the machines come with Dell's Profile Tool and its software for deploying applications to the cloud, for which the Sputnik team stepped up their development efforts earlier this month.The new Sputnik model replaces the old one and it's available for preorder in the US beginning on Friday for $1,249 with a Core i5 and a 128GB SSD or $1,549 with a Core i7 and 256GB. Preorders will open to Canada next week, and as it stands now, the machines are expected to begin shipping on December 16. UK and European customers will be able to order the systems, too, but a little later, and they will only be able to get the higher-end, Core i7 version. Dell will begin taking orders from the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland by the end of November, with Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden to follow in December.Even as Dell prepares to start shipping these latest XPS 13–based machines, however, its engineers are already working on finding another Dell model that could form the basis of a new, even more powerful Linux laptop.The Sputnik models have so far been designed with portability in mind, but a vocal segment of Dell's Linux customers have been clamoring for a system with a larger screen and an emphasis on workstation-like power, rather than mobility.To that end, Dell Linux engineer Jared Dominguez has been testing the Precision M3800 with Ubuntu, with promising results. In a nutshell, most of the hardware works with the exception of the SD card reader, but a few items needed some additional software tweaks to function well. 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The Chromebook line is expanding, as well. Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung all manufacture Chromebooks today, with Asus expected to follow suit in the second half of the year. Google even markets its own branded model, the upmarket Chromebook Pixel, with a 2560-by-1700 touchscreen that puts even Apple's vaunted Retina Displays to shame.The Pixel retails for $1,300, but it's the exception. Each of the other Chromebook models sells for less than $500 in the US, with the cheapest, the Acer C7, going for just $199.Those low prices have helped keep the devices at the front of Amazon's laptop best-seller list, where the Samsung Chromebook has remained in the top 100 for the last 259 days (and counting).Google has also marketed Chromebooks aggressively to the education market, with special discount programs and management tools designed for school administrators. Lenovo's Chromebook product is targeted specifically at education. NPD's Baker said all this points to a bright future for the Chocolate Factory's boot-to-browser devices, with the market for low-cost laptops projected to grow by more than 10 per cent in 2013.The entire computing ecosystem is undergoing some radical change, and I think Google has its part in that change, Baker said. Canonical top man Mark Shuttleworth says that Mir, the company's ground-up replacement for the X Window System graphics stack, is almost complete, and that the technology will ship with the next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution in October.Canonical announced the Mir project in March to much controversy, particularly from backers of Wayland, an alternative X-replacement project that has gained the support of several other Linux distros.But in a blog post on Monday, Shuttleworth defended Canonical's decision to pass on Wayland and forge its own path, saying Mir has delivered on expectations. We take a lot of flack for every decision we make in Ubuntu, because so many people are affected, Shuttleworth wrote. But I remind the team – failure to act when action is needed is as much a failure as taking the wrong kind of action might be.In the case of Mir, Shuttleworth said Canonical was motivated by a desire to develop a display system that ran consistently and efficiently across a wide range of hardware, in keeping with the company's goal of developing Ubuntu as an OS for everything from PCs and notebooks to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.I believe Mir will be able to evolve faster than the competition, in part because of the key differences and choices made now, the multimillionaire and erstwhile astronaut wrote. For example, rather than a rigid protocol that can only be extended, Mir provides an API. The implementation of that API can evolve over time for better performance, while it's difficult to do the same if you are speaking a fixed protocol.Mir operates at a layer below X, Shuttleworth said, and that while applications can talk directly to Mir, existing X applications can also run via an X implementation that runs on top of the Mir server. In fact, he said, the patches required to allow today's X servers to run on Mir amount to fewer than 500 lines of code.
Shuttleworth said he has been running Mir on his own laptop, an all-Intel Dell XPS, for two weeks, and that barring a few minor glitches, the system feels smoother than it did before.As such, he said, Mir will be integrated into Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander – the next version of the OS, due to arrive in October – just as soon as our QA and release teams are happy that it's ready for very widespread testing. Review There’s no doubt that smartphones are getting more robust. Both the Sony Xperia Z and the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 Active boast IP57-rated resistance to dust and water intrusion which is handy if you take your phone to the beach or the pool and come over all clumsy.Drop either of them out of a third-floor window on a building site, or drive over them in a Range Rover, though, and it will all end in tears. The Caterpillar Cat B15, however, is designed to survive just such abuse, as you’d expect from a handset designed by the folks who make big yellow construction equipment. Or by a company licensing the big yellow brand, as Bullitt Mobile has here. The B15 is currently the only viable hard-as-nails smartphone on the market. JCB’s discontinued Pro-Smart can still be picked up here and there, but it boasts a hopelessly out-of-date spec: Android 2.3 and an 800MHz processor, anyone? Sonim’s handsets may be as tough as old boots but they are also as dumb as a bag of hammers.The B15’s specification on the other hand isn’t too shabby. You get stock Android 4.1.2 running on a 1GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6577 Cortex A-9 SoC; a 4-inch, 480 x 800 screen; 5MP and 0.3MP cameras; and a 2000mAh battery. Granted, that spec isn’t going to tempt anyone away from an HTC One, but it’s a solid enough offering for a tough phone with a £285 SIM-free sticker price.Besides being as ‘ard as a cockney gangster in a Guy Ritchie flick, the B15 has another unusual feature: two SIM slots, complete with a usefully comprehensive menu with which to manage them. Changing which SIM does what, or switching one off completely, is the work of seconds, which should help keep some clear blue bathroom sealant between your work and private life. While the B15 certainly looks like a device designed for life on a building site, Caterpillar hasn’t gone overboard with the phone’s styling. Sure it’s quite a square and chunky old lump but it’s still small. At 170g, it’s only a smidge heavier than a Nokia Lumia 820. And it’s smart enough to pass muster down the boozer after knocking-off time.It’s obvious from the get-go that some serious thought has gone into the design. The Caterpillar-yellow volume keys are well separated to aid gloved-hand usage, while the camera button between them requires a three-second push to activate, the better to avoid accidental launches.The power button at the top is similarly designed to be easy to activate deliberately but difficult to do so accidentally.Another clever touch is the micro USB port cover. If the rubber plug ever breaks you can just unscrew the bit that’s still attached to your phone and replace the entire thing. You can’t do the same with the 3.5mm audio jack cover on the top of the phone but it’s so robust I can’t imagine how you’d ever rip it off. Of more importance in everyday use are the 15mm-thick square sides, which make it a very easy device to hold firmly with cold and wet hands, or while wearing gloves. That said, the touchscreen isn’t one of the magic works-with-gloves types.Officially, the B15 is certified to IP67 standard which means it’s dustproof and waterproof when dunked in up to one metre of water for 30 minutes. But that’s only part of the story.Thanks to thick silicon rubber bumpers at the top and bottom, and aluminium side panels, the B15 can survive a 1.8m drop onto concrete. I know: I dropped one from a second-storey window at closer to 3m onto a stone patio, and no harm done.I also drove over it in a Range Rover Sport on a gravel drive, left it overnight at the bottom of a nearby stream - so much for the 30-minute dunking maximum - and then stuck it (after a wash) in a pint of Banks’s Mild until I got thirsty. It survived all those experiences none the worse for wear.Analysis When Red Hat launched its commercialized version of the OpenStack cloud control freak in June, along with an update to its supported version of the KVM hypervisor, the one thing it did not do was provide pricing for the support contracts for this code. But when the software was made generally available for production use on Wednesday, Shadowman also announced pricing for various bundles of its Linux, KVM, OpenStack, and CloudForms software.
Red Hat's cloudy software stack is the result of more than two years of work and more than a few acquisitions by the company. And with the addition of OpenStack is competitive with what VMware and Microsoft have cooked up in their respective vCloud and Windows Server stacks.During the Red Hat Summit in June, when Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies, announced the new software, he tossed up this comparative chart that hinted at the kind of pricing that Red Hat was thinking of for its server virtualization and infrastructure cloud software:Cormier was pretty vague about who the competitor in the chart above was, but it is very likely VMware, which unlike both Red Hat and Microsoft, does not control its own operating system.In a blog posting, Red Hat tweaked the packaging and pricing on its commercial-grade implementation of the KVM hypervisor for servers and desktops. As expected, it has merged the server and desktop versions into a single package that is now called Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or RHEV. Before, RHEV was sold in either a server or desktop variant, and the server edition cost $499 per socket per year for a standard support contract, and $749 per socket with premium support. With RHEV 3.2, the RHEV desktop connection broker, the SPICE protocol, and Remote Desktop Protocol support as well as support for desktop operating systems have been merged into the single RHEV. It is licensed in two-socket pairs, for $998 per year for a standard support contract and $1,498 for a premium support contract.It's not clear what happens if you want to use RHEV on a single-socket PC or workstation. Presumably this is Shadowman's way of pointing out that only companies using two-socket workstations want to virtualize their machines anyway. Presumably you can work a deal if you really want RHEV on your laptop or desktop and only have one socket. Or, you can use VMware Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox, we suppose. There are two different stacks from Red Hat that have the Grizzly implementation of OpenStack embedded in them, as the company announced in June.Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which is comprised of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with OpenStack rolled up on top of it and KVM underneath it as the virtualization layer for the server slices that make up a basic infrastructure cloud.As it turns out, there are two variants of this OpenStack variant, and they have two different prices based on the jobs they do in an OpenStack cloud. If you are getting a support license for a controller node and therefore does not need an unlimited license for RHEL guests, then it is cheaper – bBut still not cheap. And like KVM above, the licenses are sold in socket pairs. Akku Amazon Kindle III www.pcakku.com Zum nächsten Flaggschiff von Motorola wurden erste Einzelheiten mittels eines Eintrags in der Geekbench-Datenbank aufgedeckt. Diesem nach wird das Gerät die Modellnummer XT1650 tragen und genau wie die allermeisten in diesem Jahr vorgestellten High-End-Smartphones von einem Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 angetrieben werden. Das potentielle Moto X (2016) wird des Weiteren über 4 Gigabyte RAM verfügen und ab Werk vermutlich mit Android 6.0.1. Marshmallow daherkommen. Wir bleiben an dem Thema dran, freuen uns aber schon mal auf Mitte Mai, wenn es hoffentlich mehr offizielle Details zu den neuen Motorola-Smartphones zu berichten gibt. Microsoft hat heute zwei frische Sammel-Updates für Windows 10 im Release Preview Ring veröffentlicht. Dabei handelt es sich um die PC-Version 10586.240 und die Mobile-Ausgabe 10586.242. Die neuen Updates kommen 15 Tage nach dem Verteilungsbeginn des letzten kumulativen Updates, das beide Windows 10 Varianten auf Build-Nummer 10586.218 gehievt hatte.
Zu den wichtigsten der aufgeführten Änderungen für Windows 10 beziehungsweise Windows 10 Mobile dürften die gleich als erstes genannten Verbesserungen für die Programmkompatibilität gehören. Nähere Details dazu nennt Microsoft allerdings nicht. Außerdem für so manche Nutzer sehr relevant sein könnte, dass der Upgrade-Prozess auf Windows 10 Mobile für ältere Smartphones nun problemloser ablaufen sollte. Ebenfalls erwähnenswert: Die Erinnerungsfunktion soll nun zuverlässiger funktionieren und die Erkennung von SD-Kartenlesern wurde verbessert. Ein bisschen mehr Infos zum Thema hat Android Police parat. Die US-Webseite greift im eigenen Artikel zunächst das Statement von Blass auf, ergänzt es aber dann um weitere Details. Aus der Luft gegriffen erscheinen auch diese nicht, da Android Police zum Nexus 6, Nexus 6P und Nexus 5X vorab vergleichbare Hinweise erhalten hatte. Wie diese drei bekannten Nexus-Modelle der vergangenen zwei Jahre sollen die beiden neuen Geräte von HTC wieder den Codenamen eines Meeresbewohners tragen, nämlich Marlin and Sailfish, was im Grunde ja ganz gut zu M1 und S1 passen würde. Für das zuletzt krisengebeutelte Unternehmen HTC wäre eine Zusammenarbeit mit Google beim Nexus-Programm sicherlich eine gute Sache. In Verbindung mit der Markteinführung des innovativen und überzeugenden Virtual Reality Headsets Vive sowie des ansprechenden Smartphones HTC 10 könnte dieses Jahr so die Rückkehr HTCs auf die Gewinnerstraße markieren. Zuletzt hatten HTC und Google für das Tablet Nexus 9 im Jahr 2014 zusammengearbeitet.
Der ein oder andere Windows Insider mag es sich ohnehin bereits ausgemalt haben, aber Microsoft plant die Veröffentlichung des Windows 10 Anniversary Updates tatsächlich Ende Juli. Nach wie vor nennt der Softwareriese zwar abgesehen von Sommer 2016 offiziell keinen konkreten Termin für die Auslieferung des umfassenden Aktualisierungspakets, gegenüber Brad Sams von Thurrott.com haben aber Microsoft-Mitarbeiter bestätigt, dass derzeit mit dem Abschluss der Entwicklung Mitte Juli gerechnet wird. Microsoft hat mit den letzten beiden Insider Preview Builds für PCs und Smartphones schon mal einen sehr vielversprechenden Ausblick auf das gegeben, was auf alle Windows 10 Nutzer im Sommer zukommt. Zur langen Liste der neuen Features gehören unter anderem die verbesserte Unterstützung von Geräten, die Stifteingabe bieten, ein Dark Theme für die gesamte Benutzeroberfläche, diverse neue Möglichkeiten für den digitalen Sprachassistent Cortana und die Systemsuche, ein überarbeitetes Action Center und ein verbessertes Startmenü sowie diverse kleinere Anpassungen, die in ihrer Gesamtheit die Benutzererfahrung nochmals deutlich aufwerten sollen. Samsung r60 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com The shift from laptop to mobile, from one screen to multiple screens, creates tremendous opportunity for Google.Page proceeded to talk about how the proliferation of devices and people online means the potential to improve people's live is immense. When we run this through our patented Reg corp-speak decoder, it spits out: as people flood onto our platform we are confident we can extract even more cash from them.During the quarter news has been building about the rumored Moto X device, and Page confirmed its existence and said having been a tester for a while, Im really excited, but gave no further information. Review “Can’t innovate any more, my ass,” said Apple veep Phil Schiller as he unveiled the redesigned Mac Pro at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June.The smooth, black cylindrical design of the Mac Pro and the visual revamp of the forthcoming iOS 7 were clearly intended as a riposte to the critics who had argued that the company had lost its mojo since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs. There were, however, rather fewer signs of innovation in the updated MacBook Air slimline laptop that was also announced at the same time as the new Pro. In fact, the innovation there came not from Apple but from its chip supplier Intel in the form of its new fourth-generation Core i processor, Haswell.The first of the new MacBook Airs I was were able to get my hands on was the 11-inch version, which is virtually identical to its recent predecessors. In fact, the only visual give-away is the addition of a tiny second microphone on the left-hand edge of the machine which helps with noise-reduction during FaceTime and Skype sessions. You’ll want to check out Bob’s write-up of the 13-inch MacBook Air if you want to know more about how the two mics work together. Of course, the design of the MacBook Air was impressive to start off with. Its slimline styling, tapering smoothly from back to front, set the standard for the modern Ultrabook even before Intel’s marketing department got around to inventing the term. The 1.08kg weight and 17mm thickness of the 11-inch Air are no longer unique, but the “unibody” aluminium case remains impeccably smart. It’s a delight to pick up this model in one hand and just admire the design and build quality.The real changes are on the inside this time around. As well as the Haswell processor, Apple has opted for low-power 1600MHz DDR3 memory and a new flash storage sub-system that it claims is 45 per cent faster than the one used in previous Airs. The end result is improved performance and – more importantly – significantly longer battery life. The starting price for the 11-inch model hasn’t changed, setting you back £849 for one with 4GB of memory. However, the measly 64GB of flash storage on last year’s model has been doubled to 128GB, and the built-in Wi-Fi has been updated to 802.11ac. It provides a significant performance improvement over 802.11n, as I found when I reviewed the new Time Capsule base-station.I was, however, surprised to discover that the dual-core Haswell Core i5-4250U runs at just 1.3GHz, whereas last year’s Ivy Bridge model was clocked at 1.7GHz.Hats off to Intel, though: a quick benchmark run with GeekBench in 64-bit mode produced a score of 6809, rather more than the 5790 I recorded for last year’s model. So the Haswell processor certainly doesn’t disappoint even at just 1.3GHz. There’s an option to upgrade the MacBook Air to a dual-core i7 running at 1.7GHz for another £120, but this basic 1.3GHz model felt smooth and responsive during my time with it, and more than adequate for web browsing or running Microsoft Office and such. The improved flash storage - a PCI Express-connected drive, aka SATA Express - helps here too, adding a noticeable snap to many tasks. The Air boots in ten seconds and wakes from sleep as soon as you open the lid. And Apple was pretty close with that 45 per cent performance improvement estimate: duplicating my 25GB iTunes library took just 117 seconds, compared to 175 seconds on last year’s model.There’s more to Haswell than just its clock speed. Graphics performance also perks up quite a bit thanks to the new HD 5000 integrated graphics core. Running the Mac-native version of Diablo III at 1366 x 768, the 11-inch Air’s native resolution, produced a perfectly playable 35fps even with the graphics set to ‘high’ and a good number of zombies and demons crowding the screen - though, sadly, even Haswell can’t do much about the missing end-game.
The more detailed 3D graphics of Batman: Arkham City proved a sterner challenge, with the frame rate falling to 15fps with the graphics on ‘high’. However, turning the graphics settings down to ‘low’ did allow it to manage a playable 30fps. Bear in mind that this game reduces most laptops with Ivy Bridge graphics to single-digit frame rates, and it’s clear that Haswell really does make more-than-casual gaming a realistic proposition for integrated graphics at long last.Haswell’s real strength, though, lies in its ability to improve battery life. Apple claims that the new 11-inch Air increases battery life from up to five hours to nine. When I set BBC iPlayer going, with the Air connected by 802.11ac, it ran for bang-on seven hours, compared to the five hours last year’s model managed to stay running for. Less demanding work such as word processing, intermittent emailing and web browsing, allowed me to stretch that to a few minutes short of eight hours, so it really does provide all-day computing now. Switch off Wi-Fi and dim the screen, and there’s no reason why you can’t keep it going for the best part of 12 hours. Tony’s review of the build-to-order Core i7-based 13-inch Air has more details on how Haswell helps here.Lest you accuse me of being an uncritical fanboi, I would point out that the MacBook Air is by no means perfect. The 11.6-inch display remains extremely bright and attractive, with rich colours and wide viewing angle. However, the 1366 x 768 resolution on this model hasn’t changed in years. That resolution works well on a screen of this size, but it is starting to look a bit dated compared to the many Windows laptops that now offer a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Even my third-generation 10-inch iPad can manage 2048 x 1536.As Tony point out in his 13-inch Air review, it’s not that we necessarily want a “retina” display here, but we do want more pixels to let us get more content onto the screen.Connectivity also remains a particular issue with this model. Neither the 11- nor the 13-inch Air has on-board Ethernet, HDMI or Firewire, but the smaller machine of the two lacks even the SD slot found on the 13-inch version. Admittedly, the multi-purpose Thunderbolt port can fill in for most of these missing interfaces – but only by purchasing adaptors at £25 a shot. Just because this is becoming increasing the case with other vendors’ Ultrabook-class machines doesn’t let Apple off the hook. And – whisper it gently – the MacBook Air’s once-groundbreaking design is starting to show its age. Gleaming Gorilla Glass is starting to replace boring old metal in many of the latest Windows laptops, and with Haswell rivals such as Sony’s 11-inch Vaio Pro weighing in at just 870g, it’s possible that the MacBook Air may have spent just a little too long resting on its admittedly once impressive laurels.The competition may be catching up, but the 2013 edition of the 11-inch MacBook Air remains a classy piece of kit. The Haswell update provides significant improvements in performance, graphics and battery life, and the premium prices charged for many Windows Ultrabooks means that it no longer looks over-priced when compared to its nearest rivals. It’s a shame that the 2013 update wasn’t a little more ambitious, but the 11-inch MacBook Air is still one of the most attractive ultraportable, netbook-size laptops currently available. The web shop, which flogged tablets, smartphones, 3D TVs, and laptops was placed into the hands of administrator Cowgill Holloway Business Recovery (CHBR) on 8 May.The two-year-old firm was only incorporated in April 2011 by Justin Young, Peter O'Connell and Graham Walker, promoting a buy now pay later scheme. Two finance firms were responsible for the credit agreements.During the first year of life, it turned over £1.1m in sales but by the start of this year troubles emerged when the number of credit agreements halved due to restrictions being placed on the firm by one of the finance providers.In addition to this, the lender hiked its charge per transaction from 1.75 per cent to 5.45 per cent which hit trading margins, cash flow and the ability of Gimmi to settle bills with suppliers, the report stated.By February, Gimmi agreed a deal with Tesco to sell as a third party via its webstore, which was supposed to bring in £100,000 a week in sales from May, but in mid-April Tesco appeared to get cold feet, asking for more tests.
Directors had expected this alliance with the supermarket to replace revenue lost to the drop in credit approval rates, but without this expected sales spike, they decided to call in the receivers.Axcess Financial Services approached the directors to buy 80 per cent of the business but were unable to invest for another six months, an option that was not on the table for a technically insolvent Gimmi.CHBR tested interest in the business and agreed to sell the business name, IP, company database and some items of computer hardware for £32,000 plus VAT to an unnamed party.Total assets available for creditors stood at £469,500, and preferential creditors are owed just shy of £6,000, though it owes a whole lot of cash to unsecured creditors.CHBR said it expects there will be sufficient funds for preferential and unsecured creditors, claiming the dividend will be in the region of 20 pence in the pound. CGHBR is owned £21,000 for its work.Creditors include a bunch of well-known Brit channel firms: Computer 2000 was owed nearly £388,000; Reading-based Westcoast was owed just over £204,000; Google Ireland £152,661; and Ebuyer £22,872. Intel's Thunderbolt I/O protocol looks just a little less likely to threaten USB's status as the world's preferred way of connecting stuff to computers, after Acer decided it can't be bothered using it in PCs any more.The Taiwanese company, which is clinging on as the world's fourth most-prolific PC-pusher, last week slipped out a few new models.All were sans Thunderbolt, a fact CNET put to an Acer spokesperson who confirmed the company is walking away from the standard.The spokesperson cited the cost of building Thunderbolt into systems as one reason for the move. USB 3.0's speed, prevalence and ability to charge devices were also mentioned as reasons for that standard being at least as good as Intel's new baby.Plenty of other PC-makers still offer Thunderbolt. The most enthusiastic is Apple, which has promised half a dozen Thunderbolt 2 ports in its forthcoming cylindrical Mac Pro.That configuration makes sense when you consider the market into which Apple pitches the Pro, which we think it's reasonable to characterise as specialist workstations designed for media production. Such applications need a lot of fast I/O and half a dozen Thunderbolt ports delivers that in spades. Akku Dell 451-10474 www.pcakku.com Das Xperia X und Xperia XA bietet Sony im Online-Shop jeweils in den Farbvarianten Rosé-Gold, Weiß, Lime-Gold und Schwarz an. Wer sich für eines der beiden Geräte entscheidet, kann bei einer Bestellung derzeit auch gleich ein Smartband 2 mit einem Preisnachlass von 50 Prozent ergattern. Das Armband kostet somit 65 Euro. Darüber hinaus hat Sony ein spezielles Gewinnspiel für alle Vorbesteller aufgelegt. Nvidia hat nach Monaten der Spekulationen heute seine Flaggschiff-Desktop-Grafikkarten der nächsten Generation enthüllt. Die offiziellen Bezeichnungen lauten erwartungsgemäß GeForce GTX 1080 und GeForce GTX 1070. Der US-Grafikkartenspezialist verspricht extreme Leistung – besonders auch für den Einsatzbereich Virtual Reality – und all das zu erschwinglichen Preisen. Das neue Nvidia-Topmodell, die GeForce GTX 1080, ist zumindest auf dem Papier ein wahres Monster. Der Grafikchip auf der Karte verfügt über 2560 CUDA-Kerne und wird mit einem Basistakt von hohen 1607 Megahertz sowie einer Boost-Frequenz von bis zu beachtlichen 1733 Megahertz betrieben. Via GPU Boost 3.0kann die GPU sogar noch darüber hinaus übertaktet werden.
Um die GeForce GTX 1080 effizient und besonders leise zu kühlen, hat Nvidia einen neuen Kühler entwickelt. An Anschlüssen stehen 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x HDMI 2.0b (High Dynamic Range kompatibel) und 1x DL-DVI-D zur Verfügung. Die Grafikkarte lässt sich außerdem über einen einzelnen 8-Pin-Stecker mit Strom versorgen und unterstützt die neu designte GTS SLI HB Bridge, welche in drei unterschiedlichen Größen erhältlich sein wird und die doppelte Datentransferrate im Vergleich zu älteren Lösungen beim Einsatz von mehreren Karten im SLI-Verbund ermöglichen soll. Noch keine Aussage hat Nvidia bislang zur neuen GeForce GTX 1000M Reihe mit Pascal-Architektur für Notebooks gemacht. Eine entsprechende Ankündigung könnte aber schon einigen Wochen folgen.
Eine andere Verbesserungen von iOS 9.3.2 betrifft speziell das iPhone SE. Ab sofort sollen Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten zwischen dem neuen Mini-iPhone und Bluetooth Audio Zubehör der Vergangenheit angehören. Zur Ausstattung der neuen Moto G Reihe soll außerdem ein 5,5 Zoll großes Full HD Display, Dual-Band-WLAN, Bluetooth 4.2 und - zumindest bei bestimmten Modellen - ein NFC-Chip gehören. Letzterer würde zu dem ebenfalls bei beiden Geräten aufgeführten Fingerabdruckscanner passen, da mit dieser Kombination dann auch ein Dienst wie Android Pay genutzt werden kann. Abgerundet wird die Liste der durchgesickerten Features schließlich mit einem 3000 mAh Akku. Zum verbauten Prozessor liegen leider noch keine verlässlichen Informationen vor, aber es ist mit einem aktuellen Mittelklasse-SoC von Qualcomm zu rechnen. Als Betriebssystem sollte Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow in Motorola-typischer kaum veränderter Form auf den Smartphones laufen. Dell Precision m65 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Running tech for IBM means more than the usual amount of pressure: pressure from being under the watchful eye of other techies inside Big Blue who reckon they know just as much about your job as you do, and how to do it right.There's also pressure from customers and IBM's product people, both eager to see you use the latest IBM hardware and software. And then there's pressure from management, as IBM is the kind of business that sees technology as an integral part of strategy rather than some supporting character.The latter means Horan’s on the front line of the battle to get IBM to hit management’s target of $20 earnings per share by 2015 under its latest five-year plan issued in 2010. In 2010, its EPS was $13.44.As if more pressure were needed, the revenue-generation side of IBM that would normally help it hit that EPS number is sliding. There have also been job cuts - up to 3,000. In its second quarter, IBM recorded its second revenue drop of the year - down 3.3 per cent to $24.82bn. Net income was muddied by the job cuts - down 16.9 per cent to $3.23bn to include the layoff charge. If you add it all up, it means the CIO needs to give extra attention to automation and efficiencies to help sales and fatten up the margins. As the person responsible for IBM’s tech infrastructure, applications and web presence, that means more work for Horan.In terms of IBM's recent business performance and that 2005 roadmap, it also means she must give IBMers the right tools to work more effectively with customers; integrate any companies IBM buys into the rest of the IBM structure over the next few years; and put in place IT systems and processes that deliver smoother workflows, faster decisions and enable quicker action – in other words, help improve sales and customer satisfaction.“It definitely does provide focus,” Horan told The Reg during an interview on a brief stop at IBM’s South Bank HQ in London before the Q2 results.But the CIO eats this kind of challenge for breakfast, and she is turning it to her advantage. This is Horan's second round of IBM transformation. As the former enterprise business transformation lead, she was tasked with kicking into shape the systems and workflows running IBM’s huge SAP system to simplify finance, opportunity to cash, and booking and billing systems. Of the five-year plan, she says: “It’s been a good way to align the company behind a set of strategic objectives. “One of the things that’s true for any IT shop is the demand from the business is more than our capability to deliver – that’s standard. So it has provided us a way to help in our prioritisation and focus on projects that are aligned to that roadmap.”One of the biggest projects Horan is working on is a joint effort between the CIO team and IBM's marketing and communications bods: the IBM Expertise application. It is being put togther using IBM Connections Profiles and Expertise Assessment together with the Expertise Locator and Answer Network (ELAN), acquired when IBM bought Kenexa in December 2012. The idea is to help IBMers quickly find experts in a field using simple keyword searches. The app’s considered important in a company with more than 400,000 staff. It’s typical of the kind of work Horan says she’s doing more and more of these days: building front-office apps instead of back-office systems. The CIO said her devs are now working more with sales and marketing types than with sysadmins or other fellow techies in the server room.The CIO said app development reached an important milestone in 2012: that’s when 51 per cent of her IT spend on new projects went on front-office – and new back-office software officially became the minority. Horan expects the trend will grow as sales and customer-facing IBMers want what the tech head describes as more social in their apps and transactional processes.“We are looking at how to build more social integration capabilities between us and our clients – not just the broad push of messages, but a more collaborative working environment with our clients, that’s another thing I’m hearing about,” Horan said.
“We have a number of integrated accounts – big accounts – that IBM has with very big relationships, and we have dedicated account teams that work day and day out with those clients. We have a lot of pull from those account teams who say: 'We want to be able to interact with our client in a different way and to share more information. Why can’t we just use Dropbox?’I can give them the reasons they can't, but I need to give them an alternative, and bring them something that brings more value than just using a third-party service,” she said.Six months after the suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz, MIT has released a 182-page report into the university's involvement in his arrest and prosecution, and has determined that it did nothing wrong. Swartz, who at 14 coauthored the RSS standard, subsequently cofounded Creative Commons and the Reddit online community, and is a recent inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame, was found hanging in his New York apartment in January, weeks before he was due for court hearings on 13 felony charges relating to his use of MIT's network to download 4.8 million papers from the JSTOR academic database.MIT did not 'target' Aaron Swartz, we did not seek federal prosecution, punishment or jail time, and we did not oppose a plea bargain, said MIT president Rafael Reif in a statement, although he did add the university would be reviewing its policies.The report, prepared by MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, economics professor and Institute professor emeritus Peter Diamond, and Washington attorney Andrew Grosso, has taken so long because it's based on the detailed examination of over 10,000 documents and many personal interviews, the authors said. They found that the university had maintained a policy of strict neutrality, and did not attempt to influence the prosecution of Swartz by federal authorities. It also notes that Swartz was neither a member of the MIT staff, nor an enrolled student nor alumnus, nor a member of the faculty.But the report has angered Swartz's father, himself a member of MIT's Media Lab. In a statement to The Register, he said the report showed that MIT handed over information to the prosecution without subpoena warrant (a courtesy not extended to Swartz's defense team), and withheld information and witness lists that were handed to government investigators.Having now read Abelson's report, it is clear that MIT in fact played a central role in Aaron's suicide, Robert Swartz said. MIT made numerous mistakes that warrant further examination and significant changes. MIT was not neutral in the legal case against Aaron. Whether MIT was neutral or not is a red herring: the university had a moral obligation to advocate on Aaron's behalf. The report details how MIT was initially contacted by research archive JSTOR because of a server-crashing number of downloads being requested by MIT's network. The requests appeared to stop after a while, but JSOTR got back in touch when it became apparent that the request frequency had been slowed and 4.8 million articles had been copied.Trying to trace the source, the university's IT staff found a laptop in a cardboard box in one of their network rooms and called MIT police, who determined they didn't have the skills to handle it. They called the local Cambridge police, and a local detective arrived with a Secret Service and an officer from the Boston Police Department in tow.The Secret Service agent tried and failed to copy the hard drive, so the laptop was fingerprinted and a camera was installed to monitor it. Just half an hour later someone did come in and swap out the laptop hard drive, but then left before MIT police could arrive.
A second visit was noted two days later, and this time an off-duty MIT police officer was in an unmarked police car that just happened to be near the building. He had a still image of the laptop's visitor, saw a cyclist matching the picture, and stopped him for questioning.The report says the cyclist was Swartz, who ran away when questioned but was later apprehended by the policeman and a colleague. He refused to answer questions, so the local police were called and he was taken away to be charged. MIT did not ask for charges to be brought, the report states, and JSTOR didn't wish to either. But the US Department of Justice had other ideas.US attorney Carmen Ortiz and her assistant Stephen Heymann used the provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to rack up 13 felony charges against Swartz that would have seen him behind bars for a maximum of 35 years and facing $1m in fines. Swartz, 26, committed suicide shortly before hearings began. Two charges of misconduct have since been filed against Heymann, but Ortiz has defended her handling of the case, saying that her office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case. She said that the prosecution was only planning to ask for six months in prison, and had no intention of asking for a maximum sentence, particularly as it was clear Swartz wasn't harvesting the JSTOR archives for personal gain.You can't be neutral on a moving train The lynchpin of the government's case against Swartz was that he had unauthorized access to MIT's network. But, he says, the report states that MIT never told police of federal prosecutors if Swartz wasn't authorized to use the network, and apparently didn't even bother to decide this itself.The report does note that had Swartz asked for access in the usual way he would have been granted it under the terms of MIT's open guest policy for network use and, it might be argued that Aaron Swartz accessed the MIT network with authorization. The university neglected to mention this to the either prosecution or defense teams, however.If indeed MIT recognized this, and didn't explicitly say either privately or publicly that Aaron was likely not guilty of the crime charged, then that failure to speak can't be defended by the concept of 'neutrality', Lessig concludes. Analysis From the reaction to Google's latest contribution to TV technology, you'd think the Chromecast dongle was as revolutionary as a new method of nuclear fusion. Akku für Samsung q520 www.pcakku.com Motorola wird zwar am morgigen Dienstag, den 17. Mai bereits eine Produktvorstellung vornehmen, jedoch deutet aktuell vieles darauf hin, dass die große Party erst Anfang Juni steigen wird. Wie nämlich kürzlich Motorolas Mutterkonzern Lenovo verriet, werden im Rahmen der Lenovo Tech World 2016 unter anderem ein Project Tango Smartphone sowie weitere sehr interessante Motorola-Produkte enthüllt werden. Das erste Project Tango Gerät, das Google der Öffentlichkeit präsentierte, war ein Phablet mit 6,5 Zoll großem Display, einer 3D-Kamera, Weitwinkelkamera auf Front- und Rückseite sowie diversen Sensoren zur Lage und Positionsbestimmung. Lenovo zeigte bereits auf dem diesjährigen Mobile World Congress (MWC) im Februar einen Tablet-Prototypen mit der von Google entwickelten Technologie. Neben Gebäudenavigation konnte dieses Gerät beispielsweise auch detaillierte Auskunft über die Gemälde des Barcelona Museums geben, wenn die eingebaute Hauptkamera auf eines davon gerichtet wurde. Microsoft wird im Sommer 2016 ein großes Feature-Update für Windows 10 ausrollen, das sogenannte Anniversary Update. Aufgrund offizieller Ankündigungen und durch die letzten Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds sind bereits diverse der darin enthaltenen Neuerungen bestens bekannt. Im Rahmen der WinHEC hat der Software-Riese nun allerdings ein bislang unerwähntes Features publik gemacht: Windows 10 Mobile wird mit dem Anniversary Update Unterstützung für Fingerabdrucksensoren erhalten. Hersteller, die einen Fingerabdruckscanner bei einem Windows 10 Mobile Gerät einbauen wollen, müssen laut Microsoft ein paar Vorgaben beachten. So werden beispielsweise grundsätzlich sowohl Touch- als auch Swipe-Scanner unterstützt werden, wobei Touchsensoren aber eine Mindestgröße von 10 x 10 Millimeter aufweisen sollten.
Kurz vor der als sicher geltenden Vorstellung am morgigen Dienstag hat der bekannte Leaker Evan Blass ein Bild auf Twitter veröffentlicht, auf dem die Frontansicht des Motorola Moto G4 in voller Pracht zu sehen sein soll. Zweifel an der Echtheit der Aufnahmen gibt es angesichts der Indizienlage nicht mehr. Vom Moto G4 Plus, das ebenfalls vorgestellt werden soll, gibt es aber bislang noch kein solches Pressebild. Auch wenn praktisch kaum noch Fragen zur neuen Moto G Reihe offen sind, ein technischesDetail ist nach wie vor unklar: Die Gerüchteküche rätselt darüber welcher Prozessor zum Einsatz kommt. Ein heißer Kandidat scheint der Qualcomm Snapdragon 650/652 zu sein.
Zu diesen Spekulationen passt ein weiterer Bericht von Android Police, in dem die US-Publikation darauf aufmerksam macht, dass das Google Play Entwicklerportal neben den bekannten Einträgen (beispielsweise Android Wear, Android Auto und Android TV) zumindest kurzzeitig eine brandneue Rubrik names Android VR enthielt. Außerdem tauchte die Bezeichnung Android VR schon einmal in einem Changelog der Unreal Engine auf. Apple A1495 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Knomo's bag has been a game-changer for work. It makes it significantly easier to find what I need, plus allocating each pocket to a certain item has actually helped lightened my everyday carry.Knomo's Maddox Leather Top-Zip Tote retails for $299-$349 and comes in five great, work-friendly colors. But consumer demand for smaller, longer lasting devices is forcing manufacturers to push the technology, battery experts say, testing the limits of how much energy they can safely pack into smaller spaces.A battery is really a bomb that releases its energy in a controlled way, says Qichao Hu, a former researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of SolidEnergy Systems, a battery startup.There are fundamental safety issues to all batteries, and as you get to higher energy density and faster charge, the barrier to explosion is less and less.On Tuesday, Samsung Electronics scrapped its flagship Note 7 smartphone and told customers return their devices after weeks of bruising reports of phones igniting and images of scorched handsets.In early September, the world's largest smartphone maker blamed a very rare manufacturing process error for the problems. It has said it is still investigating reports of fires in a second, supposedly safe, batch of phones.Exactly what caused the problems will be the subject of detailed studies by regulators, the company and its suppliers. Experts are baffled by what could be causing the overheating in the replacement phones, if not the batteries. Samsung says it would be premature to speculate on the outcome of its investigations.We are reviewing every step of our engineering, manufacturing and quality control processes, Samsung said in an emailed response to Reuters.An official at the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, which is also investigating, said the fault in the replacement devices might not be the same as the problem in the original product.Both Samsung SDI and Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL), which supply batteries to Samsung Electronics, declined to comment.Samsung's Note 7 crisis may be its biggest, but the problems with lithium-ion are not new.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued recalls for battery packs, snow blowers, hoverboards, flashlights and power recliners in the past year, all because of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries.In 2013, Boeing was forced to ground its entire fleet of advanced 787 jetliners after some lithium-ion batteries caught fire. The fleet was allowed to resume flights after changes were made to the battery and charger, and to better contain battery fires. We remain confident in the comprehensive improvements made to the 787 battery system following this event, and in the overall performance of the battery system and the safety of the airplane, Boeing said in 2014 after an investigation into one incident.Link to Reuters TV segment: (cliquez ici pour suivre le lien) is the lightest of all metals, and can pack a lot of energy into a small volume - making it perfect for batteries.The market has grown from a few hundred million cells in 2000 to 8 billion last year, according to Albemarle, a U.S. chemical company.But for the same reason, lithium-ion batteries need safety mechanisms built in, adding to production costs.And with prices falling 14 percent per year for the past 15 years, according to Albemarle, smaller scale players have scrimped on safety, says Lewis Larsen, CEO of Lattice Energy, a consultancy.There is no evidence Samsung or its battery suppliers cut corners with the Note 7, and Tony Olson, CEO of consultancy D2 Worldwide, said the problem was not limited to cheaper products.
He ran tests on batteries in laptops a decade ago, highlighting the dangers of them catching fire. Some 9.6 million Sony Corp laptop batteries were subsequently recalled.But when Olsen repeated the tests on other laptop batteries seven years later he found that very little had changed in battery safety design, despite being under tremendous scrutiny.Sony, HP Inc, Toshiba Corp and Panasonic Corp have all recalled laptop battery packs this year over fire hazards, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Panasonic, which supplied the batteries, said the problem was caused by manufacturing issues which it had now resolved.Asked about Samsung's woes last week, Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga told reporters lithium ion batteries could become prone to fires when density was raised and fast charging was applied.It's a trade-off between that (risk) and benefits. We place the biggest priority on safety, Tsuga said. With current technologies, it's extremely difficult to make it zero chance of such incidents. A Panasonic Corp's lithium-ion battery, which is part of Tesla Motor Inc's Model S and Model X battery packs, is pictured with Tesla Motors logo during a photo opportunity at the Panasonic Center in Tokyo, ahead of the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Yuya Shino What we're seeing from the standpoint of lithium-ion technology is they're beginning to reach the safe energy density limits of that technology.But experts are divided on that point. Brandon Ng, whose Hong Kong startup QFE plans to sell refrigerator-sized batteries to replace diesel generators, said there is still room for improvements.There is still a lot of developmental headroom with lithium-ion batteries in terms of increasing the energy they can store.Long-promised new technologies to make batteries safer are around the corner.Tim Grejtak, an analyst at Lux Research, said there are dozens of startups working on the issue, but the scientific problems were hard to solve and would take time.Among the most promising candidates, according to Grejtak, is California-based Blue Current, which is working on a high density, low flammable battery using gel electrolytes.
Massachusetts-based SolidEnergy Systems is working on a lithium metal battery which founder Hu says takes up half the space of existing batteries. It will be used first in high altitude drones, he says, and in consumer devices, including smartphones, by 2018.On Tuesday morning, Microsoft announced Windows 10 S — a brand-new version of its flagship operating system, aimed squarely at undermining the meteoric rise of Google's low-cost Chromebooks in the American classroom.So what does the S stand for? Streamlined, significant performance, security, explains Microsoft Windows boss Terry Myerson. But I personally like to think of it as the 'Soul' of today's Windows.Windows 10 S is designed to run well even on lower-end laptops, promising a boost to battery life and speed over your everyday Windows computer.But those perks come with a caveat: You can only download and use apps from the Windows Store app market. That means, at least, you'll be using Microsoft's own Edge web browser, in lieu of any other browsers in the store. That's key for classrooms, Myerson says, where teachers want control over what apps their students can use, and students want something with great battery life and a selection of familiar Windows software. Minecraft, for instance, won't run on a Chromebook, nor will the full desktop versions of Microsoft Office. The other advantage to that limitation is that it makes it all but impossible to download viruses, malware, or even battery-draining old-school software that might run in the background and gum up your works. However, for $49, you can switch Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro. That would make it your everyday, normal Windows, minus what Myerson calls the promise of those performance boosts. Microsoft has also unveiled a lineup of Windows 10 S-powered laptops from the likes of HP, Samsung, and Acer, mostly all with touchscreens and pen styluses, starting at a school-budget-friendly $229. Microsoft also unveiled the new Surface Laptop, a new $999 Windows 10 S-powered computer designed to go head-to-head with Apple's MacBook in higher education. Laptop akku Sony vgp-bps18 www.pcakku.com Vorne weg sollte für alle potentiellen Käufer des LG G5 gleich mal Entwarnung gegeben werden: Das Smartphone besteht keinesfalls teilweise aus Kunststoff. Es gibt aber ein paar interessante Design-Entscheidungen von LG zu berichten. Wie der Hersteller gegenüber PhoneArena erläuterte, befindet sich unter der farbigen Lackierung des Geräts keine Kunststoffschicht, sondern eine mit Metallpartikeln durchsetzte Grundierung, die die Farbe auf dem Aluminium hält. Das Geräte-Chassis selbst besteht aus einem druckgegossenem Aluminium-Unibody für den die Aluminiumlegierung LM201b verwendet wird, die unter anderem auch in der Automobil- und Flugzeugindustrie zum Einsatz kommt. Ungeachtet der Diskussion um die exakte Beschaffenheit des Gehäuses hat das LG G5 ohnehin noch ganz andere innovative Features zu bieten. So verfügt das Smartphone beispielsweise über einen im aktuellen Smartphone-Markt einzigartigen Magic Slot, der unter anderem dazu genutzt werden kann, den Akku zu wechseln oder aber auch den Funktionsumfang des Smartphones mit unterschiedlichen Modulen zu erweitern. Wenn es nach HPs Chef der PC-Sparte, Ron Coughlin, geht, dann wird HP jetzt das Innovationszepter von Apple übernehmen. So jedenfalls lautet die Kampfansage von Coughlin, die er gegenüber dem Wall Street Journal abgegeben hat. Natürlich klingen diese Worte zunächst einmal sehr gewagt, aber einige aktuelle HP-Produkte wie beispielsweise das auf den Geschäftskundenmarkt fokussierte Elitebook Folio G1 geben ihnen schon mal eine gewisse Nachhaltigkeit. Die neueste Entwicklung HPs, ein geheimnisvolles Notebook das morgen der Weltöffentlichkeit gezeigt werden wird, soll nun da anknüpfen, aber sogar nochmals dünner, fortschrittlicher und eleganter sein als das besagte EliteBook Folio. Auf diesem Weg soll das 12 Zoll Apple MacBook gleich auf mehreren Ebenen ausgestochen werden. Wie sich das neue HP-Notebook aber letztendlich darstellen wird muss für den Augenblick noch unbeantwortet bleiben.
Ungeachtet der vielen offenen Fragen steht aufgrund der getätigten Aussagen von HP schon fest, dass das Unternehmen mit dem kommenden super-flachen Laptop das absolute Premiumsegment des Notebookgeschäfts ins Ziel gefasst hat, um sich dort als führender Spieler zu etablieren. Es liegt auf der Hand, dass von Geräten für diesem Teil des Marktes keine hohen Absatzzahlen zu erwarten sind, allerdings geht es HP hierbei gar nicht primär um Verkäufe, sondern vor allem um das Prestige und darum, werbewirksam von sich als Design- und Innovations-Leader aufmerksam zu machen. Nicht ungleich Apple also gewissermaßen. Die technischen Details zum neuen Vorzeige-Notebook von HP und was es für Features zu bieten hat wird es bereits in einigen Stunden aus erster Hand geben. Den vorliegenden Informationen nach ist geplant, das Premium-Gerät morgen im Rahmen der International Luxury Conference der New York Times in Versailles, Frankreich zu enthüllen. Wir werden natürlich alle Einzelheiten zu dem Produkt liefern, sobald sie verfügbar sind.
Schon einige Wochen ist es her als Huawei und der Kamera-Spezialist Leica eine strategische Partnerschaft ankündigten. Ende Februar gaben die beiden Unternehmen bekannt, künftig gemeinsam innovativer Lösungen im Bereich Smartphone-Fotografie entwickeln zu wollen. Damals war aber natürlich noch nicht eindeutig klar, dass bereits das nächste Flaggschiff des chinesischen Smartphone-Herstellers mit Technik von Leica aufwarten würde. Zweifel daran gibt es aufgrund des neuen Presse-Renders jetzt aber nicht mehr. Den vorliegenden Informationen nach sollen die beiden Kameramodule des P9 zudem Objektive mit asphärischen Linsen, einer Lichtstärke von 2,2 und einer Brennweite von 27 Millimetern bieten. Das P9 könnte aber am Mittwoch nicht die einzige Neuvorstellung von Huawei sein. Die Gerüchteküche geht fest davon aus, dass die Chinesen neben dem beschriebenen Flaggschiff auch das im Vergleich dazu etwas abgespeckte und damit günstigere P9 Lite sowie das Phablet P9 Max vorstellen werden. Darüber hinaus wird nach wie vor über die Präsentation einer speziellen Enhanced Edition des P9 gemunkelt, die ebenfalls das Dual-Kamerasystem plus noch etwas bessere Spezifikationn als die normale P9-Version bieten soll. Da Android die erfolgreichste Mobil-Plattform der Welt und Windows das am häufigsten genutzte Desktop-Betriebssystem ist, macht Microsofts Cross Platform-Initiative durchaus Sinn. Android-Nutzer können sich nach Erscheinen des Anniversary Updates beispielsweise alle auf dem Smartphone eingehende Benachrichtigung auf Wunsch auch auf ihrem Windows 10 PC anzeigen lassen. Außerdem wird es möglich sein, direkt unter Windows 10 mit den Android-Benachrichtigung zu interagieren - diese also etwa zu verwerfen -, und die Interaktion wird umgehend auf das Smartphone weitergeleitet. Ein abermaliges Verwerfen derselben Benachrichtigung auf dem Smartphone ist also dann nicht mehr nötig. Auf dem Android-Smartphone muss der Nutzer die Cortana-App installieren, um die Synchronisation mit einem Windows 10 PC zu erlauben. Zudem muss in der App dasselbe Microsoft-Account hinterlegt werden, das auch unter Windows 10 genutzt wird. Ist auch dieser Schritt geschafft, wird die Cortana-App unter anderem in der Lage sein, das Weiterleiten der Benachrichtigungen zu übernehmen. Auf einem Windows 10 PC werden diese Benachrichtigungen dann nicht nur angezeigt, sondern Nutzer können laut Microsofts Build-Vortrag (wirklich interessant wird es im Video ab 16:30) sogar direkt aus dem Windows 10 Action Center heraus auf eingehende SMS antworten. Samsung N143 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Turns out, it was a software issue, Consumer Reports said in a blog post on Tuesday. Consumer Reports now says the MacBook Pro is poised to receive a recommended rating again if battery life remains consistently high. We communicated our original test results to Apple prior to publication on Dec. 22 and afterward sent multiple rounds of diagnostic data, at the company’s request, to help its engineers understand the battery issues we saw in our testing, Consumer Reports wrote in a blog post.After investigating the issue, Apple says that the variable battery performance we experienced is a result of a software bug in its Safari web browser that was triggered by our test conditions.Apple said that the issue was related to a setting that Consumer Reports uses on its testing. We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache. This is not a setting used by customers and does not reflect real-world usage, an Apple spokesperson told Business Insider. “We appreciate the opportunity to work with Consumer Reports over the holidays to understand their battery test results. We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache. This is not a setting used by customers and does not reflect real-world usage. Their use of this developer setting also triggered an obscure and intermittent bug reloading icons which created inconsistent results in their lab. After we asked Consumer Reports to run the same test using normal user settings, they told us their MacBook Pro systems consistently delivered the expected battery life. We have also fixed the bug uncovered in this test. This is the best pro notebook we’ve ever made, we respect Consumer Reports and we’re glad they decided to revisit their findings on the MacBook Pro.” Visit Markets Insider for constantly updated market quotes for individual stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities and currencies traded around the world. Go Now!Imagine your laptop, phone, or other battery-driven piece of tech recharging in less than 15 minutes? That's at least an hour faster than the fastest smartphone recharging systems can manage today, and something most of us would find extremely beneficial. The good news is, the world's first graphene battery pack is here, and it promises to deliver exactly this level of performance.Revealed by Chinese company Dongxu Optoelectronics, the battery pack is called the G-King. It has a 4,800mAh capacity, which is considerably more than what we see in a smartphone, and more inline with small tablets, or compact laptops like the 11-inch MacBook Air. Dongxu claims the battery regains its lost charge in 13 to 15 minutes. The battery shouldn't fall over after a single recharge either. Dongxu says the cell is strong enough to be discharged and recharged 3,500 times, which it states is seven times the strength of a conventional Li-Ion battery. It's all thanks to graphene, the wonder-material we've been hearing about for some time, which has the potential to revolutionize the world of battery technology. Apart from making the batteries inside our gadgets more efficient, graphene makes flexible screens possible, and can be used to improve heart rate and fingerprint sensors. It's graphene's ability to make batteries better that has the world all excited though, particularly in the area of electric cars.Dongxu's G-King battery was shown off at an event in Beijing at the beginning of July, and seemingly was demonstrated on stage, but that doesn't mean it's about to be fitted inside your next smartphone. The company didn't give any idea when the G-King or a derivative would reach us, and for now remains tantalizingly out of reach. However, the fact it has reached the stage in development where it can be officially unveiled this way represents a positive step closer to fitment inside the devices we use everyday.
The first batch of reviews for Apple's new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar are in, and they're mixed.If you need a new laptop, are a Mac user, and have the money to spend, go ahead and buy the new MacBook Pro, my colleague Steve Kovach writes. The latest MacBook Pro model is slimmer, more powerful, and downright attractive, he wrote.It’s the best MacBook you can buy, but it’s also not for everyone.Other reviewers had issues with the laptop's battery life, next-generation Thunderbolt ports, and questioned the usefulness of the laptop's banner new feature, a touchscreen strip that replaces the function keys that Apple calls Touch Bar.The new MacBook Pro comes in three main versions: one with a 13-inch screen without the Touch Bar touchscreen keyboard integration, one with a 13-inch screen and a Touch Bar, and one with a 15-inch screen and a Touch Bar. These reviews focus on the versions with the Touch Bar. So how do you decide? Do you invest in the present—the “old” MacBook Pro with performance, good-enough portability, a keyboard to cherish and lots of ports? Or do you invest in the future—a beautiful, highly portable machine with new tricks? Or maybe you do what I’m doing: Stare down at your three-year-old laptop and wonder if you can tough it out another year or two while this sorts itself out. The biggest surprise in my tests was just how inconsistent the Touch Bar Pro’s battery life was. I have tested hundreds of laptops over the years and Macs have almost always excelled at meeting or beating their promised battery lives, both in my longtime battery test regime, and in typical daily use. But the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar wasn’t as reliably consistent as previous Macs.On my rigorous test, which I’ve used for years, the machine actually exceeded Apple’s claim of up to 10 hours of battery life. The test involves setting the screen at 100 percent, keeping it on and undimmed constantly, playing an endless loop of music, and leaving Wi-Fi on to collect email, tweets, and Facebook posts in the background. Result: 11 hours and 38 minutes...So, my best advice is that even a mainstream, non-pro user can’t count on this laptop lasting the promised maximum of 10 hours — even in light to moderate use — let alone the 12 hour maximum a new Air can pull off. And you won’t have an accurate estimate to go by. Apple rates both the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro for up to 10 hours of battery life, and that's either with web surfing or iTunes movie playback. Even after half a dozen battery tests, I'm still noticing some inconsistencies in my results: 13-inch battery life is sometimes in the seven- to eight-hour range, with some tests hinting at a ten-and-a-half-hour capacity. Testing on the 15-inch model has also been inconclusive. I've generally seen between nine and 10 hours of video playback, but in one instance I exceeded the 13-hour mark by lowering the brightness slightly. I'll be conducting more tests and updating this review with final battery life results. And for now, that’s the problem with the Touch Bar: It’s not especially useful for either regular people or for the mythical “pros” the new MacBook line is supposedly designed for. The Touch Bar is most compelling for professionals, but these people live and die by their memorized shortcuts, so for now, the Bar isn’t not going to going to make a big impact. I don’t need Touch Bar in Photoshop because I’ve already memorized how to switch between the Heal and Lasso brushes. Yet the lack of usability for Apple’s former core market could change once third-party developers figure out how to create really customizable tooltips for the Touch Bar.That’s not to say they’re all intended to be the only computer someone who uses heavy-duty creative apps needs – the Mac Pro and iMac are there at least in part to meet those needs. But these are computers that the vast majority of people who use a Mac for work would be fine to use as their only machine – that’s certainly the case for me. This 15″ version I’ve been testing is slightly less portable than the 13″ version, but can be significantly more powerful, and could handle pretty much any video or photo editing task you’d want to throw at it.
Apple rates both the different 13-inch MacBook Pro models as having the same battery life on their product page, but in our review of the $1,499 model we noted a few factors that suggested otherwise. The $1,499 Pro has a lower-wattage processor and a battery that’s larger by 10 percent or so, for starters.Our battery testing bears this out. The Touch Bar-equipped Pro’s battery life is by no means bad, but it is quite a bit lower than the $1,499 MBP (and slightly lower than the 2015 MBP) in our light Wi-Fi Web browsing test.Apple built the Touch Bar as an open platform, one that any third party can program to (but not for web apps since there’s no HTML or Web API). There’s also no guarantee that companies like Google will ever write to it. In my tests, Chrome, obviously, has no interaction with the Touch Bar. I somehow doubt that Chrome will ever work with it, but its also clear that many other third-party developers will be happy to tap into the visual touch panel with the ability to accept up to 10 fingers of input at a time. Adobe has already committed to a Touch Bar-ready Photoshop by the end of this year and Touch Bar abilities are also coming to Microsoft Office, Pixelmator, 1Password and Live Home 3D. In the end, your decision may come down to something much more practical -- ports. Are you ready to move into the USB-C only future, where connecting a USB key, HDMI output, Ethernet cable, or nearly any other accessory will require a special cable or dongle?People love Apple computers because Apple gets the basics right. The keyboard, the trackpad, the screen, the speakers, all the table-stakes things too many companies get wrong. And in most cases, Apple made the best even better with the new MacBook Pro.The upside is battery life on the MacBook is much better, so you likely won't need to charge it during the day. Apple says you'll get up to 10 hours per charge, but I didn't get that close. It was more like eight hours. (Although I tend to keep my screen brighter than most people.)Alienware released the first details on its next wave of gaming laptops Friday.As always, the new Alienware 15 and 17 are a pair of incredibly powerful, high-performance machines: This year Alienware has managed to pack a VR-capable PC into portable package; one that’s almost 25 percent thinner than the previous model. Akku Apple macbook air 13.3" Mc504 www.pcakku.com Das Lenovo Miix 720 wird in Deutschland ab April 2017 in den Farben Champagne und Grau zu Preisen ab 1299 Euro erhältlich sein. Für den dazu passenden Active Pen 2 wird Lenovo 59 Euro verlangen. Unklar ist aber derzeit noch, wann genau dieser im Handel erscheinen wird. Das neue ThinkPad X1 Carbon verfügt zwar weiterhin über ein 14 Zoll Panel, weist jedoch durch deutlich schmälere Ränder um den Bildschirm herum sowie ein etwas schlankeres Chassis nur noch den Formfaktor eines typischen 13 Zoll Notebooks auf. Die Auflösung des IPS-Displays der 2017er Variante beträgt weiterhin 1920 x 1080 Pixel oder 2560 x 1440 Pixel. Zusätzlich zur traditionellen Farbe Schwarz, wird Lenovo das neue Modell auch in Silber verkaufen. Anders als das Dell XPS 13, welches insgesamt eine vergleichbar schmale Display-Einfassung aufweist wie das neue X1 Carbon, hat sich Lenovo dafür entschieden den Rand oberhalb des Bildschirms etwas breiter zu machen, um dort eine Webcam positionieren zu können. Daneben findet zudem eine IR-Kamera Platz, die zur Gesichtserkennung für Windows Hello genutzt werden kann. Abgetrieben wird das 1,42 Kilogramm / 1,36 Kilogramm (OLED-Ausführung) schwere X1 Yoga genau wie das neue X1 Carbon von Intels aktuellen Core-Prozessoren mit bis zu 16 Gigabyte RAM sowie bis zu 1 Terabyte SSD-Speicher, und auch zwei Thunderbolt 3 Ports mit USB Typ-C Anschluss sind mit an Bord. Daneben bietet das Convertible einen HDMI- und einen Ethernet-Port sowie einen microSD-Kartenleser. Zur drahtlosen Kommunikation stehen dieselben Module zur Auswahl wie beim X1 Carbon inklusive des optionalen Qualcomm-LTE-Modems. Die zweite Generation des ThinkPad X1 Tablets bekommt ganz ähnliche Verbesserungen spendiert wie das X1 Yoga. Lenovo verbaut also auch bei diesem neuen Modell mit andockbarer Tastatur nun Intels Kaby Lake Chips der Y-Serie und bis zu 1 Terabyte fassende SSDs. Außerdem stehen wieder die oben genannten WLAN-Module und das Qualcomm-LTE-Modem zur Auswahl.
Lenovo wird das neue ThinkPad X1 Carbon und das neue ThinkPad X1 Yoga in Deutschland ab Februar 2017 zu Preisen ab 1349 Euro respektive 1499 Euro zuzüglich Mehrwertsteuer anbieten. Das neue ThinkPad X1 Tablet wird erst zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt auf den Markt kommen, der Preis steht allerdings auch in diesem Fall bereits fest. Das 2-in-1-Gerät soll ab 1399 Euro zuzüglich Mehrwertsteuer erhältlich sein. Die Versionsnummer der fertigen Fassung des kommenden Windows 10 Creators Updates soll laut MSPU nicht wie zuvor vermutet 1703, sondern 1704 lauten. Die Publikation beruft sich dabei auf eigene, nicht näher spezifizierte, aber gut informierte Quellen. Da Microsoft den unterschiedlichen Windows 10 Hauptversionen Versionsnummern zuordnet, die sich aus der Jahreszahl plus dem Monat ihrer Veröffentlichung zusammensetzen, würde 1704 also einen Fertigstellungstermin im April 2017 bedeuten.
MSPU beschreibt den Entwicklungsstand des Creators Updates als weit fortgeschritten. So soll sich das Windows-Team derzeit auf den letzten Metern bei der Implementierung neuer Features befinden und ab Mitte/Ende Januar sollen keine nennenswerten Neuerungen mehr hinzugefügt werden. Danach würden sich die Arbeiten nur noch auf die Behebung von Fehlern und das Feintuning beschränken. Windows Insider dürfen also demnach wohl auf eine weitgehend mit allen versprochenen Funktionen ausgestattete Vorschauausgabe des Creators Updates im Januar oder Anfang Februar rechnen. Ob die genannten Terminangaben so auch grob für das Creators Update für Windows 10 Mobile gelten, ist derzeit leider völlig unklar. Dell hat mit dem XPS 13 bereits einen der besten Windows-Laptops im Portfolio. Im Zuge der Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 bringt der US-Computerhersteller nun die besten Elemente dieses Notebook-Designs in das Convertible-Marktsegment und stellt mit dem XPS 13 2-in-1 Konkurrenz für Lenovos Yoga Serie vor. Dell Inspiron 1546 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Regardless of the spat, Apple's newest laptop is now one of the laptops that Consumer Reports can recommend to its readers. The bug that Consumer Reports discovered was fixed in a recent beta version of MacOS, and will be rolled out to users in the coming weeks. On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S, a streamlined version of the operating system designed to take on Google's low-cost Chromebooks in the classroom. It's going to ship on a bunch of laptops intended for the student. So what's the difference between the original-flavor Windows 10 and this new Windows 10 S? The basic answer is: Not much. The actual experience looks to be very much the same between the two, from the Start menu, to the Cortana virtual assistant, to the focus on touchscreen and stylus features. When Windows 10-powered virtual reality headsets start hitting the market later this year, they'll support both versions, too. Windows 10 S is focused on speed, better battery life, and higher performance — Microsoft says that it boots up in seconds. The flagship Windows 10 S machine is the Surface Laptop, a new $999 gadget from Microsoft itself, shipping on June 15th. That's going to be our first real taste of Windows 10 S, so stay tuned.After a standout earnings report, the company's market capitalization this week topped $900 billion for the first time ever. It's hard to find anyone who doesn't think Apple will soon become the world's first trillion-dollar company; already this year, it's stock is up more than 50%.There's a reason why the company is doing so well financially and its stock is booming — its product lineup is the strongest it's had in years, with a breakthrough new iPhone, a refreshed Mac computer line, and a soon-to-launch smart speaker. Apple CEO Tim Cook can't stop talking about augmented reality (AR) and its future potential. AR is the technology that layers digital images on top of views of the real world.Apple took a big step toward promoting and popularizing AR with the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, which for the first time includes software tools that help developers build augmented-reality apps. The move made Apple's iPads and iPhones collectively the world's largest AR platform. It also set Apple up for the future. It's still early days for the technology, but many tech experts believe AR-powered smart glasses or other eyewear will eventually replace smartphones. Apple itself has some AR smart glasses in the works and recently ramped up their development, Bloomberg reported this week.By building AR technology into the software underlying the iPhone and iPad, Apple is getting its developers working on AR apps long before those smart glasses debut — and putting itself in a great position to be a leader in the AR market when they do. If you're a video editor, graphic artist, designer, or other creative professional, it's been tough to be an Apple fan in recent years. Apple hasn't released a significant update to the Mac Pro, its high-end workstation computer targeted at such users, in nearly four years, and many pro users were beginning to wonder if the company had abandoned them.But Apple went a long way toward reassuring such customers, long the core of its business and fan base, in June when it announced that it had two new pro-quality computers for them in the works. The first of those, the $5,000 iMac Pro, is set to debut next month.
The new machines are Apple's way of signaling that it isn't going to concede the creative professional computing market, even amid falling overall computer sales and growing competition from the likes of Microsoft.When Apple debuted Siri on the iPhone 4S, it famously took an early lead in bringing artificial intelligence technology to the masses. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to pay a lot of attention to Siri after that. And Apple arguably lost its lead when Amazon launched its Echo smart speaker, which has Siri rival Alexa at its core.As Amazon has broadened its Echo line and licensed Alexa out to other companies, and as Google jumped into the market with its own intelligent assistant-powered smart speakers, Apple has risked falling far behind. But the company showed this year that it's going to fight for this market too. It's been steadily improving Siri, and next month it will launch the HomePod, its own version of a smart speaker, which will be built around its intelligent assistant. HomePod looks like it will be a credible contender. It will do much of what Echo and Google Assistant do — give you news and weather updates, sports scores, and, of course play music, all in response to voice commands. But Apple's is promising HomePod will sound better than its rivals and do a better job of protecting users' privacy. Regardless, Apple's entry into the market is a sign that the company is finally taking the intelligent assistant and fast-growing smart speaker markets seriously. When it comes to figuring out where to go with the iPad, Apple has seemed lost in recent years. While the company introduced some new, more power models of its tablet computers, it had left the software on them languishing.Until recently, using an iPad felt much the same as it had back in 2010, when Apple launched its tablet line. Despite the company's vision that the iPad represented the future of computing, the product wasn't living up to that promise.But the company seems to have turned things around with its tablet line. The latest version of iOS gave the iPad lots of new capabilities, including a new file browser and an improved multitasking interface, and turned it into a more credible replacement for a traditional laptop computer. Additionally, Apple released the new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, which is the best iPad the company has ever made. The moves appear to be paying off. The company's iPad sales were up the last two quarters compared to the same period a year ago, marking the first time Apple's tablet line has posted consecutive sales gains since 2013.Before the iPhone X hit store shelves earlier this month, there were lots of concerns about how well the device would work, how many Apple would be able to make in time for its release, and whether consumers would pay its $1,000 price.Despite those concerns, Apple's new flagship phone has turned out to be a resounding success. The reviews were stellar. On launch day, the lines of people waiting to buy the new phone were out of control. And it turns out that the price wasn't too high to turn people away. Even more importantly, the new device has laid the groundwork for Apple's future iPhones. Like the iPhone X, those gadgets will likely have facial recognition systems, processors that approach the power of laptop computers, wireless charging capabilities, and gorgeous screens that almost completely cover their fronts. For all its triumphs, Apple didn't have an unblemished 2017. Instead, the company made a few notable stumbles. Its effort to break into the streaming video market got off to a bad start. The company launched this year its first original TV shows. Those shows, including "Planet of the Apps," debuted to disappointing reviews and seeming disinterest from consumers. The company also fumbled the launch of the latest Apple Watch. The Series 3 Apple Watch is the first designed to be able to access the internet over cellular networks. But some early reviewers discovered that key feature didn't work, forcing Apple to rush out a software update. But that wasn't the only embarrassing bug Apple battled this year. The company's iOS 11 software, which Apple initially released in September, has been riddled with glitches affecting the phone's battery life and other things.
A later update to the software caused the keyboard on certain iPhones to replace the letter "I" with a couple of jumbled characters. Meanwhile, some owners of the new iPhone X have reported their devices stop working in cold weather.Apple has corrected or promised to fix many of these software problems. But overall its stumbles this year were often obvious and preventable.Apple is continuing its push towards positioning its tablet as a laptop replacement with the launch of the new iPad Pro models.There has been a long-running debate over whether tablets can replace laptops, but consumers haven't responded particularly positively.People are used to the clamshell shape, but most think of laptops as devices with "full" operating systems (OS); machines they can get "real work" done on, and that feature a keyboard and mouse/trackpad.Apple's mobile OS hasn't been particularly well-positioned to replace a traditional laptop so far. But iOS 11, the new version of iOS, includes a number of iPad-specific features that may switch things up. Business Insider's Ben Gilbert recently weighed in with his opinion of the iPad Pro, which he called "a lackluster MacBook." He pointed out that many of the features iOS 11 brings to the iPad are just catch-up moves that the mobile-first OS is making to feel more like a traditional system.Things like using multiple apps at once, having a dock, browsing files, and drag-and-drop have been core elements of desktop operating systems for ages, but iOS 11's implementation is still not up there even with Apple's own macOS.But making the iPad a primary machine for the masses goes beyond simply matching laptops in terms of features. That's because there are some inherent advantages that the iPad and iOS enjoy which will not make their way to macOS and the Macs.Think price, portability, and even the fact that iPads have a touchscreen. Take drag-and-drop, for instance: It has so much potential on the iPad that it might actually end up being better than it is on macOS.On macOS (or even Windows), when you select one or multiple items, you can drag them around as you want, but you can't do anything else until you drop all of your files to a target point. Akku HP 484170-002 www.pcakku.com Von den genannten Design-Überlegungen abgesehen ist im Moment noch nicht bekannt, ob Microsoft sich im Zuge von Project Neon auch daran wagen wird, Windows 10 deutlich stärker als bislang von Altlasten zu befreien. Gemeint sind damit unter anderem die vielen Einstellungen, die nach wie vor nur über die alte Systemsteuerung oder über andere schon vor Jahren in Windows implementierte Tools vorgenommen werden können, die allesamt nicht im Geringsten visuell an das moderne Oberflächen-Design von Windows 10 angepasst wurden. Das kleinere und etwas leistungsschwächere der beiden neuen Gaming-Laptops von Lenovo ist das Legion Y520. Es verfügt unter anderem über ein 15,6 Zoll großes IPS-Display, das mit 1920 x 1080 Pixel auflöst, bis zu 16 Gigabyte DDR4-RAM und eine bis zu 512 Gigabyte fassende SSD oder eine Festplatte mit bis zu 2 Terabyte Speicherplatz. Das 17,3 Zoll Notebook Legion Y720 ist dem Y520 rein äußerlich zum Verwechseln ähnlich, was auch die Tastatur mit auffällig roter Hintergrundbeleuchtung mit einschließt. Lenovo wird das größere Gerät jedoch nicht nur mit einem Full-HD-, sondern auch einem 4K-Display anbieten, und es gibt weitere Upgrades.
Lenovo will das neue Legion Y520 Gaming-Notebook im Februar 2017 zu Preisen ab 899 Euro auf den deutschen Markt bringen. Das neue Legion Y720 soll dann im April 2017 zu Preisen ab rund 1500 Euro folgen. Des Weiteren finden neben den bereits bekannten Nvidia Grafiklösungen der GeForce GTX 10 Serie (GTX 1060, 1070 und 1080) auch die neuen, zur CES präsentierten Notebooks-GPUs, die GeForce GTX 1050 und 1050 Ti, ihren Weg in die Gaming-Boliden von MSI. Durch diese ist es dem Hersteller möglich, einige neue Konfigurationen zu relativ günstigen Preisen (für einen Gaming-tauglichen Laptop) anzubieten. Insgesamt spricht MSI von über 50 neuen Modellvarianten, deren Preise von 1069 bis 5539 Euro reichen und die zum Teil ab sofort, zum Teil im weiteren Verlauf des Januar im internationalen Handel verfügbar sein sollen.
Nvidia hat die Bühne der CES 2017 genutzt, um die nächste Generation seiner Home-Streaming-Box beziehungsweise Mini-Videospielekonsole Shield TV vorzustellen. Das neue Gerät mit Android TV weist ein überarbeitetes, kleineres Chassis-Design auf und unterstützt die Wiedergabe von 4K HDR Inhalten. Darüber hinaus legt Nvidia dem Lieferumfang nun sowohl einen (verbesserten) Game-Controller als auch eine Fernbedienung bei. Die Vorbestellung der neuen Shield-Konsole ist ab sofort möglich - auch in Deutschland. Angetrieben wird Nvidias aktualisierte Set-Top-Box von einem Tegra X1 Prozessor, der eine Maxwell-GPU integriert und auf 3 Gigabyte RAM zurückgreifen kann. Außerdem sind 16 Gigabyte Flash-Speicher oder eine 500 Gigabyte fassende Festplatte verbaut und für drahtlose Konnektivität wird WLAN nach 802.11ac mit 2×2 MIMO und Bluetooth 4.1 LE geboten. An Anschlüssen verfügt die neue Shield über einen Gigabit-Ethernet-Anschluss, zwei USB 3.0 Typ-A Ports und einen HDMI 2.0b Port mit Unterstützung für HDCP 2.2 und CEC. Den Micro-USB-Port sowie den microSD-Kartenleser der ersten Generation hat Nvidia gestrichen. Als Speichererweiterung empfiehlt der Hersteller daher nun handelsübliche USB-Sticks. Dell Studio 14z Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com These are complex biological systems that were not designed by mathematical principles [that are] very difficult to formalize completely, he told us.This reminds me a bit of the beginning of the computer era, he said. If you go back to the 1930s and early 1940s, when people first started thinking about computers they were really interested in whether an algorithm would complete, and they were looking for mathematical completeness, a mathematical proof. If you today build a computer, no one sits around saying 'let's look at the mathematical formalism of this computer.' It reminds me a little about that. We still have people saying 'You don't have enough math here!' There's some people that just don't like that.Hawkins' confidence stems from the way Numenta has built its technology, which far from merely taking inspiration from the brain – as many other startups claim to do – is actively built as a digital implementation of everything Hawkins has learned about how the dense, napkin-sized sheet of cells that is our neocortex works. I know of no other cortical theories or models that incorporate any of the following: active dendrites, differences between proximal and distal dendrites, synapse growth and decay, potential synapses, dendrite growth, depolarization as a mode of prediction, mini-columns, multiple types of inhibition and their corresponding inhibitory neurons, etcetera. The new temporal pooling mechanism we are working on requires metabotropic receptors in the locations they are, and are not, found. Again, I don't know of any theories that have been reduced to practice that incorporate any, let alone all of these concepts, he wrote in a post to the discussion mailing list for NuPic, an open source implementation of Numenta's CLA, in February.In the 1TB and 512GB models, the NAND has 128Gbit density dies, the same as used throughout the M500 series. For the 128GB and 256GB versions of the M550, Crucial has switched to using 64Gbit density NAND, which offers a better performance potential in a highly competitive section of the market. In short, the 120GB M500 is rated 500MB/s and 130MB/s for sequential read and writes whereas the 128GB M550 sports figures of 550MB/s reads and 350MB/s writes.As with the M500, the M550 supports Crucial’s RAIN (Redundant Array of Independent NAND) technology for increased reliability. The M500 was the company’s first non-Enterprise drive to use RAIN and the parity settings were set pretty tight, mainly to give the 20nm NAND a helping hand to keep it as reliable as possible.As 20nm NAND is now a more mature product, the parity settings in the M550 have been relaxed to allow more capacity to be freed up as useable storage space.Also still present in the M550 is 256-bit AES encryption, TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE-1667 support. The meaning of the latter two is, in effect, a nod that the drive supports Microsoft’s eDrive.Crucial quotes sequential read/write performance for the 1TB M550 of 550MB/s for reads and 500MB/s for writes, which is an improvement over the M500 960GB’s quoted performance figures (500MB/s reads, 470MB/s writes).So how do these figures hold under testing? Using the ATTO benchmark it managed a sequential read figure of 557MB/s and 514MB/s for writes, pretty much bang on the official figures, and putting it neck and neck with Samsung’s 840 EVO 1TB (555MB/s reads, 519MB/s writes). When it comes to dealing with the small bitty file size that most of us use on a day to day basis the M550 does pretty well too. It produced a read score of 27.08MB/s in CrystalDiskMark’s 4K test, which is only slightly better than the 960MB M500’s 25.21. Yet the extra bandwidth the controller brings shows in the write performance, with the M550 producing a score of 91.73MB/s - as opposed to the older drive’s 75.63MB/s.It’s slighter slower in read performance than the 840 EVO (30.79MB/s) but faster when it comes to writes, as the Samsung drive gave a score of 75.56MB/s in the same test.The Marvell controller also doesn’t have a preference when it comes to whether the data is compressed or not, as I found out. When tested using CDM’s compressed data test it produced read/write scores of 27.22MB/s and 89.45MB/s respectively.I then tested the drive using some real life scenarios. Copying a 50GB folder of small files (28,523 items) took just under ten minutes at an average speed of 73MB/s, while copying a 4GB image took just 30 seconds – 128MB/s average. Similarly, a 17GB BluRay image took a mere 2 minutes 18 seconds to copy at a 127MB/s average speed.
As with the M500, the pricing of the M550 series is highly competitive. All those extra enterprise features that impressed in the M500 – thermal and power loss protection, RAIN and advanced encryption – are all still in place in the M550.Thanks to the tweaked controller, they are joined by some noticeable improvements in performance: in particular. the write speed.Also, the power savings from its enhanced DEVSLP support will give laptop users yet another drive to ponder on for that essential upgrade.Every IT manager worth his or her salt would really like to get hold of users’ physical devices to lock down security and manage privileges, protocols and permissions in the perpetual quest for control. This is not always possible.The situation has given rise to industry terminology such as mobile device management (MDM) and bring your own device (BYOD).But where do we start? What do you get in an MDM box when you unwrap it and what kind of roadmap should firms be following to implement effective MDM in the face of rising BYOD?Simply put, MDM is that area of administrative IT department control where devices are deployed, secured, integrated (and architected) into the network and subsequently monitored and managed (and possibly deleted). By “devices” we mean laptops, tablets and smartphones, of course. But our use of the term also now includes the Internet of Things, including basic “wearables”, from the consumer-level Fitbit, and perhaps heart-rate monitors, to more industrial sensor-based pieces of equipment.At the peak of MDM Nirvana (a place oft dreamed of but rarely reached) an administrator is capable of intercommunicating with all devices on all platforms in the network.The machine-to-machine communication channels are open through all local country service providers so all devices are accessible. Updates and other management can be performed over the air without requiring physical contact with the devices.These can be managed to a degree compliant with the IT department’s vision for an optimised network based on particular application use cases and connections to specific online services. This is MDM perfection – but perfect MDM is tough to calculate and rarely possible.What happens back on planet Earth is slightly different. Device usage is subject to an overabundance of determining factors; while some are logical and predictable, others are intangible and unexpected.According to surveys, the younger workers classed as Generation Y have exhibited some strange behaviour. Generation Y executives would apparently be happy to take a lower salary if allowed to work using a device of their own choosing.
It is at this point that the prudent business should surely start to question whether these are really the kinds of employees they want to attract in the first place.The challenge here comes down to usability and productivity. It is straightforward enough to think about an MDM policy that stops users starting up specified applications in defined locations, or one that prohibits them from downloading games on their devices, but at what cost to employees’ freedom, work satisfaction and ultimately loyalty?There is little point in managing any data or device if we don’t know what is inside it, so inventory controls are a first element of any decent MDM package.From there we can look at hardware and software component management and also include network access control and help-desk features into the MDM mix.As we build up this idea of the total MDM architecture, we need to ask just how far and wide should an MDM solution go? The answer is quite far, because MDM can include software application provisioning and management to make apps behave with custom-designed characteristics. Applications may be installed under terms of limited access so that they stop functioning based on GPS location information, time of day or some other pre-selected factor.Developers will not necessarily have engineered controls and gateways to enable this kind of broader control, so MDM has a direct role to play here.Part of the challenge is that MDM has to be comprehensive and capacious: you either have it or you don’t.MDM control software can be delivered in a virtualised form as a cloud-based service as opposed to an on-premise solution. But every MDM solution that a firm settles on must have a comprehensive range of features.It is difficult (and expensive) to deploy multiple systems, each of which solves just a piece or two or three of the total mobility management puzzle.“Businesses need to implement a structure that can identify classes of users and device types Akku Toshiba satellite pro s850 www.pcakku.com Abgerundet werden die Ausstattungsmerkmale des Smartphones von einem Fingerabdrucksensor, der integriert in der Home-Taste auf der Frontseite zu finden ist, diverse bei modernen Mobilgeräten gängige Sensoren, Unterstützung für 4G LTE (mit bis zu 1 Gigabit pro Sekunde im Downstream), Wi-Fi nach 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2 und NFC sowie eine USB 3.1 Gen 1 Typ-C Schnittstelle. Letztere wird nicht nur zum Anschluss eines Stromkabels, sondern auch von Kopfhörern genutzt. Eine 3,5 Millimeter Klinkenbuchse bietet das U11 also nicht. Dafür sind im Lieferumfang des Smartphones allerdings hochwertige Kopfhörer mit USB Typ-C Stecker bereits enthalten - plus ein Adapter mit integriertem DAC. Zur Edge Sense Technologie ist zu sagen, dass der Funktionsumfang zum Marktstart des U11 zwar in gewissem Maße personalisierbar, aber auch relativ begrenzt sein wird. So werden Anwender etwa selbst festlegen können, welche Apps durch einmaliges Drücken des Rahmens oder etwas längeres Zusammendrücken gestartet werden sollen. In den Wochen nach der Markteinführung des Smartphones will der Hersteller aber mit Software Updates die Interaktionsmöglichkeiten erweitern. Dass Lenovo-Tochter Motorola in diesem Jahr noch einige Neuvorstellungen für seine Smartphone-Reihe Moto plant, ist ein offenes Geheimnis. Erst kürzlich sind beispielsweise zum potentiellen Moto z2 Play Informationen durchgesickert. Nun hat der Reporter Evan Blass allerdings auf Twitter eine abfotografierte Präsentationsfolie veröffentlicht, die sämtliche vom Hersteller zu erwartenden Smartphone-Neuheiten zu verraten scheint.
Zur Moto e Familie werden demnächst ein neues Moto e und e Plus hinzustoßen. Das nächste Moto e soll über ein 5 Zoll großes 720p Display mit „2.5D“ Glas und einem Fingerabdrucksensor bieten. Das kommende e Plus hingegen wird als 5,5 Zoll Gerät mit 720p Display und einem großen 5000 mAh Akku beschrieben. Außerdem dürften auch bei diesem Modell der Fingerabdrucksensor und das 2.5D Glas verbaut sein. Weiter geht es auf dem Dokument mit der Moto x Reihe. Diese soll in diesem Jahr durch das Moto x4 fortgesetzt werden, welches über ein 5,2 Zoll Full HD Display verfügt. Ein weiterer Leak attestiert diesem Smartphone-Modell einen Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Prozessor, einen 3800 mAh Akku und ein nach IP68-Zertifizierung vor Wasser und Staub geschütztes Gehäuse. Zudem soll das x4 ein Display mit „3D-Glas“ sowie eine „SmartCam“ mitbringen. Was mit diesen beiden Marketing-Schlagworten genau gemeint ist, muss sich erst noch zeigen. Apple arbeitet verschiedenen älteren Berichten nach seit geraumer Zeit an einem brandneuen iPad Pro mit 10,5 Zoll großem Display, das in diesem Jahr auf den Markt kommen soll. Den jüngsten Informationen des Analysten Ming-Chi Kuo von KGI Securities nach wird höchstwahrscheinlich die anstehende World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) die Bühne für diese Neuvorstellung bieten. Außerdem bekräftigt Kuo ein weiteres Mal die Existenz eines Siri-Lautsprechers von Apple.
Vom iPad Pro abgesehen ist der Analyst weiterhin zuversichtlich, dass Apple im Rahmen der Entwicklerkonferenz einen smarten Lautsprecher mit Siri-Funktionalität ankündigen wird. Er geht sogar davon aus, dass dieser Smart-Speaker ein Touch-Panel bieten wird, um dem Nutzer nicht nur akustisches, sondern auch visuelles Feedback geben zu können. Ein solches Produkt würde in einem Marktsegment erscheinen, das derzeit zwar von Amazons Echo-Geräten beherrscht wird, allerdings noch in den Kinderschuhen steckt. Interessanterweise stellte Amazon selbst erst kürzlich den Echo Show vor, einen neuen Alexa-Lautsprecher, der als erstes Modell der Reihe mit einem Touchscreen ausgestattet ist. Bei der besagten Cyber-Attacke, der am vergangenen Freitag begann, konnten in rund 150 Länder teils gravierende Computerausfälle verzeichnen werden. Der Krypto-Trojaner WannaCry machte sich dabei eine Sicherheitslücke in älteren oder nicht auf den aktuellsten Sicherheitsstand gebrachten Windows-Versionen zu Nutze. Besonders brisant an dem Fall: Die Sicherheitslücke wurde zuvor vom NSA für eigene Spionagezwecke beansprucht und ausgenutzt, offiziell unbestätigten Berichten nach konnte jedoch eine Hacker-Gruppe diese und weitere vergleichbare sicherheitskritische Informationen von dem US-Geheimdienst entwenden. Vor Kurzem wurde die Schwachstelle dann von den Hackern öffentlich gemacht. Acer Aspire 2930g Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Certainly, if Toshiba forgot to ask for this one back, I could see it quickly replacing the HP Pavilion dm1 as my backup and travel PC and my Nexus 7 as my go-to tablet. With my Android Moto G and a Windows 8.1 Encore, I’d be covered for all eventualities. The Alliance for Wireless Power has announced that Dell has joined the group, and also outlined a plan to revise its technology so it is capable of delivering 50w of power.That the two nuggets of news were announced in the same canned statement is notable, because the alliance lauds Dell as the “first major PC original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to join a wireless power standards organization.”That statement also says the Alliance has announced “... a secondary, higher-powered initiative focusing on wirelessly charging electronic products from 20 to 50 watts, like Ultrabooks, laptops, and mid-powered appliances.”That the devices in Dell's portfolio most likely to benefit from wireless charging are its laptop computers which, like most of their ilk, need rather more wattage than the 20 to which the Alliance's “Rezence” near-field magnetic resonance technology has previously aspired, mean ““Dell’s addition to the Alliance signifies the importance of defining a wireless power standard that spans … higher power levels thus expanding the range of electronics beyond smartphones.”The announcement does not offer any information on when 50w Rezence can be expected, or whether other laptop-makers are now more inclined to consider membership of the Alliance. Vulture South imagines Dell's presence on the organisation's membership roster will make it more attractive to other OEMs. Archaeologic We all know about the ZX80, the ZX81, the ZX Spectrum and its successors, and the QL. But these weren’t the only microcomputers Sinclair Research worked on during its brief life between 1979, when it emerged as the renamed Science of Cambridge, and 1986, the year its brand and products were bought by Amstrad and it was shut down for good.Clive Sinclair had prompted the development of the ZX80, which was largely an evolution of Science of Cambridge’s MK14 microprocessor learning kit, a board computer based on the National Semiconductor SC/MP 2 chip. The ZX80 was a essentially a MK14 based on a Z80A processor and with a fitted cassette port and TV modulator. The ZX81 was an logical upgrade of the ZX80.At the time of the ZX81’s release, the Spectrum was in development as the ZX82 and was again an upgraded version of its predecessor, this time with colour graphics and an updated Basic. Even then, though, there were many ideas being bandied about as to what kind of micros the ZX83 and the inevitable ZX84 might be. The ZX83 would eventually become the QL, but not before the codename had been attributed to a number of possible machines that Sinclair managers and engineers thought they might bring to market in 1983. One was a mobile micro, very likely inspired by the March 1981 launch of the Osborne 1 portable computer, and this notion of a portable computer for business users would tax various Sinclair engineers for the rest of the company’s life. It was briefly attached to the ZX84 codename.Clive Sinclair’s desire to build a mobile computer that, crucially, could operate as the user’s sole machine and not as an adjunct to a desktop would eventually be realised through a product named Pandora, and development work was proceeding on the device when Alan Sugar formally took over in April 1986.Sugar killed it, but in doing so allowed Sinclair engineers soon employed elsewhere to move the project on without being hindered by the baggage that working at Sinclair had involved: specifically the need to incorporate the company’s flat-tube screen technology. The result was the LCD-based Cambridge Computing Z88, a much better product than Pandora ever came close to becoming. The Z88 was “one of [Clive Sinclair’s] best products”, says Perran Newman, who led the Pandora team after working on the C5 electric vehicle.
Sinclair’s failure to build a working mobile micro ensured Sir Clive was never credited with developing Britain’s first laptop computer. That honour goes to Thorn EMI, which built and released the battery-powered Liberator in the year between the summers of 1984 and 1985, while Sinclair Research was completing the QL and, later, developing the Spectrum 128.Sinclair also missed out on producing the first British games console, as we’d understand the term today, when a project dubbed the Low-Cost Colour Computer - aka LC3 - fizzled out when its two key developers got working on other, more pressing projects.The QL itself might have been the means by which Sinclair released the first British 16-bit home computer, if the business machine’s development team had been given extra time to adapt their hardware to become a platform for future Spectrum-branded machines. They tried, but under the tight development deadline they were working to, they failed and the idea was dropped. The QL was never the great success Sinclair hoped it might be, but it might have been had more time been granted to its development and features considered for a later, second-generation model, codenamed Tyche. These included a 3.5-inch floppy drive in place of the Microdrives, a full 68000 processor instead of the QL’s cut-down 68008 and a mouse-driven graphical user interface. Tyche would have provided all of those had it got further than the drawing board. Its GUI would have been Digital Research’s Graphical Environment Manager, better known as Gem.Gem was ported to the 68000 for Atari’s ST during the last quarter of 1984 and the gaming power of the ST but more particularly of its 68000-based rival, Commodore’s Amiga, prompted two Sinclair engineers to propose an Sinclair alternative, codenamed Loki. Like Pandora and Tyche, it never survived the Amstrad takeover. Ditto projects like Janus and Proteus, or even left-field options, such as Dylan, conceived as a low-cost PC clone that might succeed where the QL had failed. Martin Brennan joined Sinclair Research in 1982 specifically to investigate and develop new artificial intelligence algorithms, but he soon became wrapped up in broader efforts centred on bringing Sinclair’s promised Microdrives to market. Brennan eventually engineered the ZX Interface 1 through which the Microdrives would connect to the Spectrum.But Sinclair Research wasn’t the kind of place where engineers were told to work on specific projects to the exclusion of all else. The company hired young, brainy people and gave them space for their natural creativity to flourish.One of Martin’s ideas: a really cheap machine that could bring punters in through its gaming capabilities but provide scope for expansion so they might build it up into a full computer in due course. Designed to be inexpensive, it would perhaps replace the monochrome ZX81 and certainly protect the Spectrum from Far Eastern rivals feared to be on a mission to undercut Britain’s market leader.
There was a template for such an expandable system: the Mattel Intellivision. Launched in America in 1979 but not made available in the UK until 1982, the Intellivision had been developed as a games console to rival Atari’s massively popular VCS 2600. Unlike the Atari box, the Intellivision was created with the idea that its console hub could, with the addition of a bionic keyboard add-on, become a true personal computer.The Intellivision Keyboard Component, as the add-on was called, provided extra memory, a cassette interface and a 6502 processor. Essentially it was a computer in its own right, using the console as a TV-output peripheral. It proved hard to engineer, and was late to market.LC3 would avoid these problems by starting out as a computer. The notion was to fit it with a Z80 processor, a little bit of memory and enough ROM for the operating system, which would load games in off ROM cartridges. It was envisaged as a small black box with a ROM slot in the front, says Stephen Berry, the Sinclair software engineer Martin Brennan got working on the LC3’s OS and Basic interpreter while he worked up a prototype motherboard. It’s not hard to imagine the visual inspiration: the ZX Microdrive itself. Not that LC3 ever got as far as an industrial design. Breadboards were built with TTL to provide Berry with hardware on which to run his code, but the project doesn’t appear to have progressed any further than that. Berry says he was shifted to more pressing matters: wrangling the documentation for the QL, for one, a task that took him many months of full days and weekends of work to complete.There was no time for the LC3 until all that was done, and by the time the QL manuals had been completed, around June or July of 1984, the LC3’s time had passed.“I wasn’t at Sinclair for the LC3 but was for Loki, and LC3 only ever got mentioned in passing,” recalled Quondam Sinclair programmer and occasional Register journalist Rupert Goodwins in 2002. “I remember seeing a ULA design for it, but it was only pulled out of a cupboard for nostalgia reasons.”More than 30 years on from those days, details of the proposed specification, beyond the basic notion of implementing very little memory in order to keep the price as low as possible, remain vague. Stephen does recall some of the work he did on the software. The operating system, he says, was built out of a “little kernel” capable of multi-tasking. He may not have completed support for windowing - really just segmenting the screen into arbitrary independent areas - but he certainly built in the hooks for the mechanism behind such a system to be added later. “The design had to overcome the twin restrictions of low processor power and limited amounts of memory,” he says. Akku Asus a43f www.pcakku.com Der größte Wermutstropfen an der sich aktuell entfaltenden Saga rund um das iPhone 8 und seinen nicht ganz so interessanten Schwestermodellen ist aber vielleicht der folgende: Aufgrund des neuen Designs und vor allem des Wechsels auf OLED-Panels erscheint es nun auch für die Informanten von Bloomberg sehr wahrscheinlich, dass Apple nicht in der Lage sein wird, das neueste iPhone wie gewohnt Ende September des Jahres auf den Markt zu bringen. Dem Artikel nach könnte sich der Verkaufsstart daher gut und gerne um ein oder zwei Monate nach hinten verschieben, was zuletzt auch schon andere Experten prognostizierten. Wie akkurat diese Einschätzungen sind, lässt sich derzeit aber leider nicht bewerten. Microsoft hat zum vergangenen Osterwochenende hin bestätigt, was kurz zuvor bereits durch die Gerüchteküche schwirrte: Das Creators Update für Windows 10 Mobile wird nur einen sehr kleinen Prozentsatz der sich in Kundenhänden befindenden Smartphones erreichen. Der Verteilungsstart der Aktualisierung ist aber weiterhin für den 25. April 2017 vorgesehen.
Microsoft macht mit seinen Ausführungen deutlich, dass die genannten Smartphones auch die einzigen Geräte darstellen, die von künftig erscheinenden Insider Builds offiziell unterstützt werden. Das Unternehmen fährt seine Bemühungen im Smartphone-Bereich also noch weiter zurück als es dies ohnehin schon getan hat. Allerdings dürfen Nutzer, die ein Smartphone besitzen, welches nicht auf der obenstehenden Liste enthalten ist, weiterhin die über das Windows Insider Programm bereitgestellten Testversionen des Creators Updates (und auch kommend Builds) installieren. Microsoft warnt aber ausdrücklich davor, dass diese Vorgehensweise nicht offiziell abgesegnet ist und Anwender somit auf eigenes Risiko handeln. Für Windows Insider, die nicht nur ein Smartphone, sondern auch einen ihrer PCs im Fast Ring haben, hat Microsoft ebenfalls eine neue Build veröffentlicht. In diesem Fall handelt es sich um die zweite Redstone 3 Version, die nun die Build-Nummer 16176 trägt. Sowohl der neue PC- als auch Smartphone-Build im Fast Ring bringt keine nennenswerten neuen Features mit, wartet dafür aber wie mittlerweile gewohnt mit einigen Fehlerkorrekturen, Anpassungen an den Kernbestandteilen des Betriebssystems sowie einer Reihe bekannter Probleme auf. Einzelheiten dazu lassen sich in Microsofts Blog-Beitrag nachlesen.
Wie die Webseite MSPoweruser unter Berufung auf Microsoft-Kenner wie beispielsweise die ZDNet-Reporterin Mary Jo Foley sowie eigene anonyme Quellen informiert, dürfte die neue OS-Variante mit der Bezeichnung „Windows Cloud“ angekündigt werden. Es soll sich dabei um ein etwas modifiziertes Windows 10 handeln, das Nutzern lediglich gestattet, Programme aus dem Windows Store herunterzuladen. Auf diese Art wird aber offenbar nicht nur die Installation neuer Universal Windows Platform Apps, sondern auch die von vollwertigen Win32-Anwendungen möglich sein. Der Windows Store Zwang ist also vermutlich in erster Linie als Sicherheitsmechanismus zu sehen, der es Administratoren von Bildungseinrichtungen ermöglichen soll, Software-Installationen effizienter zu kontrollieren beziehungsweise zu verwalten. Zudem wird spekuliert, dass Microsoft Windows Cloud für seine Hardware-Partner deutlich günstiger anbieten wird als die anderen Windows 10 Ausgaben, was in günstigeren Windows-PCs etwa für Schulen resultieren könnte. Zu anderen von Microsoft-Fans sehnsüchtig erwarteten Surface-Produkten wie dem Surface Pro 5 und dem Surface Book 2 gibt es im Augenblick leider so gut wie keine neuen Informationen. Nur so viel: Alle Insider erwarten die Vorstellung dieser beiden Geräte zwar in den nächsten Monaten, aber entsprechende Ankündigungen im Zuge des bevorstehenden Events am 2. Mai werden als höchst unwahrscheinlich eingestuft. Vielleicht nutzt Microsoft ja in diesem Jahr die bereits am 10. Mai beginnende Entwicklerkonferenz Build, um weitere Hardware-Neuheiten zu präsentieren. HP Pavilion dv3 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com When asked about the topic on Monday, a senior administration official denied any relationship between the electronics ban and the feud between the American and Middle Eastern airlines.But the reasoning behind the UK's decision to exclude the Middle East's big three from its ban remains unclear, as it is believed that the UK government acted on the same intelligence as US officials.The immediate effect of the ban will most likely weaken the Persian Gulf's three mega-carriers along with Turkish Airlines, Bhaskara said. Based on the latest rankings from the respected consumer-aviation website Skytrax, Emirates, Qatar, Etihad, and Turkish Airlines represent the first-, second-, sixth-, and seventh-ranked carriers in the world.Since the US government's ban calls into question the security of their home airports, these airlines will have to contend with the resulting negative publicity and uncertainty among customers. A new Emirates ad argues that one doesn't need a laptop to have a good time aboard its flights.But many corporate customers do not allow their employees to ship work computers in their checked luggage. This is due to concerns over theft of equipment and any sensitive information stored on the computers.As a result, they may push some clients toward carriers that are not affected by the ban.No US carriers offer nonstop flights into the Middle East. As a result, they won't benefit directly. The ban, however, will most likely drive lucrative business travelers back toward European hubs such as Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris. This means US airlines will benefit through joint ventures and alliance relationships with Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, and KLM.That said, not all US carriers will benefit. Airlines like JetBlue and Alaska have partnership agreements with Emirates. A reduction in business for Emirates cuts into the number of passengers who depend on JetBlue's and Alaska's planes to connect them to secondary and tertiary cities in the US. According to Bhaskara, the long-term effects of the ban are unclear. The strategic decisions the affected airlines and their competitors make will be determined by how long with ban is in place.Many of these questions will be answered, however, as airlines and the flying public work through the new guidelines.A global airlines group urged governments on Wednesday to look for alternatives to extending a cabin ban on large electronics devices, saying such a move could cost passengers about $1.1 billion a year and create new safety risks.U.S. and EU officials are due to meet later on Wednesday to discuss aviation security, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security having said an extension of the ban, which currently affects flights from the Middle East and north Africa, was likely. Airlines, airports and pilots groups have raised concerns over the possible disruption and fire risks of placing large numbers of devices with lithium-ion batteries in the hold. EU officials have also asked the United States to share its intelligence, saying they don't see evidence for restrictions.The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 265 airlines, said that while current restrictions on laptops in cabins on flights from the Middle East and north Africa affect 350 flights a week, some 390 flights a day would be impacted if it was extended to European airports.In a letter to U.S. Homeland Security chief John Kelly and EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, IATA head Alexandre de Juniac called on governments to consider alternatives to a ban, such as methods to detect traces of explosives at airport security checkpoints, better training of staff and use of behavioral detection officers.These alternative measures would also avoid the concentration of lithium battery-powered devices in the cargo hold of passenger aircraft which is deemed to create an additional safety threat, De Juniac wrote.
Using its own data and that of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, IATA estimated extending the ban would cost passengers $655 million a year in loss of productive time, $216 million in longer travel and $195 million in reduced wellbeing.Airports association ACI Europe said 60%-90% of passengers using European airports were estimated to carry larger electronics devices and any extension of restrictions would require a big increase in security staff at airports.Deploying extra staff would take time because they would need to be trained and get security clearance.Beyond the immediate operational impact, we are concerned about the consequences that such a ban would have on demand for transatlantic air travel – and ultimately connectivity between Europe and the United States, ACI Europe director Olivier Jankovec added in a statement.Any extension of the ban could affect U.S. and European airlines such as United, Delta, American Airlines, Lufthansa, British Airways and Air France-KLM. Transatlantic flights are among the most lucrative for airlines, because they can sell premium seats to business travelers.The European airports that have the most flights to the United States are London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam Schiphol and Dublin, ACI Europe said.BERLIN, May 17 (Reuters) - A global airlines group urged governments on Wednesday to look for alternatives to extending a cabin ban on large electronics devices, saying such a move could cost passengers about $1.1 billion a year and create new safety risks.U.S. and EU officials are due to meet later on Wednesday to discuss aviation security, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security having said an extension of the ban, which currently affects flights from the Middle East and north Africa, was likely.Airlines, airports and pilots groups have raised concerns over the possible disruption and fire risks of placing large numbers of devices with lithium-ion batteries in the hold. EU officials have also asked the United States to share its intelligence, saying they don't see evidence for restrictions. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 265 airlines, said that while current restrictions on laptops in cabins on flights from the Middle East and north Africa affect 350 flights a week, some 390 flights a day would be impacted if it was extended to European airports.In a letter to U.S. Homeland Security chief John Kelly and EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, IATA head Alexandre de Juniac called on governments to consider alternatives to a ban, such as methods to detect traces of explosives at airport security checkpoints, better training of staff and use of behavioural detection officers.These alternative measures would also avoid the concentration of lithium battery-powered devices in the cargo hold of passenger aircraft which is deemed to create an additional safety threat, De Juniac wrote.Using its own data and that of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, IATA estimated extending the ban would cost passengers $655 million a year in loss of productive time, $216 million in longer travel and $195 million in reduced wellbeing. Airports association ACI Europe said 60-90 percent of passengers using European airports were estimated to carry larger electronics devices and any extension of restrictions would require a big increase in security staff at airports.Deploying extra staff would take time because they would need to be trained and get security clearance.Beyond the immediate operational impact, we are concerned about the consequences that such a ban would have on demand for transatlantic air travel – and ultimately connectivity between Europe and the United States, ACI Europe director Olivier Jankovec added in a statement.Any extension of the ban could affect U.S. and European airlines such as United, Delta, American Airlines, Lufthansa, British Airways and Air France-KLM.Transatlantic flights are among the most lucrative for airlines, because they can sell premium seats to business travellers.The European airports that have the most flights to the United States are London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam Schiphol and Dublin, ACI Europe said. (Reporting by Victoria Bryan; Additional reporting by Julia Fioretti in Brussels; Editing by Mark Potter)
Batteries aren't exactly the most interesting thing to talk about, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk put into perspective the important role they will play in Tesla's future.Speaking at Vox Media's Code Conference Wednesday night, Musk said the energy density of its batteries is increasing on the order of nearly 5% per year, which ends up being a significant number when added up over a number of years.Energy density is a measure of how much energy a battery can hold. So having a higher energy density means having a longer battery run time.A lot of people think we cobbled together some laptop batteries and made a car, but it's a lot harder than that, Musk said. I f it was that easy, I think we would have quite a few competitors who did the same thing. But Musk said energy density really isn't really an issue for Tesla. He's so confident in that he said Tesla could make a car with a 400-mile range today. Akku Fujitsu fmvnbp146 www.pcakku.com Für die maximale Taktfrequenz des Apple A9 Chipsatzes im iPhone SE hat diese Überlegung den Angaben von TechCrunch nach jedoch keine Relevanz. Wie die Tests der Publikation ergeben haben, läuft das SoC im neuen 4 Zoll iPhone mit denselben 1,85 Gigahertz wie auch im iPhone 6s. Das kompakte Phone SE ist folglich wirklich genau so leistungsfähig wie die deutlich größeren Topmodelle und Käufer müssen abgesehen von den Display-Unterschieden lediglich auf die bessere Frontkamera, den Touch ID Sensor der 2. Generation und 3D Touch Unterstützung der iPhone 6s Generation verzichten. Das kommende High-End-Smartphone des taiwanischen Herstellers ist in der Gerüchteküche aktuell schlicht und einfach als „HTC 10“ bekannt, es wird also erwartet, dass HTC bei der Präsentation seiner neuesten Entwicklung auf den seit einigen paar Jahren genutzten Markenname „One“ verzichtet. Die HTC-Teaser sowie die durchgesickerten Infos lassen außerdem darauf schließen, dass das HTC 10 eine hervorragende Front- und Hauptkamera (12 Megapixel Sensor) vorweisen können und mit einem sogenannten Super LCD 5 Bildschirm aufwarten wird. Das Display soll 5,1 Zoll groß sein und mit QHD (2560 x 1440 Pixel) auflösen. Des Weiteren zur Ausstattung gehören sollen ein schneller Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Prozessor, ein Fingerabdrucksensor, 4 Gigabyte RAM, bis zu 64 Gigabyte Flash-Speicher, ein microSD-Kartenslot und ein 3000-mAh-Akku. Software-seitig darf mit Android 6.0 Marshmallow inklusive der neuesten Version der bekannten Sense-Oberfläche gerechnet werden.
Apple hat mit dem iPhone SE und dem iPad Pro 9,7 Zoll gestern zwei interessante Produkte angekündigt, doch Kunden, die seit Monaten gespannt auf eine Auffrischung der MacBook-Familie mit Intels Skylake-Prozessoren warten, wurden leider enttäuscht. Aufgrund fehlender Leaks im Vorfeld war das jedoch abzusehen. Heute, keine 24 Stunden nach der Apple-Keynote, spuckt die Gerüchteküche allerdings plötzlich eine relevante Neuigkeit für Mac-Fans aus. Wie die taiwanische Publikation Digitimes unter Berufung auf Angaben aus Industriekreisen informiert, wird Apple im kommenden Sommer - wahrscheinlich bis spätestens Juli - neue, besonders flache MacBook-Modelle mit 13 und 15 Zoll Display auf den Markt bringen. Es ist absolut kein Geheimnis, dass die aktuelle Notebook-Line-up des kalifornischen Unternehmens kein einziges Modell beinhaltet, das aktuellste Technik verwendet. Immerhin aus Designer-Sicht kann das kleine, flache MacBook mit 12 Zoll Retina-Display, welches im Frühjahr 2015 auf den Markt kam und von einem Intel Core M Prozessor mit Broadwell-Mikroarchitektur angetrieben wird, als fortschrittlich bezeichnet werden. Dahinter reihen sich das MacBook Pro mit 13 Zoll Retina-Display sowie das MacBook Air mit 11 und 13 Zoll Display ein, deren Industriedesign seit Jahren weitgehend unverändert ist, die aber im vergangenen Jahr immerhin mit Intel Core Prozessoren der Broadwell-Familie ausgestattet wurden. Das Schlusslicht hinsichtlich Aktualität stellt das MacBook Pro mit 15 Zoll Retina-Display dar, da Apple dort auf ein mittlerweile fast vier Jahre altes Chassis in Kombination mit Intels Haswell-Prozessoren setzt. Auch wenn Apple mit die schnellsten PCI-Express SSDs auf dem Markt verbaut und im Laufe der Jahre immer wieder Detailverbesserungen an seinen Notebooks vorgenommen hat, ist spätestens jetzt klar, dass es für die MacBook Pro und MacBook Air Reihe Zeit für ein wirklich signifikantes Upgrade ist. Da sämtliche dafür geeigneten Intel Skylake Prozessoren seit Anfang 2016 ebenfalls gut lieferbar sind, sollte der Vorstellung neuer MacBooks in den kommenden Monaten nichts mehr im Wege stehen.
Apple hat im Anschluss an die Vorstellung des iPhone SE („SE“ steht im Übrigen tatsächlich für „Special Edition“ wie Apples Marketing-Chef Phil Schiller mittlerweile bestätigte) und des iPad Pro 9,7 Zoll auch eine Reihe relevanter Software-Updates für seine vier Plattformen veröffentlicht. Nach einer mehrere Monate andauernden Beta-Phase stehen somit ab sofort iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4, tvOS 9.2 und watchOS 2.2 für alle Apple-Nutzer zum Download bereit. |
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