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Belson added: Consumers are often now able to watch the content they want on the device of their choosing. As an example, they have decoupled the notion that TV shows have to be watched on home TVs. This trend is particularly evident in trailing millennials, who indicated they now spend more time watching television and movie content on non-traditional devices than on TVs.The Digital Democracy survey also found that 37 per cent of Americans are now digital omnivores who own a computer, smartphone and fondleslab, a figure which has grown by 42 per cent since previous year.There has been a 33 per cent increase in tablet ownership and increased take up by women, who now make up 45 per cent of the digital omnivores.A group of Chinese researchers reckon they're close to a practical method of harvesting the static electricity you generate when tapping and swiping the screen of your smartphone as backup power for the phone itself.As anyone who's jumped back swearing at their hand when all they wanted to do was open a door in the office can attest, the human body can build up a quite considerable static charges. Turning it into useful electricity, however, is a little more challenging. A problem this research team, led by Peking University's Bo Meng, is trying to address is to make the generator efficient without requiring that it be grounded to earth.In this paper at Applied Physics Letters, they outline their approach, in which rather than grounding their STEG (single-friction-surface triboelectric generator), the body is used as an electrode, as per this circuit diagram:“When finger taps the friction surface and separates, the two contact surfaces compose a friction pair and get electrostatically charged owing to the difference in electron-attracting abilities ... finger skin shows a tendency to donate electrons in contact electrification. After electrostatically charged, it operates similarly as an out-of-plane gap closing electrostatic generator. Under repeated tapping and separating cycles, charge moves forward and back between the induction electrode and the charged finger skin via the external loads.” Using a surface of micro-patterned polydimethylsiloxane, the researchers claim they were able to achieve an output voltage of 200V with a current density of 4.7 micro-Amps per square centimetre. That's not about to replace the battery on your laptop computer, but the researchers say “the STEG could be a potential power source for low-power electronics, especially for wearable devices”.The Dreamcolor screen itself certainly has a je ne sais quoi about it. 10-bit colour might not sound like much, but it's 10-bit per channel RGB, so it's 30-bit in total, so we're into beeellions of colours here – or 1,073,741,824 colour variations to be precise.HP has recently released revamped standalone Dreamcolor monitors, but if you're on the move, and using an ZBook 17 equipped with one, then you'll be looking at something rather special. It's not just the colour vibrancy and depth, you also get exceptionally good viewing angles. This is probably just as well because you can open the ZBook up so that the screen lies completely horizontal, just like in the old days, and the anti-glare display also does an excellent job of minimising reflections. In general, Windows 7 boot times are not as impressive as Windows 8, but you'll still get to the login screen in under 15 seconds. Beyond that, Adobe Premiere Pro CC took 7 seconds to load and Photoshop CC a fraction over five seconds, which should satisfy most eager creatives. The Crucial SSD takes the credit for most of the niftiness here, delivering 427MB/s read and 207MB/s write speeds in CrystalDiskMark.The PCMark 8 scores were difficult to judge as the dodgy ZBook couldn’t run the Home settings test (it kept crashing) but could manage the Work test and gave a score of 5054. By contrast, the replacement ZBook could run all the tests, but the Work score was a mere 4021, producing a best Home score of 3880. It did make me wonder whether HP had done some performance tweaking in the replacement model to get the best out of the graphics card, as this notched up an impressive casual gaming figure of 97.73fps at full HD.When put to task, the fans would chip in a bit, sounding fairly industrial from the side venting at times. Oh and if you're wondering about the battery life, the PCMark 8 benchmark clocked up 1hr 57mins, from the 8-cell 83Whr removable battery, so you can probably double that with frugal usage.
HP Mobile Workstations come with all the usual security baggage that you'll not find on the consumer models, such as HP Client Security (which never failed to nag me to configure it with every reboot). Rather than go over that again here, if you're interested take a look at our HP Elitebook review for more.HP's Connection Manager was another regular pop-up every time a drive of any description was attached, enabling control over what storage could be accessed. It would appear when attaching Thunderbolt devices and yet often the devices themselves wouldn't mount. As mentioned in several of my Thunderbolt storage reviews, the issue goes away when an AS Media driver is installed, enabling PCs to play nice with this abundant controller chip.Needless to say, Thunderbolt performance was plenty fast, limited only by the media and arrays being used. Moreover, using an Elgato Thunderbolt dock, additional interfacing could be accessed, but not before additional drivers were installed to get the Ethernet and USB side of this accessory working – more of an Elgato issue than HP's. Akku Dell 074XCR www.pcakku.com Das Smartphone wird laut Benchmark-Eintrag erwartungsgemäß von einem Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (MSM8998) angetrieben und wurde mit der Android-Version 7.1.1 Nougat getestet. Darüber hinaus wartet das Gerät mit 4 Gigabyte RAM auf. Mit diesen zentralen Hardware-Elementen erreicht es im GeekBench Single Core Test einen Wert von 1912 Punkten. Bei Nutzung aller acht CPU-Kerne des Prozessors werden hingegen 6137 Punkte erzielt. Diese Werte liegen gemäß GSMArena grob auf demselben Leistungsniveau wie das Samsung Galaxy S8 respektive S8+. Bei den US-Varianten der neuesten Samsung-Topmodelle handelt es sich bekanntlich um die ersten marktreifen Geräte mit Qualcomms High-End-SoC. Die Entscheidung Amazons, in Zukunft keine Android-Apps mehr kostenlos über den Underground-Marktplatz anzubieten, bedeutet jedoch nicht das Ende des gesamten Stores. Das US-Unternehmen wird die Underground-App weiter für Android-Geräte und Fire-Tablets anbieten. Darin kann also dann wie gewohnt etwa im Amazon-Produktsortiment oder im Prime Video Angebot gestöbert werden. Den Underground Appstore hatte Amazon Mitte 2015 eröffnet und es finden sich dort laut offiziellen Angaben inzwischen rund 800.000 Apps. Einen exakten Grund für das Ende des kostenlosen Angebots nennt Amazon nicht, sondern merkt nur an, dass es nun neue Möglichkeiten für Entwickler bereitstelle, Geld zu verdienen.
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This finds the servers on your network and also you to monitor their status.One minor glitch it threw at me was complaining that it needed the latest version of Java. Tech support established this wasn't a complaint about the DiskStation, but about the Mac client I was using.The DS214 I received as a test unit carried the 4.2 software, but not so long ago Synology made the 4.3 update available as a download. In this, the PhotoStation photo streamer gets spruced up, and some other useful features are bundled. At long last, Diskstations now support Mac-formatted (HFS+) disks, something Synology's great rival Qnap has been able to boast for ages. I was also pleased to see bandwidth throttling per user and per protocol added, although 4.2 had already made ground here. Microsoft's Offload Data Transfer (ODX) file protocol is also added, allowing servers to transfer files between iSCSI partitions faster with lower CPU and IO strain. It's supported in Windows 8 Explorer.For users with more money than sense, the SSDs are better supported than before, thanks to support for the TRIM command. Of course, you saturate the bottleneck of the network I/O far sooner than you'll soak up the disk I/O bottleneck, in which case why use an SSD in a NAS unit? Perhaps if you've got very acute hearing and the low noise of the disks starting up is still too much.Running a home server may have once sounded ludicrous, but the low power consumption of the ARM board and aggressive power management of modern drives make them very unobtrusive. They can be set to power up and down to a schedule. The official power consumption is 22.64W in access mode, 20.7W when idle, and 9W in hibernation. That's a little more than its predecessors the DS212 drew 18.2W access/6.8W hibernate and the DS213 18.48W access/8.28W hibernation. For comparison the beefy two year old reference unit (the 712+) draws 27.5W active and 17.6W idle.Synology claims network write speed of 100MB/s in mirrored RAID mode for the new box. To test this I set up a RAID 1 array with two WD Red 3TB disks, and created two test sets of just under 2GB each, one containing a handful of large media files, and one a more typical mix of 1,600 files. I used a 2013 Apple Airport Extreme router - not the fastest - and Gigabit Ethernet.Sure enough, the DS214 matched the claimed performance, recording 108MB/s in write mode for the large files and 103MB/s for the typical mix. Read speeds are considerably slower, and show a degree of divergence: with 46MB/s to read the large media files and 32MB/s to read the large mix of smaller files. If you're on Wi-Fi, of course, just fuggedabout it. Writes trickle in at around 10MB/s and reads trickle out at around 8MB/s. This is typical of performance across manufacturers, and if you're backing up a household of devices you'll want to do the first over a wired connection. And that would be that, normally. However, WLAN network speeds are improving with more use of 5GHz frequencies and the 802.11ac standard - so it's worth returning to the subject once we have compliant hardware.The DiskStation can stream to your telly - Synology claims full 1080p HD is supported despite the modest ARM processor. However it's amazing to find a complete absence of any legal acquisition options either bundled or promoted - instead, the dark side of the internet is promoted as the default supply chain.
A home NAS box is a bit like an iPad - you don't really need one but once you have one, so many things - from backups to photo sharing - are that much easier. Synology's no-nonsense UI and ever-improving hardware are setting the pace in this competitive market. The webtop UI is getting a bit a long in the tooth, but it hits the sweet spot between dashboard UIs which conceal most of the powerful server features and the DIY approach - exemplified by this Sheeva plug server. No-tools assembly and a low price should make it even more attractive. The main difference here, is this Asus weighs a mere 1.25kg and at 288 x 204 x 19mm is only marginally more bother to lug around than 10in iPad 2 with a cover. So while the future of the PC may well be uncertain, the more we see of these lightweight, light on the wallet, low-power laptops does suggest a rather different future that isn’t in the form of an Ultrabook, if you’re prepared to make a few sacrifices. Apart from the build quality – which is fine although plastic and the lid is a bit flimsy – those sacrifices aren’t really anything to do with Acer, it’s just providing the hardware for this platform. The C720 is easy to like, but Chrome still has its shortcomings.For instance, you’d think that with Google’s obsession with the cloud you might be able to get somewhere with a NAS box. Apparently Java often plays a part here and your mileage may vary depending on your NAS maker. Hence, using IP addresses from the browser, attempts to connect to Synology DS410 NAS failed but running an Asustor AS-304T worked just fine. This really is the sort of thing you'd hope to have resolved by apps offered in the Chrome store. You'll void the warranty by opening it up – the memory is soldered on but you can swap the SSD. Note the three-cell battery label states 3720mAh Li-ion, not 3900mAh as quoted in the specs
This 16GB Kingston SSD is removable, but there aren't many NGFF (next generation form factor) storage options to replace it with just yet Swapping over to a full blown Linux alternative is easier than you might think on a Chromebook Certainly, given the cost of alternatives, such as the Asus T100 Windows 8 touchscreen convertible at £150 more, those working to a rigid budget will be taking a long hard look at this always updated, virus-free Google experience.Indeed, the dual OS set-up running Chrome and an alternative flavour of Linux is definitely appealing and the SD card slot can take care of storage expansion, if required. This combination of functional inexpensive hardware and a level of versatility should ensure the Acer C720 Chromebook will have its share of fans. The Acronis True Image WD Edition software (version 16 from 2013) insisted that I connect a WD drive first, even though the Dual Drive was connected using the adaptor cable. After a little trial and error, I found that Acronis would only play ball once I used Windows Disk Management to create a partition on the new drive. That done, I had the option to clone the original drive, clean up the disk, destroy data and so on. Akku Dell kr-08p6x6 www.pcakku.com Im Licht all der Gerüchte rund um das nächste iPhone-Topmodell ist es wichtig, nicht zu vergessen, dass nach wie vor kein einziges Ausstattungsmerkmal des Smartphones von offizieller Seite bestätigt wurde. Die neuesten Erkenntnisse kommen daher wie so häufig in den letzten Monaten von dem offenbar über hervorragende Kontakte in Apples Zuliefererkette verfügenden Analysten Ming-Chi Kuo. Dieser hat den Bericht des Wall Street Journal zum Anlass genommen, um die Verwirrung um die USB Typ-C-Schnittstelle so weit wie derzeit möglich aufzuklären. Kuos Worten nach liegt die US-Publikation nicht komplett falsch, Apple werde den USB Typ-C-Anschlussstandard aber nicht am Smartphone selbst einsetzen, sondern diesem lediglich ein Kabel beilegen, das an einem Ende einen damit kompatiblen Stecker und am anderen den bekannten Lightning-Stecker bietet. Der USB Typ-C-Stecker könnte in dem Fall dann entweder mit einem geeigneten Netzteil oder einem Computer mit demselben Anschlussstandard verbunden werden. Sofern Kuos Informationen korrekt sind würde die Verwendung eines Kabels mit USB Typ-C Technologie zwei Vorteile für die Handhabung des kommenden iPhone-Topmodells mit sich bringen. Erstens könnte über ein Kabel mit dieser Schnittstelle eine höhere Spannung transportiert werden als über das „alte“ iPhone-Ladekabel mit USB-A-Stecker an einem Ende. Das dürfte also dazu führen, dass sich das iPhone 8 deutlich schneller als bisherige iPhone-Topmodelle aufladen lassen wird. Genau dies ist schließlich auch der wichtigste Grund warum beispielsweise Google bei seinen Pixel-Phones auf USB Typ-C setzt. Wie oben schon erwähnt ist Kuo zwar als zuverlässiger Informant rund um die iPhone-Entwicklung bekannt, aber nichtsdestotrotz ist bei der Flut aktueller Gerüchte weiterhin eine Restportion Skepsis ratsam. Die Ausführungen des Analysten erscheinen allerdings eindeutig plausibler als die vorherige Mutmaßung, nach der Apple bei seinem nächsten Flaggschiff-Produkt auf die eigene Lightning-Schnittstelle verzichten werde.
Die letzte nennenswerte Anpassung, die das Windows-Team in Sachen Update-Verwaltung vorgenommen hat, ist die Option, die Update-Installation noch im letzten Moment um drei Tage nach hinten zu verschieben. Die Schaltfläche, welche dies beim Creators Update erlaubt, erscheint automatisch sobald Aktualisierungen bereit zur Installation sind. Wenige Wochen vor der offiziellen Vorstellung des [Link/artikel/samsung-galaxy-s8-neue-fotos-datenblaetter-des-smartphones/8006/]Galaxy S8 und inmitten zahlloser Leaks rund um dieses High-End-Gerät hat Samsung noch schnell ein anderes Android-Smartphone angekündigt, das Galaxy XCover 4. Abgesehen von der strapazierfähigen Schale handelt es sich beim XCover 4 aber um ein unspektakuläreres Smartphone mit Hardware der unteren Mittelklasse. Das TFT-Display misst 4,99 Zoll in der Diagonalen, löst mit 1280 x 720 Pixel (HD) auf und kann auch inklusive angezogenen Handschuhen bedient werden. Zusätzlich erleichtert wird die Bedienung bei Kälte oder in Schnee und Regen durch mechanische Funktionstasten unterhalb des Bildschirms. Angetrieben wird das Outdoor-Gerät von einem nicht näher spezifizierten Quad-Core-Prozessor mit einer Taktfrequenz von 1,4 Gigahertz, dem 2 Gigabyte RAM zur Seite stehen. Der interne Speicher bietet eine Kapazität von 16 Gigabyte und kann via microSD-Karte um bis zu 256 Gigabyte erweitert werden. Die Akkukapazität wird mit 2800 mAh angegeben.
Das XCover 4 misst 146,2 x 73,3 x 9,7 Millimeter und bringt 172 Gramm auf die Waage. Auf der Rückseite des Smartphones befindet sich eine 13 Megapixel Kamera mit Blitzlicht und einer lichtstarken f/1.9-Blende. Für Videochats oder Selfies zeichnet sich die 5 Megapixel Frontkamera verantwortlich. Zur drahtlosen Kommunikation werden die Funkstandards LTE Cat. 4, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2,4 + 5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 und NFC geboten. Während das Windows-Team also hauptsächlich am Eliminieren von Bugs werkelt, was sich aller Voraussicht nach noch ein paar Wochen hinziehen wird, gibt es verständlicherweise nicht mehr viel Raum zum Implementieren neuer Features. Nichtsdestotrotz haben es aber noch einmal ein paar kleinere sichtbare Änderungen in die aktuelle Preview-Build geschafft. Diese betreffen laut Microsofts Angaben im zur Build 15046 gehörenden Blog-Beitrag unter anderem den digitalen Assistenten Cortana, die Sicherheitssoftware Windows Defender und die neue Gaming-Rubrik in der Einstellungen-App. Dell Latitude E6440 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Globally, the US came in as the top country for thefts of the kit, with Australia at number two and the UK at number three.Schools were the single biggest scenes of laptop theft crime in the US but ranked at only number four in EMEA.The study, based on data from the 6 million devices protected by Absolute’s Computrace software, also reports that enterprises are making increasing use of remote data deletion and sensitive data retrievals from stolen devices.The number of remote data deletes has risen by 34 per cent, and the amount of devices from which data is being remotely retrieved has increased by 135 per cent, the study said.Just under 5GB of data was retrieved from stolen devices in 401 file retrievals carried out by Absolute Software during 2012, a figure which compares to 171 data retrieval jobs last year, the report said.The device theft data in Absolute's report is compiled from 12,705 theft reports it received during 2012, a figure that compares to 13,818 in its previous annual report, which covered 2011. Data deletion jobs rose from 4,812 in 2011 to 6,442 last year. The endpoint security and computer management firm notes that organisations are under pressure to adhere to stricter data breach compliance, such as the European data protection laws. As a result, organisations are focusing less on hardware recovery and more on the security of the data itself.“With reputations on the line, it is no longer simply the cost of the device but the wealth of sensitive data sitting within tablets, laptops and smartphones that is causing IT and business headaches, explained Derek Skinner, regional director, recovery and investigative services EMEA, Absolute Software.It is no surprise therefore that our report reveals a rise in remote data wipes. The sooner an organisation can secure a stolen device and render the data on it unusable to thieves, the easier it is for it to prove there hasn’t been a data breach.” More details have begun to trickle out regarding Microsoft's second-generation Surface fondleslabs, which are expected to ship in the fall. On Wednesday, Neowin reported that new versions of both the Intel-based Surface Pro and the ARM-based Surface running Windows RT were in the works.Windows-watcher Paul Thurrot later confirmed the report and added a few details from his own sources, such as that the new ARM version would simply be called Surface, dropping the previous generation's RT moniker.Few other details have emerged about Microsoft's follow-up to 2012's $900m albatross, except that it will once again be built around a Tegra chip from Nvidia. Based on what has emerged about the new Surface Pro, however, the new Surface will likely be more of an incremental update than a radical redesign.According to both Neowin and Thurrot, the second-generation Surface Pro will run on a Haswell-based Core i5 processor from Intel, which should help with one the first generation Pro's major shortcomings: battery life. Thurrot claims the new tablet will be rated for up to seven hours of run time, rather than the first Surface Pro's five. Both reports suggest that the system's RAM will be boosted from 4GB to 8GB, although Thurrot believes the beefier configuration will be an option, rather than the default.Neowin believes the new slates will look similar to the current Surface Pro. Thurrot says they'll look identical. With any luck, that will mean the magnetic cover connector will also be unchanged, allowing existing Surface keyboard covers to work with the new models.Redmond has cooked up at least one external modification to its tablets, however. The first-generation Surface slabs included a simple kickstand for propping up the screen when you want to use the device as a laptop. For the new models, Microsoft has reportedly refined the kickstand; Neowin isn't sure what that means, but Thurrot says the new version can lock into two distinct positions.Neither report included any information on pricing, as you might expect at this stage. Thurrot reckoned – reasonably – that any price he quoted today could very easily change by the time the devices shipped. But price could prove to be the make-or-break factor for the second-generation Surfaces, given the deep discounts Microsoft has been forced to offer on the earlier models.
Nothing concrete has been said about the launch date of the new fondleslabs, either. But if history repeats itself, the new Surface running Windows RT could be formally unveiled on October 18, 2013, the official launch date of Windows 8.1.The original Surface RT went on sale at midnight on October 26, 2012, the same date as the Windows 8 launch – which, like this year's October 18, was a Friday. The original Surface Pro shipped around three months after that, but whether Microsoft will play it that way this time is anybody's guess. WD has taken the wraps off its first 2.5-inch hard drive designed for network storage roles, NAS nuts in need of a more compact connected storage box – and, crucially, teensy drives to put in it – will be pleased to hear.Part of WD’s NAS-centric Red series, the notebook form-factor drives come in 750GB and 1TB capacities. Both of these are pre-loaded with the company’s NASware 2.0 firmware - code which it claims makes the drive better able to dance to the tune of any RAID controller it is connected to. For instance, availability requests from RAID controllers won’t be ignored during start-up self-test routines, as they often are on desktop- and laptop-centric drives. The NASware 2.0 Red drive will pause the test to tell the controller when it will be ready for use, so the controller doesn’t assume it's broken, as it does when its requests are ignored or answered too late, said WD UK Country Manager, Jermaine Campbell.WD reckons its Red hard drives – which now also include a 4TB 3.5-incher with 64MB of cache – are sufficiently resilient that the vendor can afford to bundle a three-year warranty against component failures and manufacturing faults, though you’ll note that data loss caused by these events is not covered.The company claimed NASware 2.0's tweaks in this area give the drives “a 35 per cent mean time between failures improvement over standard desktop drives”.You also get gratis 24 x 7 phone support, which also covers any hardware into which you slot your Red drives, WD said today. If you opt for 2.5in drives, many big-name two-bay-plus NAS boxes can take them using 3.5-inch adaptors. They will be more quiet than 3.5-inch drives, but less capacious and of lower performance. Boxes designed to take 2.5-inch drives specifically are much more rare, but they do exist, particularly from lesser-known names. A case in point: Addonics’ Mini NAS.Analysis With Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s mobile business for $7.1bn, the Redmond software giant has finally become a phone and device maker.The deal gives Microsoft Nokia’s global handset engineering, manufacturing, sales and distribution business; the family of Windows-Phone-powered Lumia smartphones; a war chest of 8,500 Lumia and Asha phone patents while licensing 30,000 utility patents; and a standing army of 32,000 Nokia employees. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014.Interestingly, it's not Microsoft’s biggest purchase: it’s second to the $8.2bn purchase of loss-making internet chat biz Skype in 2011.
The Nokia acquisition also potentially gives Microsoft its next chief executive officer: Nokia boss Stephen Elop who was once a senior suit in Redmond.Announcing the deal on Monday night, outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called it a “bold step into the future”. Nokia has talent in hardware design and engineering, supply chain and manufacturing management, sales, marketing and distribution, Ballmer told his employees.Selling the deal, the shy and retiring boss reckoned it was time to accelerate Microsoft’s share and profits in the world of mobiles. (Windows Phone has 3.3 per cent of the global smartphone market, according to IDC.)Increasing phones sales and market share, pumping out better handsets - this is the promise we’re being sold. But chances are Microsoft won’t get what it expects.Microsoft could certainly use Nokia’s engineering and design smarts. It was Nokia that complained Microsoft is moving too slowly on issuing Windows Phone 8 updates - that it was still working on release cycles more appropriate to a maker of PCs than one producing consumer electronics. The only question is why Microsoft waited so long. The Nokia-Microsoft platform partnership, in which Nokia dumped Linux and Symbian for Windows Phone, was formed two years ago. Now, it’s been decided having separate companies wasn’t working.To maintain continuity, the old Nokia heads remain: Jo Harlow will continue to lead Nokia’s Smart Devices; Timo Toikkanen will remain in place leading the Mobile Phones division; and Stefan Pannenbecker will run the design teams. All will report to Elop.Post acquisition, field sales will come under the remit of Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner. Touting Nokia and Microsoft will be the job of Redmond's marketing executive veep Tami Reller and ads chief Mark Penn - the latter was once Hillary Clinton's campaign manager and the individual responsible for Microsoft’s Scroogled ads.So, Ballmer's empire gets a massive phone design, manufacturing and sales operation, but it also gets a loss-making handset maker with plummeting market share - 15 per cent today versus 37 per cent in 2007 on the eve of the launch of Apple’s iPhone. Nokia lost $150m despite growing sales of smartphones in its latest financial quarter. Akku für Samsung 200a4y www.pcakku.com Der Vertrag zwischen dem Anbieter und dem Nutzer kommt mit der Registrierungsbestätigung oder der Bestellungsbestätigung durch den Anbieter zustande. Die Bestätigung für kostenpflichtige Produkte erfolgt durch die Bestätigung der erfolgten Zahlung (z.B. Kreditkartengutschrift), durch die Rechnungsstellung oder durch die erste Auslieferung. 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Die Webseiten des Anbieters können mittels Links auf Webseiten verweisen, die von Dritten betrieben und unterhalten werden. Der Anbieter kontrolliert mittels Link den Zugriff auf die Webseiten von Drittanbietern, nicht jedoch die Inhalte und Applikationen welche sich auf den Webseiten von Drittanbietern befinden. Dementsprechend kann der Anbieter keine Verantwortung für den Inhalt und die Applikationen auf Webseiten von Drittanbietern übernehmen.Der Anbieter legt grossen Wert auf den Schutz der Persönlichkeitsrechte der Nutzer ihrer Produkte. Die Datenschutzerklärungen erläutern dem Nutzer die Praxis des Anbieters im Umgang mit Personendaten und seine Massnahmen zur Erreichung der Datenschutzkonformität.Webseiten Dritter, die über die Webseiten des Anbieters zu erreichen sind, unterliegen nicht den hier festgehaltenen Datenschutzregelungen. Der Anbieter übernimmt keine Verantwortung oder Haftung für die Beachtung des Datenschutzes durch Dritte. Dell XPS L401X Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Having a phone from the company that makes the Xbox makes it feel a little less "enterprise". That is best described as a halo effect. A senior figure at the anti-virus giant McAfee once told this writer the security industry was a mess. There were too many vendors trying to do too many things. But what the industry mirrors is the threat landscape it is trying to calm down.Just look at what’s happened in the past six months. Two of the most significant breaches in the history of the web have occurred, with the attacks on US retailing firm Target and auction giant eBay. There was also the small matter of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, one of the most high-profile web security flaws to date. From a security perspective, things aren’t letting up and there appears to be no end in sight.One common, depressing problem that’s emerged from each of these issues is that many people just aren’t doing the old basics right. The whole security sector, from vendors to customers, needs to be sensible in its response, says Javvad Malik, analyst from 451 Research. “The industry’s been messy for a while now and it’s important the industry responds in a pragmatic and unified manner to try and win back confidence of businesses that investing in security isn’t a completely lost cause. We’re still bad at managing the basics, patching, privilege identity management, tools that overload users with alerts within which important issues can be missed,” Malik says.Whilst IT teams are often told they need a new approach to protecting the business, they have to get the old problems nailed first.Beyond the rudimentary matters, though, coping with these manifold problems effectively will require traditional protections to change and new ones to emerge from research labs and find their way into businesses. “As the internet touches more and more areas of our lives – smart devices, currencies such as Bitcoin, cloud and virtualisation – simply reacting to threats is no longer the most effective way to protect both individuals and organisations,” says David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.That does not mean killing anti-virus, however, even if the traditional signature-based approaches have failed. Modern AV systems, the best ones, at least do some heuristic and reputation analysis, rather than just try to detect malicious software that’s already been seen in the wild. Emm says malware detection technologies should look beyond the static and evaluate objects or applications within the context of a specific environment, questioning what it’s doing there, what it’s connecting to and what it has been designed to do compared with its expected behaviour.“This enables security experts to identify anything that is being used for nefarious purposes before an attack has been carried out,” he adds.“There have been those who have said that ‘AV’ protection is dead but what this really means is that we have to go beyond traditional signature-based protection and use more sophisticated technologies including heuristics, sandboxing, proactive behaviour detection, cloud-enabled threat intelligence, application control, automatic exploit prevention, secure banking and more.”Outside of malware problems, the rise of mobile has brought about a dismantling of the IT perimeter. That’s why the firewall has also taken a battering in recent years. And yet it still survives as a technology, whether in the traditional or “next-generation” sense. Rather than taking down the firewall, the response to the death of the perimeter should be based on a layered approach, not a rip and replace strategy, says Professor Alan Woodward, of the computing department at the University of Surrey.“I think we can take lessons from how physical security has been mounted historically: something as simple as a castle didn’t have just one wall. There were layers of walls and eventually a redoubt within which the most precious items were kept,” Woodward says.
“Defence in depth has to be seen as the default approach. With the rise of insider threats and spear phishing attacking those with privileged access, the perimeter is becoming less of an absolute barrier to intruders but is still causing some attacks to bounce off so it would seem a little silly to simply let it crumble.”Emm says such an approach needs to focus more on the individual, rather than attempt blanket security measures. “People do still work in the office, connecting to corporate servers so that network still needs to be protected. However, the workspace has become more diverse in that many people will work from home on a laptop or on the move with their smartphone or tablet,” Emm adds.“This leads to a host of additional security issues - from people logging on to insecure Wi-Fi networks that could potentially be being watched by cybercriminals, to losing their device on public transport - and it is these devices that are not protected by traditional policies, firewalls, endpoint protection and mail filtering that exist in offices. “We therefore need to look at a security solution that protects the individual, taking into account new devices and policies and procedures for untrusted environments – i.e. ‘follow-me’ security.”This all points to a need for better intelligence systems, ones that can alert organisations to anomalies on the network caused by zero-day threats and access inconsistencies, whilst allowing for greater analysis of attacker behaviour. The most effective are likely to be based on Big Data technology, ones that can draw together different data types to determine the nature of the threat. Use of Hadoop and big data warehousing projects will likely be the domain of large enterprises. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies will likely be suitable for smaller enterprises, the most attractive being those that allow for actionable intelligence and pull in as many different sources as possible.Proper intelligence solutions aren’t just thought to be useful in understanding the adversary, they’re also likely to save businesses money. Research from the Ponemon Institute last year, looking at 234 breached organisations, showed those who invested in security intelligence systems gained average cost savings of nearly $2m in comparison to those who didn’t.Microsoft has pitched its Surface Pro 3 as a "tablet that can replace your laptop." That is unless, it seems, you want to repair or upgrade your laptop. Teardown specialists iFixit have posted their initial dissection of the latest Redmond tablet, and they've concluded that the surface on the Surface is poor for service.The third generation of Microsoft's high-end tablet received a repairability score of one out of a possible 10 – iFixit's lowest.Among the issues noted by the company was the use of non-standard connectors, an unreplaceable battery, and extensive use of heavy adhesives that make opening and servicing components in the tablet nearly impossible.Perhaps the biggest worry with the Surface Pro 3, says iFixit, is the screen itself. During the early steps of the teardown process, loosening and prying open the outer casing from the display, the researchers spotted cracks.The small fissure quickly spread through the screen, and the iFixit crew said that it had to tape up the display in order to prevent it from falling apart outright."The delicate and arduous opening procedure leaves no room for mistakes: one slip-up, and you'll be out a screen," they wrote.Even if one can pull open the display, the Surface take-apart effort found that other measures from Redmond make servicing the device extremely difficult. While the SSD was found to be accessible and fairly easy to replace, other components such as the battery pack were glued into the tablet's casing to the point of being impossible to remove without causing permanent damage.
To be fair, few if any tablet systems these days fall under most peoples' definitions of repairable. Vendors are able to squeeze a tablet's guts into their svelt enclosures by using glue to secure components, along with other space-saving measures that make DIY repairs difficult to impossible. Apple, for example, receives similarly low repairability scores for many of the same reasons.That the Surface Pro 3 wouldn't even survive a case opening, however, could be seen as cause for concern about overall durability.The team at iFixit has performed hundreds of such teardowns in the past, and hardly qualifies as ham-fisted when it comes to handling delicate components. Indeed, the company makes its living selling users the very tools that allow for the opening of mobile devices without cracking screens or warping battery packs."Microsoft went to great lengths to make the Surface Pro 3 super portable, thinning it down from the Pro 2's 0.53in to a mere 0.36in thick," the DIY repair site noted. As with all of our Surface products, Surface Pro 3 is engineered with high-quality components to be as thin, light and powerful as possible and is designed to be serviced by professionals. All Surface products come with a one-year limited hardware warranty and customers have the option of additional warranty protection with Microsoft Complete, which gives customers two years of limited hardware warranty coverage that includes accidental damage protection. Akku Fujitsu ms2239 www.akku-fabrik.com Die zweite wichtige Erkenntnis, die sich aus der Firmware gewinnen lässt, sind einerseits Code-Zeilen, die den Ausdruck „BKFaceDetect“ enthalten, und andererseits direkte Referenzen auf eine Infrarot-Kamera. Die Abkürzung „BK“ dürfte gemäß Apples typischer Namenskonventionen für Entwicklerwerkzeuge nichts anderes als „Biometric Kit“ bedeuten. Die Infrarot-Kamera sollte passend dazu zur Gesichtserkennung des Nutzers selbst im Dunklen eingesetzt werden können. Die Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg hatte früher in diesem Monat über Apples Verwendung einer entsprechenden Technologie in kommenden iPhones berichtet. Es ist allerdings weiterhin nicht bekannt, ob alle diesjährigen iPhones Gesichtserkennung erlauben werden, oder nur das Flaggschiff. Eine zentrale Frage hinsichtlich des Industriedesigns und der Ausstattung des diesjährigen High-End-iPhones können aber leider auch die jüngsten Enthüllungen nicht beantworten: Was hat sich Apple angesichts des Edge-to-Edge-Touchscreens für den Fingerabdrucksensor Touch ID, der bei bisherigen iPhones in der Home-Taste intergriert war, einfallen lassen? Kann dieser Sensor dank der neuen Gesichtserkennungstechnologie komplett gestrichen werden? Sitzt Touch ID nun direkt unterhalb des Displays? Hat der Konzern den Sensor gar auf die Rückseite verbannt oder aber vielleicht doch in der Power-Taste integriert? Microsoft hatte zur Entwicklerkonferenz Build 2017 im vergangenen Frühjahr ausführlich darüber gesprochen, wie es künftig Windows 10 PCs enger mit Android- sowie iOS-Smartphones zusammenführen wolle. Zu einem gewissen Grad werden sich die Früchte dieser Initiative bereits in dem im Herbst erwarteten Fall Creators Update finden lassen, wie nun aktuell die Vorschauversion 16251 demonstriert. Derzeit bringt die Verknüpfung zwischen Windows 10 und einem Smartphone aber lediglich den Nutzen, dass Webseiten-Links vom Smartphone-Browser aus mit dem PC geteilt werden können.
Mit Hilfe der Anwendung Microsoft Apps existiert nun auf einem Android-Smartphone oder iPhone ein Weg, um während des Surfens mit dem jeweiligen Standard-Browser (also Chrome oder Safari) ganz nach Bedarf oder Laune die gerade aufgerufene Webseite an den verknüpften Windows 10 PC zu senden und dann dort weiterzulesen. Microsoft will diese Funktionalität in den kommenden Monaten weiter ausbauen, um so künftig mehr solcher Plattform-übergreifender Interaktionsmöglichkeiten anbieten zu können. Ziel ist vermutlich eine ähnliche Nutzererfahrung wie sie Apple rein innerhalb seines eigenen Ökosystems mit dem Feature „Continuity“ bereitstellen kann. Im Gehäuseinneren des 149 Gramm schweren und 142,5 x 69,3 x 8,1 Millimeter messenden Q6 verbaut LG ein Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 SoC, das insgesamt acht CPU-Kerne mit bis zu 1,4 Gigahertz Taktfrequenz integriert. Des Weiteren finden dort 3 Gigabyte RAM, 32 Gigabyte Flash-Speicher, ein LTE-Modem sowie ein 3000-mAh-Akku und ein Funk-Modul, welches WLAN nach 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2 plus NFC unterstützt, Platz. Bereits im vergangenen April hatte Microsoft die Arbeiten am Windows 10 Creators Update für beendet erklärt und offiziell mit dem Rollout der neuen Hauptversion ds Desktop-Betriebssystems begonnen. Allerdings merkte der Softwareriese damals auch an, dass die Verteilung in mehreren Phasen durchgeführt werden würde, und ein Teil der Nutzer daher deutlich länger bis zur automatischen Aktualisierung auf das Creators Update warten müsse als andere. Priorisiert beliefert wurden gemäß Microsofts eigenen Angaben PCs mit neuerer Hardware beziehungsweise Geräteserien, die zuvor ausgiebig getestet werden konnten. Nun ist diese Verteilung des Creators Updates in Phasen allerdings offiziell beendet.
Aus dem Blog-Beitrag Microsofts geht des Weiteren hervor, dass der Softwareriese nun auch Firmen beziehungsweise Enterprise-Kunden gezielt dazu anregen will, Windows-10-Systeme auf das Creators Update zu aktualisieren. Microsoft wirbt mit der Aussage, Version 1703 sei bedenkenlos für die weitläufige Verteilung in Unternehmen geeignet. Dell Inspiron 1545 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com A better comparison is with Dropbox or Box.com, which started as pure online storage and synchronization services but which have added collaboration features. Both are more expensive than Zocalo, but benefit from a partner ecosystem that provides integrated apps and services.The weakest point in Zocalo, then, is not the limited feature set but the fact that Amazon has not published an API so that third parties can extend it, for example with mobile apps that upload documents or images, or to analyse activity logs.With its commodity pricing and simple operation, Zocalo may appeal if you trust Amazon more than its rivals. Yet it will only become compelling when Amazon opens up the service for integration; though bear in mind that it is still in preview and features may change.Zocalo is in free trial, but will cost $5 per user/month which includes 200GB of storage. Additional storage costs around $0.03 per GB. The maximum file size is 5GB. If you sign up to Workspaces (from $35 per user/month) then Zocalo is free but only up to 50GB storage. On the official Apple support forum, dozens of angry customers claimed that the latest software update for the 2011 Macbook Air had gone horribly wrong.Some posters said their Airs had been totally borked by the update, while others reported difficulties installing it.All had been trying to install version 2.9 of an EFI firmware update, which was supposed to fix a problem which causes the computer to take an eternity to wake from sleep and then run the fans at full speed.One owner of a Macbook Air from mid 2011 is now in mourning for his deceased laptop.He wrote: The update seemed to install fine, then asked for a reboot.The MBA shutdown and never came back on. Tried SMC reset, with and without power adapter. Nothing. The thing is dead.Worst of all, the poster was from Greece. Not necessarily a bad thing in itself, we note, but terrible if you're a fanboi because of the lack of an official Apple store in the country. Now he has been forced to pay for a fix.My son is on an internship in a somewhat remote place in Alaska (read: no Apple genius to bring it to), with his Macbook Air, he said. He sent me a text informing me that his perfectly working MBA won't power on at all after applying a firmware update this morning. It's dead, killed by Apple, and it is out of warranty. Other forum folk suggested there was hope of a resurrection, if you just leave the computer alone for a while.I just realised the fan is running quietly, so maybe not dead, just having a terrible dream, one fanboi wrote.Anyway, the laptop after standing around for two hours (I kid you not) rebooted by itself. A scary two hours, another added.Happily, some posters reported fixing the issue by performing a triple System Management Controller reset. To do this, you just need to plug the laptop in, hold down the Shift, Control and Option keys as well as power. Then release them all and whack the power button.Repeat three times, say four Hail Marys, salute the great gods of the underworld and hey presto, your Macbook might just return from the grave. Until then, we are praying for you. Pics A Google Hangout of a different sort took place at its London offices yesterday. And, neatly fulfilling quite a few of our expectations of the Choc Factory, we ogled tech while milling around a real chocolate fountain.Yes, we’re talking Christmas in July again, the silly season where vendors and resellers showcase Yuletide bound products including some that aren’t available to buy just yet... and the press were invited to savour some Chocolate Factory festive fare. Having dodged the assimilation of hacks adorning Google glassware, I made it to the Christmas tree of Chromebooks – which featured all the latest models from the likes of Acer, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. A welcome sight was the Samsung Chromebook 2 with its 13.3-inch full HD display which is still coming soon to the UK.What makes the memorably named XE503C32 so interesting is that it’s powered by Samsung’s 2.1GHz eight-core Exynos 5 Octa ARM processor, whereas the bulk of today’s Chromebooks rely on Intel’s 1.4GHz dual-core Celeron 2955U CPU. In other areas it’s much the same with 4GB of RAM and a 16GB SSD. I did a quick boot to login test which took 8.5 seconds – on a par with the Intel alternatives.Processors aside, another distinction is its stitched leather effect lid. It’s a bit subtle, which is probably a good thing, as you do have to look closely to notice it and you won’t find this ornamentation on the base.While it doesn’t bend over backwards Lenovo N20p Yoga-style, the non-touch display does tilt back quite far. The 200nit screen is sharp and bright enough but isn’t the usual Samsung laptop dazzler league as it’s no doubt toned down a bit to save on battery.
As Christmas tunes blasted away from a Google Play playlist and the Chocolate Factory’s chocolate fountain shimmered its indulgence as passing journos daubed strawberries in this edible form of streaming, I dodged the Glassholes again and wound up alongside the watches.Analysis Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked up the big changes he has in store for the company during a conference call with financial analysts on Tuesday. And among his plans were universal apps that can run on any Windows platform.There was little talk of layoffs, beyond what Nadella and new Microsoft phones boss Stephen Elop discussed last week. Redmond plans to issue pink slips to as many as 18,000 workers in the coming year, most of them from Nokia's manufacturing divisions.Instead, Nadella used the opportunity to boast of the restructuring and realignment going on inside the company – and this time, he mostly managed to do it without resorting to the kind of bloviating and empty jargon that made his recent six-page memo to employees so stultifying.The key, he said, lies in shaking up a business that has relied too long on processes that it developed in the earliest days of the PC industry.The diversity of products that Microsoft has – from silicon tape-outs to services that we are continuously updating in Azure or Office 365 – is a lot more than when we first created the Microsoft engineering system, Nadella said. That was for retail, packaged products. In future, Nadella said, Microsoft's engineering groups will not only be restructured to span both the cloud and on-premises worlds, but consumer products and those targeted for enterprise customers will be more closely aligned, as well.For example, the OneDrive and OneDrive for Business engineers now work as a single team, as do the Outlook and Exchange groups and the Skype and Lync teams.It's safe to say we can forget about devices and services under Nadella, too. Former CEO Steve Ballmer started using that phrase to describe Microsoft's future direction just 12 months ago, yet it wasn't uttered once during Tuesday's call.To hear Nadella tell it, Microsoft is rather a productivity and platform company for the mobile first, cloud first world – which might not be as pithy as Ballmer's mantra, but it's a phrase that appears, at least, to express a grander vision than the chair-flinging ex-CEO had for the company.While Ballmer was desperate to claw back share of the smartphone and tablet markets from Apple, Nadella doesn't see selling devices as an end unto itself.Mobility for us goes beyond just devices, he said during the call. While we are certainly focused on building great phones and tablets, we think of mobility more expansively. And while Nadella didn't hesitate to mention that sales of Redmond's Surface 3 fondleslabs are outpacing those of earlier iterations, he also said that Microsoft isn't really interested in competing with its OEM partners, and that one of the main goals for the company's hardware division will be to develop innovative products that define new categories.We are not in hardware for hardware's sake and our first-party hardware will be aligned with our strategic direction, he said.There's a million dollars in prizes up for grabs from Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the clever clogs who can build a direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) converter that's the size of a laptop.The Little Box Challenge aims to solve one of the dilemmas in modern-day power supply – that many sources, such as solar panels, output DC, as do batteries, but that most appliances in homes and businesses expect AC*.To convert DC to AC to power a building, a bulky inverter is needed. But Google is unhappy with the state of today's offerings, hence the contest to build a better inverter.We hope The Little Box Challenge may lead to improvements not only in power density, but also in reliability, efficiency, safety, and cost, Maggie Johnson, Google's director of education wrote in a blog post.
Furthermore, it is our hope that some of these advances can also improve the other types of power electronics. If these devices can be made very small, reliable and inexpensive, we could see all kinds of useful applications to the electric grid, consumer devices and beyond, maybe including some we have yet to imagine.Household inverters are bulky at present, about the size of a picnic cooler, we're told. Google wants the prize winners to shrink this gear by a factor of ten to about the size of a laptop – or even a tablet if possible. At the same time, the inverter has to be able to handle loads of 2kVA with a power density of 50W per cubic inch. It must take 450V DC in series with a 10-Ohm resistor, and output single-phase 240V AC at 60Hz.The winning device will have to do all of this while staying below 60 degrees celsius (140°F) on any touchable surface, with no liquid cooling systems allowed, and with a conversion efficiency of more than 95 per cent.Google suggested that the competitors may want to look into the use of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors – such as gallium-nitride (GaN) and silicon-carbide (SiC) – for the project, but new approaches are always welcome. All intellectual property for the winning designs will remain with the inventors. Initial applications must be submitted by the end of September, and by October next year the 18 finalists will be picked by a five-person judging panel and sent to a testing facility. The winning teams will be announced the following January and cash awards of up to a million dollars will be awarded. * The irony of converting DC to AC and then, inevitably, back to DC again in a tablet or laptop adapter is not lost on us. But hey, a million bucks is a million bucks. And, anyway, something's got to power that smartfridge.If you've been wondering why the battery life on your Windows laptop or tablet seems so lousy, your Chrome web browser might be to blame – and it may have been sapping your system's juice for years.A documented bug in the source code for the Chromium open source project seems to account for the mysterious power drain that some users of Google's web browser have been experiencing. Akku Toshiba satellite t130d www.akku-fabrik.com Die HomePod-Firmware hat sich also ganz zweifellos schnell zu einer reichhaltigen Informationsquelle für Details zur kommenden iPhone-Generation entwickelt. Es ist allerdings noch unklar, ob Apple all die genannten Features nur dem iPhone 8/Pro spendiert, oder ob auch die ebenfalls erwarteten iPhone 7s und 7s Plus zumindest einige dieser Neuerungen mitbringen werden. Auch wenn noch nicht klar ist, auf exakt welches kommende Sony-Smartphones die beiden Benchmark-Einträge hinweisen, lassen sich anhand der technischen Daten Schlussfolgerungen ziehen. Angetrieben wird das Modell G8441 von Qualcomms aktuellem High-End-Prozessor Snapdragon 835, dem wohl 4 Gigabyte RAM und 32 Gigabyte Flash-Speicher zur Seite stehen. Des Weiteren scheinen sowohl Front- als auch Hauptkamera einen 8 Megapixel Sensor aufzuweisen und das Display lediglich eine Auflösung von 720p zu bieten. Am 21. Juli 2017 veröffentlichte Microsoft durchaus überraschend diverse Firmware und Treiber Updates für das inzwischen fast zwei Jahre alte Surface Pro 4. Die Aktualisierungen betrafen unter anderem das UEFI, die Funkkonnektivität und die Intel Grafikeinheit des Hybrid-Geräts. Wie Neowin nun aber informiert, beinhalteten die Updates offenbar auch einen undokumentierten Treiber für die Windows Hello Kamera des Surface Pro 4, welcher bei zahlreichen Nutzern für Probleme sorgte. Den vorliegenden Informationen nach führte der vorherige Treiber mit der Versionsnummer 1.0.65.1 dazu, dass bei vielen Nutzern die Anmeldung via Windows Hello nicht mehr funktionierte. Nach der Installation der neuen Treiber-Version 1.0.75.1 scheint dieses Problem aber nun wieder aus der Welt geschafft zu sein. Wir selbst konnten sowohl die Fehlfunktion als auch die Behebung des Problems auf einem Surface Pro 4 verifizieren.
Microsoft hat Windows Insidern im Fast Ring in dieser Woche erneut eine frische Windows 10 Insider Vorschauversion zum Download bereitgestellt. Die aktuellste Preview-Build des kommenden Fall Creators Updates trägt die Versionsnummer 16257 und bringt unter anderem eine brandneue Augen-Steuerungsfunktion zur erleichterten Bedienung des Betriebssystems mit. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet sie beispielsweise weitere Verbesserungen für den Browser Edge und den Sicherheitsaspekten des Windows Defender. Die große Neuerung der aktuellen Insider Preview ist wie eingangs erwähnt die Implementierung einer fortschrittlichen Augen-Steuerungsfunktion, die sich aus einem . Allerdings ist das Feature derzeit offenbar noch nicht im deutschsprachigen Windows 10 nutzbar. Wie dem auch sei, Microsoft hat die neue Eingabemethode auf Basis der Eye-Tracking-Technologie der Firma Tobii entwickelt und sie soll Menschen mit Behinderung dabei helfen, Geräte mit Windows 10 besser und effizienter beziehungsweise vielleicht überhaupt erst nutzen zu können. Via Eye-Tracking können etwa der Mauszeiger bewegt oder Tastatureingaben getätigt werden.
Analog zu den vorherigen Windows 10 Insider Previews kommt auch Build 16257 mit einer Liste an allgemeinen Bugfixes und kleineren Optimierungen daher, die Microsoft in gewohnter Manier alle in einem offiziellen Blog-Beitrag aufführt. Außerdem wird dort erwähnt, dass auch die aktuelle Vorschauversion noch vier größere bekannte Probleme enthält, mit deren Behebung das Windows-Team derzeit beschäftig ist. Da diese allerdings nicht allzu gravierend anmuten, sollte die Korrektur nicht lange auf sich warten lassen. FPCBP273 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Finally, my own website at markpesce.com also fails this test. I’m hanging my head in shame, and - with luck - by the time this column reaches you, I’ll have fixed that.It’s a little complicated to create an authenticated and secured HTTPS website, but generally no more than a few hours of work.Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco is usually a theatrical affair, but his company may have outdone itself this time.The three-hour session featured sets by the ageing Beach Boys, a Hawaiian dance spectacular and blessing ceremony, and a drone delivery by Coca Cola. But Benioff briefly took to the stage himself to show off the firm's new cloud analytics engine, Wave, and an upgrade to Salesforce1 that includes a new app builder dubbed Lightning.All of this software is going to be built around mobile users, Benioff said, recounting how he runs his company from his smartphone and doesn't bother to take a laptop on business trips any more. All Salesforce's products are going to be built around mobile in the future he promised, as well as for smartwatches. Wave was the brainchild of Alex Dayon, now head of products at Salesforce and the former CEO of InStranet, which Benioff bought in 2008, who wanted an analytics platform that could be used any anyone.The new Wave system uses data from Salesforce but also from outside sources like social media. The user interface is built around a gaming engine so that graphics can be altered and animated by the user, and then streamed to the nearest large screen or tablet.The introduction of Wave will cause some worried eyebrow furrows from those companies that make a living analyzing Salesforce content, but maybe not too many. Compared to some of the analytics engines out there Wave looks somewhat basic and, while it's easier to use than many, we saw little of the depth of data needed by serious software.Wave will be initially be released next week for iOS, but an Android version will be out shortly, as will builds in languages other than English. Prices range from US$125 per user per month for end users to $250 over the same period for developers. Also on display during Benioff's keynote was the upgrade to the firm's Salesforce1 customer platform, which now comes with the app-building program Lightning – which was introduced by Salesforce cofounder Parker Harris dressed (inadvisably) as a superhero.Here at Salesforce we have some of the best developers in the world, he said. But you don't have those developers, so Lightning makes their skills available to you.In essence, Lightning takes the application framework Salesforce's internal developers have been using and prebuilt components from the firm, which Harris promised would be updated regularly. A series of design tools is built in and the applications are run within the Salesforce app on any platform.Harris demonstrated a delivery app built using the platform and there was a staged drop-off on stage of a four-pack of Coke by a quadrocopter in the Moscone Center. Harris looked a little uncomfortable under the flying blades but the stunt went off without injury. In all, this modest amount of news took nearly three hours of customer videos, song-and-dance routines, lengthy expositions about the admittedly impressive charity work Salesforce is doing, and interviews with such tech visionaries as Will.i.am – who will announce the formation of his new wearables company at the conference tomorrow.A similar arrangement gives you access to Digital Concert Hall, an app from Berliner Philharmoniker offering concerts and live streams. A third party app called TV Player gives you access to Freeview channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.Fire TV streamed smoothly in my tests, and makes sense for Prime subscribers. Whether Prime is good value is moot. The free content exists; but search for a movie and most of the time it comes up as a paid option, even for older titles.Roman Holiday (1953): £3.49 to rent, £7.99 to buy. Gone with the Wind (1939): £2.49/£4.99. More recent offerings have their own quirks, for instance, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) is £7.99 to buy but no rental option. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) on the other hand: watch for free with Prime. The best advice is to check out the list on Amazon’s site and decide whether it is worth it for you.
Music is less well served. Fire TV connects to Amazon’s cloud music service, which means anything you bought from Amazon MP3, auto-rip CDs (you buy the CD and Amazon automatically adds the MP3s), and up to 250 other tracks manually uploaded. However, there is no music store on Fire TV itself. I also found the selection of concert videos poor, whether free or paid.There is a Spotify Connect app, but this is not full Spotify; rather, it's a receiver for Spotify played from your mobile or tablet.Fire TV has a few party tricks. One is voice search, which operates via a microphone built into the remote. Press and hold the voice button, speak, release, and your words go up to Amazon’s cloud voice recognition service and back down to perform a system-wide search.Voice search is mostly good. It does make sense for a sit-back experience, and searching for something like a movie, actor or app generally works first time. There are occasional frustrations. A search for “TuneIn Radio” is recognised as “Tune in radio” and does not find the app. That said, it works well enough for you to use it. There is also an Amazon Cloud Drive app which you can instal on your Android or iOS device (Windows Phone users are out of luck) which automatically uploads your photos and videos, which then sync with Fire TV for viewing. A handy feature.What about casting a screen from another device to the Fire TV? There are two separate features. Second Screen only works with Kindle Fire or HDX tablets, and lets you project photos or videos from the device to the Fire TV. There is also Miracast support, accessed through display settings, which in theory should let you project the screen from any Miracast-compatible device. I tried two, one Android and one Windows, and neither worked for me.Mac OS X isn’t quite the RAM gobbler that Windows is, but since the Mini uses integrated graphics, that’s a big chunk of RAM nabbed before you’ve even started running applications, especially if you’re using multiple displays or even a single screen with a greater-than-HD resolution.The Mini I have here has 8GB of RAM and I would‘t take anything less. Mac OS X Yosemite, pre-installed on the new Mini, demands rather more memory than its predecessors did — more daemons, more backgrounded apps, more memory leaks. Even with only a handful of basic applications open, this Mini is already consuming just under 7GB of the installed eight. Trouble is, I can't do anything about that. I can’t assess my memory usage on a new platform and then expand the memory as necessary. Who cares if no other Mini user wants to do this. I do. For the sake of perhaps five dollars for the memory slot and the tooling for the removable base, Apple has made its little machines far less attractive for anyone not seeking an appliance. And surely those people are among the iMac’s natural constituency, not the Mini’s?If you do open up a 2014 Mac Mini, it’s still an engineering marvel. All kitted out in silver and black, it’s as attractive on the inside as it is on the outside, as the iFixit disassembly pics on here reveal. Better than anything I can take, these shots will show you exactly how accessible the new Mini isn’t. Getting to the 5400rpm 500GB hard drive (in the base model; others have bigger drives and even a Fusion Drive SSD cache) is a chore, but doable.In use, this box, based on a 1.4GHz dual-core Core i5-based 4260U CPU feels fluid, and unlikely to trouble any but the most power-hungry users. As I say, it’s the lack of memory expansion that’s the problem here.
There’s a problem for users with Firewire peripherals too: Apple has dropped the Firewire 800 port it had placed on the back of the 2012 model. In its place is a second Thunderbolt port which will come in handy if you’re driving your monitor off the other one. The new Mini, like the old, has HDMI, but that limits you to 1920 x 1080. Thunderbolt drives my 2560 x 1440 Dell display very well.The Mini still has a useful four USB 3.0 ports and the SD card slot. Once again, the PSU is built in; no brick hanging off the back here. Gigabit Ethernet rounds off the new Mini’s port array; the internal Wi-Fi has been upgraded from 802.11n to 802.11ac.An optional extra for the Fire TV is a Bluetooth-connected game controller. This is a solid affair, larger than the Fire TV itself, and relatively expensive at £35. It has a full array of controls: two analogue sticks, D-pad, 8 buttons plus three multimedia controls (play, rewind, forward), two triggers and two shoulder buttons.Unfortunately the controller is so-so. The D-pad is stiff, the sticks are imprecise, and it lacks the polish of the best console controllers. The good news: I plugged in a wired Xbox 360 controller and it works perfectly, save for a few inessential missing buttons. The idea of the controller is that it converts the Fire TV into a budget games console, with games priced at mobile app levels. Amazon even has its own game studios, and the controller comes with a free exclusive offering, a first-person shooter called Sev Zero, normally £4.99.Hard core gamers will be snooty about this, but the graphics are good enough for Fire TV to have real potential as a low-end gaming box. Sev Zero is humdrum, but Asphalt 8: Airborne is good fun with the controller. Fire TV supports OpenGL ES 3.0 which means rich graphics are possible. The snag here is the weak ecosystem. The selection of games is small, and they are mostly designed for tablets and touch control, so whether the controller works as expected is hit and miss.The more time I spent with Fire TV, the more annoyances I discovered. The biggest issue, which is not Amazon’s fault, is lack of third-party app support. Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0 which is based on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean); however it does not include Google Play Services. Apps are downloaded from Amazon’s store and developers have to tweak their apps to run on Fire OS, and deploy them to Amazon’s store. Most have not bothered, which is why the Fire OS store is sparsely populated. Going it alone is a difficult and largely friendless journey. The USB 2.0 port does not support storage devices unless you hack your device and even that is proving more difficult with more recent Fire TV software blocking rooting. So, unlike the Roku 3 (that's £20 more), you cannot play videos from external storage. Amazon’s guide states that “The USB port currently does not support any accessories,” but this is not true; I plugged in a keyboard and it worked, as did the Xbox 360 controller. Attach storage though and you get nothing, though potentially an app might be able to access it.Hack and flash: rooting the Fire TV allows access to the Google Play Store and enables the USB port to work with storage media, but Amazon is keen to block the options to allow this Akku Fujitsu btp-b5k8 www.akku-fabrik.com Apple hat die WWDC 2017 im vergangenen Februar angekündigt und dabei verraten, dass die Konferenz in diesem Jahr vom 5. bis 9. Juni in San Jose, Kalifornien stattfinden wird. Der Veranstaltungsort war für viele Branchenkenner eine große Überraschung, da Apple die WWDC seit vielen Jahren unentwegt im Moscone Center in San Francisco abgehalten hatte. Die diesjährige Build wird von Microsoft nicht in San Francisco abgehalten. Stattdessen hat sich das US-Unternehmen für die Stadt entschieden, die in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Redmonder Hauptquartier liegt, Seattle. Für Entwickler und IT-Spezialisten, die nicht direkt vor Ort sein können oder wollen, ist beachtenswert, dass auf der erwähnten Webseite Channel 9 nicht nur die Keynotes zu verfolgen sein werden, sondern Microsoft dort auch einen Großteil der Konferenz-Sessions sowohl als Livestream als auch on demand kostenlos abrufbereit machen wird. HP stellt heute eine neue Generation seines Surface Pro Konkurrenten Elite x2 1012 vor. Mit dem leistungsstarken Tablet mit andockbarer Tastatur will der renommierte US-Hersteller in erster Linie den Geschäftskundenmarkt bedienen, was sich in umfangreichen Sicherheits- beziehungsweise Zusatzfeatures für das Gerät ausdrückt. HP hat bei der Entwicklung des Elite x2 1012 G2 jedoch weder ein schickes Design noch die Hardware-Features vernachlässigt, wodurch die Neuvorstellung sicherlich auch für den ein oder anderen Privatnutzer sehr interessant sein dürfte.
Das neu gestaltete Gehäuseinnere sowie der Einsatz neuer Technologien führen daszu, dass die neue Generation des Elite x2 1012 trotz Core i Prozessor eine Akkulaufzeit von gut 10 Stunden erreichen soll. Außerdem unterstützt das Gerät HPs Fast-Charging über einen USB 3.1 Typ-C Port, was einen entleerten Akku in nur 30 Minuten wieder bis zur Hälfte auffüllt. Neben der noch jungen USB Typ-C Schnittstelle verfügt das Tablet außerdem über einen klassischen USB 3.0 Typ-A Port, einen microSD-Kartenleser plus einen Kopfhöreranschluss und unterstützt 2 x 2 WLAN nach 802.11ac, WiGig sowie optional auch 4G LTE. Zu guter Letzt speziell für den Unternehmenssektor erwähnenswert ist, dass HP verspricht, auch für sein neues Elite x2 1012 hervorragende Service-Optionen im Fall eines Hardware-Problems anzubieten. Im Gegensatz zu beispielsweise Microsofts Surface Pro 4 oder Apples iPad Pro soll sich das HP-Tablet vergleichsweise unkompliziert reparieren lassen. Darüber hinaus liefert der Hersteller das Gerät ab Werk mit umfassenden Sicherheitsfeatures aus, zu denen etwa ein TPM-Modul, umfassender Bios-Schutz, Datenträgerverschlüsselung sowie ein Fingerabdrucksensor und eine IR-Kamera zur Gesichtserkennung zählen.
Amazon hat heute wie erwartet ein neues Mitglied für seine Echo-Familie namens Echo Show vorgestellt. Der smarte Lautsprecher mit Alexa-Integration verfügt als erstes Modell der Reihe über ein Display und unterstützt auch Videotelefonate. In den USA wird der Echo Show in den Farbvarianten Schwarz und Weiß ab dem 28. Juni 2017 für einen Preis von 230 US-Dollar erhältlich sein. Hinsichtlich eines Marktstarts in Deutschland hält sich Amazon bislang aber noch bedeckt. Insbesondere hinsichtlich des Telefonie-Features von Echo Show beziehungsweise der gesamten Echo-Familie ist es schon sehr verdächtig, dass Microsoft ausgerechnet gestern zusammen mit Harman Kardon einen Cortana-Lautsprecher namens Invoke vorgestellt hat, über den sich unter anderem Skype-Telefonate führen lassen werden. Dieses Gerät soll irgendwann im Herbst 2017 im internationalen Handel erscheinen. Acer Aspire 5755g Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com The chip giant announced delivery of dual-OS at CES 2014 with PC partner Asus, with the PC maker delivering the laptop/tablet hybrid to run it on: the 2-in-1 Transformer Book Duet TD300.The TD300 lets you switch between Windows 8.1 and Android in either slaptop mode, using an Instant Switch button on the laptop or a virtual key on the tablet.The PC features an Intel Core i7 processor with Intel HD graphics.Intel’s chief executive Brian Krzanich announced the dual-OS capability at the tech show in Las Vegas.Krzanich called the platform a response to customer and OEM demand, with both wanting the option to run Windows 8.1 and Android at different times on one device.“Intel [SoCs] are the only ones that can offer that capability to seamlessly switch between OSs. You don't have to make a choice moving forward. You could have a secure environment, you can have both,” Krzanich said.Intel isn’t the only chipmaker straddling Windows and Android.AMD used CES to announce what it called its latest milestone: putting Android and Windows on the same tablet, working with Android vendor BlueStacks. BlueStacks creates a virtualised Android device that runs on the Windows desktop. You download, install, and run apps inside a BlueStacks window.AMD said the new version of BlueStacks is running on fourth-generation AMD APUs – the partnership with BlueStacks was first announced in September.Android apps can run within a window or at full-screen resolution, apps can be downloaded from various Android app stores and synced between different devices, and Android apps can access files stored inside the Windows file system, AMD said.Steve Belt, corporate vice president AMD product management, said in a statement that users who had apps and services on in the Android and the Windows camp no longer faced device-specific restrictions thanks to BlueStacks.Now users have access to all the apps - games, communications and content consumption - they love on their Android mobile devices right at their fingertips, while getting important productivity tasks or high-end PC gaming accomplished on their Windows PC, he said. Devices capable of running Windows and Android are unlikely to prove anything more than a niche concern, but anything will help the chip makers in the today's tab-tastic environment.Intel is taking a hammering from the continued drop in sales of the traditional PC running Windows while newer Microsoft tablets using Windows 8.1 aren’t making a dent.Android, meanwhile, has by far the single biggest market share, chiefly thanks to Samsung.For Intel at least, a chip-set capable of booting Windows and Android will hopefully mean it can skim some of the cream off the Android growth that’s doing some of the damage to Windows and PCs.Newbie CEO Krzanich in November warned of zero revenue growth for Intel in 2014 compared to 2013 – despite having spent billions of dollars on, among other things, building new, power-efficient chips like Atom and Haswell supposed to help Intel break into devices.
Can Google’s Chromebook become the laptop platform of choice during 2014? Probably not, but there’s certainly demand for it. According to US market-watcher NPD, during the 11 months from January through November 2013, the platform’s share of the computing device market had risen to 9.6 per cent from just 0.2 per cent in the same months of the previous year.By contrast, Apple’s laptops accounted for a mere 1.8 per cent of the market in 2013, down from 2.6 per cent the year before. Windows-based laptops also declined, though they remain the biggest seller: their combined share fell from 42.9 per cent to 34.1 per cent.Do the sums, and that means Windows laptops took 75 per cent of the US notebook market, Chromebooks 21 per cent and Apple a measly four per cent. Some 6.6 million laptops were shipped through commercial channels, says NPD, of which just under 1.4 million were Chromebooks. Five Chromebooks were sold for every MacBook. Of course, MacBooks are four to five times more expensive than the average Chromebook – $1,000-plus against around $200 - so the gains for the various devices’ respective manufacturers isn’t the same. But the numbers show that punters are not only continuing to buy laptops despite the rise of the tablet - NPD’s numbers show unit shipments up 24.5 per cent year on year - and that they like the idea of only paying a few hundred bucks for one.At that price, owning one in addition to a tablet isn’t perceived as a barrier. Punters can have both. With so much data existing outside the machine - and so many applications centring on data creation or, rather, file creation - there’s no longer any real concern that the device you pick up doesn’t contain the files you want.What Chromebooks appear to be doing is winning that part of the laptop buying audience that might once have snapped up a netbook. Netbooks were arguably killed off by tablets, but the form-factor’s smaller-than-a-notebook limitations arguably had as much to do with it as the rise of the iPad.Early netbooks came with Linux, but that bamboozled folk who felt they needed Windows as a security blanket. Windows, in turn, upped the netbook specification - a big hard drive rather than a small amount of Flash; a faster, more battery pummelling CPU - and a higher price. The screen and keyboard were too small for most grown-ups too. Tablets showed that size need not be a problem for the kind of casual, browsing- or communications-centric jobs a lot of folk use computers for at home.HP’s problems sorting out a major charging bug in the released-then-withdrawn Chromebook 11 aside, there are already a handful of alternatives on sale. Some are from HP itself - Pavilion Chromebook, Chromebook 14 - and others from Samsung and Acer, not to mention Google’s own Chromebook Pixel, though this is considerably more expensive.More are coming. Dell will have its Chromebook out later this month, Sony’s Vaio VCC11 is expected in the spring, and Toshiba has shown one off at CES too that’s due out until February. Asus is said to have a couple in the works. At CES, Lenovo US president Jay Parker told CNET the company will have “multiple Chromebook models” in the market by the Summer.Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba - that’s essentially the world’s key laptop makers other than Apple and, as the numbers show, in the US Apple really isn’t that big a player.“We believe the market will accelerate greatly in the next 12 months,” said Parker. “I think Chromebooks can be very impactful in the market really quickly.” Of course, that’s what all these companies said about the netbook. This time round, they are offering systems at netbook prices with notebook form-factors. That’s one of the key netbook failings addressed.As for the other, Windows, now that punters have grown accustomed to alternative operating systems through their experiences with iOS and Android, they’re clearly far more open to the idea of having a laptop without Windows than they were in the middle of the last decade.“The presumption that desktop Windows is ‘most familiar’ [to users] no longer applies,” says Jeff Orr of ABI Research, a market watcher.Google is a very strong brand and so many people now use its online services.Market analyst Gartner reckons Chromebook sales will hit 4.79 million worldwide in 2014, rising to 8.0 million the year after. It says 1.84 million of the machines shipped in 2013, so you’re looking at 160 per cent growth this year - well in excess of any other platform - and 66 per cent the following year.
CES 2014 The Las Vegas-hosted 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is still running, of course, but the majority of the announcements have been made: a fair few before the show even started, in a bid to get ahead of the rest. Like early morning shoppers, though, everyone figures out the pre-show press release trick soon enough and now everyone is back to square one. What next? CES announcements in October?Not that the world’s consumer electronics and technology players had a lot to say that was new. Smartwatches and wearable devices have proved the key theme of the show, with lots of folk jumping on the bandwagon to try and get a piece of the action early, now well-known birds like Fitbit and Pebble have been enjoying.It helps that Apple’s much-rumoured entry into the market has not taken place, probably for the same reasons that Samsung’s effort, the Galaxy Gear, was so poor: they’re trying to make a flash gadget that will wow non-techie punters, but the core hardware - the battery, chiefly - just isn’t there yet.CES is always a showcase for wall after wall of tellies, but there has been little novelty this time round. Curved screens have been done, so too have 4K and beyond Ultra HD TVs. Smart TVs are so 2012. Steve Jobs may have figured out the secret of making TV hardware sexy again just before he died, but no one else has in the intervening period. Intel went to town on Ultrabooks a couple of years ago, but the broad public apathy to the new platform resulted in a more modest showing in 2013. This time round, rather than start its own bandwagon a-rolling, the chip giant just did what everyone else has: it jumped on someone else’s, in this case wearables. Whether an Edison platform, a PC-on-an-SD-card based on the new Quark processor, will truly be suitable for wearables - in other words, able to deliver ARM-level power efficiency - remains to be seen. Announced now, it won’t be out until the summer.So what did stand out? Here are some of the items that struck me, and don’t forget you can also check out El Reg’s complete CES 2014 coverage here.We’re a sceptical lot here at The Register and we’ve found it hard to accept that personal 3D printing has much of a future outside the homes of Shoreditch techno-hipsters and a few, more advanced makers. Until now. Additive manufacturing is now truly correctly named, after 3D Systems has announced a printer for printing sweeities. Akku HP 511872-001 www.akku-fabrik.com Neben dem PC-Build hat das Windows-Team auch den Windows 10 Mobile Build 15215 für Smartphones veröffentlicht. Dabei handelt es sich jedoch lediglich um eine kleineres Update mit Leistungsoptimierungen und Fehlerkorrekturen. Neue Features sind keine dabei. Überhaupt keine Angaben macht HTC derzeit zu potentiellen Android O Updates für andere aktuelle Smartphone-Modelle neben dem brandneuen U11. Laut Areamobile dürften aber sehr wahrscheinlich auch Besitzer eines HTC 10 sowie des U Play und U Ultra später in diesem Jahr damit versorgt werden. Zunächst einmal ist es wichtig festzuhalten, dass Microsoft für den Nachfolger des Surface Pro 4 offenbar auf die Fortsetzung der bislang für die Baureihe genutzten Nummerierung verzichten wird. Laut Blass wird das neue Modell schlicht und einfach „Surface Pro“ heißen. Diese Entscheidung ist angesichts der durchgesickerten Bilder nachvollziehbar. Das neue Pro sieht im Grunde aus wie das alte. Der bei Microsoft für die Surface-Produkte verantwortliche Manager Panos Panay hatte außerdem erst vor wenigen Wochen in einem Interview gesagt, es werde in naher Zukunft kein „Surface Pro 5“ geben, zumal seiner Auffassung nach nur ein komplettes Produkt-Redesign diese Bezeichnung rechtfertigen würde.
Was Microsoft allerdings gemäß der Fotos beim nächsten Surface Pro aus ästhetischer Sicht verändert hat, das sind die Farben, in denen das Type Cover (Tastatur) sowie der Surface Pen angeboten werden. Der Hersteller wird die beiden Accessoires laut Blass jeweils in vier neuen Farben auf den Markt bringen, die der mit dem Surface Laptop vorgestellten Farbpalette stark ähneln. Abschließend noch ein Wort für Fans von Microsofts zweitem Hybrid-Gerät, dem Surface Book. Wie erwartet hat Blass von seiner Quelle erfahren, dass es im Zuge der anstehenden Microsoft-Veranstaltung in Shanghai keine neue Generation dieses Produkts zu sehen geben wird. Die kommenden Mobil-Prozessoren der Ryzen Familie tragen laut vorliegenden Informationen den Codenamen „Raven Ridge“ und werden nur als sogenannte APUs - Accelerated Processing Units - erscheinen, die CPU-Kerne sowie eine GPU gemeinsam auf einer Chipfläche unterbringt. Der CPU-Teil des Pakets soll mit bis zu vier Ryzen-Kernen aufwarten und maximal 8 Threads unterstützen.
Google hat im Zuge seiner aktuell stattfindenden Entwicklerkonferenz I/O 2017 nicht nur neue Features für seinen digitalen Assistant angekündigt, sondern auch Neues rund um den smarten Lautsprecher Google Home. Für Technikbegeisterte hierzulande dürfte dabei zu allererst interessant sein, dass der Internetgigant Home in den kommenden Monaten endlich nach Deutschland bringen wird - neben Australien, Frankreich, Kanada und Japan. Bislang kann der Smart-Speaker lediglich in Großbritannien und den USA zum Preis von rund 130 US-Dollar (ohne Mehrwertsteuer) erworben werden. Zunächst speziell für Nutzer in Nordamerika wird Google eine neue Telefoniefunktion für Home herausbringen. Dieser Schritt kann als Reaktion auf ein vergleichbares Feature gesehen werden, das Amazon zuletzt für seine Amazon Echo Familie angekündigt hat, muss sich aber natürlich schon seit längerem in Entwicklung befunden haben. Google Home wird in den USA und Kanada allerdings anders als die Echo-Lautsprecher prinzipiell jede Mobilfunk- oder Festnetznummer anrufen können. Dazu greift Home sowohl auf die Google Kontakte des Nutzers als auch auf eine Datenbank mit Einrichtungen, Behörden, Unternehmen und so weiter zurück. Ob oder wann diese Funktion auch in Deutschland verfügbar sein wird, ist im Moment nicht bekannt. Google hat aber die Ausweitung des Angebots auf andere Länder in Aussicht gestellt. Dell Latitude E6430 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Now, let’s see. Small form factors are always popular, but for many it’s a what-you-would-buy-if-you-could-afford-it option, because more often than not other practical considerations win the day. I was tempted though, but having a 1366 x 768 display – and only Core i5 configurations being handed out – I felt the larger Core-i7 equipped 840 G1 had a more enduring appeal even without an SSD.As for the screen, it was anybody’s guess what I was getting as I was handed a laptop bag to wander home with. Would it be full HD (and some of you might even get beyond this paragraph) or the more standard lower resolution option?The good news is, you can keep reading. I’m typing this whilst gazing upon a rather easy-on-the-eye full HD 1920 x 1080 matt screen. The menu bloat of Office 365 sits quite comfortably atop Word and there’s no underlying feeling of claustrophobia creeping in on this desktop.I also lucked in on the RAM too, as 4GB is standard, but this model came with 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM along with a 500GB 7200RPM Toshiba HDD. OK, so the HDD might get a few grumbles and it does impact on benchmark performance, especially when compared to the Toshiba Portégé Z30 running the same Haswell generation dual-core 2.1GHz Intel Core i7-4600U CPU, but for typical tasks it’s not obviously hampering anything. Graphics get a boost too. Even though the Intel HD 4400 Graphics is perfectly adequate for most tasks it does share up to 4GB of system memory and whereas the AMD Radeon HD 8750M that’s also on-board will rely on its own 1GB of RAM provision for improved performance. For the most part, the Intel GPU kicks in for power saving profiles, whereas the AMD option works in performance modes.Beyond replacing the HDD with an SSD, if you’re after a further performance boost, this Elitebook can accommodate a flash cache of 32GB, alternatively the same slot can fit a mini-card 120GB SSD. I tried to get HP to send me the flash cache to see how much of a difference this would make. I’ve tested various hybrid configurations that all improve boot up times and make a significant impact on benchmarking results too.Yet, for the moment, at least, getting kitted out with a cache on an Elitebook remains elusive. Evidently none to be had in the market, not even for ready money. A glance at the HP service manual [PDF] reveals it’s an M.2 NGFF (next generation form factor) module, The thin black base panel is actually metal and the palm rests are too, although you could easily presume them to be plastic. The lid has a rubberised texture which soon shows glossy fingerprints on its matt finish. The keyboard is spill-resistant and the whole kit and caboodle is apparently designed to endure MIL-STD 810G testing. Another footnote mentions the MIL spec testing is "pending" – slackers.Apart from the ruggedised lid, it doesn't appear especially butch. The easily removable base cover creaks when you lean on the palm rests and the right-hand shift key is a bit stiff and squeaks sometimes too. Yet overall, the keyboard itself has a good feel to it and is easy to get used to. The slightly textured surface is none too bothersome: indeed, its non-slip touch probably works well in warmer climes or when its desk pizza time.Being for business bods, HP has loaded this model with its Client Security software. Assuming it would no doubt hassle me for passwords if it began to feel separation trauma, I did my best to avoid setting it up during testing. Curiously, if I rested my hand on the palm rest for too long it would pop-up and start demanding attention.
It took me a while to realise what the problem was, but my hand was resting on the fingerprint reader over to the right side and this flesh contact was getting the Client Security app all excited. I just wanted it to bugger off and wondered, apart from disabling the driver, if there was a simple way to turn off this Validity Sensors tech. It seemed the only way around it was through it, so I gave in to the Client Security nagging.Luckily, you can skip several levels of security, including the biometric finger print reading, but when all was done and I rested my hand on the reader again, another message popped up telling me how it had detected that I was trying to use the fingerprint reader: “Do you want to enroll your fingerprints now?” it asked. No I bloody don't. Fortunately, it featured a "Do not show this message again" checkbox. So far so good. Still, those security options are all there for a good reason and the EliteBook 840G1 features a SmartCard reader too. And so the security shuffle began in earnest with slower start-ups as HP’s Client Security did what it’s supposed to do, gearing up additional protection and interrogating just about anything that could be plugged into the EliteBook. Thanks to its Just In Time Access (JITA) window of opportunity, by default USB sticks get booted off after 15 minutes – but this behaviour can be customised to suit.It’s worth getting familiar with these features, though, as they drill down to BIOS level and I had to get through security to enable alterations for Linux testing, changing the device boot order and opting for Multiboot made this very straightforward.You get two USB 3.0 ports per side and you can hook up additional monitors using either the VGA port, which according to HP’s own tech docs won’t deliver 1080p, or the full-size DisplayPort option, which will. On the right and out of sight is an SD card slot in the base. You get Gigabit Ethernet too and alongside it a docking interface for an optional port replicator. It’s a shame it doesn’t offer an additional interface, such as HDMI, but the combo mic/headphone jack on the EliteBook does appear as separate jacks on the dock, though. Talking of audio, the speaker output is modest but loud enough for one-to-one movie viewing - an opportunity to take advantage of that full HD screen. DTS Studio Sound version 6.1 is provided to help enhance the speakers situated in the grille in front of the display. A bit of tweaking will help soften the sound a little, but you’ll not be troubling anyone with too much bass – there isn’t any.Apart from music and movie set-ups, the DTS control panel handles the beam forming and noise cancellation; functions that the two mics either side of the webcam can entertain. The webcam itself relies on Cyberlink YouCam 4 which makes the most of the 720p image resolution, with fairly decent colour balance and not too heavy on the contrast. On the move, the 14in form factor works out well compared to a 15in model. It’s lighter for a start and with that full HD desktop real estate you certainly don’t feel like you’re missing out on anything. I’ve been lugging it around for some time now and it’s only when I carry the power brick and cable too that the balance tips from 'marginal' to 'noticeable'.Depending on what you put this Core i7 EliteBook through, you could end up needing that power brick as the battery life isn’t as enduring as you might expect. I couldn’t find any quoted figures from HP either, apart from “up to 33 hours if you attach the slice battery optional extra”, which sounds ambitious. Relying on just the internal battery, PCMark 8 churned out a score of 3hrs 5mins which you can typically double for everyday tasks and in most cases I managed around 4-5 hours.
You can try for longer with the default power saving mode which overdoes it a bit on the screen dimming. Also, you’ll need to keep an eye on the keyboard backlighting (and remember to turn it off) as it doesn’t appear to have an ambient light sensor and comes to life in broad daylight when you start typing. Lest we forget, you can actually swap out the 3-cell, Li-ion 4350mAh, 50Wh battery in the EliteBook thanks to its easily-removable latching base plate.PCMark 8 also clocked this HDD Ultrabook at 2581 with a casual gaming frame rate of 20.1fps, which would naturally improve at a lower screen resolution. Being a Windows 7 Pro machine I gave it a spin with PCMark 7 too, which delivered a far more generous score of 3052. Incidentally, there were no Windows 8.x discs supplied.And so to Linux. For this review I thought I’d give openSUSE 13.1 a spin, as SUSE for PPC was the first distro I ever grappled with back in 2000. Oddly, the configuration on the USB stick using the Pen Drive Linux installer wasn’t recognised using HP's F9 key boot volume prompt, although the stick with Mint Linux on it was seen and worked fine. Yet after setting up the aforementioned Multiboot option, openSUSE booted up perfectly. The KDE version looks a bit different to how I remember it though… As a daily workhorse, it’s easy to get comfortable with the EliteBook 840 G1 – its 14in form factor and full HD display hitting a sweet spot for portability, productivity and practicality. There are some compromises though and battery life is the most obvious and may be the reason why HP is somewhat ambiguous about which models qualify as Ultrabooks, so it’s just as well you can easily swap out the power pack for another.Relying on an HDD does undermine the benchmark performance but it's not especially noticeable once everything is running. There’s an M.2 flash cache option to give the EliteBook 840 G1 a shot in the arm, which sounds like a great idea - if only HP could find them. UK saps shoppers spent more than £100,000 a minute at Dixons Retail during the Boxing Day sales helping to drag it into growth during the Christmas quarter for the second consecutive year.But CEO Sebastian James held off talking up any recovery given the torrid time that many electronics retailers have faced in the past four years, and was lukewarm about prospects for the rest of its fiscal ending June. Akku Asus k53f www.akku-fabrik.com Apple hat eine neue Event-Seite online geschaltet, die verrät, dass die bevorstehende Keynote zum Auftakt der diesjährigen World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) am Montag, den 5. Juni 2017 erwartungsgemäß weltweit via Livestream mitverfolgt werden kann. Wie von dem kalifornischen Unternehmen gewohnt, wird sich die Übertragung kurz vor dem geplanten Keynote-Start um 19 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit sowohl direkt über die Apple-Webseite (mit Safari-Browser auf einem iOS-Gerät oder Mac und Edge-Browser unter Windows 10) als auch über einen Apple TV aufrufen lassen. Relevant und erwähnenswert ist all das insbesondere, da sich die WWDC 2017 Woche anschickt, eine mit Apple-Neuankündigungen vollgepackte zu werden. Die anstehende Keynote könnte sich daher vielleicht sogar als eine der aufregendsten der letzten Jahre entpuppen. Fest gerechnet werden darf dabei natürlich auch in diesem Jahr wieder mit der Enthüllung der neuesten Ausgaben von iOS, macOS, tvOS und watchOS. Zusätzlich halten sich außerdem hartnäckig diverse Gerüchte über neue Apple-Hardware, die zur pünktlich WWDC debütieren soll. e wichtige Ausstattungsmerkmale des ZenBook 3 Deluxe sind eine 512 oder 1000 Gigabyte fassende PCIe SSD, bis zu 16 Gigabyte RAM, ein 46 Wh Akku, vier von Harman Kardon zertifizierte Lautsprecher für Surround Sound sowie eine Webcam und ein USB 3.1 Gen 1 Typ-C Port. Zur drahtlosen Kommunikation unterstützt das Notebook Wi-Fi nach 802.11ac und Bluetooth 4.1. Darüber hinaus werden eine Chiclet-Tastatur mit Hintergrundbeleuchtung, ein Multi-Touch-Trackpad und ein Fingerabdrucksensor geboten. Als Betriebssystem installiert der Hersteller sowohl Windows 10 Home als auch Pro (je nach Konfiguration) vor.
Wie Microsoft jüngst bekannt gab, wird der neue Abonnement-Service „Xbox Game Pass“ ab dem 1. Juni 2017 ganz offiziell auf 30 Märkten - darunter auch der deutsche - verfügbar sein. Der Dienst, der kurz und knapp als Netflix für Videospiele beschrieben werden kann, ist zum Start exklusiv für Xbox One Nutzer erhältlich und gewährt diesen gegen eine monatliche Gebühr von 9,99 Euro Zugriff auf eine ausgewählte Sammlung älterer Xbox One beziehungsweise Xbox 360 Titel. Microsoft hat sich dazu bekannt, den neuen Abo-Service kontinuierlich ausbauen und mit neuen Spielen versorgen zu wollen. Zu den Ländern, in denen der Dienst zum Start verfügbar ist, gehören neben Deutschland auch beispielsweise Belgien, Dänemark, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Großbritannien, Italien, Irland, Kanada, die Niederlande, Norwegen, Österreich, Polen, Portugal, Russland, Schweden, die Schweiz, Spanien, Tschechien, Ungarn und die USA. Die diesjährigen iPhone-Spekulationen steuern langsam aber sicher auf ihren Höhepunkt vor der wahrscheinlichen September-Enthüllung von Apples neuer Smartphone-Line-up zu. Aktuell sorgt der Leaker Benjamin Geskin für reichlich Wirbel in der Szene, indem er mehrere Fotos sowie ein Video veröffentlichte, das der Welt die äußere Form des vielleicht „iPhone 8“ oder „iPhone X“ genannten kommenden iPhone-Flaggschiffs verraten soll.
Auf weiteren von dem Leaker veröffentlichten Bildern ist nicht nur das - ebenfalls nachgebaute -Gehäuse des iPhone 8 zu sehen, sondern auch die Chassis-Form von zwei anderen unangekündigten Apple-Smartphones. Diese sollen neben dem diesjährigen Topmodell erscheinen und werden eventuell „iPhone 7s“ und „iPhone 7s Plus“ heißen. Sofern die abfotografierten Formen tatsächlich repräsentativ für die finalen Designs der kommenden Apple-Smartphones sind, können sie einen ersten Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie sich die Modelle in Sachen Abmessungen unterscheiden werden. Das 7s und das 7s Plus sollen Gerüchten nach weitgehend genau so aussehen wie die bekannten Modelle iPhone 7 und 7 Plus, was die vorliegenden Aufnahmen auch zu bestätigen scheinen. Das iPhone 8 hingegen ist etwas dicker als die beiden 7s-Modelle, dafür aber - trotz 5,8 Zoll Display - nur minimal höher und breiter als das 7s mit 4,7 Zoll Display. Weder die durchgesickerten iPhone-Aufnahmen, noch irgendein in diesem Text erwähntes neues iPhone-Modell oder ein dazugehöriges Ausstattungsmerkmal wurden bislang von offizieller Stelle kommentiert, geschweige denn bestätigt. Somit erscheint es nur richtig, abschließend anzumerken, dass sich viele dieser Informationen schlussendlich als falsch, oder zumindest als nicht ganz akkurat entpuppen könnten. Angesichts der schieren Menge an mittlerweile übereinstimmender Hinweise über die nächste iPhone-Generation erscheint es allerdings wahrscheinlicher, dass der absolute Großteil davon in die korrekte Richtung weist. Dell XPS L502X Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com He used a laptop to connect to the router and as he came to the user ID and password for my connection he opened a spreadsheet and looked my phone number up in it. There was my user ID and password, in plain text, along with everyone else's. He tried to shield it from me when he realised I was looking at the list.I asked him if he had my password with him, he said 'yes - it makes our job much easier', then changed the subject. I said that I wasn't happy that our passwords are not encrypted and that I realised it wasn't his fault.Hill said the same username and password combos were used to access the Karoo email service and there was no advice to change the password handed out by KC. The company told The Reg:The security of our customers’ information is of primary importance to us and we are aware of and take very seriously our obligations under the Data Protection Act. We investigate any alleged data security incidents promptly and thoroughly, and we act quickly to make any improvements such investigations identify. I can assure you that all of our laptops are encrypted, password-protected and fitted with tracking technology and the facility to remotely wipe data.Yorkshire's Plusnet, owned by BT, was in a similar situation when an anonymous tipster told The Reg that the company was transmitting personal details over an unencrypted web page. The company was asking potential subscribers to fill in a form online that could be seen by other people while in transit once submitted. The source, who reported the problem to Plusnet, said:I was just shocked by the way the sales rep brushed off my reporting of this during the contract setup (after discovering the vulnerability I used the phone instead).She assured me that the security team would deal with it right away. In my opinion, over two weeks is more than enough time to sort this out. Also, factor in the point that (as many new customers ordering an initial broadband setup are likely to do) I was using an open Wi-Fi hotspot to visit their site!Plusnet ... store user passwords in unencrypted form, as I learnt when considering opening an account with them last summer [yes, six months ago]. When I told the 'tech' person I was talking to that many of the credentials could be used to access users' accounts with third party services, he replied that that was impossible. Though he didn't say why. I got broadband from someone else in the end.All Plusnet customer passwords are stored with full encryption. Our customer sign up page is currently unencrypted, and we are in the process of fixing this urgently.In more tales of the mad, mad world of intellectual property, it appears that King, makers of insanely popular game Candy Crush Saga have trademarked the word CANDY in Europe and are on 30-day approval to do the same in the US. The company said: We have trademarked the word 'CANDY' in the EU, as our IP is constantly being infringed and we have to enforce our rights and to protect our players from confusion.We don't enforce against all uses of CANDY - some are legitimate and of course, we would not ask App developers who use the term legitimately to stop doing so.But it turned out that the company had already found some use that it considered illegitimate, by a game whose full title was All Candy Casino Slots – Jewels Craze Connect: Big Blast Mania Land, but which appeared on the App store as Candy Slots. King said:Its icon in the App store just says 'Candy Slots', focussing heavily on our trademark. We believe this App name was a calculated attempt to use other companies’ IP to enhance its own games through means such as search rankings.But Candy Slots developer Benny Hsu insisted that he never intended to infringe on anyone's IP and said King had gone "too far" with its trademark by enforcing on an app that had only been out for a week. He told The Reg:
Candy is something we have all loved since we were children. I just wanted to create a game with a fun theme.If anyone saw my icon or played my game, they would know that there was nothing in it that tried to copy Candy Crush. Also there are so many games in the App Store that have a candy theme. Candy Crush was not the first candy-themed game to be created and it won't be the last. So I don't understand why they feel like they own the word CANDY.Despite the fact that Hsu thinks he could have fought off a takedown notice from the App Store, he's decided to change the name of the app to All Sweet Casino Slots and avoid the lawyer's fees. Hands on Las Vegas is about 5,200 miles (c. 8,400km) from Blighty’s capital, which makes CES a bit of schlep for all but the terminally keen. Knowing this, Sony UK showcased its finest for 2014 to the UK press this week, from 4K camcorders to er, 4K tellies... with some laptop goodness in between.If there's no Ultra HD content on your eye-wateringly expensive 4K telly, why not make your own? Sony’s FDR-AX100E camcorder isn’t some in-the-distance concept that will be available in a couple of years’ time: you’ll be able to pick one up in April for £1,829 – a month earlier than previously stated.At less than half the price and a good deal smaller than last September’s semi-pro 4K/£4K offering, the FDR-AX1, this is just the sort of product to help popularise the 4K format. Budding film makers and enthusiasts are the obvious targets, with the forward-thinking family user latching on over time as the prices inevitably fall.Well, that appears to be the plan and it’s much easier to envisage than folk buying into stereoscopic kit that was being touted as must-have in recent years, although at 915g with battery, this is still quite a chunky beast and reminded me of grappling with my Dad’s old Sony CCD-F500 Video8 Handycam from the mid-1980s. If your memory stretches back that far, only a monochrome EVF was available, rather than the additional pleasure of the 921K touch panel display featured on the FDR-AX100E, which has neatly configured metering for its 5.1 surround audio recording. Sony relies on Carl Zeiss glass to deliver a 12x optical zoom with a 35mm equivalent range of 29-348mm captured on its own 20.9Mp Exmor R CMOS sensor that notches up a 14.2MP (effective) resolution for 16:9 video. As seems to be the norm with TV standards, there's more than one meaning to 4K and in this instance we're talking about 3840 x 2160 rather than 4096 x 2160. Confused? You wouldn't be the first, and we covered this 4K-ing palaver very recently here on El Reg.The recording format is XAVC S MPEG4-AVC/H.264 [PDF] and it seems the frame rates are either 30p/24p or 25p/24p depending on the localisation with 50/60p speeds available for HD video capture. With the 4K 60Mbps data rate, a 32GB card would manage just over an hour and you’d need at least a Class 10 SDXC card or a suitable Sony Memory stick variant to store these Ultra HD video recordings.Increasing its appeal is the broad range of card support enabling slower formats to be used for HD or lower resolution recording. There’s even a dual shooting mode that captures both 4K and HD footage, the latter in the AVCHD format, which could save you time transcoding or enable edit decisions on lower-spec video-editing platforms, especially if you’re not equipped to handle XAVC S.
Indeed, it may be the format that trips things up for early adopters, with the Windows-only Sony’s Vegas Pro 12 offering the desired codec compatibility, but there are mumblings on forums regarding how XAVC S – a long GOP interframe codec – is going to play out on alternative editors such as Apple Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere. Currently, relying on third-party utilities appears to be the only way forward. An Ohio man is crying foul after he was detained and interrogated by the feds – because he wore a Google Glass headset in a movie theater.The bloke, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he was pulled from a screening of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit at the AMC Easton Town Center in Columbus by men who he claims identified themselves as US government agents. After being told to step outside the theater, he was accused of using the Google Glass headset to record and pirate the film.The chap, who uses the camera-fitted wearable computer with prescription lenses, told the agents that he was not recording the flick and did not have any footage from the theater stored on the head-mounted gadget. It was only after the g-men connected the headset to a laptop and searched its stored media – of his wife and dog, apparently - that the man was allowed to go on his way.Though the fella said he wasn't sure at the time who exactly detained him in the mall office, he later identified the agents as employees of US Department of Homeland Security and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) which represents the top six Hollywood studios.It's understood an MPAA representative was at the AMC, spotted the Google Glass wearer, and tipped off the feds."They wanted to know who I am, where I live, where I work, how much I’m making, how many computers I have at home, why am I recording the movie, who am I going to give the recording to, why don’t I just give up the guy up the chain, ’cause they are not interested in me. Over and over and over again," the headset owner claimed to tech blog The Gadgeteer. Akku lenovo ideapad g560a www.akku-fabrik.com Das Display des Strix-Notebooks ist 17,3 Zoll groß und wird je nach Modellvariante unterschiedliche Eigenschaften bieten. Asus verbaut entweder ein Full HD Panel mit 75 und 120 Hertz Bildfrequenz oder ein 4K-Panel mit 60 Hertz. Alle angebotenen Display-Varianten unterstützen AMDs FreeSync-Technik, um dem Nutzer selbst bei der Wiedergabe von Spielen mit relativ niedrigen beziehungsweise unregelmäßigen Bildwiederholraten ein flüssig wirkendes Erlebnis zu bieten. Wie in den letzten Tagen angedeutet hat der Schöpfer des AndroidBetriebssystems Andy Rubin nun für sein mittlerweile einsatzfähiges und voller Tatendrang strotzendes Unternehmen Essential ein neues High-End-Smartphone präsentiert. Das Essential Phone besticht beim ersten Anblick sofort durch sein nahezu randloses Display und elegantes Chassis, wartet allerdings darüber hinaus mit einigen speziellen Tricks auf, die so nicht gleich zu erkennen sind.
Der Hersteller verzichtet bei dem neuen Smartphone genau wie Apple bei der iPhone 7 Reihe auf einen 3,5 Millimeter Kopfhöreranschluss (ein Digital to Analog Adapter ist im Lieferumfang enthalten) und verbaut neben der erwähnten Modul-Schnittstelle nur einen USB Typ-C Port. Der integrierte Akku weist eine Kapazität von 3040 mAh auf. Damit bringt das Gerät 185 Gramm auf die Waage. Die Abmessungen gibt Essential mit 141,5 x 71,1 x 7,8 Millimeter an. Bei Nvidias Max-Q spielen selbstverständlich die energieeffizient arbeitenden Pascal-Grafikchips des Unternehmens, die etwa in der aktuellen GeForce GTX 10 Serie zum Einsatz kommen, eine zentrale Rolle. Dank diesen sowie bestimmten vordefinierten Richtlinien, an die sich Notebook-Hersteller im Rahmen des gesamten Produktkonzepts zu halten haben, verspricht der US-Grafikspezialist für die nahe Zukunft super-flache, leichte Premium-Notebooks mit ultimativer Gaming-Power. Zu diesen Geräten sollen beispielsweise Modelle zählen, die mit leistungsstarker GeForce GTX 1080 bestückt sind, jedoch lediglich 18 Millimeter Bauhöhe aufweisen. Zum Vergleich: Apples beliebtes MacBook Air ist maximal 17 Millimeter dick, kann aber natürlich nicht mit High-End-Komponenten, sondern lediglich einem Intel Dual-Core-Chip der U-Serie und einer integrierten Intel-GPU aufwarten. Darüber hinaus - und das ist sehr wichtig - gehen mit den Max-Q-Spezifikationen zahlreiche Optimierungen für das Temperatur-Management und die Spannungsversorgung der Pascal-Grafiklösungen von Nvidia einher. Diese erlauben es den leistungsstarken GPUs überhaupt erst, in einem flachen Notebook-Chassis ausreichend kühl und mit hoher Performance zu arbeiten. Nvidia verspricht trotz deutlich reduziertem Strombedarf vergleichbare Performance zu deutlich klobigeren Notebooks.
Wie eingangs erwähnt arbeitet Nvidia bereits mit ersten Herstellern zusammen, um nach den Max-Q Richtlinien designte Laptops auf den den Markt zu bringen. Unter anderem bauen Alienware, Asus, Acer und HP entsprechende Geräte. Erste Vertreter dieser neuen Art von Gaming-Laptops, die mit einer GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 oder 1060 ausgerüstet sind, sollen am 27. Juni 2017 offiziell auf dem internationalen Markt eingeführt werden. Dell Inspiron N7010 Battery www.all-laptopbattery.com Second, in August he ended Apple’s inclusion of clones in its Mac OS Up-To-Date program, which allowed recent buyers of Mac systems to pay reduced rates for OS updates – although after a couple of weeks he cut purchasers of Power Computing and Umax clones some slack, but only for a limited time.The death blow came on Tuesday morning, 2 September 1997, when Apple announced that it had purchased “core assets” of Power Computing for $100m in Apple stock – which on that date was going for about $5.60 per share; Power Computing would have received just under 1.8 million shares, which would today be worth around $10bn.The clone market soon collapsed. DayStar had already dropped out the month before, Motorola quit soon after the Power Computing announcement, Pioneer gave up the next month, and the rest soon followed – except Umax, which managed to wrangle an OS 8 license for low-cost clones. That final clonemaker held on until 27 May 1998. After it threw in the towel, the clone era was over. When Steve Jobs introduced the iMac on 6 May 1998 at Cupertino’s Flint Center for the Performing Arts – the same venue where he popped the original Macintosh out of its bag – he said: “We think iMac is going to be a really big deal.”Behind that confident assessment, he must have been thinking, “OMG, OMG, OMG, this gamble better pay off, or we be screwed.”In hindsight, it's clear that Apple’s salto mortale landed solidly on its feet, and went on to not only revitalise a company – and a line of personal computers – that was in dire need of a jump-start, but also to spawn a design language that, love it or loathe it, wormed its way into everything from countertop grills to steam irons.But that success was far from assured, seeing as how the iMac was quite unlike anything that the personal computer market had seen before. Cosmetically, it was an odd duck: translucent, somewhat gumdrop-shaped, and so... well... design-y. As Jobs cooed when introducing it, “the back of this thing looks better than the front of the other guys’.” Consumer-friendly design was clearly on Jobs' mind at that introduction. “It looks like it’s from another planet,” he said. “And a good planet – a planet with better designers.”The design of the iMac was not, however, something that Jobs dreamed up. It wasn’t even something that his design team cooked up after his Apple coup, if what a former colleague of the iMac’s lead designer, Jony Ive, told The Observer is true. “There is a rumour Apple had designed the iMac years earlier but the existing boss was not interested, so they put it away,” he said. “When Jobs returned and asked what ideas they had, Jonathan brought it out and the rest is history.”The iMac’s very name – simple, not lumbered with model numbers – was not only a break with tradition, but also the beginning of a new one, as the parade of iDevices from iPod to iPad has shown. Interestingly, though, that name was not a Jobsian invention either. It was invented by an Apple ad consultant from TBWA\Chiat\Day, who told Cult of Mac in 2001 that he had come up with it after Jobs had suggested a name – which he refused to reveal – that was so bad it would “curdle your blood”. Design elements aside, the original iMac was a risk in other ways, as well, ways that meant more to those buyers who were more concerned with a computer's capabilities than its appearance.In its introductory article about the new blue bubble box, Macworld summed up that view rather succinctly. “The most shocking part of the iMac isn’t what it offers,” it wrote, “but what it lacks. The iMac has no floppy drive, which might be forgivable if there were a Zip drive or other removable-media option, but there isn’t.”Macworld didn’t stop there. “And most dramatically,” it continued, dramatically, “this new consumer offering has no SCSI port, no standard serial ports and no ADB ports. Apple has opted to replace these familiar connections with USB, a high-speed [Yes, 12Mbps was once “high speed” — Ed.] serial architecture that has suffered from slow adoption on the Wintel platform despite its technical advantages.”Since the ‘i’ in iMac stood for ‘internet’, it was arguably no biggie that the machine had no floppy drive, since you could transfer files to it using email or read them off CDs – or even CD-Rs, if you were fortunate enough to have access to a burner. You could also plug an external floppy drive into one of the iMac’s two USB ports.
That is, if you could find a USB floppy drive. When the original $1,299, 233MHz G3 iMac was released, there simply weren’t any Mac-compatible peripherals based on USB. Needless to say, Apple was making a leap of faith by forgoing the standard complement of ports, hoping that the third-party ecosystem would fill in the gaps and offer not only USB floppy drives, but also – and more importantly – such necessities as printers, niceties as scanners, and then-popular external storage devices such as Zip drives.Those third-party opportunists did – eventually – and thankfully for those Mac users who had invested in SCSI-connected hardware, vendors such as such as Microtech and Belkin came out with USB-to-SCSI adapters to bridge the gap.But no one would have created Mac-compatible USB devices if the iMac hadn’t sold well – and it did, it most definitely did. Two weeks after it hit store shelves at one minute after midnight on Saturday, 15 August 1998, Jobs told Cnet that demand was outstripping supply, and that Apple was shipping “tens of thousands” of iMacs per week. In the fourth quarter of 1998 – Apple’s first fiscal quarter of 1999 – Cupertino shipped just under 520,000 of its new translucent company-saver, bringing the total sold since its August introduction to around 800,000. In that same fiscal quarter, Apple’s profits of $152m were more than triple that of the $47m earned in the same quarter of the previous year.Apple’s iMac gamble had indeed paid off, as had Jobs’ insistence on radically simplifying the Macintosh product line and reforming the company culture, transforming both from the confusing, internecine-warfare days of “let a hundred Performas bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend”.Say what you will about Steven Paul Jobs – and if our experience with the Comments sections of Reg articles is any guide, you most certainly will – but the discipline he brought to Apple’s engineering teams saved the company. And the Macintosh. And with the return of profitability and the return of sales came the return of those all-important “Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!” Which brings us to one more return, our choice as the most important moment in the 30 years of Macintosh history.We’ve spent plenty of time in this series detailing just how crappy things were at Apple around the mid-1990s. Michael ‘Diesel’ Spindler had taken the CEO helm from Jobs-replacement John Sculley in June 1993, and ruled for a lamentable 20 months. OK, the PowerPC transition went smoothly enough, but his effort to develop a replacement for the Mac’s aging operating system was mishandled, big time.That critical task fell to Gil Amelio when he took over from Spindler in February 1995, but he couldn’t pull it off in a timely fashion, either. Nor could he quickly get the current – and buggy – OS, System 7, whipped into shape. Not that he didn’t try, but he was unable to break the psychic hold that Apple’s ongoing OS-replacement project, Copland, had on the software-engineering team. “The situation when I came in,” he later told MacAddict, “was, ‘Well, we’re not going to worry about System 7 anymore. We’re working on Copland.’ Heck, you know, everybody in the software department was working on Copland, and no one was paying any attention to what we were shipping at that time. It took me probably 3 to 6 months to sort that all out.”In this effort, he actually had some success. “We cleaned up the operating system,” he said, “came up with a new roadmap, which led to Harmony [Mac OS 7.6], which wasn’t in anybody’s plans and which led to the existing Mac OS 8, which isn’t Copland, but it’s a damn sight better than anything else that’s out there.”But Mac OS 8 was essentially lipstick on a pig – high-quality, Serge Lutens fard à lèvres, perhaps, but lipstick nonetheless. The Mac’s operating system was lumbered with legacy requirements, legacy code, and legacy problems. Amelio knew it, the Macintosh faithful knew it, and developers knew it.
And Copland wasn’t going to be ready anytime soon. Announced in March 1995 and soon renamed System 8 or Mac OS 8 - not to be confused with the Mac OS 8 that eventually did ship, which was simply the next iteration of the Mac’s long-standing OS – Copland was originally scheduled to ship the following year. You can chalk up Copland’s problems to any number of sources: poor engineering management, feature creep, engineers who cared more about turf than shipping, internal conflicts among departments, lack of clear priorities, or all of the above. In any case, it’s to Amelio’s credit that he reached outside of Apple and back to his previous stomping grounds, National Semiconductor, and recruited Ellen Hancock to be Apple’s CTO, and charged her with whipping the Copland project into shape.Hancock took a look at Copland, took a look at the engineering culture at Apple, took a look at the calendar, and cancelled the Copland project in August 1996. From her point of view, it would be more efficient and timely for Apple to simply seek out a modern third-party operating system than to create its own. Akku Asus k45a www.akku-fabrik.com Die Beta 2 von Android 7.1.2 Nougat weist die Build-Nummer NPG47I auf und kann ab sofort auf den den Smartphones Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 5X und Nexus 6P, dem Tablet Pixel C und der Android TV Set-Top-Box Nexus Player installiert werden. Wer eines dieser Geräte besitzt und die Vorschauversion ausprobieren möchte, muss sich lediglich auf der Android Beta Webseite zur Teilnahme an dem Programm registrieren. Die signifikanteste unter den brandaktuellen Enthüllungen zur Galaxy S8 Reihe kommt von WinFuture. Nachdem schon früher Hinweise durchgesickert waren, dass Samsung eine Desktop-Docking-Station namens DeX für die neuen High-End-Smartphones anbieten könnte, liefert die Publikation nun ein Bild sowie einige interessante Details zu eben diesem Accessoire. Demnach wird DeX nicht nur über einen HDMI-Anschluss mit Unterstützung für 4K (bei 30 FPS) verfügen, sondern auch über einen USB Typ-C Port, zwei USB 2.0 Anschlüsse, einen Ethernet-Port und sogar ein integriertes Kühlsystem. Der Preis soll bei 149 Euro liegen.
Jenseits der Infos zu DeX wurde von Twitter-Nutzer Ice universe ein Bild gepostet, das die Display-Auflösung des Galaxy S8 und S8+ bestätigt. Auf dem Foto ist ein Bereich im Einstellungsmenü der Samsung-Smartphones zu sehen, in dem sich die Auflösung, in der die Android-Oberfläche dargestellt wird, wählen lässt. Eine vergleichbare Option hatte der Hersteller beim Galaxy S7 und S7 Edge mit dem letzten großen OS-Update hinzugefügt. Vor allem interessant ist die maximale Auflösung, die sich hierbei für die S8 Reihe festlegen lässt. Dem Foto nach wird diese bei 2960 x 1440 Pixel liegen. Sofern Ice universe nicht in irgendeiner Form trickst, bedeutet dies also, dass Samsung bei seinen neuen Flaggschiffen auf ein Display mit 18,5:9 Seitenverhältnis setzt. Nach der offiziellen Vorstellung der Galaxy S8 Reihe am 29. März wird erwartet, dass beide neuen High-End-Modelle spätestens ab Ende April weltweit erhältlich sein werden. Das S8 und das S8+ werden Samsungs erste Smartphones mit dem in Eigenregie entwickelten digitalen Assistenten „Bixby“ sein.
Apple wird das neue iPad wie gewohnt in den Farben Silber, Gold und Space Grau anbieten und mindestens 399 Euro für das WiFi Modell beziehungsweise ab 559 Euro für die Version mit WiFi + Cellular verlangen. Vorbestellungen akzeptiert der Hersteller für alle iPad-Modellvarianten ab kommendem Freitag, den 24. März 2017. Mit der Auslieferung will Apple dann in der nächsten Woche in mehr als 20 Ländern - wozu auch Deutschland gehört - beginnen. Für die erst im vergangenen Oktober generalüberholte MacBook Pro Serie tut sich nicht allzu viel. Apple führt allerdings ein neues, günstigeres 13 Zoll Modell ohne Touch Bar und mit nur 128 Gigabyte SSD ein. Die 15 Zoll Modelle erhalten neben dem Kaby Lake Upgrade außerdem eine flottere Grafikeinheit der neu vorgestellten AMD Radeon Pro 500 Reihe (Radeon Pro 555 oder 560) mit bis zu 4 Gigabyte Grafikspeicher. Alle weitern Ausstattungsmerkmale sind so wie von den 13 und 15 Zoll Laptops mit und ohne Touch Bar seit Herbst 2016 bekannt. |
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