Not an easy time to pick a computer
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- Not an easy time to pick a computer
- The latest small thing in computers
- Dell Studio XPS 13 laptop shipping with Ubuntu
- All-in-one PC goes green
- Editor’s notes: Geometric progression
- Turn a Macbook into a Tablet Computer
- PC-linked search for ET turns 10
Not an easy time to pick a computer
Philadelphia Inquirer
But Windows 7 performs and looks better. It’s as if Vista went on summer vacation lost its awkwardness and pimples and came back elegant and poised. So what are computer buyers supposed to do?Here are a few options and tips that may help. Wait for upgrade coupons. To keep computers moving off the shelves Microsoft and PC makers are likely to offer coupons for free and discounted upgrades to Windows 7. They haven’t said when this will happen but it might be around August in time for back-to-school sales.
The latest small thing in computers
San Diego Union Tribune
Speaking to wireless industry executives earlier this year Microsoft’s president of entertainment devices Robbie Bach said that by 2012 a third of all netbooks will be sold by wireless phone companies. The streamlined portable computers are shaking up more than the traditional model of computer retailing. The shift to netbooks is rocking computer manufacturing as well. Sales of netbooks are forecast to double this year even as overall PC purchases fall 12 percent according to the research firm Gartner. By the end of 2009 netbooks could account for close to 10 percent of the PC market an astonishing rise in a short span. Low-cost netbooks also generate lower profits for manufacturers. While netbook sales continue to grow there is concern that the growth comes at the expense of more lucrative laptop sales.
Dell Studio XPS 13 laptop shipping with Ubuntu
CNET News
I haven’t had a virus on my computer since the launch of windows 95. Most people who claim windows isn’t secure are just ignorant to basic computer security. The MAC argument also is a joke Yes MACS are affected by less viruses thats because nobody is wasting their time writing viruses or malware to affect a TINY percent of the computer population. Macs are no more secure then windows based PC’s. Remember that little hacking contest where someone got kernel access to a MAC server in under 10 minutes?.
All-in-one PC goes green
Louisville Courier-Journal
com | The Courier-Journal. ne recent addition is the all-in-one PC MSI Wind Top AE1900. MSI Computer says about 80 percent less energy than a traditional desktop PC.
Editor’s notes: Geometric progression
Kingston Reporter
I started reading about computers. I knew that the PCs available back then were way too costly (the IBM PC cost in the thousands) so I selected my first computer based largely on cost. I bought a Coleco Adam in 1984 on sale for about $500 and man that was the coolest thing in the world. It came with a word processing program and a whopping 64K of RAM and I really got into word processing (I always said that typing was the most useful class I took in high school – I was a senior and I took it with my pal Eugene and a roomful of freshman girls). It came with a daisy-wheel printer a glorified typewriter basically. It didn’t matter that Coleco was a game manufacturer.
Turn a Macbook into a Tablet Computer
Lifehacker
Lifehacker reader Wei was coveting the pricey touch-screen drawing tablets produced by Wacom. He could have spent $2000 on one of their tablets but ultimately it would just be an ultra-sensitive touch screen. Wei could have bought a. Faced with the option of either blowing a couple grand on just the interface or settling for an inferior interface plus a computer he decided it was time to flex some DIY muscle and built something better than both options. His build is advanced not particularly cheap and definitely a multi-.
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PC-linked search for ET turns 10
San Francisco Chronicle
With SETI@home according to Werthimer the big attraction for amateurs is knowing that their own computers are participating in a search that conceivably could detect life somewhere far far out in the universe – and getting credit for helping to find it. Werthimer SETI@home’s director also founded another ET search called SERENDIP- the “Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations” – which uses the major radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The SETI@home volunteers receive all that radio noise from Arecibo in their own idling computers so in effect they become one giant supercomputer faster and more powerful than any computer ever built Werthimer said. At the Space Sciences Laboratory in Berkeley research scientist David P. Anderson and his colleagues originated the arcane “distributed computing” concept and have now developed software called BINC – the “Berkeley pen Infrastructure for Network Computing” – which nearly 100 other distributed computing projects are now using. In Rosetta@home for example 84000 volunteers use their personal computers to design endless new proteins at random any of which might be involved in diseases like malaria and Alzheimer’s. At Einstein@home 222000 computers worldwide analyze countless bits of data from satellites seeking evidence of the gravity waves that Einstein predicted long ago.
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