tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79206754797754486782024-02-19T07:24:47.353-08:00Technology StoreReviews, News & Specifications of Tech ProductsAutumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.comBlogger784125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-72393844270719390202012-06-16T13:46:00.000-07:002012-06-16T13:46:07.830-07:00Lenovo introduced ThinkPad X1 Carbon lightest UltraBook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lenovo has announced the world’s lightest 14-inch ultrabook (less than 1.36 Kg.) and just 18mm thickness, called the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ThinkPad X1 Carbon</strong>. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon comes with the Intel’s 3rd generation ‘Ivy Bridge’ Core processor and made out of a premium carbon fiber chassis.</div>
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon will be on sale before the end of this summer, unannounced price yet.</div>
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The new Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 is based on Intel’s Ivy Bridge platform and packs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M discrete graphics with 2GB of dedicated memory.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-14095" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Configuration of IdeaPad Y580 is a quad-core Intel Core I7-3610QM at 2.3GHz processor, 15.6-inch screen features a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 or 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, upto 1TB HDD + 32 GB SSD caching, and a DVD writer or Blu-ray.</div>
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It is equipped with 8GB of DDR3 memory, multi card reader, Blu-ray drive, Bluetooth 4.0. In term of connectivity, there are Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, HDMI out, 6-cell battery and an HD camera.</div>
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The Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 laptop starting price of <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">$1,299.</span></b></div>
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Dell has announced a new Inspiron 15R Special Edition laptop in Australia. This laptop is built to give you the best in entertainment, and comes with an optional 15.6” Full HD display, aluminium finish and 3rd Gen Intel Core processors.</div>
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New Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition laptop is boasts a 2.10GHz Intel ‘Ivy Bridge’ i7-3612QM processor, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to 1TB hard drive, and an AMD Radeon HD 7730M discrete graphics with 2GB of VRAM.</div>
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There is also a DVD burner or Blu-ray drive, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0,, Waves MaxxAudio 4.0, a 1.0-megapixel webcam, a card reader, HDMI, D-Sub and four USB 3.0 port. Dimensions of Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition are 378 x 252 x 30.3 mm and weight 2.76 kg.</div>
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The <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ASUS N56VZ-DS71</strong> entertainment laptop is intelligent design, made out of aluminum chassis and meticulous craftsmanship combine to embody a spirit of advanced computing and purely sensational simplicity.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-13948" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Asus N56VZ-DS71 laptop is boasts a 2.3GHz Core i7-3610QM quad-core processor, 8GB of RAM, a 750GB hard drive, and Nvidia Geforce GT 650M graphics with 2GB of dedicated memory.</div>
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Other hardware includes a 15.6-inch glossy display with resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixe, a DVD writer, a 2MP webcam, two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI and VGA video out, Gigabit LAN, and stereo speakers.</div>
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Intel Core i7 3610QM / 2.3 GHz</div>
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Mobile Intel HM76 Express</div>
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8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM</div>
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750GB HDD / 5400 rpm</div>
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M – 2 GB</div>
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15.6″ 1920 x 1080 ( Full HD )</div>
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2 Megapixel</div>
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DVD±RW / BD-ROM</div>
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Headphone output <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Microphone input<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />HDMI <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />LAN <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />2 x USB 2.0<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />2 x USB 3.0 <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />VGA</div>
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3 in 1 (SD Card, Memory Stick, Multi-Media Card)</div>
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS</div>
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15 x 10 x 1.3″ / 38.1 x 25.4 x 3.3cm</div>
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6lbs. / 2.72kg</div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">$<span itemprop="price" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1,299.00</span></span></b> at the Adorama</div>
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ORIGIN PC has announced the smallest gaming laptop, called the EON11-S. The new gaming laptop comes with the new Intel’s 3rd generation mobile processors, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics, and NVIDIA Optimus Technology.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-13934" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div>
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MSI has announced the world’s faster Ivy Bridge laptop in US market, called the GT60 and GT70 gaming laptops. The MSI gaming laptops powered by a 2.3GHz Intel 22nm Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610QM processor, up to 16GB of RAM, and GeForce 670M discrete graphics with 3GB of memory.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-13923" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The MSI GT60 laptop comes with a 15.6-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, two 1TB HDD or one hard drive paired with single SSD.</div>
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The MSI GT70 laptop has a 17.3-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, two 64GB solid-state drive (SSD in RAID 0 configuration) and a 1TB hard drive (7200rpm.</div>
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Because I want to ensure that I don't unintentionally void his warranty in print, I'm going to protect the anonymity of the individual at the center of this story, and call him Flex Riedman.</div>
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Earlier this week, Flex went out with a buddy of his for dinner at a local restaurant. During the course of the meal, a nearly-empty beer bottle was tipped-a tragedy unto itself-but things immediately got worse: Flex's iPhone was on the table, and it soaked up some light lager.</div>
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But Flex's 4S seemed none the worst for wear. He toweled it off with a the portion of his napkin not covered in honey mustard, and continued enjoying his night out with his friend.</div>
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On his car ride home, Flex plugged the iPhone into his car's dock connector cable and listened to music on the short trip home. At this point, the spilled beer's contact with his iPhone was less than a faint memory, it was a nothing two-second incident out of a couple hours with good company and well-seasoned steak fries.</div>
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Time marched on; bedtime arrived. After checking on his kids using the iPhone as a flashlight, Flex plugged the phone into his bedside charger. The phone didn't start charging.</div>
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Flex did what any of us would do: He unplugged the cable and plugged it back in again. Nada.</div>
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A speaker dock sits on Flex's nightstand. He unplugged the iPhone and seated in the dock. Music started playing immediately. But still, the phone showed no indication that was plugged in. Not a warning that it couldn't charge, just-nothing.</div>
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It was at this point that The Beer Incident came forward in Flex's mind. "Oh drat," Flex thought because this is a family publication. He looked inside his iPhone's dock connector port to see if it showed <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3302?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the telltale red indicator of liquid damage</a>. Mercifully, it didn't.</div>
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But Flex saw no other detritus inside the dock connector port that could explain away the issue; no lint or other debris seemed be gumming up the works. He turned off the iPhone 4S and plugged it back in. An iPhone that's charging successfully should power back on in this situation, but Flex's didn't.</div>
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He reached into his nightstand and grabbed his old trusty iPhone 4 and plugged it into the speaker dock to charge, figuring that if he needed a phone the next day, he should charge up the one that would allow him to do so. "I'm going to have to go to the Apple Store tomorrow morning," Flex said to his wife as he turned off the light.</div>
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As a last-ditch attempt at fixing it himself–even, dare I say, a foolhardy attempt, given that he'd already tried turning the phone off and on again-Flex tried a genuine restart: He held down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until the iPhone powered off and the Apple logo reappeared. And seconds later, he heard that familiar, unmistakable metallic electrical quack, that one that signals an iOS device is charging. And he rejoiced.</div>
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The next day, the iPhone 4S was fully charged, and Flex has seen no charging problems since.</div>
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So what can we learn from Flex's experience? Turns out, he's not alone: <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090716223319AAUsCxt" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Googling reveals others have solved their iOS devices' inability to charge</a> with a similar restart maneuver. Whether the beer or the fates were truly to blame is unclear, and certainly merely restarting an iPhone won't cure severe liquid damage. But if your iPhone stops taking a charge, remember Flex and his small tale of personal victory, and hold down those two buttons until the phone restarts.</div>
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Flex Riedman is not a Macworld staff writer, but Lex Friedman certainly is, which is how you know they're different people.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the thing about the screen. Yes, it's the same resolution as many low-cost smartphones. But remember that we're competing with the Apple iPod touch here. Because of the touch's dominance in this category, there are different expectations for media players than for phones, and this screen is noticeably dimmer and grainier than that of the iPod touch. In a row of iPods, the Galaxy Player 3.6 will stand out in an unattractive way. That's why we're more likely to recommend the larger-screen Galaxy Player 4.2, whose 800-by-480 screen stands up better against its top competitor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Galaxy Player uses its Bluetooth connection to pull off a neat trick: The handheld can act as a Bluetooth headset for a simpler phone you have lying around. When it's connected to your phone, you can answer calls on the Galaxy Player as if it was a smartphone. You can also dial from the Galaxy Player's contacts book, though there's no traditional dialer, and no easy way to activate voice dialing. The Player doesn't share your phone's Internet connection over Bluetooth. To get on the Web, you'll need a Wi-Fi connection; we had no problem connecting the Galaxy Player to our 802.11n network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The relatively dim screen and lack of phone capability make for great battery life; we got 8 hours, 15 minutes of full-brightness video playback time on a charge, compared to five and a half hours on an iPod touch with its screen brightness set to full and eight hours with the iPod touch's brightness set to half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The included earphones come with a microphone, and clear rubber flanges that create a bit of a seal within the ear to improve sound and provide some very basic passive noise cancellation. You should still look at upgrading, but this pair is better than the signature white earbuds that come with the iPod touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Built around a 1GHz, single-core Cortex-A8 processor, the CPU is the same as you'll find in many inexpensive-to-midrange smartphones. It runs Android 2.3, with no real hope of an upgrade to 4.0. It was undistinguished at benchmarks, but performed well overall because of the low-res screen. With fewer pixels to push, the processor doesn't have to work as hard as it does with higher-resolution devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Casual games like Angry Birds and Draw Something performed well. Web browsing will feel cramped if you're used to the now-more-common larger 800-by-480 screens, but at least the Galaxy Player supports Flash 11. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with the standard Google Play market, the Galaxy Player comes with the Samsung Apps store, a selection of mostly free apps curated by Samsung. Proprietary Samsung apps let the Galaxy Player be used as a remote viewfinder for Samsung Wi-Fi-enabled cameras, or as a remote control for Samsung Wi-Fi-enabled TVs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's 8GB of on-board memory as well as a MicroSD card slot that you must remove the battery to use. Our 64GB SanDisk MicroSD card worked fine, so you can get quite a lot of media onto this device. The Player handled AAC, WMA, MP3 and OGG format music files at a range of bit rates, and played MPEG4. H.264 and WMV video files at up to 640-by-480 resolution without any issues. The Player has a moderately loud, single speaker that delivers undistinguished, but not awfully distorted sound loud enough for a small bedroom; you can also use wired or Bluetooth headphones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The low-resolution screen doesn't bring video to life the way the iPod Touch screen does, but it's adequate for TV shows and cartoons. Netflix, TV.com and Vevo apps work. The Hulu app said it does not support this device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FM radio works when headphones are plugged into the 3.5mm jack. It automatically scans for stations, which is very convenient. I found that it locked into stations easily and played them clearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Galaxy Player 3.6 and a VGA camera on the front, but don't expect much of either of them. The rear camera takes slightly hazy, very contrasty pictures with some low-light blur and in one case, rather odd fish-eye distortion. The front camera is for taking basic snapshots of your face. You can record unremarkable 640-by-480 videos at 25 frames per second with the rear camera; there's no flash. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're not actually saving much money by getting the Galaxy Player 3.6 instead of a smartphone. Looking only at prepaid no-contract Android phones, Virgin Mobile has the LG Optimus V (4 stars) for $129.99, MetroPCS has the HTC Wildfire S (3 stars) for $119, and Cricket has the Samsung Vitality (3 stars) for $99.99. None of them are really standouts, but neither is this device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the Galaxy Player 3.6 is for the niche of people who really, truly don't want a smartphone, but also want a touch-screen gadget that runs apps. I suspect many of those people will be kids. (They want smartphones, but their parents won't let them have them.) At $150, the Player 3.6 is a decent device that undercuts the price of the iPod touch by $50.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the Galaxy Player 4.2 and iPod touch now both at $199, there's no reason to pay any more for your media handheld. The older Galaxy Player 4.0 (4 stars) still lists at $229, with no advantages over the less expensive Galaxy Player 4.2. The Sony NWZ-Z1000 ($249, 3 stars), meanwhile, has a faster processor but worse battery life than either Galaxy Player, and no camera or camcorder. Don't buy that one either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I think those $199 products are the sweet spot, and the Galaxy Player 3.6 is shooting a bit too low. With every similar competitor running at 800-by-480 or greater, the Player 3.6's grainy 320-by-480 display just looks cheap in comparison. Save your pennies for the Galaxy Player 4.2 or the iPod.</span></div>
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If you still haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard, and you paid for Apple's cloud-based MobileMe service <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/219565/will_mobileme_finally_go_free.html" rel="nofollow" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">back when it still cost money</a>, you can now snag the OS X upgrade for free.</div>
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A bootable Mac OS X thumb drive comes in handy when you need to troubleshoot OS issues for yourself, your family, or your friends. It's also extremely useful for keeping your basic setup consistent across multiple computers, if you find yourself switching hardware regularly; and I've had fun in the past setting up a bootable USB keychain loaded with all the apps and files I need to turn any Mac-compatible computer into a viable media center quickly and easily.</div>
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With Mac OS X Lion and a new piece of free software, it's easier than ever to create a USB keychain that you can boot from. All you need is a few minutes, a copy of Lion, and a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of storage (though more is preferable).</div>
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The first step in getting Lion onto your USB drive is to obtain a copy of the OS itself. Unfortunately, the file you download from the Mac App Store to your computer deletes itself after you update to Lion, so you'll probably need to redownload the OS update.</div>
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This is a simple but slightly time-consuming process. Go into the App Store application and open the <span style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Purchases</span> tab at the top of the screen. From there, you should see OS X Lion as one of your previous purchases. Click the <em style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Download</em> button next to Lion, note the directory that it downloads to and wait for the download to finish. During testing it took me about 50 minutes to redownload the 4GB or so of content that comprises Lion. Once the OS has finished downloading (and you've verified that Lion has landed safely in your Applications folder), you're ready to transfer it to your trusty USB flash drive.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To streamline the process, download the free <a href="http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lion DiscMaker</a> app. Downloading a third-party app just to handle this process is a bit of a bother, but Lion Discmaker enormously simplifies the process of installing Lion on a USB keychain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, before you start formatting your drive, back up anything currently on your flash drive that you'd like to keep--because this process will completely erase the contents of the USB drive and rewrite it with a copy of Lion. You have been warned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lion DiscMaker makes this part of the process a snap. Start the Lion DiscMaker app with your USB flash drive plugged in and with the Lion install file sitting inside your application folder. The app will give you the option of creating a bootable drive out of either a DVD or a USB keychain. Select the USB keychain option. (If you happen to own a Mac with a disc drive, consider creating a DVD backup of Lion. I prefer keeping Lion on a USB keychain so that I can add files to the USB drive to customize the installation; but if you're just looking for a bootable copy to troubleshoot your hardware, feel free to go with the DVD option and save yourself a little cash.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you've indicated that you want use a bootable drive, the app will ask whether you'd like to use a USB thumb drive or some other kind of disk. Select the USB thumb drive option again; and when prompted, choose the disk that you'd like to install Lion to. Select your flash drive and you should be ready to rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're using a thumb drive that has only 4GB of free space, Lion DiscMaker will remind you that you won't get a complete of OS X Lion package because there won't be room for the "additional speech voices" package. This should be no great loss. Select <em style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Okay</em> and then, to confirm that you're aware the volume will be erased, click the <em style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Erase then create the disk</em> button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The copy procedure will take a few minutes and will open a few windows in your finder automatically, but Lion Discmaker should automate the whole process. All you have to do is wait for your Mac to cease displaying its "Copy in progress, please wait..." message, which will indicate that DiscMaker has finished installing Lion onto your flash drive. Once that's done, you'll have a bootable USB flash drive that fits in your pocket and can handle system recovery, OS installation, and even basic Web browsing in a pinch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have any space left over on your flash drive, you can add a few of your favorite applications and files, to customize a new installation. Regrettably, these files won't be accessible when you boot directly from the USB flash drive; but once the installation is finished, they can help you save considerable time while setting up a new computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the bootable drive that this method creates is no substitute for a fully customized Mac OS X Lion-based computer, but considering how fast and easy the drive is to set up--and how much time it could save you the next time you need to reinstall or troubleshoot your Mac OS X--there's no good reason not to make your own bootable copy of Lion to carry in your pocket. Good luck!</span></div>
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</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Asus has released the new High-end laptops with discrete GPUs, called the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">K-Series</strong>. The Asus K-Series laptops has a 18.6-inch LED backligh screen with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, an Intel Core i5-2450M and the Core i7-2670QM processors, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 630M GPU, up to 8 GB of RAM, and SSDs or hybrid drives.</div><a name='more'></a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span id="more-13901" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Other specifications include a DVD or Blu-ray writer, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, an USB 3.0 port, a 3-in-1 card reader, a chiclet keyboard and the IceCool technology. It is pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system.<br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The price of Asus K-Series high-end laptops is starting form 849 Euro to 1,149 Euro.</div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-48057711157191959802012-03-14T13:13:00.000-07:002012-03-14T13:13:41.392-07:00Toshiba Qosmio X870 17.3-Inch 3D Gaming Laptop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CVSqS9EGKOUkzZxUlVlQN8XEJT8puhnTgeD1gpYfEGFo7LOtx-jwIsVDx-BthxDnrsT2GhJHIYuUhY_ZxuXuFVugh-hyd6E5oo-pztzEtOnSZ83-hJ-5-iKHljmi0NMhonMPNhZH/s1600/Toshiba-Qosmio-X870-17.3-Inch-3D-Gaming-Laptop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CVSqS9EGKOUkzZxUlVlQN8XEJT8puhnTgeD1gpYfEGFo7LOtx-jwIsVDx-BthxDnrsT2GhJHIYuUhY_ZxuXuFVugh-hyd6E5oo-pztzEtOnSZ83-hJ-5-iKHljmi0NMhonMPNhZH/s320/Toshiba-Qosmio-X870-17.3-Inch-3D-Gaming-Laptop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Toshiba has released the new 3D gaming laptop with the latest Intel CPUs and the next generation NVidia graphics with 3GB of memory, called the Qosmio X870.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span id="more-13897" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The Toshiba Qosmio X870 3D gaming laptop comes with a 17.3-inch TruBrite LED-backlit display with resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, optional active shutter 3D technology, Intel processor, up to 2TB hard drive or hybrid drive SSD, and Nvidia graphics</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Toshiba Qosmio X870 packs a Blu-ray or DVD SuperMulti drives, SRS Premium Sound 3D, Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet LAN, HDMI output, Wi-Fi, Full HD webcam.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://laptopspec.net/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-1084580465595171162012-03-08T11:32:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:32:39.386-08:00Tethered Jailbreak Already Available For iOS 5.1 With Redsn0w<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fgJyebHf5P9fUoYmO3byzFNVVIOGciRro7XkN8EZqSgLjP9pGrnN3unxFcOsipKcmM8y1fLsv93POfchwnFkQ2Fbi268GMJ1nDVseSt6hjXsyx43KJEdvIrYNG7x22APco1mCEhG/s1600/iPhoneJailbreak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fgJyebHf5P9fUoYmO3byzFNVVIOGciRro7XkN8EZqSgLjP9pGrnN3unxFcOsipKcmM8y1fLsv93POfchwnFkQ2Fbi268GMJ1nDVseSt6hjXsyx43KJEdvIrYNG7x22APco1mCEhG/s320/iPhoneJailbreak.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Well, that was quick. Despite <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/165727/2012/03/japanese_support_comes_to_siri_in_ios_5_1_update.html" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iOS 5.1</a> being available for less than 24 hours, developers at the iPhone Dev-Team blog have already managed to get a <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MuscleNerd/status/177689727808442368" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tethered jailbreak working</a>, using redsn0w, for non-A5 jailbreakers.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The team originally <a href="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/18906290309/march-mayhem" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">posted a warning</a> pre-Apple event, stating that those with jailbroken iPhones, iPods and iPads should not update, due to the possibly of a firmware update undoing your hack. Since </div><a name='more'></a>Apple's keynote yesterday however, developers have worked out a ways of jailbreaking the latest iOS update for different handsets.<br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Anyone with an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S using iOS 5.1 can do a tethered jailbreak using Redsn0w 0.910b6, thanks to the <a href="http://limera1n.com/" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">limera1n</a> exploit by "geohot". Those with previous models or an iPod Touch can also try the Redsn0w jailbreak, but with caution. If you still have an old-bootrom iPhone 3GS, rejoice! You can jailbreak without needing to tether your device.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ultrasn0w jailbreakers can also take advantage of this method until the jailbreaking software updated, but remember to use a custom IPSW rather than Apple's (IPSW files are how iOS handsets update software). It's worth noting that iBooks also won't be working for a little while, until Redsn0w is updated further.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Head over the the <a href="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/18906290309/march-mayhem" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iPhone Dev-Team blog</a> for the Redsn0w download files and be sure to follow the instructions carefully.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-62823301381393702322012-03-08T11:29:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:29:40.157-08:00Apple's New A5X Chip May Be for iPad Only, Analysts Say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuEWA47Xfdc8accSR-95V48mIoU6sXtDq9oJ3CqmqUmrMhaYW5Y8KCtNcieM3j-Y9SSLWxUE2PInpWXgoU3zAotLscrbUtSKgBomOncREZGD2hwXySc8qSXTVAawJcMJ1MI027yFRG/s1600/aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuEWA47Xfdc8accSR-95V48mIoU6sXtDq9oJ3CqmqUmrMhaYW5Y8KCtNcieM3j-Y9SSLWxUE2PInpWXgoU3zAotLscrbUtSKgBomOncREZGD2hwXySc8qSXTVAawJcMJ1MI027yFRG/s400/aa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple delivered a performance breakthrough Wednesday with its new A5X processor for the iPad,but it's possible that this chip won't make its way into the next iPhone, analysts said.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The chips used in the first two iPads, the A4 and A5, both made their way into a new iPhone soon after. But the A5X, with its heavy focus on graphics, may not be ideal for smartphone use, and Apple may wait for a more power-efficient chip built with a new manufacturing process.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The A5X has two CPU cores, just like the A5, and it was the superior graphics performance of the A5X that Apple played up at its launch event for the new iPad in San Francisco. The new chip has four graphics cores, which should boost multimedia performance and allow for smooth operation of the iPad's higher-resolution, 2048-by-1536-pixel display.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple may have purpose-built the A5X specifically for the new iPad's improved screen, said Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst of The Linley Group, who emphasized he was still sorting through the information about the new chip Wednesday.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I think that this new chip is probably just for the iPad," Gwennap said. "It looks like they planned ahead for this."</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If Apple releases a new iPhone later this year, which seems likely, it may opt to boost battery life rather than graphics, Gwennap said. In that case, it may wait for a chip manufactured on a 28-nanometer manufacturing process, which should make the chip more power-efficient and cheaper to produce, he said.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple may have been in a hurry to release the iPad and moved ahead with the A5X because it didn't want to wait for a 28-nm part, Gwennap said. The number refers to the size of the smallest circuits etched onto the chip.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">However, the A5X could be suitable for other devices with slightly larger screens than the iPhone, Gwennap said. It could be used in a smaller version of the iPad, for example. It could also be suitable for a video streaming device like Apple TV. Apple announced a new version of Apple TV on Wednesday, but it has a single-core A5 chip.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, also sees the current A5X as an unlikely candidate for the next iPhone, which won't require as much graphics processing power as an iPad. The current iPhone has a display density of 326 pixels per inch, greater than the latest iPad's 264 pixels per inch, but the iPhone has only a 3.7-inch display.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"There's no technical reason to make the iPhone display better," McCarron said.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Like Apple's A4 and A5 chips, A5X is based on an ARM processor core, the same type found in most other smartphones. Many current ARM-based chips are manufactured with a 40-nanometer process, but a shift to 28 nanometers is expected later this year. The latest chips are based on ARM's Cortex-A9 design; the first chips based on a faster and more power-efficient Cortex-A15 core are also due later this year.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple could take one of several approaches with the next iPhone, McCarron said, including using either the A5 or A5X design and having the chip made on the more power-efficient 28-nm process.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"For phones in particular ... there's a lot of incentive to use the latest process," he said.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ahead of Wednesday's announcement, there was speculation that Apple might use a quad-core processor in its new tablet. But the decision to stick with a dual-core chip was a sound one, analysts said. There are questions about whether current software is ready to take advantage of four cores, and chip makers including Texas Instruments have stuck with dual-core ARM processors for now for that reason.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most of the existing software for Apple devices wasn't designed for a four-core CPU, so going with a dual-core chip made sense, McCarron said. By comparison, graphics performance scales fairly well across more cores and is quite well-abstracted by operating systems.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-39809889742247686012012-03-08T11:26:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:26:56.776-08:00Apple iPad: How It Stacks Up Against the Android Tablets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7f3JAw0FROSkq4KA8JO4JPUN6eWDPoLDTn1WGydopTiiEuEfGwW50CCcqL_02jW3dVs9rQSMinqvwv3wcLBwvEtF5bHSbu96kIW08abOltEmeu5MonIiGAiX6oxqkCH4nNKn2Onzs/s1600/ipad-3-mac2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7f3JAw0FROSkq4KA8JO4JPUN6eWDPoLDTn1WGydopTiiEuEfGwW50CCcqL_02jW3dVs9rQSMinqvwv3wcLBwvEtF5bHSbu96kIW08abOltEmeu5MonIiGAiX6oxqkCH4nNKn2Onzs/s400/ipad-3-mac2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scores of new tablets have appeared in the past few months, and now that we know what the third-generation Apple iPad will offer when it ships March 16, here’s the verdict: Android tablet vendors, get busy. Apple’s specs blow past most rivals, whether shipping, announced, or on deck. Expect competing tablet makers to rush back to the drawing board and get a plan B in order to compete.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image ltsm" style="float: left; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zoomLink" href="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/revised_ipad_3_chart-11332635.png" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Comparing Tablets (Click to enlarge)"><img class="zoomOverlay" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/zoomIcon.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: 20px; left: 185px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; width: 20px;" title="Click to enlarge" /><img alt="" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/revised_ipad_3_chart-11332636.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="" /></a><span class="artCaption" style="clear: both; color: #404040; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;">Comparing Tablets (Click to enlarge)</span></span>Check handy chart, which pits the third-generation Apple iPad against recently announced and shipping Android 10-inch class tablets. It becomes instantly clear upon scanning this chart that Apple has a big specs advantage in its resolution its quad-core graphics engine (even though the A5X system-on-chip remains a dual-core Cortex A9-based architecture, as seen in iPad 2).</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For all its advances, though, Apple takes a surprising step backwards in one area, leaving a gap where Android tablets may continue to try to innovate. However, the new iPad’s overall specs are so dominant leaves a Herculean challenge for Android tablets.</div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">High-Res Displays Take Center Stage</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For all the talk at CES and Mobile World Congress earlier this year of high-definition tablet displays, we saw only two models -- the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity and the Acer Iconia Tab A700, each offering a 1920-by-1200 pixel display -- playing in this space. Other tablet manufacturers say that high component prices continue to hold back the high-resolution, high pixel-per-inch tablet displays.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image rtmd" id="test" style="float: right; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 350px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="227" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/ipad3_b-11332490.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="350" /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Now Apple launches an even higher resolution display, and at the same price as last year’s model. Apple’s Retina Display, at 2048 by 1536 pixels, and 264 pixels per inch, exceeds the resolutions announced so far by the Android tablet makers. And those announced tablets aren’t even arriving until late spring or even early summer. The Androids may be the first to announce, but they’ll be late to the party, and come with less resolution. That combination makes for an uphill battle for relevance, to be sure.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Meanwhile, some of the biggest players in the Android space haven’t said “boo” about getting a high-resolution display. Yes, Amazon and Samsung, I’m looking straight at you. The year is still young, but Apple’s announcement applies pressure in a big way. Amazon might pass on the more expensive high-res display this year, as the company is clearly competing on price and its content sales. But Samsung didn’t reveal its high-resolution cards at Mobile World Congress last week, focusing its energies instead on unveiling the Galaxy Note 10.1 -- and pared-down second-gen versions of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 7.0 tablets.</div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Apple’s Price Advantage</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It’s no surprise that Apple can get the volume production scale to introduce all of these new features at the same price as last year. With iPad pricing starting at $499 for 16GB, the 10-inch class Android tablets will be hard-pressed to make inroads on Apple’s market share.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image ltmd" id="test" style="clear: left; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 350px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" height="237" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/ipad3_a-11332493.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 350px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="350" /></span>The Android tablets have been struggling to offer competitive prices, let alone undercut the iPad -- and that’s at the current hardware specs. The new iPad will have several months head start on its closest announced competitors, spec-wise, and the pressure is now on for Asus and Acer to deliver tablets at a lower price. After all, why sell a tablet at the same price with lesser specs; at that point, the consumer might just as well buy an iPad. Yes, I realize some users prefer an Android tablet, and therefore will still buy an Android model over iPad; but clearly, based on current tablet sales data and Apple’s crushing lead over Android, these users remain in the minority. Apple’s strong app ecosystem and emphasis on the experience are <a href="http://edit-staging.pcworld.com/article/251475/apples_new_ipad_stays_firmly_ahead_of_the_tablet_pack.html#tk.hp_fv" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">strong pluses in the iPad’s favor</a>, and without price as a differentiator, Android tablets will have an uphill battle in the market.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple updated its camera to 5 megapixels, and claims additional improvements to its lens design and image signal processing to enhance the image. This was a much needed improvement over the iPad 2; most of the Android tablets are at 5 megapixels already and can capture video at 1080p. Specs alone don’t tell the capture story, though: The remaining big question is the quality of the improved camera. Android models have not exactly been stars, although the 8-megapixel Asus Transformer Prime currently leads the field. If Apple has done a good job with hardware and software optimizations, though, then it has an opportunity to jump far ahead of the others. Given its experience with a 5-megapixel camera on the iPhone 4, Apple may do just that.</div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Where Apple Stumbles</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With all that Apple adds to the iPad -- 4G radio, Retina Display -- the tablet actually takes a couple of steps backward compared with the Android competition. Specifically, it has regressed in size and weight. The iPad is now slightly thicker, at 0.37 inches thick, than Asus Transformer Prime’s 0.33 inches, as well as the 0.34-inch form factor of iPad 2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Toshiba Excite 10 LE, which gets slimmest tablet honors for now, measures just 0.3 inches. But iPad is now practically the same as Samsung’s unreleased Galaxy Note 10.1, which measures 0.38 inches.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image rtmd" id="test" style="float: right; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 350px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="237" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/samsung_galaxy_note_101-11332494.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="249" /><span class="artCaption" style="clear: both; color: #404040; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;">Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1</span></span>While thin is chic, I’m more concerned about the iPad’s heavier weight, now at 1.4 pounds. Heavier is not the right direction for tablets, and this bucks the trend of competing Android models, which keep shaving weight off of their previous heights of 1.5-plus-pound. The Toshiba’s weight starts at 1.18 pounds, while the current Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 weighs 1.24 pounds; the Asus Transformer Prime and the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 weigh 1.29 pounds; and the iPad 2 weighs 1.33 pounds (and 1.35 pounds for the 3G version).</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The bottom line: At 1.4 pounds, the iPad’s weight is a serious concern. For casual use, or toting on my back or in a tablet case, no worries; the extra bit isn’t that big a deal. But for one-handed use, which this model’s superior screen invites, the iPad’s extra ounces are neither appreciated nor competitive.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-17162494107026762942012-03-08T11:22:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:22:08.954-08:00Apple's New iPad Stays Comfortably Ahead of the Tablet Pack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZ0Xq6H-jDj0m9MWLsvf6LKHoKVRi2azGyK4fSi4KFgfW6gKcDYqE-0i-7M8LQ7F4wHOxcxvHKBaBqnztIOI3NUZ8W7ZS7cq-oBaix011hV7gZplm6zbMDMxh2807OstvcPpEnavj/s1600/abc_ipad3_tk_120307_wg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZ0Xq6H-jDj0m9MWLsvf6LKHoKVRi2azGyK4fSi4KFgfW6gKcDYqE-0i-7M8LQ7F4wHOxcxvHKBaBqnztIOI3NUZ8W7ZS7cq-oBaix011hV7gZplm6zbMDMxh2807OstvcPpEnavj/s400/abc_ipad3_tk_120307_wg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple takes the tablet lead over the Android masses with its third-generation iPad announced today. Thanks to an impressive hi-def Retinal display coupled with a bounty of iPad-optimized apps, Apple once again has the tablet to beat.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chief among Apple’s advantages over the Android tablet pack is that it will be the first to ship a superhigh-resolution display. And with that one tweak, Apple takes a big jump ahead of tablet maker Asus, whose closest current offering is a 1280-by-800-pixel display, and which has announced a 4G-capable 1920-by-1200-pixel model, the Transformer Pad Infinity, for later this spring/summer.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But the much-vaunted, much-desired high-res display on the new iPad is not the only reason Apple's will be the tablet to beat.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The More Apps the Better</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At Apple’s unveiling of the new iPad today, it became clear, more than ever, that the tablet market is being defined by the overall experience. And that polished experience is something that Android tablets are lacking. For example, let’s take a closer look at tablet apps. Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that more than 200,000 iOS apps are now optimized for iPad. Android comes nowhere close to that number. I’d give you a number of Android tablet apps to make a comparison, but Google doesn’t advertise how many tablet apps are in Android Market; nor does the company make discovering said apps particularly transparent or easy. It begs the question: why?</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“You won’t find these incredible apps on other tablets,” said Cook. “In some estimates, there were over 100 competitive tablets launched in the last year. You won’t find that same competitive experience.”</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image rtsm" id="test" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="117" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/ipad3_sidebyside_606-11332258.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="180" /></span>It’s All About the ‘Experience’</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That last point—the experience—is where Apple excels most. Putting together a smooth, elegant, and integrated experience between software and hardware is why the original iPhone took the mobile world by storm when it was first introduced, and why it still succeeds in spite of the army of Android phones now on the market. Apple brings that same design and experience philosophy to its tablets. This is why the third-generation iPad has all the hallmarks of a device that packs in the features that consumers will respond to and want to use.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For example, take the fact that company has significantly boosted the iPad’s camera resolution for still images and video. But it’s also greatly enhanced the experience of taking photos and doing things with those photos (granted, for some of this, you’ll have to invest $5 in iPhoto for iPad).</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image ltsm" id="test" style="float: left; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" height="86" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/02/android_tablet_with_droid_article_package-11324153.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="130" /></span>Android Tablets Still Serious Contenders</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By contrast, Android tablets have a solidly engineered operating system and hardware, and <em style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">could </em>do what consumers want. But that depends heavily upon developers implementing those options. The open nature of Android remains its blessing and curse. Fragmentation of the Android tablets is just as much a problem as it is on Android handsets. By comparison, the Apple credo of “it just works” is a philosophy demonstrated clearly at Apple’s keynote when it showed off examples of games and iWorks apps working perfectly on the new iPad at today’s launch event.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One Android tablet I see coming close (but no cigar) to Apple’s new iPad is Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1, introduced at Mobile World Congress last week. This is a great example of a tablet that strives to be a “experiential” tablet, with its option of a stylus pen and inclusion of pen-friendly software. This model, when introduced in the U.S. market, should also have an integrated infrared port for use as a remote control.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image rtsm" id="test" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="126" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/02/android_mascot_bad-11209854.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="180" /></span>Android's Biggest Obstacle Is Android</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bottom line: The Android ecosystem as a whole remains hampered by voluntary implementations, “good” but not “required” development practices, and an inconsistent app universe where apps are not optimized for the big screens of tablets. Android does do some things exceedingly well, as we noted in recent roundup of The Best Tablet, but Google and the Android tablet makers are clearly going to have to double-down to battle Apple’s iPad juggernaut.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And it is a juggernaut. Today Apple revealed it has sold 55 million first- and second-generation iPads; and of those, 15.4 million were sold in the last quarter of 2011 alone, and about 30 million of those were sold in the past year.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Infographic Comparing iPad Family</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The new, third-generation iPad is on the far right of this chart. (Graphic by IDG News Service; source: Apple.)</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image large" id="test" style="clear: both; display: block; float: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 650px;"><img alt="" height="291" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/ipadgraphic-11332453.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="606" /></span><span class="image large" id="test" style="clear: both; display: block; float: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 650px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></span></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-78370678949551463592012-03-08T11:17:00.000-08:002012-03-08T11:17:37.248-08:00Apple Unveils its Next iPad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjquyQ_oE-YTxt9r6TJpNhX55tOoHy7eRsM_5Wtt-g8Cue1mzSfX1aXoKRbg6x22q5IYN7tPs-kDatXuA1tuU0FrQ4lwixNHaWUeyq6XbIFBFUD5GaL4u4qA_xo6Nmjbc0kO6xGFm4q/s1600/ipad-retina-03-274058-11332202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjquyQ_oE-YTxt9r6TJpNhX55tOoHy7eRsM_5Wtt-g8Cue1mzSfX1aXoKRbg6x22q5IYN7tPs-kDatXuA1tuU0FrQ4lwixNHaWUeyq6XbIFBFUD5GaL4u4qA_xo6Nmjbc0kO6xGFm4q/s400/ipad-retina-03-274058-11332202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Apple on Wednesday announced the next version of its popular iPad tablet, which will be faster than its predecessor and have a higher resolution screen.</span> <br />
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<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The new tablet will be able to display images at a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels, which is around 3.1 million pixels, the company said at an event in San Francisco. That should enable the device to play sharper video.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The newest iPad improves on the company's iPad 2, which became available last year and came with a 9.7-inch screen and a dual-core processor. The iPad 2 screen was able to display images at a 1024 by 768 pixel resolution.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The next iPad will also have software to make the device a personal hotspot. If a carrier supports it, the device can share a high-speed network with up to five devices.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The tablet will also have voice dictation technology. The company's most recent iPhone 4S smartphone also included natural dictation technology called Siri to make phone calls, get maps or organize meetings.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-87106795689209206002012-03-05T06:13:00.000-08:002012-03-05T06:13:48.473-08:00iPad 3 Appears -- in Social Network Scams<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A security expert has criticized Facebook, Twitter and other social networks for letting scammers lure unsuspecting surfers by using the as-yet-unannounced iPad 3 as bait.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image ltsm" id="test" style="float: left; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" height="134" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/01/facebooktimelinescam1-10961475.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="180" /></span>Graham Cluley, senior security consultant at Sophos, writing on the company's <a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/29/free-ipad-3-scams-bewar/" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Naked Security</a> blog drew attention to the large number of scams that are already promising the iPad 3 to get social network members to fill in surveys.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple is expected to announce a third-generation iPad at an event in <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3340981" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">San Francisco</a> next week and as Cluley points out, scammers used similar tactics before the announcement of the iPhone 4S.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A quick search of Facebook proves his point -- there are dozens of results for the search term "free iPad 3" and the same is true of Twitter.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"As Apple hasn't even announced the existence of an iPad 3, these posts and pages (some of which have existed for months) are clearly up to no good," said Cluley.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It would be great to see social networks like Facebook and Twitter do more to clean up such clearly dubious activity, to better protect their userbase."</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you join one of the Facebook groups you'll be encouraged to follow links to websites where you'll be asked to fill out surveys to be in with a chance of getting your iPad 3.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">However, there's no chance that you'll actually get one -- after all, you're being promised a device that doesn't even officially exist yet -- and the data collected from the survey will merely be sold on to unscrupulous advertisers and marketers.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-33749965028630258112012-03-05T06:12:00.000-08:002012-03-05T06:12:10.776-08:00iPad 3 'Frankenslate' Assembled Ahead of Apple Media Event<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19udhvI8gXlD5mgmM8ckjxl5Q4NvprYb7RObpVS1Tfg5yJGOcKtsDcJZ8VJ4Jn6r18lAtOCdddHiZDxp22S1Z5EJgeZzWCbaKXl1XFik-TCIbbWIPnAsemITGGTBSETcHXRqFDZzu/s1600/ipadsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19udhvI8gXlD5mgmM8ckjxl5Q4NvprYb7RObpVS1Tfg5yJGOcKtsDcJZ8VJ4Jn6r18lAtOCdddHiZDxp22S1Z5EJgeZzWCbaKXl1XFik-TCIbbWIPnAsemITGGTBSETcHXRqFDZzu/s400/ipadsplash.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple's media event, during which the company is expected to unveil the iPad 3, is only a few days away but some people just can't wait to add to the feverish speculation of what the device will look like.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The website M.I.C. Gadget has gotten its hands on what it says is a pile of iPad 3 components and put them together in what <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-3-leaked-parts-combined-into-frankenslate-04216695/" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SlashGear</a> is calling "Frankenslate."</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the video, you'll notice the bloggers didn't actually put together a working tablet but merely assembled the outer shell of what they say will be the iPad 3. Even so, they came to a few conclusions.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/MzxxqCy7hHQ?version=3&hl=en_US" height="315" style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="580"></object></div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">It will Have a Physical Home Button</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Much speculation to the contrary has been flying around since Apple sent its invitation to the media. The invitation showed a small section of an iPad with no home button on the bezel, but it could be that Apple included a weird angle in the invitation to mess with rumormongers.</div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">LTE Connectivity will Not be on Board</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Last week <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2012/03/02/ipad-3-prices-and-likely-features-revealed/" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">9to5Mac</a> reported that a reliable source said iPad 3 pricing would be the same as iPad 2 and that the next-gen configurations would remain at 16/32/64GB. Interestingly, 9to5Mac also said its report had no bearing on LTE. Even so, M.I.C. believes LTE won’t be on board the iPad 3 for two reasons: There's currently a limited market for LTE and including the chip set would add an extra cost to each unit.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image rtmd" id="test" style="float: right; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 350px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="312" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/0_appleinvite-large-square-273378-11330267.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="350" /></span>M.I.C. could very likely be wrong on this. As<strong style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="font-weight: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">PCWorld's</em></strong> Tony Bradley aptly pointed out, "Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash. It has money to burn and could easily cut into the iPad profit margin, or even sell the devices at a loss just to squash the competition and dominate the market."</div><h2 class="articleBodyContentSubHed" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">iPad 2 Covers are Tight on the iPad 3</h2><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">M.I.C played around with a few new iPad 3 cases and said thousands of them have been sent to the U.S. That's hardly a revelation, although they did say people who want to use their iPad 2 cases on the iPad 3 will find it a tight fit because of the iPad 3's tapered edges which may make it feel thinner even though the iPad 3 looks to be thicker than the current model.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Frankenslate" rumors aside, the leading theory is that the iPad 3 will sport an amazing Retina display, doubling the resolution over the previous models. Many Apple watchers believe the new tablet should get an updated camera and either a quad-core A6 processor or a dual-core A5X.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-29223959204831987932012-03-05T06:08:00.000-08:002012-03-05T06:08:06.356-08:00iPad Sales Forecast to Hit 55 Million in 2012<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple will sell 55 million iPads this year, with sales driven by a "significant" upgrade in the shape of the iPad 3, an analyst has predicted.</div><span class="image rtsm" id="test" style="float: right; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" height="121" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/03/ipad_3_new-11328551-11329482.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: right; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 606px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="180" /></span><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee issued a note to investors, picked up by <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/29/significant_ipad_update_expected_to_drive_sales_of_55_million_in_2012.html" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Apple Insider</a>, saying that the third-generation iPad -- which is expected to be unveiled <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3340840&pagtype=allchandate" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">next week</a> -- will have a Retina display, Siri voice recognition, and 4G capabilities.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3341310" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Apple "will unveil 8GB iPad 2 as well as iPad 3 next week"</a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wu believes that the 4G connectivity -- based on the LTE (long-term evolution) standard -- will be the most significant of the new features, differentiating it from many Android-based tablets and the Kindle Fire.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">However, it's worth noting that though 4G is a significant addition in the U.S., where handset makers and network operators market the high-speed wireless standard heavily, it isn't yet universally available. So while it may be a key selling point in the US, it won't be in the UK -- not initially, at least.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to Wu, Apple will have addressed battery life issues caused by the power-hungry LTE chip due to the company's "ownership of core intellectual property including systems design, semiconductors, battery chemistry, and software".</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wu had initially projected that Apple would sell 51 million iPads in 2012, though has now pushed this figure up by four million. Ten million of these sales will be in the first quarter with production of the new model ramped up in Q2.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-87915263666303880862012-03-05T06:06:00.000-08:002012-03-05T06:06:49.661-08:00Beefier iPad 2 May Accompany iPad 3 Next Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX39H1DEP678I8IwZYiWi0BRhrggrLM5ZcCliRppT499Ez-N_wtfqOqb19mnEowRGRf4z3gQlOIddCUo73edEdzGwwiAFdPHY0okNpZvM80H8Wll1qVvDF4X5CQpcDiW2zq1CDmVCu/s1600/iPad-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX39H1DEP678I8IwZYiWi0BRhrggrLM5ZcCliRppT499Ez-N_wtfqOqb19mnEowRGRf4z3gQlOIddCUo73edEdzGwwiAFdPHY0okNpZvM80H8Wll1qVvDF4X5CQpcDiW2zq1CDmVCu/s1600/iPad-3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reports from Apple's supply chain suggest that <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/250932/apples_march_7_ipad_3_event_5_things_to_watch_for.html?tk=rel_news" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the company will introduce</a> an 8GB iPad 2 next Wednesday as well as a third-generation iPad.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apple sent out official invitations to a press event in <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3340840&pagtype=allchandate" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">San Francisco</a> that will take place next Wednesday, March 7. But the possibility that Apple might launch something else other than the iPad 3 has been considered, with some suggesting that a new Apple TV or even a smart TV set could be </div><a name='more'></a>announced on the day.<br />
<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3340981" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Opinion: What to expect at Apple's March press event</a></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">However, <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120229PD215.html" style="clear: none; color: #1c609f; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Digitimes</a> is reporting that Apple will launch not just two different versions of the iPad 3 -- 16GB and 32GB models -- but an 8GB iPad 2 as well, citing anonymous sources.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Currently, you can buy an iPad 2 with either 16GB, 32GB or 64GB capacities, so as well as seemingly dropping the 64GB model in the third generation, Apple is going to create a new, low-price low-capacity option, if the report is correct.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="image ltmd" id="test" style="clear: left; float: left; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 350px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" height="233" src="http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2011/12/1-ipad3-6301410.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; display: block; float: left; height: auto; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: auto; max-width: 350px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="350" /></span>This is to fend off the expected glut of tablet PCs running Windows 8 that are expected to hit the market this summer when Microsoft officially launches the next version of its OS. Microsoft opened up the Developer Preview of Windows 8 this week.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As for dropping the 64GB model, this could be due to a relative lack of sales compared to the lower-capacity models, concerns over the price or perhaps even an indicator that there will be external storage options -- if the report is correct, that is.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Digitimes report also states that Apple has "high hopes" for the iPad 3 and has doubled its original order for units of the new device from its Chinese-based suppliers.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920675479775448678.post-7406150719954655622012-03-03T10:25:00.000-08:002012-03-03T10:25:05.081-08:00Origin EON17-X3D 3D Gaming Laptop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6vWYqn_KPdIallhn9d5Cxx1ZYUwTD7qPPocBiqyN7Lb1cepBtVpc2fZ2pmO-rM6fPxiwmjGC921pQJsUBxV96s405ucqaN9XKCw-IP_x8rDNPa20RGMl7HHfp5EgGE-0RpbdaYH1/s1600/Origin-EON17-X3D-3D-Gaming-Laptop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6vWYqn_KPdIallhn9d5Cxx1ZYUwTD7qPPocBiqyN7Lb1cepBtVpc2fZ2pmO-rM6fPxiwmjGC921pQJsUBxV96s405ucqaN9XKCw-IP_x8rDNPa20RGMl7HHfp5EgGE-0RpbdaYH1/s400/Origin-EON17-X3D-3D-Gaming-Laptop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Origin has released its new 3D gaming laptop, the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">EON17-X3D</strong>. This 3D gaming laptop optional a 3D17.3-inch Full HD display (1920 x 1080).<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span id="more-13889" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Newly Origin EON17-X3D gaming notebook is boasts up to Intel Core i7-3960X desktop processor, up to 232GB of Quad Channel DDR3 memory, up to Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards, and up to four hard drives.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Origin EON17-X3D laptop also packs a DVD or Blu-ray drive, HDMI in/out, DVI out, USB 3.0 ports , 802.11a/b/gn Wi-Fi, and 7.1 HD audio system with five speakers and a subwoofer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The price of Origin EON17-X3D 3D gaming laptop is starts from <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">$3,032.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.laptopsec.net/" target="_blank">source</a></div>Autumn Rileyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504644531219746283noreply@blogger.com0