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Intel's Mobile Ivy Bridge CPU Line-Up Revealed
Intel Core i 3000 "Ivy Bridge" Desktop CPU Launch Expected For Q2 2012
Details Leaked On Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Roadmap
Samsung Announces Superskinny Flash Drives For Ultrabooks
Opera 11.60 Browser Gets Upgraded Email Client And A Whole Lot More
How to Save As in Mac OS X Lion with an Export Shortcut
The Register's Life Of Steve Jobs - Now Available On Kindle
Unibody MacBook Air Knockoff Review (With Video)
Dropbox 1.2.49 Cloud Service Client Released
G-Technology by Hitachi Strengthens Its Brand Presence in Canada
Intel's Mobile Ivy Bridge CPU Line-Up Revealed
VR-Zone's LG Nilsson says:
We've already seen what Intel has for us as far as desktop systems are concerned for most of 2012, Ivy Bridge-E not being part of that roadmap, but what about the mobile market space? Well, we have plenty of details for you with regards to what Intel has in store, ranging from high-end Extreme Edition models to new Ultrabook processors.
Nilsson reports that as with Intel's current Sandy Bridge CPUs, Intel will offer both standard Voltage CPUs and low power models, although he notes that it appears that a rumored line of Low Voltage or LV processors rated at 25W will be a no-show (possibly due to the programmable TDP feature on Intel's mobile CPUs making them redundant), and instead we'll only see Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) processors rated at 17W, currently known as Ultra or U-series processors. Standard Voltage processors will be dubbed M-series, and come with 35, 45 and 55W TDP.
Nilsson also says that with the forthcoming Chief River platform, Intel will be moving from three to four consumer chipsets with some new peculiarities, including the the UM77 for low power notebooks. He notes that Intel is planninga range new CPU models topped by a 2.9GHz quad core Core i7-3920XM, which will be 200MHz faster than the current Core i7-2960XM, and new Intel HD Graphics 4000 IGPU architecture.
There will also be 2.7GHz and 2.6GHz Core i7 quad cores - a 400MHz increase compared to Sandy offerings, and a 2.9GHz.dual core Core i7, plus a pair of Core i5s clocked at 2.8 and 2.6GHz respectively, with all dual cores now supporting DDR3 memory speeds of 1600MHz, which Sandy Bridge based mobile CPUs don't.
It's looking like there will be two U-series CPUs at launch - a 2GHz Core i7 and a 1.8GHz Core i5. Nillson also reports that a with Intel's desktop Ivy Bridge processors, the new mobile processors also support up to three independent displays, albeit one of them being the notebook's built in display.
Nothing new for Core i3, Pentium, and Celeron, whicha reports: ticking with Sandy Bridge for now.
Nilsson says April-May is looking good for a release date.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/rtGDWw
Intel Core i 3000 "Ivy Bridge" Desktop CPU Launch Expected For Q2 2012
XBit Labs' Anton Shilov reports that Intel has notified partners about coming release of next-generation code-named Ivy Bridge processors in Q2 2012 - pushed back from a formerly projected March - April timeframe.
He says reasons for the delay releaseing the world's first desktop microprocessors made using 22nm transistors presumably are unclear, but speculates that perhaps the company wants to ensure no internal competition between existing Core i "Sandy Bridge" 2000 and future Core i "Ivy Bridge" 3000 chips, or possibly ramp up of brand new CPUs is taking longer than expected.
He also notes that the initial Ivy Bridge family will not include Core i3-series chips and will consist solely of Core i7 and Core i5 silicon, whith an inexpensive Core i3 version coming later in Q2 2011.
Shilov says Ivy Bridge will generally inherit Sandy Bridge micro-architecture, but with a significant array of improvements that will boost its performance in general applications by around 20% compared to Core i "Sandy Bridge" chips, as well as a new graphics core with DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1 support, 30% higher performance compared to the predecessor, and a new video processor and display controllers, plus PCI Express 3.0 x16 interconnection and a PCIe 2.0 x4 controller as well as a number of power management innovations.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/tAWoNm
Details Leaked On Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Roadmap
PC World's Tony Bradley asks "what do you get if you take a Sandy Bridge processor, make it smaller, and give it a little extra kick? You get the next generation Ivy Bridge processors expected next year from Intel," more details about which have leaked.
Bradley says the most notable difference between the Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPU families is that the latest generation is using 22nm architecture - representing a nearly 30 percent drop in size from the existing 32nm chips, and there are some benefits that come with the smaller processors, notably that they consume less power and produce less heat.
Having a smaller CPU also frees up physical space for more powerful integrated graphics chips, with Ivy Bridge graphics capabilities estimated to be up to 60 percent faster than with Sandy Bridge.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/tXu7Gs
Samsung Announces Superskinny Flash Drives For Ultrabooks
The Register's Chris Mellor reports that Samsung is shipping mini-Serial ATA interface solid state drives for ultrabooks, Intel's attempt by to spark a Windows equivalent of MacBook Air thin notebooks into being.
Samsung's new 2-bit multi-level cell SSDs have a 6Gbit/s SATA interface and 128, 256, and 512GB capacities, and four m-SATA versions with 32, 64, 128, and 256GB capacities, measure 50.95 x 30 x 3.8mm and weigh in at eight grams.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/vmV6hZ
Opera 11.60 Browser Gets Upgraded Email Client And A Whole Lot More
Opera has significantly updated its fast, elegant, easy-to-use Web browser - one of your editor's perennial favorites, and a core element of my suite of production applications. Opera deserves wider recognition and usage than it gets, especially in North America.
New browser engine
Opera 11.60 uses the Opera Presto 2.10 rendering engine (Presto/2.10.229), providing significant improvements and providing a faster and more stable Internet experience with improved website compatibility, faster page loading, and a higher level of overall stability when browsing.
New mail design
The Opera browser's built-in mail client allows you to manage your messages automatically. Opera 11.60 introduces a number of improvements, including a cleaner layout, message grouping, a more intuitive view in your inbox and easier navigation.
Access bookmarks instantly
The bookmarks bar keeps commonly visited sites and bookmark folders in front of you at all times, allowing instant access. You can enable this toolbar by selecting Opera menu -> Toolbars -> Bookmarks Bar.
Choose your look and layout
Opera's user community has created many beautiful skins and setups for you to try, so you can have a customized look for your browser.
Create your own shortcuts
Opera offers many ways to perform browser actions, and you can also customize your own keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures and more. You can add, remove or reposition buttons and toolbars or change the entire layout of the browser.
Tabs
Look inside tabs
- When you hover the mouse pointer over a tab, a preview shows you the content of that page. When you stack tabs, hovering over a stack also shows a preview of the tabs within, and you may select the tab you want to use.
Recover tabs you closed
- You can open tabs that you accidentally closed or website pop-ups that Opera blocked by clicking the closed tabs icon to the right of your tabs.
Protect a tab from closing
- By right-clicking a tab, you can pin it to prevent it from being closed by accident. Pinned tabs take up minimal space and are automatically moved to the left of other tabs to make them easy to find.
Get a better view of tabs
- Visual tabs show a small thumbnail for each website, in addition to the page title and icon. You can drag the tab bar to the desired height to adjust the thumbnail size accordingly.
Save sets of tabs
-You can save your open tabs as a session and load it later to open these same pages. You can have multiple sessions and load each one based on what you are doing at a certain time.
Productivity
Stay in control of downloads
Download files more quickly. As soon as you click a file to save it, the Opera browser starts downloading it, so there is no wasted time. From the Downloads tab, you can keep track of the progress of downloads and even pause and resume them as needed.
Follow your favorite feeds
Subscribing to newsfeeds with Opera Mail is simple. Just click the RSS link in the address field, click Subscribe, and the feed will display under Newsfeeds at the bottom of your Mail panel. Now, you can get your RSS feeds right in the browser without using a separate program.
Keep your spelling in check
The spell checker in Opera shows a red line under misspelled words anywhere you can enter text on a webpage. Corrections can be chosen by right-clicking the misspelled word.
Eliminate distractions
You can block images, pop-ups and plug-ins that you do not want to see. Right-click a page, choose Block Content and click any annoying elements to disable them selectively. In the Opera browser, smart pop-up blocking is turned on by default.
Manage bookmarks efficiently
Give your bookmarks easy-to-remember names or group them into folders to help manage your bookmarks as your collection grows.
Load plug-ins only when needed
You can choose to have plug-ins such as Adobe Flash load content only when clicked. This is helpful to speed up browsing on computers that have difficulty handling lots of plug-in content.
Use convenient apps
Opera Widgets are apps that provide handy functionality such as showing the weather, quickly looking up information or providing entertainment and games. There are many Opera Widgets available, and they run directly on the desktop, so they keep running even if you close your browser.
Download using BitTorrent
Support for BitTorrent is built in to Opera, so you can download torrents without the need for a separate application. You can even monitor the progress of large torrent downloads with Operas Downloads panel.
Search
Search from the address field. Save time by typing your search query directly into the address field. You can also customize this feature by choosing the search engine you prefer.
Get suggestions as you search
Search suggestions predict queries as you type, making searching quicker and easier. Google search predictions are now built into the Opera browser, along with Wikipedia, Bing and Yandex suggestions. These are displayed when using the search field or when using search keywords in the address field. For example, to see Googles search predictions, type g search words in the address field.
Use any search engine instantly
It's easy to use your favorite search engine whenever you wantfrom the search field, the address field or even the context menu. You can also add any search engine. Simply right-click in the search field of a search engines website and select Create Search.
Find what you need in webpages
Find in page is brilliant in Opera. All matching results are highlighted, so they are clearly visible. You can fine-tune your search to match all the text, just the whole word or only the links or the page. This feature can be accessed from keyboard shortcuts such as [.] (period) for text and [,] (comma) for links.
Smart options for wrong addresses
We've all mistyped a web address from time to time. Now, the Opera browser gives you smart options from an error page that lets you search with your entry and gives you suggestions you can click to find the page you want.
Latest Technologies
• The fastest JavaScript engine
• The Carakan JavaScript engine has been further enhanced to run more quickly than ever! This makes Opera the fastest browser on Earth in many performance tests. Even complex webpages load and run with lightning speed.
Support for the the latest HTML5
- With the latest Opera Presto rendering engine and its leading support for HTML5, websites using the latest web standards work perfectly. The Opera browser supports technologies that enable sophisticated web apps and multiplayer games, and the latest CSS3 such as linear gradients and multiple columns display beautifully.
Smooth and fast graphics
Everything in the Opera browser is drawn on your screen using Opera's high-performance Vega graphics library. This enables super fast and smooth graphics, in everything from tab switching to animation on webpages.
Support for geolocation
You can share your location with geolocation-supported websites such as Google Maps. Rest assured that your privacy is a top priorityyou will always be prompted before sharing your location.
Security and Privacy
The Opera browser features up-to-the-minute information from leading security agencies on exploits, viruses and phishing scams. When you visit sites on the Web, Opera checks this data in real time and warns you when a site is identified as dangerous. In addition, Opera supports Extended Validation certificates (EV) to provide added assurance and trust for secure websites.
Keep your browsing private
Using a private tab or window ensures that evidence of your browsing history is removed as soon as the tab or window is closed. Now, it is safer to do your banking from a public computer or easier to plan that surprise vacation.
See your security on websites
An enhanced address field makes it easy to stay safe on the Web. The complexity of long addresses is hidden to make it clear which site you are visiting. A colored badge also indicates the quality of encryption that is used; clicking it gives you detailed information about the site.
Control website cookies
Opera allows you to choose which cookies you accept or reject. For example, you can allow for different set-ups for different servers.
Stay up to date
Opera makes it easy to have the latest version of not just the browser, but any extensions and Opera Unite applications you are using. You can have completely automatic updates or be notified when an update is ready for you to install. As always, with Opera, it is your choice.
For more information, visit:
http://www.opera.com/browser/
How to Save As in Mac OS X Lion with an Export Shortcut
OS X Daily says:
OS X Lion ditched the longstanding Save As feature, something that many Mac users have become accustomed to using over the years. Replacing Save As are two different features, Duplicate and Export, neither of which work quite the same, and neither of which are attached to a keyboard shortcut, but we can create our own keyboard shortcut to mimic the old behavior of Save As.
For the how-to, see:
http://bit.ly/uSpgwL
The Register's Life Of Steve Jobs - Now Available On Kindle
The Register has launched its first Kindle book, The Life and Times of Steve Jobs, by Rik Myslewski.
So, if you can't think what to get that special person - especially if that special person is you - this can help with a discreet few Kb of computer industry history.
Rik has followed Apple since the beginning, as a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, editor of MacAddict, and as San Francisco editor for The Register.
In this Reg book he plots Jobs' career from Silicon Valley Hellion to Apple Mk 1, NeXT, Pixar, Apple Mk II, the iPhone and Cancer. Dick? Prick? Nasty? Mercurial? The world's greatest salesman? Rik considers all these Jobs and more in "The Life and Times of Steve Jobs".
So for just less than the price of an eggnog latte you can ensure a friend knows everything he needs to know about the Jobs, Apple, Pixar and NeXT.
Or you can squirrel it away on your own Kindle or any other device, for when you need to take break from the Xmas mayhem sos you can ask yourself, what would Steve do?
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/vc0JE3
Unibody MacBook Air Knockoff Review (With Video)
M.I.C. Gadget's Chris Chang reports that a Chinese knockoff maker has gotten into the super-thin notebook game in a big way with the $499 AirBook. Chang says he's played around with it for a while now and can say that it looks very similar to Apple's MacBook Air, and it's very cheap, but unfortunately being cheap comes at a price.
Chang notes that when planning his review of the AirBook, he knew he would need two things: Apple's MacBook Air for side-by-side comparison, and a lot of time to test out the performance in our daily usage.
He reports that the AirBook is a proper knockoff product, with many (though not all) of the capabilities of "something like" Apple's MacBook Air. But can a $500 knockoff take on Apples ultra-thin notebook? Does the release of this product lead to a C&D letter from Apple? He attempts to answer those questions and more in the review below.
The short answer: not so much. While the AirBook looks like the MacBook Air, it's slightly thicker and encased in a silver plastic enclosure sprayed with silver/steel spray paint to look like aluminum, and while its touchpad supports multi-touch, Chang says the moment you put your finger on it to click, you'll feel the difference. It's not quiet, and has a clunky sound and feel.
However, he says the keyboard has a good feel, with key action springy and solid, and a not-too-slippery finish that feels just right beneath the fingers. However, when typing the keys often failed to register presses if we moved too fast or struck too lightly. No backlit keyboard either.
Chang says the AirBook's 13-inch 1366 x 768 glossy, LED-backlit widescreen panel has satisfactory contrast, brightness, and viewing angles, but the 1366 x 768 resolution is "pretty sickening," with less space to scroll through web pages and documents.
There's also an ersatz MagSafe connector, a 1.8GHz Atom D525 CPU dual core processor with GMA 3150 graphics and 2GB of RAM (upgradable to 4 GB), a 32GB KingSpec mini PCIe MLC solid-state drive, and performance 6-7 times slower than Apple's MacBook Air 13-inch on some benchmarks, summarizing that there's still nothing on this planet that can truly match the design quality of Apple's unibody MacBook Air.
In summary, Chang recommend's that you do not buy this knockoff, since it violates Apple's design and illegally uses the Apple logo, observing that "only a person who has no culture will buy this thing."
For the full review visit here:
http://bit.ly/suxG49
Dropbox 1.2.49 Cloud Service Client Released
Dropbox is an online synchronization tool with Finder integration, offering free 2 GB accounts (you have to register). Dropbox creates a special Finder folder that automatically syncs online and between your computers, including iOS devices. It allows you to both backup files and keep them up-to-date between systems. [I can't imagine how I ever got along without it. Ed.]
New in version 1.2.49:
• Fixed very rare issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows.
• Fix Selective Sync not working on Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Requirements
• PPC / Intel
• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
For more information, visit:
https://www.dropbox.com/
G-Technology by Hitachi Strengthens Its Brand Presence in Canada
G-Technology by Hitachi has announced that D&H Canada, one of North America's leading technology distributors, is now authorized to distribute Hitachi GSTs full line of premium G-Technology external storage solutions. D&H Canada will offer and promote the award-winning G-Technology brand, including the G-SPEED, G-RAID and G-DRIVE product families, to its strong channel customer network of leading retailers, resellers and solution providers throughout the region.
G-Technology drives are engineered specifically to meet the needs of the content creation and Apple Mac communities, including heavy users of multimedia content, Final Cut Pro digital audio/video specialists and other pre/post production professionals. From rugged portable drives to ultra-fast, multi-drive RAID storage, G-Technologys USB, FireWire, eSATA, and SAS storage solutions support virtually all levels of A/V production and can be found in post-production facilities worldwide.
"The Mac and content creation market is growing fast in Canada, driven by the rising popularity of Apple products as well as the increased storage demands driven by digital photography, HD video, online music and the Internet," says Ian Andes, vice president of G-Technology sales, Hitachi GST Branded Business. "Our partnership with D&H Canada is designed to extend the value of the brand, increase consumer awareness in the region and to better meet the demand for top-quality external storage solutions that feature superior performance, functionality, usability, reliability and industrial design. We look forward to a long relationship with D&H."
"G-Technology has a strong brand and leading reputation in the Mac and creative community, and theres growing demand for their products in Canada. We are thrilled to have them as part of our product lineup. D&H is actively offering G-Technology's storage solutions to our national partners right in time for the holiday shopping season," says Greg Tobin, general manager, D&H Canada. "We look forward to working together with G-Technology by Hitachi and growing our businesses within the Mac community."
For Charles W. Moore's review of the G-Drive Professional External Hard Drive see:
http://www.pbcentral.com/columns/hildreth_moore/gdrive.shtml
Stay connected with G-Technology by visiting:
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