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The Amazing Acer AspireRevo: Rethinking The Issue Desktop
I've been thinking in this area this a lot.We be inflicted with netbooks with the intention of cost a reduced amount of than $400 and are in fact other competent than many of the notebooks we gave to those three years ago.This week Acer launched the AspireRevo, a desktop manufactured goods using the Nvidia ION graphics platform, which have to advertise by thing volumes pro around $300 and is indoors actuality competitive with the desktop hardware we are likely paying far other pro in the present day.This is ahead of schedule to bug me.
We befall inflicted with this amazing superfluous equipment with the aim of expenditure a cut-rate amount of to approve of and run -- it typically requires inside this area one-third the power, -- is greatly other portable, takes up far a cut-rate amount of desk space, is far quieter, and is commonly greatly other striking than what we currently yield employees.And, inside a promote screaming pro better values, we don't take place inflicted with whatever matter inside this rank unfilled pro thing yet.Let's suffer a chat stylish this area the game-changing possibilities of products like the AspireRevo and akin netbooks, what they need pro business, and why other of us have got to befall asking pro them.Turning a Netbook/Nettop into a Notebook/Desktop PC What the Acer AspireRevo showcases is the compelling combination of Intel's Atom PC and Nvidia's ION graphics approach.
Generally Net-type products be there inflicted with very restricted graphics, which reduces generally their capability commonly and drops it not new than minimums pro day-to-day benefit from.ION contributes to this graphics capability, and the combination of Atom and ION appears to provide with the intent of exact storm kind of manufactured goods with the intent of is small, good-looking, quiet, competent and inexpensive.By in this area the size of a hardcover book, otherwise a reduced amount of than 1/16 the size of many mini-tower desktops, the AspireRivo is both amazingly minute and attractive.This is the desktop equivalent of the MacBook Air with lone lofty difference -- a hold fee linking $300 and $400 and the Acer AspireRevo is kind of the great thing on this case.
The manufactured goods has a satiated haven made known with both VGA and HDMI connectors to monitors, 6 USB ports, an eSata haven and a four-in-one license reader.It's the single lone announced with this ION equipment so far.The manufactured goods can befall bolted to a hedge otherwise behind a monitor, making it ideal pro minute cubicles, shape care, lodge executive centers, call centers and receptionists inside fastidious and wanted to generally somebody who doesnt now need a high-end PC (only in this area 5 percent to 7 percent of employees need a high-end PC, and with the intention of might befall overstated).So why thumbs down affair lines? Security is Lacking: Missing TPMs, License Readers Part of the conundrum is with the intention of here are thumbs down netbooks with Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs).
Self-encrypting drives be inflicted with been a proffer requirement, even though they often aren't in fact twisted on, pro affair PCs pro approximately calculate now.Inside addition, thumbs down lone has yet brought made known lone of these products with a biometric booklover otherwise smart license booklover integrated surrounded by them, making it trying pro them to advertise into many shops with the intention of be inflicted with security concerns by smallest amount equally splendid equally their energy-conservation concerns.Here are thumbs down affair shape with the intention of be inflicted with this equipment yet and shape occur with special services with the intention of increasingly differentiate a consumer PC from a affair PC.And, finally, the rank typically doesn't occur with optical drives, which are furthermore commonly built into generally PC bids.
However, the security equipment can befall added very quickly and inexpensively.Putting netbooks inside affair shape is simply a product-manager decision, and agreed how we commonly are getting applications and updates via the cloud today; sort out we really need an optical drive anymore? Rethinking the Desktop I'm convinced we are by the commencement of the third renaissance of the private notebook and with the intention of we desperately need to reduce the complexity on the desktop to make expenditure down, and boost reliability.I think it is calculate to move around the desktop and look by products like the AspireRevo and as a replacement for of asking "why?" pro businesses, ask "why not?
Linux GURUS! I NEED YOUR ADVICE MY LORDS!?
im thinkking to install linux to my netbook,i just brought it a week ago , it is the latest intel atom pros and 160 gb and 1 gb ram, win xp is installed on it, have no cd drive , it is a toshiba nb200
what u think the best linux i should use?? im a win 7 user as well i really never used linux before but i want to try it, what is the best best destro??
I would use ubuntu 9.10 Netbook remix. Be sure to enable flash and the other proprietary goodness after installing and updating it by opening the terminal and typing:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
I also would heed the advice of others here and install XP alongside linux making a dual-boot OS computer. Great tutorial here on doing this: http://apcmag.com/the_definitive_dualbooting_guide_linux_vista_and_xp_stepbystep.htm
Enjoy and have fun! Good luck
Intel's newest lands in an old standard: Commodore 64 (Albuquerque Journal)
The venerable Commodore 64 now has the latest Intel quad-core chip inside.
(Credit: Commodore USA)
Apple surprised many when it introduced quad-core processors into its MacBook
line for the first time in February. But a Commodore 64 packing quad-core?
For the uninitiated, the Commodore 64 Keyboard PC was introduced back in 1982
packing a MOS Technology 6510 1MHz (yes, that's one megahertz) chip running
the Commodore kernal accessed via BASIC commands.
That model competed with the Apple II and Atari computers.
Well, a lot has changed in 30 years. After resurrecting the Commodore name in
April of 2010, the company came out with an Intel Atom-based design in April
of this year. That's a relatively pokey processor though. So, now Commodore
has bulked up its lineup with Intel's latest 2.2GHz Core-i7-2720QM quad-core
processor (which turbos to 3.3GHz).
Commodore isn't stopping there with the contemporaneous upgrade. It has added
two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, and DVI-D ports, among other connectors.
Other specifications include 8GB of memory, DVD Drive (slot load), Intel HD
3000 graphics, and 2TB hard disk drive (7200 RPM). Also inside is a ... [Read
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