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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Should Your Business Choose A Tablet Computer?

Most business people want to give the impression that they are up to date with everything in their industry. This means knowing all about the latest technology and keeping ahead of the competition. Has the time arrived where you end your friendship with your laptop computer and compete on a different stage with a tablet computer?

With the number of 0% credit cards available in the market, the small cost of a tablet computer can be spread over a year or more without any interest payments, so what is stopping you from making the new purchase? Did you just think tablets were a glorified toy?

If you have been in business a long time, you will remember the time when a sales person appeared with a laptop computer and proceeded inflate their ego by showing you what the computer could do to enable them to sell you a product or service.

In the days of the early adopters, the customer did not necessarily trust the salesman with the laptop computer because working this way was a rare sight. Moving along a few years, you would treat any salesperson without a laptop computer with suspicion. You would wonder why they couldn’t afford one and therefore, should you do business with them?

Tablets become common

Now, it appears that almost everyone you know has an iPad or a Samsung Tab. More and more business people are using them in business meetings; what about you? Could you work in an environment that includes a tablet computer and leave your laptop computer at home?

Reasons to consider changing models

Laptops are heavy. Even with the latest, smallest models, they still weigh enough to start early shoulder problems when you add the bag, power leads, USB cables and anything else associated with the business presentation.

Some people have chosen to move to the smaller and lighter netbook computers, but the screens are small (similar to a tablet) and the computers don’t usually have a CD/DVD player so you will need to carry a CD/DVD drive as well.

Boot times can leave the salesman trying to conduct small talk while counting the 60 or so seconds’ wait for the Windows screen to arrive. Either that or they chance leaving the computer in hibernation mode and pray it opens quickly and at the right screen.

Tablet computers are much smaller and lighter than any laptop rival. They are more portable than the laptop as they can be passed around the people in the meeting room. These people can then interact by tapping on items on screen to see the next part of the presentation. This interaction can aid the sale, increase the efficiency of the service and impress the customer. In comparison, the old style laptop sits in one place while you hope the battery lasts so you do not have the embarrassment of having to ask for an electrical supply.

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41 Battery Tips for Android, iOS, Windows 7, and Mac OS X

You know that sinking feeling. That sense of desperation when your gadget’s battery meter says 10 percent . . . or less. Without your phone—or tablet or laptop—you’re lost, unable to work, unable to communicate with loved ones. And the really scary thing is that the lower the battery meter gets, the faster it seems to deplete.

Over the past few years we’ve seen some pretty amazing advancements in mobile technology. There’s now quad-core processors inside tablets, high-def displays for phones and don’t forget 4G. Meanwhile, laptops are now so thin you can practically floss with them, but there’s less and less room for beefy batteries.

So what are the juice-starved masses supposed to do, walk around with a power cord hanging out of their pocket? No, but there are plenty of small tweaks that can make a big difference. “When I pick up some of my friends’ phones, I look at all of the stuff that they’ve downloaded once and don’t realize that it runs a background service,” said Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm. “You get to a point where you have to get some help in managing that.”

To help you squeeze more juice out of your gear, we’ve rounded up dozens of tips and broken them down by platform, including Android, iOS, Mac and Windows. The good news is that tech companies aren’t just leaving users to fend for themselves.

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How To Run Any Application as Administrator in Windows 7 by Default

By default Windows 7 doesn’t run any application as administrator; but if you constantly need to run a program as administrator you can change your settings so that Windows always run the program as administrator. The following guide will show you how to run any application with administrator privileges without the extra clicks.

Step 1: Right click on the program which you want to run as administrator by default. Click on properties. See below screen shot.

Step 2: The program properties window will pop up. Select compatibility tab. See below screen shot.

Step 3: Click on â€˜run this program as an administrator’ under privilege level. See below screen shot.

How to make program run as administrator for all users:

If you have more than one user in your pc and you want any application to run with administrator privileges then please follow below steps.

Step 4: Click on â€˜change settings for all users’. See below screen shot.

Step 5: Another properties window will pop up. This window will be having only one tab â€˜compatibility for all users’. See below screen shot.

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Step 6: Check â€˜run this program as administrator’ under privileges level. See below screen shot.

Step 7: Click on â€˜OK’ button. Please note that after selecting â€˜run this program as administrator’ on the second properties window. The first will get disabled. See below screen shot.

How To Disable and Enable Aero Peek In Windows 7

Windows 7 comes with bunch of new features including Aero Peek, an x-ray like tool that lets you peer past your open windows to your desktop which is why some people refer to it as ‘desktop preview’. If you are using a computer with limited resources you may want to disable Aero Peek to use less RAM and get better performance out of fewer resources. Aero Peek is included in the home premium, professional, ultimate and enterprise edition of Windows 7.

This tutorial will show you how to disable Aero Peek, or if you need to enable it.

How to Disable Aero Peek:

Step 1: Right click on empty area of your taskbar area and select properties.

Step 2: Make sure that you are at â€˜Taskbar‘ tab.

Step 3: To disable the Aero Peek uncheck the â€˜Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop‘.

Step 4: To enable the Aero Peek check the â€˜Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop‘.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e preview; a rugged notebook for classrooms

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e, a special rugged notebook for students is slated for official release mid this month. The rugged classroom upgrade to Lenovo ThinkPad X120e has several striking features. Though not looking like a highly rugged and hard notebook, ThinkPad X130e will be a better pick for classrooms.

Students can handle the system in classrooms for some rough uses with no fear of harms with mild falls, shocks and impacts, reports say. The notebook is made using a rubber bumper circling its plastic chassis along with a slim bezel protected by 1.2mm thick plastic. Lenovo will sell the notebook for $469 once it lands in stores on December 20.

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e tech specs
Dimensions: The Lenovo rugged notebook is to come with 11.55 inch width and 8.5-inch height.

Weight: The rugged notebook will have a weight of 3.9 pounds (1.78kg). Compared with many newly arrived Ultrabooks, 3.9 pounds is quite attractive, especially being a rugged system.

Display: The Lenovo notebook will have an 11.6-inch LED display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It makes the device a big threat to Apple MacBook Air 11-inch. Moreover, for students, 11-inch display is enough. It makes them handle the device comfortably and carry with less effort.

Processor: The notebook comes up with two processor options; an Intel Core i3-2367M processor or AMD Fusion E-300 and E-450 APUs. You can choose between the processors from Intel and AMD.

RAM: 2GB of RAM. It can be upgraded up to 8GB, however.

Storage: The device offers 5GB of internal storage.

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7.

Battery: The Lenovo laptop mounts a 6-cell battery that can run the device for 8.5 hours on a single recharge.

Connectivity: It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 for connectivity with the network.

Ports: HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, 4-in-1 memory card reader and three USB 2.0 ports are with the Lenovo notebook.

Others: The notebook features Lenovo’s RapidBoot technology to quickly boot up the device. As a result, only 20 odd seconds are required to boot the notebook.

What things to make it special?

Rugged notebook for students: There are lots of rugged notebooks in stores. But Lenovo ThinkPad X130e remains different being a special rugged notebook for the student community. Students can carry the device in their backpacks with no fear of harms from impacts and shocks. Even some rough use of the device in the classroom will not damage the notebook.

RapidBoot technology: ThinkPad X130e is to come up with Lenovo’s RapidBoot technology for instant boosting. Thanks to the feature, you just have to wait only 20 seconds to get ThinkPad X130e boot up.

11-inch LCD display: The Lenovo notebook will have a small 11-inch LED display with high definition. You can watch contents with better clarity in the display.

Drawbacks
Lenovo will unveil the notebook late this month only. So it is not possible to count drawbacks of the device for the time being.

Price and availability
Lenovo is to sell ThinkPad X130e for a price starting from $469. It will appear in shelves from 20th December, 2011.

What others say?
Dilip Bhatia, vice president, ThinkPad Business Unit, Lenovo exposes why the company went on to roll out a rugged notebook for students in its ThinkPad X130e series.

“At Lenovo ThinkTank 2011 we brought hundreds of distinguished educators together, and the resounding feature CIOs told us that ranks highest on their list of features important for PC purchases is ‘ruggedness’,”

Let us see what Paige Johnson, education strategist of Intel says of the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X130e,

“Having a purpose-built device designed to improve learning for students is a critical foundation for education transformation. Lenovo’s ThinkPad X130e laptop powered by Intel Core i3 processors provides the capability and functions that students need for a 21st Century education.”

Wrap-up
Lenovo has been one of chief notebook and tablet makers in the world. The Chinese technology maker always brings incredibly innovative products. Its ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook series have largely attained popularity in global markets. Indeed, the company is now coming up with a new rugged model of ThinkPad to entice customers from student communities.'

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Ivy Bridge to Bring Saner Security, Lower Power to Intel CPU Line

Intel’s Ivy Bridge mobile lineup has been leaked, and the leak confirms that the upcoming launch of Intel’s 22nm, low-power chips will mark a major shift in the chipmaker’s strategy on two important fronts: 1) the ultrabook is being held up as the new default form factor for laptops, and 2) Intel appears to be abandoning its (insane) segmentation of chips based on security features, at least when it comes to mobile.
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As Intel CEO Paul Otellini revealed in May, Intel is making its 17W ultra-low voltage (ULV) products the bedrock of its mobile line. Gone are the 25W laptop chips that formed the centerpiece of Intel’s mobile family, with the 17W ULV parts slotting in beneath them as more expensive, niche products. Instead, ULV takes center stage and becomes the new normal for laptops. (Note that VR Zone speculates as to why the 25W parts were killed off, but there’s no need to guess—again, Otellini made it clear that they were going away with Ivy Bridge.)

This shift to 17W is part of Intel’s larger emphasis on promoting the Macbook Air-like “ultrabook” form factor as the wave of the future. Intel has done a lot of engineering to produce the reference designs for these, engineering that it gives away to OEMs. The company is also doing a ton of ultrabook PR, which, again, is basically free advertising for its OEMs. All told, this adds up to a massive effort on the part of Intel to make the thinner ultrabook form-factor the new default for all PC laptops. Thicker laptops will still be out there, but they’ll be for users who want battery life above all else.

I got some hands-on time with a few ultrabook models at IDF 2011 in September, and given that I was toting an 11″ Macbook Air to the event, they did not impress. But if you’re used to a larger laptop, the ultrabook might get a rise out of you. Regardless, it’s great to see that notebooks are going to be slimming down across the board.

Security: from deranged to sensible

The second important implication of the leaked slides—and this was not something that was pre-announced by Intel—is that the chipmaker is moving away from its deranged and irresponsible segmentation of chips by security and manageability features.

In the past, features like vPro, virtualization, and trusted execution technology (TXT) have been offered selectively on different parts of Intel’s lineup, so that users who pay more get more security and more functionality, and users who pay less get less. But given that Intel has been claiming security as the company’s top priority for over a year now, the idea of selling some chips that are less secure than others is complete insanity. Every chip that Intel sells should fully support every one of Intel’s security and remote manageability features, period. Anything else is derelict, and puts the lie to the claim that the security of the entire PC ecosystem is truly important at Intel.

What makes this worse is that this segmentation is totally artificial. These chips come off the production line supporting all of Intel’s features and extensions—it’s cheaper to manufacture them in bulk this way. Intel then blows sets of polysilicon fuses to shut down specific features in order to get the desired product segmentation. In other words, all of the chips come off the line supporting all of Intel’s security features, and then Intel cripples some of them so that it can sell the non-crippled ones for more money. Again, for a company that preaches so much about security, this practice is mind-bendingly irresponsible.

With Ivy Bridge’s mobile line, Intel appears to have seen the light, and is now offering all of its features and extensions across all of the mobile SKUs. Intel is now more sensibly segmenting the line by number of cores, number of threads, maximum CPU and GPU clockspeed, and L3 cache. This is what Intel should have been doing for the past five or six years, so we can be thankful that the company is finally walking the walk, instead of just talking the talk.

On a final note, Ivy Bridge will be Intel’s first line of CPUs to be based on the company’s brand new tri-gate transistor. This shift to tri-gate will give Intel CPUs a large, one-off increase in performance and/or power efficiency, so ultrabooks based on Ivy Bridge should get a non-trivial boost in battery life. How big this boost is depends on the notebook, and on whether its designers opted to improve on the form factor by shrinking the battery or to keep the form factor and battery the same.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Ultrabooks Still Trying to Find Their Niche

Despite backing from the top PC makers, high prices and a disorganized software and hardware ecosystem could slow adoption of ultrabooks over the next few years, analysts said this week.

Intel is promoting ultrabooks as a new category of thin and light laptops with tablet-like features. But with prices starting at US$899, and PC makers seeking to position the systems as possible tablet competitors, it could take a few years for ultrabooks to be widely adopted, analysts said.

Ultrabooks look like Apple's MacBook Air, but are slightly thinner and can run a full Windows OS. Intel has said it will equip ultrabooks with tablet features such as touchscreens, long battery life, instant-boot features and always-on connectivity in the coming years. Ultrabooks use components such as low-power memory -- usually found in smartphones and tablets -- to extend battery life.

Early ultrabooks without touchscreens were recently announced starting at US$899, and top U.S. PC makers aired support for ultrabooks this week. Hewlett-Packard announced the Folio ultrabook, and Dell said it would launch an ultrabook in the next few months.

"What's happening is a normal evolution of the laptop form factor. It's going from thick and heavy to thin and light," said David Daoud, research director of personal computing at IDC.

Intel expects ultrabooks to account for 40 percent of consumer laptops shipped by the end of next year. Intel's expectations may not be met primarily because of high pricing, Daoud said.

The $899 starting price is high in a price-sensitive market, Daoud said. Intel has said prices would come down to $699 by the end of next year, but if consumers are wary of spending due to a recessionary climate, the machines may not be taken up in volume at that price.

The price point is especially a challenge for buyers in the U.S. and Western Europe, who are struggling economically, Daoud said. PC shipments are growing in emerging markets, but buyers in China and India tend to buy low-margin products and could skip ultrabooks, Daoud said.

Nevertheless, PC makers are looking at ultrabooks as an opportunity to grow their PC business, Daoud said. Tablets haven't helped companies like HP, Dell and Acer, and ultrabooks could be a way to revive the PC business.

Vendors are hoping to position ultrabooks as tablet-like devices, but the comparison won't make much sense to consumers until Windows 8 is available. PC makers will not be pitching ultrabooks as an iPad alternative, said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.

"It's not a comfortable time for the OEMs, but things will get better a year from now," Kay said. "They will have a better OS ... and silicon."

However, by the time Windows 8 comes out, ultrabooks could have competitors in laptops using ARM processors, which will support Microsoft's upcoming OS. That could tilt the usage model around ultrabooks, and PC makers will have opportunities to explore relationships outside the traditional Wintel alliances, Kay said.

Windows 8 ultrabooks could be good business laptops because of mobility and support for legacy x86 software, which ARM will struggle with, Kay said.

Volume ultrabook shipments are not expected until the laptop prices fall, according to Stephen Baker, vice president at NPD. But if the products attract buyers at $799 or $899, it could an "interesting market," Baker said.

PC makers could choose to sell ultrabooks as high-end products with larger profit margins, much like Apple with the MacBook Air, Baker said. Alternatively, a price of $699 represents a volume opportunity for ultrabooks, and as the price falls, the product could take off with consumers over the next few years.

"There needs to be an upgrade to the ecosystem and component availability," Baker said

Research firm IHS iSuppli this week predicted that ultrabook shipments will be 136.5 million in 2015, up from less than 1 million this year.