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2011年2月21日星期一

The Secret of New PC designs for Small Business

You might know the old joke about Henry Ford's first car -- it was available in either black or black. With laptops and other computer form factors, there are only a few design options. Now, some PC makers are challenging that notion.
Much of the media attention at the recent Consumer Electronics Show(CES) surrounded new computer styles, shapes and sizes -- perhaps signaling a change from the tried-and-true laptop form factor popularized over the past two decades.
One attention-getting device is the Dell Inspiron Duo, which looks like a typical netbook at first glance but actually transforms into a tablet when you remove the LCD touch display. Lenovo offers a similar model called the LePad U1, but that hybrid was first announced over a year ago.
Another laptop, which uses dual touchscreens instead of a physical keyboard, is the Acer Iconia. The main advantage of this new form factor is that the keyboard can be customized or changed altogether depending on what you need the laptop to do.
Another model, the Razer Switchblade, has keys that display different words or icons depending on the application -- say, for gaming or for getting real work done.
So, are these new form factors innovative? Sure. Practical? That's another -- and perhaps more important -- consideration altogether.blok, a kindergarten classroom PC, designed by Christianne LeBlanc, Jessica Livingston and Maarianne Goldberg.
As usual, the hardest part about deciding whether these new form factors make sense is just being careful to avoid the lure of something being new and interesting, and then determining whether they will actually make sense for real work. To find out, we caught up with industry experts to weigh in on the pros and cons of alternative computer styles.
Does 'one size fits all' work?
"We've all been conditioned into believing that something that's remained fundamentally unchanged for decades is a classic, successful, perfect design that needs no additional modification," begins Carmi Levy, an independent technology analyst based in London, Ontario. "In the case of the basic laptop, however, classic doesn't mean ideal -- despite the fact that the basic laptop has become an icon of business and consumer computing, it's been apparent for years that its one-shape-fits-all form factor falls short."
Levy says enterprise and consumer buyers are often "complacent," and in turn stick with a familiar design. "Because of this, hardware vendors, afraid of introducing the PC world's equivalent of the Edsel, have shied away from stretching the form factor envelope."
Times might be changing, however.
"The tablet is the first truly successful post-laptop design for a mobile productivity device in a generation -- it has opened the door to other hybrid hardware designs by softening buyer resistance anything that strays too far from the trusty old laptop design."
The new laptop-tablet hybrids may just be a smart new form factor, he says.
"The Dell Inspiron Duo (aka Sparta) is just close enough to existing form factors that buyers might be willing to give it a shot. It's evolutionary, not revolutionary, and that could be more than enough to begin to give Dell some sales momentum in this emerging market slice."
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2011年2月20日星期日

What Everybody Ought to Know About Dell Adamo Laptop discontinued

The Dell Adamo laptop ‘range’ that never really became a range has been discontinued. The sleek aluminium computer, which was made to compete with Apple’s Macbook Air, has gone the way of the Dodo.

BYE, BYE

CNET describes the Dell Adamo as a once ‘worthy competitor to Apple’s groundbreaking laptop. Like the Air, it had an aluminum casing, was eye-catchingly thin (at 0.65 inches), used solid-state drives long before they came into wider use, and packed ultra-power-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processors. But the Adamo, like the earlier MacBook Air models, was pricey, starting at around $2,000, when it was launched in March 2009.’
Though the Dell Adamo would later see heavy discount after heavy discount, adoption didn’t increase at a fast enough rate, forcing the company to discontinue the computer. All the while, Apple forged ahead with its Macbook Air, releasing a model in 2010 that had very positiveresponses in the consumer tech space.

UNABLE TO COMPETE WITH APPLE ON PRICING

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber makes a very interesting observation, saying ‘Did you ever think you’d live to see the day when Dell couldn’t compete with Apple on PC pricing?’ It’s actually an astute observation for modern day Apple, where with its iPhone unsubsidized and even its iPad, the company’s products are often priced equal to, or cheaper than competitors’.
This unintuitive reality for Apple is due to the company being the biggest purchaser of flash memory in the world, used in smartphones, mp3 players and tablet PCs, allowing them to get preferential pricing for the goods.

IT’S ALL BAD FOR DELL

For the Dell Adamo, and Dell in general, the failure of this product is not encouraging. Where Dell was once the number one volume shipper of PCs in the world, the company has slid, being overtaken by HP and Acer, respectively, with Lenovo running close on their heels, too. Perhaps the death of the Adamo signals a refocusing of product strategy, so Dell can return to the top of the PC mound. Perhaps.
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2011年2月13日星期日

Effectively conserve battery power Guide

How to make good use of Laptop battery, how to extend the laptop battery using time and life is problem for all notebook users, a problem. There are many laptop battery using tips in our daily life that we shoule know in normal use and application.
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Toshiba pa3356u-3brs Battery  Brand New,8800mAh only £ 59.25a. quick to enter the dormant stateDo not use the notebook computer for saving latitude D620 battery power, we can set the power management program, let the system enter hibernation after a period of time, but it must wait a few minutes, is there a way to make the notebook computer system enter the sleep state immediately ?
There is a dormant easiest way in Notebook computer system : directly turn off the screen, you can make laptop to sleep immediately and effectively conserve battery power. When you need to use the laptop, only opening screen, the system will automatically return to the state before the operation.b. power-saving screen modeLaptop TFT screen is the largest component of power consumption, in order to reduce power consumption, notebook computer manufacturers have devised ingenious schemes, in all the general advise are following tips: reduce the screen brightness, turn off the screen.
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In some notebook power management as VGP-BPL2 ,PR002 ,TD347,GD761,451-10339 settings to customize the brightness of the screen, the majority of notebook computers by a specific shortcut screen brightness adjustment, generally 6 to 8 level brightness adjustment.c. Carry out energy-saving settingsAs desktop using the AC, most people may not take attention to energy-saving features, but to laptop user who must use laptop batteries for mobile use, the use of energy-saving features should be important. How to design computer hardware more energy-efficient, this is not a user problem. All us can do is set up the effective use of energy-saving options on the computer.
There are two energy-saving settings need to adjust the user: First, in the computer’s BIOS setup program on the energy-saving mode in the settings; the most important thing is there are many in the operating system and operation of energy-saving settings. Computer system in the practical implementation of it, Windows system should take precedence over energy-saving settings in the CMOS settings.
1. Windows in the energy-saving settings
 For general users, in the Windows system management for energy conservation may be a better understanding of the operation simpler. Windows help file, in the “management hardware and software” under the entry, two notebook computers with the contents of the relevant energy-saving: “the management of energy consumption” and “the use of portable machine” in the “management of the power portable machine.” Energy-saving settings in Windows, should read it.sony vgp-bps13 laptop batterySony vgp-bps13 Battery,30% Discount
2. BIOS settings of the energy-saving
In the CMOS settings,for example VGP-BPL2C,VGP-BPS2,VGP-BPS2A have a large “Power Savings”, which can choose to “Maximum Battery Life” and “Maximum Performance” and many other options. “Maximum Battery Life” is the default setting of the energy-saving mode. Notebook computer model has several energy-saving state, such as the Idle Mode Idle Mode, Standby Mode standby (wait) mode, Suspend Mode flying (sleep) mode. Notebook computer these settings, are able to regulate power consumption, mainly in the computer to enter the energy-saving state, the timely closure of the system without the use of equipment.
Such as when waiting to close the display and hard disk; dormant, apart from the display and hard drive shut down, but also can save the contents of memory to the hard disk, the basic maintenance of the entire computer system shut down state, once activated, or restart your computer, desktop will be accurately restored to pre-hibernation state. Energy Saving in the CMOS settings, set up mainly to enter the Idle Mode from Standby Mode in Standby Timeout time set by the Suspend Mode to enter the Standby Mode of the time Suspend Timeout. Notebook Phoenix BIOS of most use. Different energy-saving BIOS settings may be somewhat different, we should carefully read the screen prompts.
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