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Why Laptop Battery Claims Are So Useless
It’s one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone’s using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don’t plan on stopping.
Why Laptop Battery Claims Are So Useless
It’s one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone’s using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don’t plan on stopping.
ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention
gavron writes “The ACLU has filed suit against DHS to stop the TSA from conducting illegal searches and detention. In the case at hand, TSA detained a Ron Paul staffer who was carrying ,300 in cash in a metal box. The suit seeks to focus TSA searches on things having to do with increasing security on aircraft, instead of their current practice of 4th-amendment-violating searches, such as those of laptops, iPods, etc.”
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Why Did Apple Limit The MacPro’s Drive I/O?
Apple’s new MacBook Pro has a hard drive interface half the speed of the previous model, which will limit solid state drive performance as well potentially affect any external drives attached to the laptop.
New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat
Last Sunday, I was lurking at the local Apple store, poking at laptops and feeling a mild bit of concern for my fellow shoppers.
How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton takes a look back at the recent Boston case where police seized a student’s laptop but had to give it back. “The EFF was right to argue that police had no right to seize the laptop of a Boston College student who was accused of forging an e-mail from his roommate. But according to the judge’s reasoning, the police probably could have gotten away with it, if they had appeared to care more about pursuing the student for downloading pirated movies instead.” Click the link for Bennett’s analysis.
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10 Cool Things To Do With Your Old Laptop
However, this isn’t the only thing you can do, as your trusty portable can even find a new lease of life when used alongside other devices in your home. It can bring improved usability to games consoles in your living room, or even be used to enhance other PCs that you or your family use.
Picking Up the Pieces After Downsizing: Avoid Orphaned Data
Employees are the lifeblood of any business, and the data they produce is critical to productivity. Unfortunately, during recent uncertain economic times, businesses of all sizes across America have laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. Yet when any employees leave during turnover, important data can be lost or forgotten. Such “orphaned data” can consist of any business information, application or intellectual property that has become unrecoverable because it was left on no-longer-accessible edge devices like laptops that were never backed up.
Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October?
An anonymous reader writes “Acer is planning to announce a 3D notebook computer by end of October. If Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it’ll be the world’s first manufacturer to do so. The most interesting thing about Acer’s machine is that it requires no special glasses. The 15.6-inch notebook features built-in software which can convert regular 2D movies to 3D and directly support 3D movies.”
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Apple’s WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More
Lots of big news from WWDC today including updates to almost all of Apple’s laptops. They added a 13-inch version to the MacBook Pro line, updated the MacBook Air, and added a few new ports to some of the machines including an SD slot and firewire 800 port. Software updates saw Safari 4 launched, OS X updates including threading changes, Exchange support to mail, calendar, and address book, and OpenCL a new open graphics standard. The iPhone got quite a bit of love in 3.0, much of it just confirming older news. Cut, copy, and paste, shake to undo, developer APIs, Cocoa Touch support for text, landscape mode updates, spotlight, and MMS all made the bullet list. You will now also be able to rent and purchase movies directly from your iPhone. Other new features in 3.0 include the much debated tethering ability, allowing you to use your iPhone as a cellular modem (unfortunately there was no mention of AT&T actually supporting this feature, a wonder there wasn’t a riot), integrated TomTom GPS navigation, and game features galore. New functionality also allows you to locate your iPhone via MobileMe, play a sound to help you locate it (regardless if it is set to silent), and even wipe your data remotely. The New iPhone hardware updates, “3GS”, adds a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, voice interfaces, twice the processing power, and hardware encryption. The 3GS comes in 16GB (9) and 32GB (9), pushing the 3G (which they are keeping on the market) to . Lots of other small updates amidst the bustle, looks like another successful WWDC.
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