Mountain Lion Safari Supports iCloud Tabs, Safari Tabs From all iOS and OS X Devices
This is a very cool feature from the new version of Safari shipping with Mountain Lion. Clicking the new iCloud tabs button will give you a live listing of open Safari tabs on all iOS and OS X machines - a great way to deal with the problem of switching between your iPad and your Mac.
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MacBook Pro with Retina Display Starts at $2199, Shipping Today
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The next-generation MacBook Pro: Ports
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Inside the next generation MacBook Pro
Intel Core i7 (Ivy Bridge)
Up to 768GB SSD
Up to 16GB of RAM
Up to 7 hours of battery life, 30 days of standby
802.11n (3x3:3) and BT 4.0
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This is the next generation MacBook Pro
Internally the next-gen MacBook Pro features a 2.3GHz quad-core Core i7 CPU (likely Intel's i7-3615QM, turbo boost up to 3.3GHz, 6MB L3 cache). NVIDIA's Kepler based GeForce GT 650M comes standard with 1GB of memory.
The new unibody shell is just 0.71-inches thick and weighs 4.46-lbs. The big feature of the next-gen MacBook Pro is its Retina Display. Available in one size configuration at 15.4-inches, the new panel is a 2880 x 1800 IPS model. Apple is boasting up to a 75% reduction in glare and reflections. The display is now integrated into the unibody, allowing Apple to remove its cover glass.
Apps have to be updated to take advantage of the display, however pixel doubling is supported for scaling those that haven't been updated.
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Apple's Updated MacBook Pro: Ivy Bridge and Kepler
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Apple Updates MacBook Air: Ivy Bridge, Up to 8GB of RAM, USB 3.0, 512GB SSD
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WWDC 2012: App Store Facts
- 400M app store accounts with stored credit cards, making it the largest collection of accounts + credit cards on the web
- 650K apps in the store, 250K optimized or made specifically for the iPad
- 30 billion cumulative app downloads from the store
- a total of $5 billion paid to developers
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ECS Booth: Components in Gold, AIOs and an Ultrabook?!
We have had a brief look at the Golden Series motherboards before in our Z77 preview and have a product in for review. ECS clarified their positioning with the Golden Series branding – in order to provide a higher-end product above their Black series that is aesthetically pleasing, especially to those who want to design gold colored systems and case modifications. There is apparently demand in various markets for this sort of product.
Nonstop Testing and Super Alloy Chokes
As with any other motherboard manufacturer, finding different ways to advertise their products is vital, preferably through innovative technology. A few manufacturers at Computex this year are advertising improved power delivery mechanisms – ECS are no different in this regard, with their Super Alloy chokes.
As you can expect, ECS were unwilling to explain how exactly their Super Alloy chokes work, but advertise that they offer 1.5x longevity, low electromagnetic interference, and up to 30% current delivery. In reality, 99% of users will not ever see a difference in operation, however I am informed that demand is there from various sources to increase the longevity of the power delivery.
Also in ECS’ arsenal is their Nonstop testing (or as they put it, Nonstop Technology). In a similar vein to MSI’s Military Class components, ECS are willing to put each of their products through an enhanced stability test – 72 hours at 50 degrees Celsius whilst under full load. Memory manufacturers test a lot in this area to eliminate the weaker modules that might initially fail after light loading, but now that concept is being applied to motherboards. The driving force for this testing clearly comes from industry, which is a major consumer of ECS products.
Golden GTX 680
To compliment the golden series motherboards, ECS are also producing a Golden Series GTX 680. ECS have been selling NVIDIA graphics cards for several years now (I have had two of the 580s as part of my test bed for a while), and the modification of their high end card to Golden Series is designed to be paired with the Golden Series motherboards.
A75 vs A85 chipset naming
On of the main features of Computex has been the long list of FM2 motherboards that will be available when Trinity desktop processors are released. The confusion for users will come in the fact that the FM2 socket will either come with the A75 chipset or the A85X chipset. FM2 Trinity processors will be incompatible with FM1 Llano sockets, but FM1 sockets are also paired with the A75 chipset. So the naming scheme with ‘A75’ will no longer indicate which socket of motherboard. Potential confusion ensues.
Every manufacturer has to find a way around this issue, and ECS are no different. With their products, all FM2 motherboards will be at least called ‘F2’. All A75 FM2 products will have the name ‘A75F2’, and all A85X FM2 products will be called ‘A85F2’.
On the ECS wall for FM2, we were shown the A75F2-A2 and the A75F2-M2, full sized ATX and micro ATX versions of their ‘A2’ product, aimed at the low end Trinity. Also on show was the A85F2-A Deluxe, part of their Black Series branding with the extra SATA ports that A85X provides.
Almost all the motherboard companies at Computex are announcing Thunderbolt boards – ECS are no exception. To market they will be bringing a single SKU, the Z77H2-A5X Black Deluxe. Within the naming scheme at ECS, A5 represents their high end SKU coupled with Black Series branding, one below the new Golden Series.
As 70% of ECS’ motherboard business is OEM selling, part of the other side of the business is being an ODM for a variety of other products (i.e. other companies buy their products and rebrand them as their own). Last year ECS had several AIOs on display, and this time I was shown their multi-touch G24 Cupid. They seemed very proud of it.
Ultrabook
With second generation ultrabooks on the wagon, and other traditional motherboard manufacturers entering the market, ECS have decided to enter the market as an ODM. Their ultrabook is still in the early stages of design, and for various reasons was only on display to selected media.
As the product is purely for business to business sales, we won’t ever see this model being sold as ECS. We are told that there is interest in Turkish and Russian markets for the device.
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WWDC: Apple Offers Impressive 2880x1800 MacBook Pro, Lesser Macs, OS X 10.8
Apple is looking to make its ultrathin product line the models to beat amid tougher competition
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6/11/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday
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Smartphones/Tablets Pushing Handheld Gaming Devices Aside
Handheld gaming device shipments are expected to slow and even decline in 2013 and beyond while tablet/smartphone shipments continue to soar
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U.S. Navy Cooks up Underwater Solar Cells
Humans learn the secret that kelp has enjoyed for millions of years
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HDD Prices Not Predicted to Return to Normal Until 2014
prices will remain high until 2014 thanks to long-term agreements between computer makers and hard drive makers
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Lenovo Mobile Access No-Contract Broadband Launches for ThinkPad Models
Lenovo offers branded no-contract mobile broadband
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