Weekend Shortbread
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- Lenovo exec: There's no longer a need for Windows RT - Engadget
- Jessica Lessin's exclusive: Amazon wants to
offer its smartphone for free. Who will follow?
- WSJ: Apple plans to ship less-expensive iPhone to China Mobile
- Reuters: Apple hit with U.S. injunction in e-books antitrust case
- 9to5Mac: Apple's OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October
- Engadget: Chrome OS beta adds touchscreen
support for selections, drag-and-drop (video)
- The road to Battlefield 4: Our deepest and
most personal weapon customization ever
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Deal of the week: Graphics cards, memory, and games
Writing out these deal posts in prose is getting pretty boring, so I think I'll go with our simplified list format this week. The list format has it all: bullet points, bolded product names, and handy links to the latest bargains we've come across. What's not to like?
This week, we've got a mix of hardware and PC game ...
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POV parkour video brings Mirror's Edge to the real world
A prequel to free-running classic Mirror's Edge is in development. The game promises an "open-world adventure," but it's early in development and probably won't be released for a year or two. In the meantime, you can get your parkour fix by bounding around town—or you can save yourself from a lot of pain and injury by simply watching someone else do it. The folks at Ampisound have put together an epic POV video that, ahem, faithfully channels Mirror's Edge.
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The SSD Endurance Experiment: 22TB update
Flash memory has limited write endurance.
So do the SSDs based on it. How many writes can modern drives take
before they expire, and what happens to them as the flash wears out?
We're trying to find out by testing a selection of SSDs to failure. You
can read all the nitty-gritty details about the experiment in this introductory article. Today, we're checking in on our subjects after 22TB of writes.
22TB might seem like an odd place to pause our testing, but it's a close match for the endurance specification attached to the Intel 335 Series. That drive is rated for 20GB of writes per day for three years. Do the math.
The Intel 335 Series is one of only two drives in our lineup with a published endurance rating. The other, the Kingston HyperX 3K, is supposed to withstand 192TB of writes. Since it'll take a while to push into triple-terabyte digits, we've decided to stop at 22TB before moving on.
Unfortunately—or
fortunately, depending on your perspective—we have little to report at
this juncture. Anvil's endurance test wrote 22TB to each SSD, and all
the drives passed the benchmark's built-in data integrity tests without
issues. The SSDs didn't reach ...
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Don't forget to enter our MSI GeForce GTX 760 and Corsair HX1050 giveaway
The clock is ticking on our latest giveaway. You have until Monday, September 9 to enter to win a MSI GeForce GTX 760 graphics card and Corsair HX1050 PSU. The GeForce has higher-than-stock clock speeds and a beefy, dual-slot fan. Asking price: $260 at Newegg. On top of that, our winner will take home a 1050W modular PSU worth $220.
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20-inch Panasonic tablet has 4K resolution, GeForce graphics
As device makers seem to be focusing on smaller tablets, Panasonic is moving in the opposite direction. The company has unviled a jumbo tablet with a 20" screen and a 4K display resolution. The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5's 15:10 aspect ratio is a little unusual, but the 3840x2560 resolution adds up to 9.8 megapixels—more than the 8.3 megapixels offered by 4K displays with more typical 3840x2160 layouts. When you factor in the screen's dimensions, the pixel density works out to 230 PPI.
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Catalyst 13.10 beta adds multi-GPU enhancements
A fresh set of Catalyst graphics drivers is out! Radeon users, to arms!
Okay, maybe not. The Catalyst 13.10 beta release adds some multi-GPU improvements on top of the fixes and tweaks from last month's 13.8 beta 2 driver ...
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NYT, Guardian: NSA has backdoors in commercial encryption software
Thinking of using encryption software to foil the NSA's eavesdropping programs? Well, according to the latest leak from whistleblower Edward Snowden, that may be a waste of time. As the Guardian reports,
the leak shows both the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, have
"successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by
hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal
data, online transactions and emails."
The Guardian article goes into a lot of highly depressing detail, but ...
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Asus' X79-Deluxe motherboard reviewed
When Intel introduces a new generation of CPUs, the chips usually come with an updated core-logic platform. That platform is dutifully adopted by motherboard makers, which roll out fresh models to meet the latest CPUs. The recent Ivy Bridge-E launch didn't fit the pattern, though. Intel's new family of high-end desktop processors arrived solo, without a new platform attached.
On the one hand, that's pretty awesome. Folks who bought X79 motherboards for Sandy Bridge-E a couple years ago should be little more than a firmware ...
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Lenovo's Yoga convertible family updated with high-PPI, ThinkPad models
Lenovo's family of bend-over-backwards Yoga convertibles has been updated with two new models. Starting next month, you'll be able to get your hands on the Yoga 2 Pro. This 13.3-incher boasts an IPS panel with an impressive 3200x1800 resolution. The math works out to nearly six megapixels and 276 PPI. Suh-weet.
The screen sits on a 360° hinge that allows the lid to fold flat against the back of the keyboard. The keyboard is backlit, and Haswell-based hardware lurks beneath it. Lenovo ...
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Temash APU pops up in Toshiba convertible tablet
A staggering number of mobile systems have been introduced at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany this week. There are ultrabooks with 3200x1800 displays, tablets of every size, and smartphones with screens up to 7". We've also spotted a convertible tablet based on AMD's Temash silicon. Say hello to the Toshiba W30Dt:
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Asus' new Android convertible combines Tegra 4, 2560x1600 display
Asus has finally introduced a successor to its Transformer Pad Infinity convertible tablet. The original, otherwise known as the TF700, combined a 1920x1200 display with a Tegra 3 SoC. Its replacement, the Transformer Pad TF701T, features Nvidia's more potent Tegra 4 silicon and bumps the display resolution up to 2560x1600.
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Available Tags:SSD , MSI , GeForce , GTX , Panasonic , tablet , Catalyst , Asus , APU , Toshiba , Android ,
22TB might seem like an odd place to pause our testing, but it's a close match for the endurance specification attached to the Intel 335 Series. That drive is rated for 20GB of writes per day for three years. Do the math.
The Intel 335 Series is one of only two drives in our lineup with a published endurance rating. The other, the Kingston HyperX 3K, is supposed to withstand 192TB of writes. Since it'll take a while to push into triple-terabyte digits, we've decided to stop at 22TB before moving on.
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Don't forget to enter our MSI GeForce GTX 760 and Corsair HX1050 giveaway
The clock is ticking on our latest giveaway. You have until Monday, September 9 to enter to win a MSI GeForce GTX 760 graphics card and Corsair HX1050 PSU. The GeForce has higher-than-stock clock speeds and a beefy, dual-slot fan. Asking price: $260 at Newegg. On top of that, our winner will take home a 1050W modular PSU worth $220.
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20-inch Panasonic tablet has 4K resolution, GeForce graphics
As device makers seem to be focusing on smaller tablets, Panasonic is moving in the opposite direction. The company has unviled a jumbo tablet with a 20" screen and a 4K display resolution. The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5's 15:10 aspect ratio is a little unusual, but the 3840x2560 resolution adds up to 9.8 megapixels—more than the 8.3 megapixels offered by 4K displays with more typical 3840x2160 layouts. When you factor in the screen's dimensions, the pixel density works out to 230 PPI.
...Read more...
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Catalyst 13.10 beta adds multi-GPU enhancements
A fresh set of Catalyst graphics drivers is out! Radeon users, to arms!
Okay, maybe not. The Catalyst 13.10 beta release adds some multi-GPU improvements on top of the fixes and tweaks from last month's 13.8 beta 2 driver ...
Read more...
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Friday Shortbread
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- Reuters: Samsung and Qualcomm make foray in smartwatch market
- SamMobile: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is now official: 5.7" FHD
display, 3GB RAM & 13MP with UHD video recording
- Ars Technica's hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Gear
- SuperSite for Windows: Surface Power Cover to ship this year
- AMD Catalyst 13.10 beta
- Aero Glass for Windows 8
- Google Chrome Blog: A new breed of Chrome Apps
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NYT, Guardian: NSA has backdoors in commercial encryption software
Thinking of using encryption software to foil the NSA's eavesdropping programs? Well, according to the latest leak from whistleblower Edward Snowden, that may be a waste of time. As the Guardian reports,
the leak shows both the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, have
"successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by
hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal
data, online transactions and emails."The Guardian article goes into a lot of highly depressing detail, but ...
Read more...
Read More ...
Asus' X79-Deluxe motherboard reviewed
When Intel introduces a new generation of CPUs, the chips usually come with an updated core-logic platform. That platform is dutifully adopted by motherboard makers, which roll out fresh models to meet the latest CPUs. The recent Ivy Bridge-E launch didn't fit the pattern, though. Intel's new family of high-end desktop processors arrived solo, without a new platform attached.
On the one hand, that's pretty awesome. Folks who bought X79 motherboards for Sandy Bridge-E a couple years ago should be little more than a firmware ...
Read more...
Read More ...
Lenovo's Yoga convertible family updated with high-PPI, ThinkPad models
Lenovo's family of bend-over-backwards Yoga convertibles has been updated with two new models. Starting next month, you'll be able to get your hands on the Yoga 2 Pro. This 13.3-incher boasts an IPS panel with an impressive 3200x1800 resolution. The math works out to nearly six megapixels and 276 PPI. Suh-weet.
The screen sits on a 360° hinge that allows the lid to fold flat against the back of the keyboard. The keyboard is backlit, and Haswell-based hardware lurks beneath it. Lenovo ...
Read more...
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Temash APU pops up in Toshiba convertible tablet
A staggering number of mobile systems have been introduced at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany this week. There are ultrabooks with 3200x1800 displays, tablets of every size, and smartphones with screens up to 7". We've also spotted a convertible tablet based on AMD's Temash silicon. Say hello to the Toshiba W30Dt:
...Read more...
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Asus' new Android convertible combines Tegra 4, 2560x1600 display
Asus has finally introduced a successor to its Transformer Pad Infinity convertible tablet. The original, otherwise known as the TF700, combined a 1920x1200 display with a Tegra 3 SoC. Its replacement, the Transformer Pad TF701T, features Nvidia's more potent Tegra 4 silicon and bumps the display resolution up to 2560x1600.
...Read more...
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