Thursday, January 15, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 1/16/2015





Wednesday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
  1. Windows 10: What to expect in the consumer preview - Neowin
  2. AnandTech: AMD's Carrizo not on the desktop?

    Depends what you define as desktop
  3. WCCFtech: Intel Skylake removes support for USB-based

    Windows 7 installation - major platform specs confirmed
  4. AnandTech: Zotac updates Zbox mini-PC lineup at CES 2015
  5. AnandTech: Origin PC shows off high-end

    notebooks
    and the "not-a-Steam machine" Omega
  6. VideoCardz: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 specifications
  7. WCCFtech: Nvidia's monstrous 12GB Quadro M6000 flagship

    GM200 GPU confirmed via driver update - launching soon
  8. WCCFtech: AMD promises 11 FreeSync monitors

    by March, 20 in 2015 - 120Hz IPS Asus MG279Q
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Analyst expects Apple to start transition away from Intel by 2017
No question about it, Apple's homebrewed processors for the iPhone and iPad are getting mighty fast. According to an analyst quoted by AppleInsider, those chips will get fast enough to power Macs "within 1-2 years," at which point Apple could begin to transition away from Intel.
The analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, believes the performance of Apple's chips will land "somewhere between Intel's Atom and Core i3 lines" in that time frame. That seems like a conservative estimate, ...
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Join us Thursday evening for our CES recap live stream
We produced a torrid torrent of news stories during CES last week, but we didn't really have time to stop and discuss many of them. That changes tomorrow evening—at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT—when we fire up our CES 2015 recap live stream. We'll be recording the next episode of the TR Podcast live during the session, and we'll take questions from the Twitch chat as we go. Should be a good time.
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TR subscribers, come see what we're cooking up
If you are a TR subscriber, we have something interesting for you to play around with today. Just go hit this forum thread in the Smoky Back Room for the details, and have a look at what we've been cooking up. Your feedback will shape our service to you. Thanks!
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Biostar teases Z97 motherboard with USB 3.1
MSI isn't the only one prepping a Z97 motherboard with USB 3.1 connectivity. Biostar also has one in the works. The Gaming Z97X first appeared on the company's Facebook page last week, and a gallery loaded with pictures was added today.

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CompuLab stuffs AMD's Mullins into a tiny fanless PC
AMD's Mullins mobile APU may not be showing up in many tablets, but we are seeing it crop up in some enticing mini-PCs. Zotac demoed just such a system at CES last week, and now, the folks at CompuLab have introduced another.
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Q4 shipment data shows double-digit PC growth in U.S.
Remember all that doom and gloom about the death of the PC industry? Yeah, not so much anymore. Fourth-quarter shipment data from two big-name market research firms suggest the market is rebounding.
Things look particularly promising in the U.S., where year-over-year shipments grew 13.1% according to Gartner's figures ...
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