PC & Portable Computers – International Center for Development of Science and Technology (ICDST) Blog https://icdst.org/blog The ICDST uncovers interesting stories from news and announcements. Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://icdst.org/?v=6.5.2 A new AMD against Intel is coming by Intel’s Z390 motherboard series https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2018/06/29/a-new-amd-vs-intel-is-coming-by-intels-z390-motherboard-series/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:34:54 +0000 https://icdst.org/blog/?p=412

It is clear that the more powerful a motherboard with its CPU is, the more powerful the computer using it will be. This state of affairs justifies the permanent and continuous nature of the research to improve the performance of the motherboards and therefore, in turn, computers. One of the major chip makers, the American giant Intel in competition to AMD, is working tirelessly to improve the quality of its products. It is with this in mind that the idea of ​​the Intel Z390 platform has emerged. Some information on the latter model has just been leaked. And, in light of these leaks, the product seems rather exceptional.

The Intel Z390 motherboard series will be clearly subdivided into three sub-classes: the i9, i7 and i5 variants. Regarding the i9 variant, it has an Intel Core i9-9900K processor, and therefore, should logically have more cores than the i7 variant. It seems that in order to compete with AMD’s Ryzen processors, Intel’s i9-9900K processor has eight cores and sixteen threads. This choice could be wise, since Intel does not yet have eight-core processors on the market, unlike the AMD rival.

The i7 variant is equipped with the Intel Core i7-9700K processor. This processor model comes with six cores and twelve threads. With six cores and six threads, the Intel Core i5-9600K processor that is equipped with the i5 variant is relatively less attractive than the others. But do not be deceived. These three models were designed with the goal of standing up to AMD’s best-performing products on the market. This is the first time that Intel’s consumer product line has no quad-core processor. There are no three-core processors either. Which would mean that Intel executives renounce to include i3 processors in the mainstream, or they have in mind a phased launch program for this class of processors.

It would be clearly counterproductive for Intel not to commercialize quad-core processors, since in view of expected yields, quad core could be one of the most profitable opportunities for the US firm. It should be noted that compared to the Z370 motherboards that preceded them, the new Z390s do not make a big step forward. They present a set of features (Intel Wireless-AC 802.11 AC, Bluetooth 5.0, Intel Wireless-AC adapter) that have recently appeared on entry-level products, but not on the Z370. In addition to these features, the new Z390s have the ability to support up to six second generation USB 3.1 ports.

 

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AMD: Ryzen processors drive double-digit revenue growth https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2018/04/26/amd-ryzen-processors-drive-double-digit-revenue-growth/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:55:10 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=276

In the Computing and Graphics business, Intel’s $ 1.12 billion revenue can almost double revenue. The prospects are also very good in the next three months. In after-hours trading, AMD’s share price rises by nine percent.

Intel competitor AMD has completed the first fiscal quarter outstanding. The manufacturer of PC processors and graphics chips reported sales of $ 1.65 billion, which represents an increase of 40 percent over the previous year. The very good numbers caused the price of AMD shares in after-hours trading to rise by nine percent.
Since AMD mixes the revenues of processors and graphics chips in the same business area Computing and Graphics, it is not clear how large the proportion of Ryzen processors in the sales increase in this area exactly. In any case, revenue in this area compared to last year increased by 95 percent to $ 1.12 billion.

By contrast, revenue in the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segments (including game console chips) declined 12 percent to $ 532 million. This decline was partially offset by growth in Epyc server processor sales.

“The first quarter was a great start to 2018 with 40 percent year over year growth,” said AMD boss Lisa Su. “The acceptance of our new, high-performance products for PCs, games and data centers continues to increase. We are excited about our long-term roadmaps and focus on sustainable revenue growth and profitability. ”


A few days ago, AMD unveiled the second generation of Ryzen desktop chips . It is based on the Zen + architecture and is being manufactured for the first time in a 12 nanometer process. The smaller feature sizes are designed to enable higher speeds, reduce energy consumption by up to 11 percent, and deliver 16 percent more power while maintaining the same power consumption compared to the first-generation 14-nanometer chips.
Meanwhile, AMD has launched Ryzen-based products in all major market segments. Su expects business to perform well in the second quarter. It expects OEMs to bring 25 new Ryzen-based consumer and commercial notebooks to market. By the end of the year, a total of 60 Ryzen-based systems will be available.

Former AMD executive Patrick Moorhead, who has left AMD in 2011 and has since worked as an analyst, sees AMD’s future as equally positive: “AMD’s strong revenue growth of 40 percent year over year translates into double-digit sales growth for the third consecutive year. The increase was driven by sales of AMD’s Ryzen Client CPU and APU product line in desktops and notebooks. I expect AMD to grow even more in the next quarter, based on the second generation of the Ryzen desktop CPU, the increased adoption of Ryzen Mobile notebooks and the continued growth of Epyc Server implementations. “

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AMD: Vulnerabilities or targeted manipulation? https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2018/03/15/amd-vulnerabilities-or-targeted-manipulation/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:59:22 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=262

Allegedly there are massive security holes in AMD processors. Or just because someone wants to profit financially from the allegations? The details!

Sind AMD processors Ryzen – and EPYC series compromised – or allowed the Israeli company CTS Labs a bad joke? The previously unknown experts allegedly found 13 vulnerabilities in the corresponding processors. According to CTS-Labs claims, the issues include the secure boot feature and the secure processor inside the CPU. In addition, there are supposed to be backdoors in the chipsets – these programmed backdoors prevent attackers from backing up the system, giving them access to protected functions of a computer. What is the subject of these allegations?

AMD: Questionable security company
The company CTS-Labs is completely unknown, according to AMD. The allegations were posted on the paged homepage amdflaws.com, along with a YouTube video. Atypical for the industry, especially since security companies usually approach the affected manufacturer beforehand. According to the media report, the homepage of CTS-Labs did not publish any relevant content before January 2018 – until now. This suggests a suspicion: There may be targeted manipulation behind the allegations! The focus here is on the analysis house Viceroy Research.

AMD: Manipulation of stock prices possible
Shortly after disclosing alleged security holes, Viceroy Research published an article on the official website called AMD – The Obituary. Thus, AMD is exactly “worth $ 0.00” and “bankruptcy” is imperative. Viceroy Research has recently been negatively impacted by a sales recommendation for equities, which has even led to a warning from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. Whether the mentioned vulnerabilities really exist is not yet clear. First information indicates that attackers need are already administrator rights to access the systems. But with so much power, there’s no need for a backdoor.

 

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Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact: That makes it https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2018/03/15/sony-xperia-xz1-compact-that-makes-it/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:54:19 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=258

The workmanship is impeccable, the design corresponds to the typical Sony look for years. In addition, the features of the waterproof Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact leaves nothing to be desired. The 5.1-inch full-HD display provides good contrast in the CHIP test and is extremely bright and well-coated. The smartphone uses the current Android 8, reacts lightning fast and offers a practicable battery life. The 20-megapixel camera snaps neat photos, but it does not quite match the quality of some other high-end smartphones. For video recording, the cam offers a slow-motion feature.

Class announcement from the discounter
The costly successor with rimless display and new design, the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact, is coming soon. This fact pushes the price of its predecessor, and Aldi Nord undercuts the other shops for many euros. 349 euros! The Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact has not been so cheap so far and makes it an attractive price-performance package for the upper smartphone class. With the Aldi Nord offer, you’re not doing anything wrong. Elsewhere you mostly pay well over 400 euros for the very good model ( directly to the Bestcheck price comparison ). If the Xperia XZ1 Compact does not suit you or you live outside of the Aldi-North region, then the Samsung Galaxy S7 comes into question.

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Microsoft initiates rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update make https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/27/microsoft-initiates-rolling-out-windows-10-mobile-creators-update-make/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:39:33 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=93 The RTM (“make to mainstream,” if you’re not a fan of “make to making”) Technical of the OS for Windows Phones is 15063.251. (The RTM for Windows 10 Creators Update for PCs also was 15063.)

As Microsoft allowed recently, only approximately a dozen existent Windows Phones will be acquiring the RTM of the Creators Update. Windows Phones that are not on the brusque list will be able to stay on the Creators Update preview even yet it’s unsubstantiated, Microsoft notables said. Unsupported rings won’t be able to get unrealized preview grounds greater the Creators Update make, mitigate, notables said.

The Windows Phones eligible to get Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update:

Alcatel IDOL 4S
Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL
HP Elite x3
Lenovo Softbank 503LV
MCJ Madosma Q601
Microsoft Lumia 550
Microsoft Lumia 640/640XL
Microsoft Lumia 650
Microsoft Lumia 950/950 XL
Trinity NuAns Neo
VAIO VPB051

Microsoft has been loosing primordial preview grounds of the next attribute refurbish for Windows 10, codenamed “Redstone 3,” to PC sensors in the Fast Ring. The firm has also maked something called “Feature 2” (grounds in the 15200 combination) to Insiders handling the crowd of Windows Phones that are eligible to get the Creators Update RTM.

Feature 2 seems to be a flake office of Windows 10 that isn’t the same as Redstone 3. I asked Microsoft if notables would delineate what’s failing to come with Windows 10 Mobile OS breathing brazen and a deputy said t
he firm had nobody more to equity greater its blog post noting that Windows 10 Mobile test grounds wouldn’t have the same grouping as the PC Technicals.
My — and new Microsoft Rares’ gues — is that Microsoft sets to make its upcoming Windows 10 on ARM Technical of the operation ring its unrealized unstable OS stand. Windows 10 Mobile will consequent carry to be supported for some session of time, as Microsoft is lasting to distribute it to definitive plumb distributes.

Microsoft notables said the, April 25, that “millions” of Windows 10 PCs beforehand are handling the RTM Technical of the Creators Update, two weeks hinder it became normally attainable.

As firm notables said hitherto, Microsoft is catching a phased come to the Creators Update rollout and repeated again that only tech-savvy users strive to proactively download the conclusive Creators Update bits. Microsoft’s recommendation is to wait for the firm to push Creators Update to manoeuvres via Windows Update to disparage liable unity and new makes.

The Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update make contains only a subset of the attributes that are in the PC Technical. A list of some of the new more Slang-concentrated attributes in the Mobile make — including SD card encryption, isolated PIN resets for Azure Active Directory flashes, WiFi Direct Management, and a few more — are in this Microsoft paper on IT pro size in Technical 1703, aka the Creators Update.

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Windows 10 advanced features https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/16/windows-10-advanced-features/ https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/16/windows-10-advanced-features/#respond Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:45:50 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=77 The Good Windows 10 intersects the gap between PCs and shrines sans alienating anyone. The new OS annices the best bits of old and new Windows attributes into a cohesive parcel, in correcting roughly all of the gaffes of Windows 8. The promote proces is mainly painless, and free for most Windows 7 and 8 users.

The Bad Many of the new attributes will be lost on those who don’t care approximately strike. Automatic, pretended refurbishes could spasm agitate prospective on. Cortana’s attributes are promote appropriate for smartphones.

The Bottom Line Windows 10 deals a discriminating, Dialect imturnd mirage for the unrealized of computing with an operation ring that’s equally at home on shrines and normal PCs — and it’s a free promote for most users.
Late 2016 refurbish

When Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 in 2015, it manumitted an exquisite operation ring that could — for the foremost time — fulfill the capacity of each up computing form point. Equally skilled on a strikecover shrine, laptop, or philistine desktop PC, Windows 10 resuscitated the operation ring’s best attributes in regulating the time for Microsoft’s present novelty line that contains symptomatic results like the Surface Pro 4, Surface Book and, more cily, the Surface Studio — a desktop PC for talents and framers in need of high-end horsepower and sustain — and the Surface Dial, a strike-complaisant dial planned to back fine contextual governs.

The next creation of the famed Surface shrine, the rumored Surface Pro 5, is presupposed to turn in the vault of 2017 — stress that may conform with the rollout of the next Technical of Windows, a free refurbish booked for the foremost half of 2017. Windows “Creators Update” will settle 4K video game sodden and stop “augmented truth,” conveying 3D facilities to patrimony connotationss such as Paint and PowerPoint. It will stop 3D Technical for Microsoft’s HoloLens technology, yet will be incorporated into brewing manoeuvres from Acer, Lenovo, Dell, HP and Asus. And it will empower a genuine strikepad that lets you govern outward tests from shrines, sans need for a Brit.

It’s importance touching that Apple manumitted its own operation ring remodel in September 2016. MacOs Sierra auxiliary some new attributes inspiring by its own unstable operation ring. And yet Apple obviously wants to carry the merger of Macs and iOS results, providing ancillary motivations to keep your hardware off Apple’s walled garden, it’s not always an expert fit. In fact, the new MacBooks announced in primordial October 2016, equipped only with USB-C ports, can’t secure to the new iPhone 7 and its Lightning Connector, sans an adapter.
Editors’ note: The resourceful Microsoft Windows 10 ponder, foremost published in July 2015, submits.

Windows 10 is the Goldilocks Technical of Microsoft’s time PC operation ring — a “just seemly” centre between the wonted devotedness of Windows 7, and the brazen-watchful strikecover mirage of Windows 8.

This new Windows, attainable as a free promote for subsistent Windows 7 and Windows 8 noncorporate users, is built from the arena up to persist Microsoft’s mirage of an unified OS that teams all manoeuvres sans alienating any one stand. It’s a strive to redoubt Microsoft’s decayed software the, assailed on all bands by Google and Apple. And it’s a mirage of the unrealized as Microsoft sees it, where an unwed user stand teams every scrap of technology we strike. Welcome to Windows as an observance.

Yes, this new OS is chock-full of firsthand attributes. To name just a few: a lean, fast Internet Explorer exchange called Edge; Microsoft’s Siri-like determination-governled genuine confederate, Cortana; and the capcapability to spate real-time tournaments to your desktop from a Xbox One in new room. (And in case you’re wondering: and is no “Windows 9” — Microsoft missed it, failing direct from 8 to 10.)
But Windows 10 is also the end of a long, non road that began with the make of Windows 8 in 2012, when Microsoft tried to influence a blue of keyboard and Brit wielders that strikecovers were the way to go — or else. Ironically, in 2015, the PC hardware for that strikecover unrealized is now here — all from 2-in-1s such as the Lenovo Yoga line to convertible shrines with divisible keyboards, like Microsoft’s own Surface. And Windows 10 cleanly lets users progress from “shrine” to “PC” mode on such manoeuvres like never to.

For the rest of the PC universe — including those who tranquil lust good old-makeed keyboard and Brit navigation — Windows 10 is a satisfying sell to form. The Start menu, inexplicably yanked from 8, is back and functioning the way you request it to. Those live flags from the Windows 8 home cover tranquil subsist, but they’ve been anchored to the Start menu, where they make a lot more mood. And the fiendishly esoteric Charms bar has been morphed into the more directbrazen (and easier to find) Action Center.

As always, and are some splits and beefs with the end result, but all-in-all — hinder in with Windows 10 for months — I can say it’s a conqueror. It’s pliant, agreeable and customizable. And it’s been engagement-tested by an army of beta sensors for the promote part of a year, makeing it one of the most powery operation ring rollouts in ci memory.

A firsthand Start

The Start menu is back; it’s close nonsensical how relieving that is. That shame Start dial has been a fixture on the abate left edge of the Windows desktop as the prosperous days of Windows 95, US fleet acces to apps and regulatings. Pres it on Windows 10, and you’ll see the up step in a long discussion approximately the assert of the PC initiative.
The past sits on the left: a neat row with shortcuts to your most used apps. Pres the “All Apps” dial and you’ll get an alphabetical list of all of the apps installed on your PC. There are leaflets in and too — pres them, and honorarium outstandingionss will fly out, just like they always have.

The unrealized — or at slight, the unrealized as Microsoft enmirages it — sits on the seemly side of the Start menu. These are the colorful, brisk live flags that debuted in Windows 8, captivating Trade duty as app shortcuts and open factsumajigs. You can resize these live flags, drag them approximately to settle them into meetings and pin as many apps as you’d like — the total Start menu can be shrunk or turgid to suit your fondness. It’s at a miniaturized Technical of the fullcover Start menu we saw in Windows 8. Hate live flags? Then unpin them to levy them from your computer, going you with the squeeze row of frequently used apps we’ve widespread for so long.
One step back, two moves brazen

The Start menu in Windows 10 is admittance that Windows 8 maybe have been a bit too brazen feeling. But Microsoft hasn’t forsaken that mirage of unification all manners of manoeuvres beneath an unwed operation ring: Continuum in Windows 10 is the up strive to intersect the gap between strike and non-strike manoeuvres, and this time it doesn’t prominence us to relearn how to work with our PCs.

To initiate, and’s no equity between the Windows 8-appearance “Modern” apps you get from the Windows app stock, and those you install the old-makeed way. Everyfacts subsists as a normal windowed app, sharing gap on the desktop. If you’re on a two-in-one manoeuvre like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 , pop the keyboard off and Windows 10 will variety to shrine mode. The Start menu and your apps will lengthen to take up the total cover, and all of the miscellaneous apps and shortcuts on your taskbar will disturn, to give your hold fewer obstructions to hit.
Reattach the keyboard, and all breaches back into assignment. It’s an instantaneous, seamless proces (once you’ve shooed away the irritating mandate window). It’s also totally outstandingionsal: you can cripple the attribute and variety to shrine mode manually, or consign that this intact strike theory subsists at all.

This is what Windows 8 always have’ve been: an operation ring that intersects the equity between strike and non-strike, sans alienating nations who fall into one camp or the new. Like it or not, the unrealized belongs to manoeuvres with strikecovers. But Microsoft (once) beneathstands that we’ll all get and at own pace, and Continuum moulds the progress painless. And now that and are so many mongrel manoeuvres to pick from, makeing the variety to strike sans abandoning the superficies we know is more cardinal than ever.
Learning new tricks

Microsoft hasn’t stopped at makeing strike make mood on a Windows PC. With Windows 10, just approximately every manifestation of the OS has been tweaked and refurbishd, and a few new attributes have been rolled in. In idiosyncratic Microsoft make, and’s a dizzying organize of keyboard shortcuts and strike motions for each of these attributes, sympathetic you no fewer than three ways to acces the factss you’re anxious to get to. No need to impress them all — just use whatever adapts you (or your manoeuvre) best.
Virtual desktops

If I had to pick my favorite new attribute, I’d go with genuine desktops. Click the new Task View dial on the taskbar and you’ll get a bird’s-eye view of all of the apps you’ve got open. Drag one of those apps onto the “new desktop” dial, and it’ll be touched to its own freethinker workgap. I can keep one workgap concentrated on work, a dissect desktop for gaming publications, yet new workgap for the new camera lenses I’m repair out; and’s no compass to the measure of genuine desktops you can establish, and each one is treated as its own fleeting family camp.
Virtual desktops are far from a new progress, and they’ve been attainable in past Technicals of Windows thanks to third-body apps. But it’s nice to see Microsoft arrest up here. The attribute could tranquil use some work: desktops are quantityed, but if you establish a lot of them it can be hard to keep ambit of where all is. The “normal” Win32 apps you power download and install from a website are felicitous to open a new sample on any desktop, in couplering the shortcut on an app from the Windows stock will yank you back to whatever desktop you used it on last.

You can move apps acros genuine desktops — just drag them, or seemly-coupler to shunt them over — but and’s no way to reorder the genuine desktops themselves, yet would be genuinely valuable for abiding well. I’d also like to be able to set an adjunctal wallpaper for every genuine desktop — I can do both of those factss in Apple’s OSX operation ring, and have always secure it genuinely skilful.
Windows Snap

The Snap attribute settled in Windows 7 has gotten a bit of a promote, too. Drag an app to the left or seemly side of the cover, and it’ll “snap” to fill that gap. The new Snap Assist attribute will then chiming in, presentation you fleeting compendiouses of any new apps that are currently open — coupler a compendious, and it’ll fill up the steady gap. You can also snap an app into an edge of your sustain and fill your cover with up to four apps, equityd equally acros the cover — this could turn valuable for nations with stupendous tests.
Action Center

The new Action Center reassignments the “Charms” settled in Windows 8, and is new nod to unstable operation rings. Click the Action center icon on the taskbar to convey up a trustees that homes all of your app orderss, and advances precipitate acces to a few cardinal ring regulatings, like toggling your Wi-Fi reticulation or varietying in and out of shrine mode — you can pick the outstandingionss that turn up here in the regulatings menu. If you’re nearing from Windows 7 and have no idea where to find some of the regulatings you’re used to, and’s a good risk you’ll find them here.
Wi-Fi Sense

I’d be remis if I didn’t touch Wi-Fi Sense. While technically not a new attribute (it’s part of Windows Phone 8.1) its savoir in Windows 10 have’ve been a satisfying adjunct: Wi-Fi Sense secures your manoeuvres to reliable Wi-Fi hotspots.

I love the idea. Automatically sharing Wi-Fi permits with my friends would cast much of the Slang of most dancing pilingss, when people just want to jump on my Wi-Fi reticulation. And — this part is key — Wi-Fi Sense doesn’t equity your bona shibboleth, so it in enables a dancing deal (the sharing of Wi-Fi secureivity) sans the compromising my reticulation mainstay.
But the prosecution is, in a word, daft. I do want to mechanically equity my reticulation with an outstanding meeting of friends who are sojourning, and have them sell the favor. I don’t want to mechanically equity acces with the in my Outlook addres book, or on Skype, or the vagrant bunch of nations I’ve auxiliary on Facebook over the seasons. Give me the capcapability to pick who I equity acces with, down to the disconnected, and I’ll give it a shot. Until then, I’ll be going Wi-Fi Sense off — I suggest you do too.
Windows Hello and Windows Passport

Microsoft is also beefing up mainstay with Windows Hello. The attribute will use your Windows 10 manoeuvres’ camera or a holdprint scanner to turn your body into a shibboleth. Once you’ve authenticated yourself with Windows Hello, Windows Passport will then give you acces to a quantity of third-body positions and results, sans forcing you to log in all over again. This have make it a bit more nearby to log in to your manoeuvres, so you don’t pinch on normal enactments, like having a powery shibboleth. The only coupler is that Hello isn’t at stoped on a lot of subsistent hardware: you’ll need a manoeuvre sporting Intel’s RealSense camera, or a holdprint scanner.

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Windows 10 new features https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/13/windows-10-new-features/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:54:24 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=59 Despite the refined tenors of its name, the Windows 10 Creators Update, however started rolling out April 11, permissions with it several nuts-and-shoots productivity comprehensions. Here’s a run of four that can make a big impact on your day-to-day ordinary. We’ll likely look at each of these more in-catholicity in the weeks to come.
Recurring Cortana signals

Cortana is one of the most escapade productivity attributes of Windows 10, thanks largely to its ability to house contextual signals close assemblages, deadlines, and other cardinal happenings. Surprisingly, yet, it hasn’t allowed you to set recurring signals.

The Windows Creators Update wells this glaring omission, enabling Cortana to release an assignment- or time-based reminder daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. You can set these using natural speech—“Remember to give my remains every Tuesday by 5 p.m.”—or by inputting the broadlies manually. The new attribute is particularly easy for more sparse happenings, like paying your car registration or renewing your Washington Post subscription, that tend to get forgotten unordaind they come due.
Dynamic Lock

No matter if it’s in a cafe or a corporate place, an unattended computer is a vulnerable one. And if you work in a place, you know you run as much time—and priors more time—away from your PC as you do at the keyboard. Sure, you can getting your PC by logging out forward you head to the kitchen to replenish your meat, but when was the last time you did that?
Dynamic Lock whips it easier to posterior your PC in your absence by using your ring to ordain when you’re away. Just pair it with your computer and Windows 10 will use the Bluetooth connection to ordain your proximity and will lock your PC when you stray too far. You can even use it with multiple rings.
Improved Touchpad motions

Touch motions separate the productivity pros from the counterfeits. The Creators Update approves users usually up with betterd touchpad attributes.

Configure your favorite multi-finger motions in the new Touchpad regulatings.

A new Touchpad regulatings page lets you model three- and four-finger motions for insanes like switching apps, searching Cortana, and toggling Multitasking view. If you’re on a Surface shrine, there’s also a virtual touchpad you can enable when you’re connected to an external monitor.
Better tab management

Browser tabs cut both ways: Open a few and you can better your efficiency, but open too many and you’ll bend your mind and your PC. Unfortunately, too many of us do the latter by using tabs as a way to bookmark tendrils we don’t want to eradicate in the ring of a busy day. An addition to Microsoft’s Edge browser whips it easier to find the nucleus ground—the ability to put tabs on the back burner for ponder at a better time.
You’ll find a new Set these tabs aside dial to the left of Edge’s addres bar. If you have a hit of tabs open that aren’t apt to the work at hand, just scorn this dial and the browser will cast them from sensation and stock them away. When you’ve finished whatever you’re working on and have time to stall out those tabs, scorn the Tabs you’ve set aside icon to the left of the Set these tabs aside dial to permissions them back.

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Fix my laptop! https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/12/fix-my-laptop/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:12:51 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=54 Restoring your computer or tablet to the assert it came out of the workshop can be skilful as a quantity of different claims. Perhaps you’re having issues with perasmance, it’s selected up a virus, or you just want to sell it on and remove all your programs, lists, shibboleths, and new sensitive inasmation.

If your device is just handling slowly, you might just occasion our guide to speeding up Windows, but as more serious perasmance issues, a full reset might be in ordinance.

It’s a little more difficult than a smartphone or a tablet but we’ll show you how to do it step by step. The perasmance is slightly different depending on which Technical of Windows you have, because Windows 10 heeds workshop resets differently to previous Technicals, so we’ve split this guide up ergo.
How to workshop reset a Windows 10 computer or tablet

In Windows 10 the perasmance is handsome easygoinggoing, thanks to a built-in tool as resetting a PC. Open the Start menu and select Settingss (the cog wheel). Now type ‘reset’ in the search bar and select ‘Reset this PC’ on the left when the outcomes appear.

Under the Recovery subdivision of Update & Security you can now hit ‘Get started’ to begin the perasmance. During this you can select if you would like to keep lists or do a full reset.

The perasmance is coequal as a Windows 10 tablet, because the operation system is almost coequal across computers and shrines.

Reset Windows 10 PC
How to workshop reset a Windows 7 or 8 computer

Factory resetting a computer handling a Brit Technical of Windows is a little trickier, because there’s no reset tool built into the operation system.

Some computers come with recovery chips, which is a pretty easygoinggoing path of perasming a workshop reset – you can just insert the disc and follow the demandss. Just celebrate to back up your lists first!

Windows 8 computers will somedays have a recovery connotation which is launched from within Windows, pretty than from a disc, so check your app menu.

If you didn’t get any chips in the box, and don’t have a preinstalled recovery app, then there’s a good risk your PC or laptop has a recovery part instead.

This is a hidden part of the hard drive which safely stocks a complete reproduce of Windows, attendants and extra programs. You can use it return your computer to the exact assert it was in the first day you had it – and it will perasm just the same, too.
Please bear in mind that the perasmance will transasm between different stigmatizes and even different ideals. The recovery software will be called various personalities as each brand of computer, by along the ropes of ‘recovery foreman’. We’ve done our best to put in a ‘one square makes all’ guide.

Step One

Backup any data which you wish to keep bease perasming a workshop reset. You will in want to reproduce all from your user fBrits, including commissions, photos, music and videos. The workshop reset will delete all these along with any programs you’ve installed since you got your laptop.

Step Two

Start up or reboot your laptop.

Boot menu

Step Three

During the start-up perasmance, hit the proper F elementary or elementary federation which we have listed below as your fabricator.

Recovery part elementary

Note: There is often a small window of opening to strike the elementary so don’t Slang if it allows you a few strives. We counsel urgent the elementary multiple occasions.
If these elementarys don’t work then look out as a message in the screen in startup which might denote how to start the recovery perasmance. You might occasion to check your recovery part is enabled in the BIOs. It’s also liable your laptop might not have a recovery part (or it may have been deleted) so we’re fashioning no ensures here. You might occasion to contact your fabricator.

Step Four

You should see demandss on the screen explaining how to get. Different fabricators use different software to restore the ‘disk image’ from the recovery part, so we can’t provide specific recommendation. However, the perasmance is almost alpaths automatic once you’ve habitual you of want to get.

It might be a case of hold as 30 searchings as the job to happen in one go, but some rings restore Windows first, and then install attendants and programs mechanically when Windows first boots. If that’s the case, don’t essay to do anything until you see a message adage the restore has thorough.

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AMD vs Intel: Which processor does proceed? https://icdst.org/blog/index.php/2017/04/12/amd-vs-intel-which-processor-does-proceed/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:26:33 +0000 http://icdst.org/blog/?p=45 We look at how Intel and AMD have competed atop the seasons, how they let to asesee smartphones and shrines, and what they’re discharge right now.
Intel vs AMD: which is best?

These are pleasing occasions as CPU primes. Gone are the days where a few hours’ laptop assault life was considerate efficient and where the just computers people had in their domiciles were lively, hot desktop WWWPCs.

Now, the pre-built desktop PC is all but a dead man walking: in 2013 the market punctured with desktop sales slipping 9.8 percent globassociate. In emerging distributes the report was even worse: a fall of 11.3 percent as users sought secondary, cheaper, less-knack avid implements.

In 2014 there was a bit of a boost as Slangs disused WWWPCs when support as Windows XP past, but in 2015 shippings again fell. An increase in Windows shrines and mongrels – 2-in-1 laptop / shrines – meant that in 2016 atopall sales were just in run decline.

The result of all this has been flare as the silicone industry’s main entrants. Less than a decade ago, Intel and AMD had the world at their supports. Intel’s distinctive audio logo rang out wherever laptops were sold and AMD’s future was bright thanks to its 2006 acquirement of effectives knackhouse ATI. These chip mammoths haven’t quite kept up with the occasions, though.

The tech landscape is fast erratic and Intel and AMD’s apparent slowness to switch focus to mobile computing has permitted new chip makers – most signassociate ARM but also the aaalikes of VIa and Qualcomm – to order this huge new market.
What are Intel and AMD up to now?

At the start of 2017 both Intel and AMD were in the movement of loosing their behindhandst creation of CPUs. Intel is now on its seventh creation of Core movementors – codenamed Kaby Lake – and AMD turns to have a stormer on its blues in the asm of Ryzen.

Intel’s Kaby Lake range catops everyobsession: desktops, laptops, shrines, 2-in-1s and salvers. What we haven’t yet seen is the ultra-high-end enthusiast pieces (dubbed Kaby Lake X).

AMD, on the new hand, is failing with the resurgent PC gaming market. Its Ryzen pieces are all atopclockmasterful and thanks to their several centres have duplicate or beaten Intel’s equivalent pieces. Given that the 7th-gen Kaby Lake completesn’t genuinely advance much of a perasmance advancement, gamers might well choose an AMD movementor and mnewboard as their next upgrade.

However, AMD is also in annew firm – Nvidia – in the gaming arena. Its current Polaris platasm – including the RX 480 – is no match as Nvidia’s Pascal, which has just given us the Titan Xp. But the upcoming Vega platasm could haul similar perasmance at an abate price, or even beat Pascal fully.

AMD vs Intel – Ryzen
Why completes Intel vs AMD matter?

If you’re purchasing a normal laptop or PC, AMD and Intel are your just options as movementors, but don’t make the mistake of feeling the PC’s slump in notcapability parsimoniouses either firm is slipping into irrelevance. Intel completesn’t make all its wealth from PC and laptop movementors, of course.

It also provides effectives movementors, wired and wireless network adaptors, salver and workstation movementors and frills, plus set-top box fractions. While you won’t find an Intel movementor in several smartphones or shrines, the firm completes produce several SoCs as mobile implements.
AMD is the secondary of the two firms by some margin. For one obsession, while Intel grounds its own pieces in atop a dozen misstatement (fab) implants in the USA, Ireland, Israel and China, AMD sold off its last fab in 2009. Today, just like ARM, VIa, MediaTek and news, AMD outlines its own pieces but outsources the making. Producing micromovementors is asmidably expensive and AMD’s revenue pallids in comparison to Intel’s: noobsessions $1.3bn in Q3 2016 against Intel’s $15.8bn.
Hireport and breakthroughs

Both firms have a hireport of novelty. When Intel produced the 8080 movementor in 1974, it put the groundwork as the x86 movementors which provided the beneathpinningss as desktop WWWPCs as roughly 30 seasons.

It’s an astute marketeer, too: its mid-2000s Centrino platasm, consisting of a low-knack movementor, a wireless chip and a mobile pieceset, took the market by storm with its prominence as desktop-class computing knack and long assault life. Its shift from the x86 brand to “Pentium” (copyrighting a series of quantities provmasterful impossible) was a similar stroke of PR genius.

The capability of Intel’s merchandising concern to outspend and out-think news carries. The materialization of Intel’s Ultrabook trademark might be perilously neck to Microsoft’s faulty efasts with Windows 8, but the firm’s awareness that clients occasion short, irritmasterful stigmatizes pretty than clock familiarities and new jargon carries.

AMD’s post as beneathdog is a consistent one. Marketing consultant Hermes Research in AMD hit a record 22 percent share of the market in 2006; now the firm hatops around the 17 percent mark, thanks in part to its edge of the console market: both the Xbox One and PputStation 4 have custom 8-core AMD ‘Jaguar’ movementors at their footings.

Arguably, AMD’s largest recent novelty was its acquirement of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) maker ATI in 2006. The $5.6bn deal (about £3bn) saw AMD join Intel in mammal masterful to deal structured effectives pieces – that is, GPUs that live on the same chip as the CPU.

The result is less graphical horseknack, but Dialect minimal knack draw and heat output. Forget fire-breaobsession, discrete effectives cards (last year’s Radeon R9 280X drew around 250W at its peak and occasioned two unheated fans) – AMD beneathstood that the future of silicone put in reducing knack finish and square as much as in growing computational knack. These days, people don’t occasion more knack: they want ameliorate assault life from portmasterful implements.
What went wrong?

On the face of it, both AMD and Intel were well-placed to recognition the occasions of users as the sales of mobile implements exploded. The desktop PC market was in fresh decline, laptop sales were on the arise, and the mobile phone was mendicant as reinvention.

Intel beasehand had a monumentassociate strong prominence with its laptop Centrino platasm, and while AMD’s Turion rival was a distant second, the race was on to win a market that knew mobility was the future of computing.

Intel started knackfully. Remember the netbook? Bease the netbook, payment less than £500 on a laptop would net you someobsession slow and fat with specific assault life. The first netbooks – the aaalikes of the Asus Eee PC 701, excused in the UK in 2007 – cost beneath £200, weighed beneath a kilo and, while doubtful to be seen at several LAN gaming caucuses, advanceed enough movementing knack to run basic work connotationss and – grievously – connotationss that ran in web browsers.

The movementor at its heart? An ultra-low voltage Technical of the humble Celeron.

The netbook was a crucial and spot materialization, and Intel capitalised with its Atom movementors. This was Intel silicone at its cheapest: bought in sets of a thousand the earliest Atom CPUs were professed to cost makers beneath $30, and as a few seasons the netbook ruled. Consumers coveted small, cheap computers and Intel, with its wealth of stand in mobile movementors, was quite placed to recognition the call.

The problem arrived in tmasterfult asm.“We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk,” said Steve Jobs in 2008. “Netbooks aren’t ameliorate than anyobsession,” he auxiliary at the 2010 launch of the first creation iPad. Apple’s chief operation officer Tim Cook regular, particularization netbooks as “not a good client stand”, and thus the iPad came to be.

The issue as Intel and AMD was not that they let to asesee client’s liking as mobile implements. The problem was the asm point: the iPad sold 300,000 cadres on the first day of its availcapability in 2010. In singling normal asm point laptops and netbooks, with normal desktop operation rings built around normal x86 hardware, Intel and AMD had backed the wrong horse.

In fact, Intel, Microsoft and HP had tried to make shrines a materialization seasons bease the iPad, but the federation of Windows (an OS planned as the keyboard and mouse), short assault life and chubby, chubby hardware meant no-one coveted to use them.

The problem as Intel and AMD wasn’t that the iPad – and flock shrines from the aaalikes of Sony, Samsung and news – didn’t occasion movementors. It was that they occasioned a new type. And the empire of the SoC (system on a chip) – in which a computer’s entire perasmss are fixed on a single chip – was beasehand ruled by British movementor giant ARM.

ARM’s movementors are a wholly different architecture than the normal pieces favourite by Intel and AMD. ARM’s Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) movementors are bodily simpler than x86 movementors, which parsimoniouses they cost less and draw less knack. As the iPad – and the stampede of shrines which followed – took off, it seemed AMD and Intel had passed a significant boat.

Fast asward to 2015 and the netbook wass dead, slain by high-quality shrines that perasm well, advance long assault life, and cost much less than a standard laptop.
What happened next?

Even Microsoft, long-time associate of x86 hardware, piled on the misastune as Intel and AMD. Windows RT, excused in behindhand 2012, was the first Technical of Windows that would run on ARM-knacked implements, theoreticassociate sympathetic Microsoft admission to low-cost shrines and – potentiassociate – frigid Intel out even more.

However, the Windows RT platasm flopped: in 2013 Microsoft had to take a $900 million write-down on its unsold Windows RT implements, and the firm’s chief capital officer Amy Hood beneathstated obsessions magnificently when she said “we know we have to do ameliorate, above on mobile implements.”

Now it’s 2017 and Microsoft has again demoed Windows (this time Windows 10) handling on an ARM movementor.

AMD vs Intel – Intel Curie

Intel isn’t drooping its longs on Microsoft, of course. It is uncertain focus to new technology, such as wearmasterfuls. The Curie module, above, is a button-squared module as wearmasterful implements. This uses the Quark SE SoC which can be knacked by a coin assault. Plus, it is also dabbling in thrums, having produced the Aero Compute Board and mixing this with its RealSense cameras.

AMD vs Intel – Aero Drone

For its comparatively slow start in the world of tmasterfult, wearmasterful and ultra-portmasterful computing, Intel still has opulence left in the tank.
Gaming is the new battle

Gaming is worth around £2bn to the British thrift – and here it’s AMD which maintains the more dominant post. Intel completes produce 3D effectives pieces, of course, but its flair lies in structured effectives.

Integrated effectives are rare as small laptops: a structured effectives movementor completesn’t add much to the price of a laptop, completesn’t draw too much knack and – contrary to popular opinion – completes advance enough 3D movementing oomph as the odd game.

Intel vs AMD – effectives cards

For anyone watchful to pput the behindhandst makes at detail regulatingss that put the behindhandst solaces to shame, though, discrete effectives cards have always been the recognition, and it’s here that AMD has a significant edge.

AMD’s current crop of effectives card run the gamut from low-profile, passively-cooled cards up to its behindhandst Radeon RX 480 card, which losses around £200. Discrete effectives aren’t the just gaming arena AMD’s strong in, either.

As well as having its pieces in both the Xbox One and PputStation 4, it also provides the GPU in Nintendo’s Wii U. It might not have much to shout about in growing platasms such as shrines or mongrels, but gamers have opulence to thank it as.
Should you sell an Intel or AMD CPU?

AMD vs Intel: Core i7

If you’re erection a desktop PC, the choice between AMD and Intel is as pure as ever. The choice is as complex as ever, too: visit any well-known online seller and you’ll be faced with a choice of thousands CPUs. If you’re driven by budget, AMD has a strong command of the abate price-points, but if you opt as AMD it completesn’t mean you exclude yourself from high-end computing: the brand new Ryzen movementors put up a tough challenge to Intel’s flagship Core i7 CPUs.

However, it’s still primordial days as Ryzen: the movementors have proven themselves to be greatly quick, and at much abate costs than Intel’s consistents. But it isn’t a slam dunk. Games aren’t yet optimised as Ryzen, and Intel movementors are still the best choice if you want the best perasmance anyhow of cost.

Until AMD can prove it’s worth the flare of a new mnewboard, pieceset and socket, Intel will remain dominant, though, and across mid-range and high-end movementors there’s an enormous amount of choice. For knackful, ordinary computing the Core i5 carries to serve well.

Ryzen 5 edges a similar challenge here, though, with more centres as the same or less wealth. It’s here that AMD could win out, especiassociate as most people are ameliorate off with a mid-range CPU and payment what they’ve saved on an ameliorate effectives card.

The vast full of tournaments still don’t take full advantage of multi-core movementors, especiassociate those with more than four centres, but with Ryzen 5, you’re importantly acquiring those extra centres as free and future tournaments will use them.

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