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<title><![CDATA[New HP EliteBooks and ProBooks update their business attire]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[HP ProBook s-series takes a step closer to its Pavilion consumer cousins.(Credit:HP)Business computers have long been an area where design has started to matter, and HP's newest line of business-oriented EliteBook p- and ProBook b- and s-series laptops do their best to provide some additional style to IT-friendly computers.We've already considered their previous ProBook models to be attractive enough to draw attention away from the rest of the consumer-focused Pavilion lineup, but the new models bridge the gap even more in terms of design. They also incorporate Intel's new second-generation Sandy Bridge CPUs, as well as USB 3.0, upgraded sound options, and HD webcams.New HP ProBook and EliteBooks (photos) The EliteBook p-series comes in both the 14-inch EliteBook 8460p and 15.6-inch EliteBook 8560p' new additions include USB 3.0, SRS Premium Surround speakers, and an optional ultracapacity notebook battery with a promised 32 hours of battery life. Its sleeker metal chassis isn't exactly svelte, but it's an eye-catching step up from EliteBooks past.The ProBook p-series rides in the middle of the pack, in 13-, 14-, and 15-inch models: the HP ProBook 6360b, 6460b, and 6560b. A spill-resistant keyboard and HD DisplaySafe reinforced display panel are paired with a smudge-resistant bead-blasted aluminum cover/magnesium-reinforced ABS chassis. CPUs include the aforementioned Sandy Bridge processors, or Intel Celeron.The HP ProBook s-series most closely resembles high-end metal-clad Pavilion consumer laptops. New models range in size from 12-inch to 17-inch screens: the 12.1-inch HP ProBook 4230s, 13.3-inch 4330s, the 14-inch 4430s, the 15.6-inch 4530s, and the 17.3-inch--you guessed it--4730s. Second-gen Intel Sandy Bridge processors are joined by a spill-resistant keyboard, improved microphones and SRS Premium Surround speakers, an HD Webcam, and optional Power Express Switchable Graphics, as well as a slightly reoriented fingerprint reader that's placed out of the way of accidental swipes.Starting prices for each series are below. All lines will be available starting March 15. While we find ourselves gravitating to the ProBook s-series the most, perhaps your taste varies.HP EliteBook 8460p: $999HP EliteBook 8560p: $1,099HP ProBook b-series: $799HP ProBook s-series: $579<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How fast will Apple move MacBooks to latest chips]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marybellep</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[So, here's the question: In the wake of Intel's disclosure that it will resume regular shipments of its &quot;Sandy Bridge&quot; silicon, how fast will Apple move the MacBook to the latest Intel chips The 17-inch MacBook Pro adopted Intel&amp;39's Core i5 and i7 mobile chips relatively soon after their introduction. (Credit:Apple)MacBook Pros: It's a pretty safe bet that Apple will upgrade 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros to Sandy Bridge--announced in January--sooner rather than later. Last year, Apple adopted the Core i5 and i7 processors for the 15-inch and 17-inch Pros in April: amounting to little more than a three month wait after the chips were introduced in early 2010. The Sandy Bridge chipset glitch notwithstanding, timing should be similar. (Remember this was a minor glitch, causing only a small hiccup in Intel's shipment schedule.) MacBook Air: But that's only half the story. The company has been displaying some counterintuitive thinking recently. I'm speaking, of course, about the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (which, regular readers of this blog know, I've devoted more than a little ink to.) The Intel internals--essentially the brain of the system--of the smaller Pros and Air have remained relatively static for years (three in the case of the Air). And an intriguing aspect of this strategy is that it doesn't seem to be impacting 2010 Air sales materially. The 2010 MBA is proving to be even more popular than its predecessors in spite of the processor inertia. But is three years too long &quot;That's a long time,&quot; said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight64, a chip consulting firm. &quot;The Core 2 Duo (the chip Apple uses now in the Air) is a decent product. But you're going to see a lot of thin-and-light Sandy Bridge products from Apple competitors--the Dells of the world--that are attractively styled. And the Air is going to start to look a little dated. So, I think they do need to move to Sandy Bridge.&quot;A review by Anand Shimpi, at Anandtech states more or less the same thing, but in a different way. &quot;The 13-inch MacBook Air performs as well as last year's 13-inch MacBook Pro. But if you plan on doing real work, you'll be hampered by the performance of these systems. Apple really needs to find a way to get an Arrandale or Sandy Bridge into this chassis,&quot; he wrote. Arrandale is Intel's previous generation of Core i series processors (what Apple currently uses), which predates Sandy Bridge. What comes after Sandy Bridge The next major change to Intel silicon will come with a chip code-named Ivy Bridge. But a power-efficient Ivy Bridge chip that Apple could use in the Air wouldn't likely be available until mid-2012, according to Brookwood. But there's hope yet. Apple is expected to move the Air to Sandy Bridge this summer--and boldly go where no Air has gone before. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What to watch for in Microsoft's quarterly earnings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marybellep</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft reports its fiscal second-quarter earnings tomorrow afternoon, and much has changed for the company since its last, both good and bad.There are some big new products in the pipeline like Kinect andWindows Phone 7, as well as enterprise-oriented tools like Lync. But there are also some new questions about the future of PC growth and Microsoft's health as a company with more key employee departures that are likely to have Wall Street asking some tough questions during the Q&amp;A.As far as expectations go, analysts surveyed by FactSet peg Microsoft's second quarter at 69 cents per share on $19.2 billion in revenue. That's compared with 74 cents per share on $19 billion during the same quarter last year. As blog TechFlash notes, that $19 billion from last year included $1.7 billion in sales that had been deferred from the previous quarter because of Microsoft'sWindows 7 coupon program, potentially pushing Microsoft's growth into the double digits if the analyst estimates hold true.While we wait for the actual numbers, here's a breakdown of some things to look out for ahead of Thursday's call:Impact of new productsJoining the lineup of consumer products that pushed Microsoft to a $5.41 billion net income in the previous quarter (mainly Windows 7, Office 2010, and the Xbox 360) is the Kinect. Microsoft launched its Kinect motion camera accessory in November, and atCES, the company announced it had moved 8 million units in just 60 days, making it a hit. That's joined by a similarly rosy six months at the top of console sales for Microsoft's Xbox 360, which now commands an installed base of 50 million. Another new product for this quarter is Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, which was launched in Europe in late-October of last year and in the U.S. and Canada during the second week in November, giving it only a few weeks to make it into this quarter's records. Microsoft has kept fairly mum on Windows Phone 7 sales since launch, short of saying that it had sold more than 1.5 million of the devices to mobile operators (though not necessarily end users) within its first six weeks on the market. We're likely to have a clearer picture of how the phone business is shaping up (or isn't) during Microsoft's third-quarter earnings, slated for late-April, though for tomorrow, expect the company to field a handful of analyst questions about the company's plans to turn around Microsoft's position among its smartphone rivals. Some more obvious answers to that question would be Microsoft's plan to bring Windows phones to CDMA carriers, as well as update the software with additional features and functionality, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid out during his CES keynote.  PC market share and tabletsMicrosoft is likely to have to answer questions about slowed growth in the PC industry, due in part to what analysts and research firms attribute to people flocking to Apple's iPad, and doing computing tasks on devices that aren't PCs. To Microsoft's credit, Windows 7 has proved to be a much better seller than its predecessor, but the fact remains that a growing chunk of users are buying non-Windows machines, and the company's plan to bring a version of Windows that fits into machines running ARM processors has no release date.  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at 2010&amp;39's CES.(Credit:James Martin/CNET) Expect similar wash of tablet-oriented questions to crop up based on a the dearth of tablet devices running Windows 7. During the previous quarter's conference call, Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein said the company had seen a shift from low-end PCs to higher-end models, but that there had not been a significant impact from tablets. Based on a leaked marketing presentation from earlier this week that had Microsoft comparing Windows slates to the iPad for enterprise users, analysts are likely to ask the company whether that's still the case. DeparturesOf special note will be Microsoft's Server and Tools business, which posted a $1.63 billion operating profit on revenue of $3.96 billion in the previous quarter. Despite the successes, the division's president, and 23-year Microsoft veteran Bob Muglia is set to leave the company this summer. Ballmer announced Muglia's departure earlier this month, though little has been said about a replacement. Microsoft has had to do some considerable rejiggering of its execs over the past year. Last year's departures of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, as well as Business Division President Stephen Elop, Entertainment and Devices unit president Robbie Bach and Chief Experience Office J Allard, left some large gaps Microsoft was forced to fill. More recent departures that will likely be on the minds of investors and analysts alike are: Brad Brooks, who left his spot as a corporate VP for Windows consumer marketing to work for Juniper Networks' Matt Miszewski, the general manager of Microsoft''s government business who left to work for Salesforce.com' and Johnny Chung Lee, the famed Wii hacker who joined up with Microsoft's Applied Sciences group to help develop the Kinect and last week announced that he left to go work for Microsoft rival Google. Other items to watch:The Yahoo partnership. Expect Microsoft to talk up its partnership with Yahoo to power its Web search using Bing. The organic part of that transition took place last August.  Patents. Microsoft holds more than 25,000 patents and pending patent applications in the U.S., and is in the middle of trying to acquire 882 more as part of Attachmate's buy of Novell from last November. Microsoft, along with Oracle, EMC and Apple make up CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium organized by Microsoft. Piracy. Certainly not a new topic for Microsoft. But last week, Ballmer attended meetings at the White House for the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao and stressed there being rampant IP piracy problems in China. The company estimates were that only one customer in every 10 had paid for a Microsoft product they were using, a problem that's long cut into the company's bottom line. Microsoft will host its quarterly conference call with investors at 2:30 p.m. PT. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China&'s own Loongson chip will challenge Intel in 2030]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a move that threatens Intel&amp;'s lock on vast swaths of the computing market, the Chinese-made Loongson chip will take a giant step from netbooks to supercomputers later this year.&amp;''Like a country&amp;'s industry cannot always depend on foreign steel and oil, China&amp;'s information industry needs its own CPU,&amp;'' or central processing unit, said Hu Weiwu, the lead architect Loongson microprocessors, to the Peoplea4a4s Daily newspaper.Intel doesna4a4t have to worry yet: It will take around 20 years before the chips designed in China will be ready for exports. But the goal is clear: China wants to sell microprocessors to the United States a4Ajust like we are selling clothes and shoes,&amp;'' according to Hu.In some sense, China already does that. Intel opened a chip manufacturing facility in China last October. As we reported, the $2.5B facility is the first Intel factory in China that fabricates microprocessors from raw silicon.The United States places restrictions on the kinds of chips you can manufacture in China. Many high-tech companies remain worried about Chinaa4a4s frequent misappropriation of intellectual property. Intel doesna4a4t make its most advanced chips in the Chinese factory' those still come from American facilities in Arizona and Oregon.The Chinese Loongson chip is getting more sophisticated. Until now, it has been used only on netbooks and set-top boxes. But three major government-owned scientific organizations in China, The Institute of Computing Technology of CAS, Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology and the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), are scheduled to use Loongson chips in their supercomputer projects by the end of this year.Like chips from Intel and its domestic rival, AMD, Loongson chip is able to emulate the x86 instruction set, the software code used in Intel&amp;'s microprocessors which define how operating systems pass instructions to central processing units. This will make it possible to use it on regular desktop computers and, in theory, run common  operating systems like Windows and Linux.But therea4a4s still a long way to go. Satisfying domestic demand with Loongson will take at least a decade. And the success of Loongson is not guaranteed. 2030 is a long time away &amp;8212' and that gives Intel and AMD decades of R&amp;amp'D to leap ahead.[Via Technology Review]Next Story: 4G company Clearwire loses CEO Bill Morrow Previous Story: Live-streaming site Justin.tv buffing up for e-sports channelsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: China, chips, CPU, Loongson, x86Companies: Amd, IntelPeople: Hu Weiwu          Tags: China, chips, CPU, Loongson, x86Companies: Amd, IntelPeople: Hu Weiwu Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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