posted by Don Verner on May 27, 2009
10) You always say yes to new OS and Applications patches without having to think about it
9) You never bother to use hibernate again
8) You don’t hesitate to open a 10MB PPT file to find that one slide and follow with “See I told you so”
7) You forgot what color your Disk Drive indicator light is
6) You have forgotten what the Windows Hourglass looks like
5) You never notice when Virus Scans occur
4) You always say yes to Connected Backup requests while presenting just to show off
3) You dropped your laptop and only the screen broke but you still have all your data
2) You walk around with your laptop open without having to worry about crashing your storage device
1) You drink less coffee because your system boots so fast in the morning
posted by Suzy Ramirez on May 12, 2009
As a Portland, Oregon resident and Intel employee, I've been lucky enough to experience wireless 4G WiMAX Internet broadband, as well as speak with others who are amazed by its speed, availability, and their overall experience. What I find most inspiring, however, is to hear how WiMAX is truly making a difference in peoples' lives.
My latest find is Centro Cultural and the "Digital Connectors" in Washington County, Oregon. Digital Connectors are youth trained to promote technology in their community using Washington County Beehive. The online guide was created to empower the local Latino community with tools supporting computer literacy and job training.
Through its Adelante con Tecnología (Moving Forward With Technology) program, Centro Cultural and Intel have been working to help bridge the digital divide among Latinos in this community, and the program has been quite successful. In fact, in a two-month timeframe (Dec. 2008 through Jan. 2009), 22 Adelanta con Tecnología volunteers reached 49 families, more than 100 individuals, during that time.
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tagged: 4-H Tech Wizard, 4G, broadband, Clear, Clearwire, Digital Connectors, Intel, Internet, netbook, Portland, WiMAX
posted by Nick Knupffer on May 06, 2009
So, there have been quite a few stories recently about support for Windows 7’s new ‘Windows XP Mode’.
‘Windows XP Mode’ is a feature that will be available with some versions of Windows 7. The short version is this: it will let you run a copy of Windows XP SP3 on your Windows 7 PC or notebook within a virtual partition using hardware virtualisation. ‘Windows XP Mode’ will however have some cool bells and whistles including great integration into Windows 7 (copy and paste will work etc…). This is another very cool use of our VT technology.
Intel introduced its Virtualization Technology in 2005 and has shipped over 100 Million chips with the feature. Windows XP Mode is targeted for business customers. It is available on the mid to higher end versions of Windows 7 and is supported in hardware by many Intel processors. Intel vPro technology PCs are required to have an Intel VT capable CPU and Intel VT capable BIOS. They are the best platforms for testing and deploying Microsoft Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode.
However, there have been a lot of articles berating the fact that consumers with Intel processors without VT will ‘lose out’ on the Windows XP Mode, or that it ‘won’t work’.
Cnet for example mentions that there are at least 30 versions of consumer laptops using the VT’less T6400 version of the Core 2 Duo processor.
Here is an example of such a notebook: It comes with Windows Vista Home premium. (As do most of them)
Here is the list of Windows 7 versions that will ship according to ZDnet: Home Premium is a middle sku.
And finally according to TheRegister.co.uk: The Windows XP Mode will only come with Windows 7 Professional and up.
So not having VT on these consumer laptops is not going to be an issue - because the consumer versions of Windows 7 (Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium) do not include Windows XP Mode.
Storm in a teacup anyone?
UPDATE: This is from Microsoft’s website:
PressPass: What types of applications are suited for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC stand-alone? Woodgate: Windows XP Mode is best suited for older business and productivity applications such as accounting, inventory and similar applications. Windows XP Mode is not aimed at consumers because many consumer applications require extensive use of hardware interfaces such as 3-D graphics, audio, and TV tuners that do not work well under virtualization today.
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tagged: Core 2 Duo, intel, VT, windows 7
posted by Nick Knupffer on May 04, 2009
Below is a public reposting of an Intel internal blog written by Tom Waldrop - Intel’s Director of Issues and Policy Communications:
Imagine, in one room, a group of scientists and engineers largely responsible for the advances in semiconductor-related technology that enabled the development and delivery of modern electronics — including computers, networking, cell phones, PDAs, DVDs, and more or less everything digital.
Saturday night at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, not far from Intel Santa Clara headquarters, was a showcase of semiconductor history rare even for Silicon Valley.
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tagged: andy grove, computer history museum, intel, patent
posted by Robert Allshouse on May 04, 2009
The landscape of solid-state drives is growing. Many companies, Intel included, have a growing portfolio of drives for sale. Various people much smarter than I have talked about how "Not all SSDs are created equal," but there's one fundamental difference at play that most technologists understand, and not all consumers do. In fact, it's a difference that's pivotal to the difference in the Intel X25-E and X25-M product differentiations: the underlying flash technology. Hopefully, for those who don't know the difference between SLC and MLC flash, this can help explain the difference between the two, and why a drive with less than half the density can cost twice as much.
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tagged: MLC, SLC, SSD
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