Miscellaneous Tech News
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Guidemaster: How to buy a Chromebook, plus our best picks
The Chrome OS landscape is vast—Ars is here to help you navigate it.
Chromebooks dominated the affordable laptop scene in 2018. The same wasn't true just a few years ago, when most were unclear what to do with Google's browser-based operating system. But now, after Chromebooks have successfully infiltrated the education market, users both young and old are familiar with Chrome OS.
Chrome OS runs exclusively on Chromebooks, the name for the laptops, two-in-ones, and now tablets that run Google's operating system. If you've used the Chrome Web browser before, you know how to use Chrome OS—the browser is the portal to nearly everything you can do on Chrome OS. Google created an operating system that's simple to use, efficient, and low maintenance in the sense that it doesn't take a ton of power to run a Chromebook well.
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Lenovo takes on Microsoft’s Surface Studio with its own tilting all-in-one
Lenovo even has its own dial.
Lenovo's Yoga A940 copies the central Surface Studio concept: it's an all-in-one PC with a large touchscreen mounted on a hinge so that it can be laid relatively flat (an angle of 25 degrees). Lenovo's display isn't as eye-catching as Microsoft's: it's a 27-inch display with a conventional 16:9 aspect ratio and either a 2560×1440 or 3840×2160 resolution. It supports stylus input from an active stylus using Wacom's AES technology. Lenovo even has its own riff on Microsoft's Surface Dial peripheral; on the left-hand side of the screen is a rotary control named the "Precision Dial," which can control features of various Adobe applications. At the top of the display is a 1080p webcam with an infrared camera for Windows Hello facial recognition.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Lenovo takes on Microsoft’s Surface Studio with its own tilting all-in-one
Lenovo even has its own dial.
Lenovo's Yoga A940 copies the central Surface Studio concept: it's an all-in-one PC with a large touchscreen mounted on a hinge so that it can be laid relatively flat (an angle of 25 degrees). Lenovo's display isn't as eye-catching as Microsoft's: it's a 27-inch display with a conventional 16:9 aspect ratio and either a 2560×1440 or 3840×2160 resolution. It supports stylus input from an active stylus using Wacom's AES technology. Lenovo even has its own riff on Microsoft's Surface Dial peripheral; on the left-hand side of the screen is a rotary control named the "Precision Dial," which can control features of various Adobe applications. At the top of the display is a 1080p webcam with an infrared camera for Windows Hello facial recognition.
Except Lenovo is on the No-Fly, Never Buy, Pound Sand lists. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Lenovo takes on Microsoft’s Surface Studio with its own tilting all-in-one
Lenovo even has its own dial.
Lenovo's Yoga A940 copies the central Surface Studio concept: it's an all-in-one PC with a large touchscreen mounted on a hinge so that it can be laid relatively flat (an angle of 25 degrees). Lenovo's display isn't as eye-catching as Microsoft's: it's a 27-inch display with a conventional 16:9 aspect ratio and either a 2560×1440 or 3840×2160 resolution. It supports stylus input from an active stylus using Wacom's AES technology. Lenovo even has its own riff on Microsoft's Surface Dial peripheral; on the left-hand side of the screen is a rotary control named the "Precision Dial," which can control features of various Adobe applications. At the top of the display is a 1080p webcam with an infrared camera for Windows Hello facial recognition.
Except Lenovo is on the No-Fly, Never Buy, Pound Sand lists. . .
Sounds like the perfect company to copy another craptastic product.
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AMD announces the $699 Radeon VII: 7nm Vega, coming February
New card should close the gap with Nvidia's RTX 2080.
The GPU inside the VII is called Vega 20, which is a die-shrunk version of the Vega 10 in the Vega 64. The Vega 10 is built on GlobalFoundries' 14nm process; the Vega 20 is built on TSMC's 7nm process. This new process has enabled AMD to substantially boost the clock rate from a peak of 1564MHz in the Vega 64 to 1,800MHz in the VII. The new card's memory subsystem has also been uprated: it's still using HBM2, but it's using 16GB clocked at 2Gb/s with a 4,096-bit bus compared to 8GB clocked at 1.89Gb/s with a 2,048-bit bus. This gives a total of 1TB/s memory bandwidth.
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A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
It's a WAN port for multigig internet
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/why-2.5-and-5-gbps-are-the-next-ethernet-speeds.html
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/why-2.5-and-5-gbps-are-the-next-ethernet-speeds.html
I have previously heard of these but I have not heard that they got IEEE recognition yet.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/why-2.5-and-5-gbps-are-the-next-ethernet-speeds.html
Thanks - Of course I've been wondering why 10Gbps wasn't just becoming the norm (I'll come back to that), I now understand because of Cat 5e and Cat 6 cabling the reason for these new speeds.
But
Spain commented that today, 10 GbE is more prevalent in data center networks and campus backbone. He added that as 10 GbE technology matures, it will also be seen as an access technology.
isn't 10 GbE already mature?
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/why-2.5-and-5-gbps-are-the-next-ethernet-speeds.html
So the rational and push for this was because businesses didn't want to make the spend for upgraded infrastructure. Who the hell does?!
Summary of the article:
We came up with this standard to have better usable life out of CAT 5e, where people are too damn cheap to rip and replace.
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Does anyone know - can 10 GbE only run at 10 GbE? i.e. it can't clock down to 2.5 or 5 Gbps?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does anyone know - can 10 GbE only run at 10 GbE? i.e. it can't clock down to 2.5 or 5 Gbps?
Right now I would say no because there’s no standard for those other states. Once there’s a standard and drivers are updated there’s no reason it could not
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So this is the 2nd to last line in the article.
The new NBASE-T is now working towards addressing the industry’s need for supporting higher speeds on existing cabling infrastructure.
Why hasn't the goal always been to get better performance from the same infrastructure?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does anyone know - can 10 GbE only run at 10 GbE? i.e. it can't clock down to 2.5 or 5 Gbps?
Right now I would say no because there’s no standard for those other states. Once there’s a standard and drivers are updated there’s no reason it could not
You read to much into my question.
Can 10 GbE clock down to 1 Gbps? I suppose even if it can, what would be the point? my thinking with the question was - who cares about making a 2.5 or 5 Gbps standard (mainly because those are able to run over Cat 5e and 6) just run 10 Gbps over 5e and run at 2.5 or 5.
Hell - why not update the 10 GbE spec to do just that? Seems like it would be a lot better than making whole new spec and another SKU, etc. Then we could just deploy 10GE everywhere and it will use the best speed it can that the cable can provide.
I'm wondering if there was some other limitation in it? I can't imagine that a 10GE port costs more to manufacture than a 2.5 or 5 GE port.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
So this is the 2nd to last line in the article.
The new NBASE-T is now working towards addressing the industry’s need for supporting higher speeds on existing cabling infrastructure.
Why hasn't the goal always been to get better performance from the same infrastructure?
My guess is that "they" were only looking at the DC, and not the end user/end point connections. The cost of recabling a DC (while also replacing the NIC cards to go 10 GE) is likely a no brainer... it's clearly different when you're talking about end users/end points.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
A sampling of networking gear from CES: TP-Link goes Wi-Fi 6, D-Link goes 5G
CES isn't all about voice assistants—but naturally, these routers have Alexa.
*The halls of CES might be filled with voice assistants and OLED televisions, but few things make a bigger impact on your day-to-day experience with technology than your networking solution. And there were a bunch of announcements on that front this year.
With a Qualcomm SDX55 chipset, five Ethernet ports (1x 2.5Gbps LAN, 3x 1Gbps LAN, 1x 1Gbps WAN/LAN)
What are 2.5 Gbps LAN?
Just a standard LAN port, but faster.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does anyone know - can 10 GbE only run at 10 GbE? i.e. it can't clock down to 2.5 or 5 Gbps?
Right now I would say no because there’s no standard for those other states. Once there’s a standard and drivers are updated there’s no reason it could not
You read to much into my question.
Can 10 GbE clock down to 1 Gbps? I suppose even if it can, what would be the point? my thinking with the question was - who cares about making a 2.5 or 5 Gbps standard (mainly because those are able to run over Cat 5e and 6) just run 10 Gbps over 5e and run at 2.5 or 5.
Hell - why not update the 10 GbE spec to do just that? Seems like it would be a lot better than making whole new spec and another SKU, etc. Then we could just deploy 10GE everywhere and it will use the best speed it can that the cable can provide.
I'm wondering if there was some other limitation in it? I can't imagine that a 10GE port costs more to manufacture than a 2.5 or 5 GE port.
The big driver was "cheaper hardware."
