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You may recall a little group of Linux-loving chums called Linaro, which was formed almost a year ago in the hopes of speeding up Linux development. Today at Computex, the company’s taking one step further with the announcement of the Origen development board. Based on Samsung’s beefy Exynos 4210 dual core chipset, the kit packs all the essential ports — including HDMI, USB 2.0 host, SD slot, etc. — for keen developers to get their hands dirty on, and its base board is also removable to accommodate future chipsets. Potential buyers are told to keep an eye on Insignal, which will soon be offering the basic Origen package for $199, along with optional parts at an extra cost.

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This article was written on October 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal released his review of Apple’s Leopard operating system which is set to launch on Friday evening. His verdict? Leopard is both faster and easier to use than Vista. He was able to test it on two different computers – a MacBook Pro Laptop with Leopard pre-installed (provided by Apple), and then on his own iMac Desktop in which he made the upgrade to Leopard. While he says that it may be faster and easier, he called Leopard “Evolutionary,” not “Revolutionary” meaning that the features aren’t breath-taking nor earth-shattering.With Apple listing over 300 “new” features with this operating system, there are only a handful of “core” new things.

Among those new core features are Time Machine, Quick Look, and Cover Flow. Mossberg calls Time Machine the “Sexiest thing” about Leopard saying it’s the simplest way to backup your computer with no additional work required. It’s automatic and just works in the background backing up everything without the user needing to do anything. Quick Look allows you to see what’s in a file without ever needing to launch the program.  For example, if you’ve got a Microsoft Word document saved and you’re wanting to know what’s in it, just press the spacebar.  Once you do this, you’ll get a preview of the file and it’ll be large enough where you can read it and look through the pages. Cover Flow isn’t exactly new to Apple, but it’s new to the Mac operating system.  If you use iTunes, you’ll know what Cover Flow is — it’s the graphical display that allows you to see and flip through album covers. With Leopard, it will work similarly.

From Apple’s recent financial report, we know that they’ve seen an increase in the sales of Mac computers. With the bad rap Vista has been getting lately, the ease of use that Mossberg talks about with Leopard just might help push Mac sales even further, especially because Boot Camp (allows Macs to run Windows) is now built right in. For those who want to experience Leopard but for whatever reason (work?) can’t completely ditch Windows, it can’t get any easier for them to use both.

The bottom line though, says Mossberg, is that while not revolutionary, Leopard is an advance and it does make Mac better and easier to use. (Just as a side note- had Microsoft come out with an OS that was just evolutionary, they would have been criticized to no end). While Apple’s share of the market is still rather small, they’ve got room to grow. With the momentum that they currently have going with the iPhone and the new line-up of iPods, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least it we see their share of the market increase with the launch of Leopard.

Source: Gizmodo

Now, just for fun – Roughly Drafted Magazine has put together a list of what you expected vs what you got – Windows Vista vs Mac OS X Leopard. Here’s a quick sampling:

What you expected:

What you got:

Source: Thanks for the tip Andrew!

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

Industry conferences that include competitions among scores of startups generally don’t look too kindly upon companies producing hardware. Nonetheless, there were quite a few physical products shown off this week at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. These were either the main offering of companies or complements to their service offering, and judging by their demo platform of choice, the iPhone appears to be a leading agent of disruption — the companies introducing hardware used Apple’s handset to do everything from avoiding stress to measuring its biological impact. Switched On will introduce four such products after the break.

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Switched On: Devices designed to disrupt originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 May 2011 21:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve enjoyed NVIDIA’s fine tradition of merely bumping along its GPUs time and again and affixing a new badge, you’ll like the GeForce GTX 560M — it’s much like last year’s GTX 460M, but with more bang for the buck than ever. ASUS, MSI, Alienware, Toshiba and Clevo have all committed to new notebooks bearing the graphics processor in light of the potent performance NVIDIA claims it will bring: Namely, those same 192 CUDA cores (now clocked at 1550MHz) and up to 3GB of GDDR5 memory (now clocked at 1250MHz, with a 192-bit bus) should enable the latest games to run at playable framerates on a 1080p screen with maximum detail — save antialiasing. Of course, that assumes you’ve also got a recent quad-core Sandy Bridge processor and gobs upon gobs of RAM, but NVIDIA also says that with the built-in Optimus switchable graphics, those same potent laptops should be able to manage five hours of battery life while idling.

If you’re looking for some inexpensive discrete graphics, however, NVIDIA’s also got a refresh there, as the new GeForce GT 520MX bumps up all the clock speeds of the GT 520M. When can you expect a mobile GPU to knock the GTX 485M off its silicon throne, though? Glad you asked: a chart shows a “Next-gen GTX” coming late this year. Meanwhile, see what NVIDIA says the GTX 560M’s capable of in the gallery below and a video after the break.

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This article was written on July 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft just wrapped up their annual meeting with financial analysts today where they disclosed that since the January launch of Vista, 60 million copies have been sold. To break it down, from January 30th to February 28th, 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold. By mid-May, they had gotten to the 40 million mark, and between May and the end of June, another 20 million copies were sold.

Also at the meeting, Steve Ballmer said that by mid-2008, “There will be more PCs running Windows than automobiles at that point” as one billion people will be using Windows. At first, that thought was hard to fathom, but after thinking about it further, it makes sense. I’m sure many of you have multiple computers in your home. Do any of you have more computers than cars? We sure do – one car and four computers. And then there are all of the schools across the World with computer labs running Windows, which are also taken into account.

Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet also points out that Microsoft has doubled profit and nearly doubled revenue within the last five years, and they’ve returned more than $100 billion to their shareholders. These she says, are their bragging points. She also pointed out how Steve Ballmer “emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft now sees itself as an advertising company.” So apparently they’re going to be putting more focus and effort into advertising to compete with Google and Yahoo?

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