As ASUS' dual-OS prototype all-in-one is the only (sort of) tablet we've seen with roughly that many inches, we assume the company is getting paperwork done before a proper launch at CES 2013.
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Its parts servers, storage disks, memory are held together and managed by a powerful switch running Nx-OS, one of Cisco's operating systems.
We initially installed the router using an Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) PowerMac G4 running Mac OS X, but we also connected a Windows-based notebook and another Mac, this one a Powerbook also running OS X, to the router via Ethernet cables.
In fact, Firefox OS is one of a handful of other web-based mobile platforms launching this year, including Tizen from Samsung and Intel, Sailfish from Jolla and Ubuntu from Canonical (in 2014).
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More seriously, Google Now can have an unwieldy feel to it, like it's the start of a new OS growing inside the belly of the old one -- something that adds functionality but probably also represents the peculiar ability of Android to scare some people off with its complexity.
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Going one better, Good OS launched a stripped-down version of gOS earlier this year that runs just a web browser (Firefox) for accessing applications on the web.
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"It's likely that since PalmSource was just taken out, one place the Palm OS would go would be low-end phones and PDAs, " says Kalla.
Of the notable changes, many are cosmetic -- if there are major underlying differences between this OS and the one on the Droid, we can't see what they are.
When you plug in the handset, the display turns into an all-in-one PC, with Ice Cream Sandwich as your desktop OS. Since the 1920 x 1200 screen isn't touch-enabled, you'll have to get used to interacting with Android using only a mouse and keyboard.
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This is one feature that may persuade others to give BB10 -- an OS without many competitive advantages over its rivals -- a shot.
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Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.
For all of Mountain Lion's iOS-derived goodness, one highlight plenty of folks would love to see in OS X is still missing in action: Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant.
If ASUS is keeping two OS's as per the AiO prototype, that processor caters for only one Microsoft product -- Windows RT.
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Since Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) OS handheld organizers took off, personal digital assistants have become indispensable geek-gear, and now one can do almost anything on the things: keep schedules, play video games, or trade soup recipes.
Specifically, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Microsoft reps in Taipei found it difficult to navigate their own OS due to hardware issues with their demo devices -- namely, new all-in-one PCs from Acer and ASUS. There were said to be issues with opening and closing apps, possibly due to the implementation of touch on such large screen sizes of 23-inches and over.
Mr Forstall joined Apple in 1997 when the technology giant purchased Steve Jobs' start-up Next, and he is credited as one of the original architects of Mac OS X.
But, with hardware which will no longer be able to run the current (and thus Microsoft-priority) OS before the end of the year, Q3 is expected to be a difficult one.
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Moving on, the external touchpad is a Magic TrackPad competitor if ever we saw one, with support for all the multi-finger gestures you're used to making in OS X.
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On the inside, you've got a dual-core 1GHz TI OMAP 4428 CPU and 8GB 1GB of RAM to keep performance hopping, which is plenty -- this is, after all, a mobile OS we're talking about, even if it does live inside what appears to be an all-in-one PC.
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