"MOTOROLA XOOM brings PC-like power to a tablet, providing consumers with an easy-to-use, lightning fast experience designed with fun and productivity in mind, and we're thrilled to bring it to Canadians, " said Jeff Miller, corporate vice president, Motorola Mobility.
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Announced yesterday, Apple's new machine is the Titanium Powerbook G4 with a 667-megahertz Power PC processor.
There needs to be a balance between couch-convenience and PC power.
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Last April Jobs created a stink with an open letter that called Flash "a PC-era" product that sucked power from mobile devices.
So computer architects and researchers are working on new ways to bring PC heat and power consumption down--and improve performance in the process.
And not only controls Power-Grid the PC - it works in reverse as well.
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The versatile VAIO Duo 11 PC transforms almost instantly between a power-packed Ultrabook and a multi-media tablet with scratch-resistant glass.
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As consumers and enterprise buyers spend more of their dollars on portable post-PC devices, the balance of power is going to change.
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The PC power supply is probably the most failure-prone item in a personal computer.
But tying all of these functions together into one unit with the computing power of your desktop PC is still cutting-edge stuff.
"Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives, " Gates says earnestly.
In stand-by mode modern PC's don't consume much power anyway.
Currently there are more than a dozen designs in development based on this new low-power offering and they are expected to enable a full PC experience in innovative mobile form factors including tablets and Ultrabook convertibles.
It seems to have been inspired by the LID (Low-Power Interactive Display) on the promising but still unshipped miniature Vulcan FlipStart PC.
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The ROCCAT Power-Grid turns a smartphone into a fully customizable remote control for a PC.
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While Microsoft designed Windows Phone 8 to be compatible with standard Windows 8 development, the power of the average smartphone cannot compare to that of a high-end PC.
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Can you merge a fully loaded Windows XP PC with a Windows Mobile-powered smartphone without coming up with something so bulky, cumbersome and power-hungry that it doesn't work well as either?
Apart from controlling mountings costs, the restructuring plan aims to diversify AMD beyond the PC market and target other adjacent markets, including dense serving, new embedded markets and lower-power form factors, where its IP provides differentiation and a better opportunity for it to grow its share.
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Now a slew of new firms are racing to enlist thousands of individual PC owners to join their "grids, " aiming to rent out this parallel power to computation-hungry clients for a fee.
Now many, many new network installations are using Power-Over-Ethernet so you can run a phone, you can run a PC, a security camera all over these blue wires.
Unfortunately, there's still no word on when those next-generation low-power chipsets will arrive, although there's plenty of time till the next big PC show, Computex, rolls into Taipei.
The company has recently significantly expanded its product offering to include a wide variety of consumer-focused digital entertainment products, PC and netbook accessory items, and the ReZap line of battery and portable power solutions.
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The game already uses the server-side architecture for a wide range of game processes, and moving all that processing power to the PC would be no simple hotfix.
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