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QNX, the OS behind the Blackberry re-launch has interesting projects in cars and healthcare but cars are a small market and healthcare is a difficult one to crack.
FORBES: With Facebook, Apple and RIM Down, Why Is Amazon Up?
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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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Except maybe a happy beginning, which is precisely what you're looking at above -- Microsoft's new OS captured in all its glory within minutes of completing the installation.
ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: a defiantly successful installation
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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.
ENGADGET: Logitech intros two Mac accessories: the Easy-Switch Keyboard and an external trackpad
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We've been waiting on pins and needles for Google to announce some official Android tablet plans for so long we'd almost forgotten about Mountain View's other operating system -- but from what we're hearing, Chrome OS is about to jump to center stage with a tablet debut on Verizon just before the holidays.
ENGADGET: Chrome OS tablet coming from Google and Verizon on Black Friday? (update: probably not)
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It doesn't matter if you're running some flavor of Windows, UNIX, Mac OS X or Linux -- this isn't about OS wars.
ENGADGET: Entelligence: Stains on the sleeve of my operating system
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Users who choose to update their hard drive will need to have the original OS installation discs that was shipped with their system in order to re-install their operating system, and applications, along with any backed up data, will need to be reinstalled.
FORBES: Your iMacs May Be Eligible For A Replacement 1TB Hard Drive
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If you're on a Mac and using OS X, Spotlight comes with your operating system and is actually quite useful -- I'd even go as far as to say it's awesome.
CNN: How do I retrieve a lost file?