I cannot believe it! I know that it is just a rumor but still an interesting rumor. Well, the economic data for the third quarter of US economy is out and American economy saw some growth. So, there is positive expectations about Holiday Shopping. There is a rumor that there is a deal for Acer Aspire One for just $149.99. The rumor could be found in Gizmodo: Acer Aspire One 10.1" Netbook w/ 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, Windows XP - $149.99 *
Well, you know that there are models of Acer Aspire One. It is not clear yet that which model is the thing that we are writing about. Still, if it comes true then there is no doubt in my mind that it will be the best Black Friday deal of 2009. It is amazing and unbelievable to me. I will only believe when I see it myself.
What about you? Don’t you think that it will be the best deal this time? What about other netbooks? Do you know anything about them for Black Friday deals?
Novomber is a good season for shopping you can always find great devices with excellent discount. Fortunately stores start their offers from beggnign of month to welcome Black Friday from now.
Neweggis now selling a Logitech NX80 Black 5 Buttons Tilt Wheel Cordless Laser 1000 dpi Mouse for laptops with good price of $30 after $10 discount.
It is a USB mouse and comes with following features:
-Hyper-fast scrolling to fly though long documents and Web pa with one spin
-Click-to-click scrolling: to move precisely through lists, slides, or photos.
-Side-to-Side Scrolling Plus Zoom: after installation of Logitech SetPoint software available on the CD, it will be Perfect to work with spreadsheets and presentations. It is equipped with zoom in and out and scrolling horizontally and vertically.
-Scroll toggle: for instantly toggle between hyper-fast scrolling and click-to-click scrolling.
-Laser precision (Laser sensor does not work on mirrors or clear glass) : provides the experience of smoother cursor control with the 1000 dpi laser engine.
-Logitech's advanced 2.4 GHz cordless technology: Dramatically reduces interference with 300 times faster data rate. (Compared to conventional 27 MHz wireless technologies) Virtually no delays or dropouts.
-Soft rubber grip: Enables exceptional comfort – even after long hours of use.
Dell has been giving a good discount on its popular White Wii gaming console for welcoming black Friday from now.
Since yesterday Dell has been offering Wii Gaming Console with the price tag of $179.99 after $20 discount. I don’t know for how many days this offer will continue, but I think it is a good offer if you need a fashionable white console which can connect to internet via IEEE 802.11 or a Wii LAN Adapter.
It can also connect to Nintendo DS wirelessly.
Here are the highlight features:
-Plays single or double-layered optical discs for the Wii console, as well as Nintendo GameCube™ discs in a single self-loading media bay
-Backward-compatible to all Nintendo GameCube™ games
Includes four ports for controllers and two slots for memory cards
-WiiConnect24 service delivers game updates and surprises, even when the Wii is powered down
If you live in US, Surely you know about the Friday sales after thanksgiving which is called Black Friday. Thisday is very important for americans to buy their chiristmas gifts or their necessary goods with cheaper price. So every Store starts to post its lists of special offers for Black Friday.
Sears is the store where you can find everything you need to make your house truly stylish and fashionable home such as Craftsman tools and parts, lawn and garden, apparel and home improvement services etc.
You also can shop there for electronics, jewelry, tools, and home appliances.
This year, Sears offers many things in its list, but there is no laptop. However, if you need to buy a TV or cellphone, Digital camera or some hardware you can check out Sear’s list here. Doorbuster (a retailer puts a popular item up for sale on Friday but at a heavy discount) items are marked with “*”.
“Sears opens at 4:00amon Black Friday”.
Here I am just mentioning the devices which are related to my blog:
On October 28, 2009, Google entered the music industry with the launch of its OneBox music service. Available only in the U.S., the music service is a collaboration between Google, Lala and iLike, two other music websites. The OneBox music service allows people to search and listen to music for free and rent or buy them through several online music stores. The move has been appreciated by the U.S music industry that has been incurring huge losses due to file sharing services like BitTorrent. BBC reports:
Mark Mulligan, an analyst at research firm Forrester, said the service may offer a compelling alternative to illegal file-sharing.
"Apple can do little about iPod owners downloading from BitTorrent," he said in a blog post. "But Google on the other hand can."
BitTorrent software is widely used to trade music and movies.
"Just imagine if when a consumer searches for a song, alongside all of those Torrent results is a heavily integrated Google music offering."
While searching for music in the OneBox music service, user would be able to listen to the songs of their choice through a pop-up widget powere by iLike or Lala. There will also be a MySpace box that would allow people to buy MP3s, music videos.
However, Google already clarified that the company has no intention get into a direct competition with Apple’s iTune or Amazon’s music store. Currently, Apple is dominating the global online music market with 70% of the total music sales.
Apple’s iPhone is very popular in USA and that is perhaps why the application developers are after it. Can you imagine that Apple has so far approved more than 100,000 iPhone apps. Many of them are free and many of them have to purchased. Well, the price of most of them is not expensive that is why most consumers perhaps do not mind to pay some money. If you want to get best information on iPhone apps then I would like you to visit this website: http://www.appshopper.com/
It has all kind of information about all the all applications for iPhone. Now, iPhone is the market leader and its nearest rival Google's Android has just nearly 10% apps compared to iPhone. Mircosoft's Windows Mobile Marketplace even does not have 250 apps. It shows that Microsoft is not doing good enough in this market. Even the largest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is not doing well. Nokia gave a lot of publicity for its Ovi store in different parts of the world but the reality is that they even cannot boast of 1,000 apps until now.
Well, I think that the other companies could not make the matter of making apps as a fashionable thing. They perhaps wanted to focus on in house development more than encouraging the ordinary developed. They should learn from Apple at least in this matter.
We all know that when Apple launched its iPhone in June 2007, it made an exclusive deal with the mobile phone career AT&T. As a result, only AT&T users could buy iPhone and in the US market, another major player Verizon was left out. Anyway, at that time, many people were surprised and Verizon officials were confused. Now, there is some speculation that Apple may finish the exclusive deal with AT&T and allow Verizon to sell iPhones. If really Steve Jobs goes for it then it will have some interesting implications in the mobile phone market of USA for all the 3 companies.
Now, Apple gets a good amount of money from AT&T for each iPhone sold because of this exclusive deal. Naturally, the figure will decrease a lot but Apple officials are hoping that the decrease in price per user will be handsomely compensated with the increase of total number of users when iPhones will be sold by the two operators. This will increase iPhone’s market share as well as the total income of Apple.
Well, I have to say that there is no official confirmation from any of the 3 companies about the whole matter. It is still some media speculation but most probably it will take place in 2010.
Google have been promoting the concept of cloud computing heavily and now it seems that it is going to pay off. In fact, the company has recently got a great news when it was seen that The Los Angeles City Council members all agreed to go for Google Apps in place of Novell GroupWise e-mail for the city workers. It is expected that this move will help the City Council to cut back several million dollars in the coming years. Certainly this move did not please Novell officials and they stated that the way the figures were said were not right.
It seems that LA Government officials are contemplating on the idea of Government Cloud concept from Google and they are hoping that this way they can decrease their expense on Microsoft products.
Well, it seems that Google is making some enemies with this deal here. Both Novell and Microsoft will perhaps be annoyed with this matter. Anyway, I am a big fan of Google and I just hope that it does not turn into the new Microsoft.
HCL Technologies, the fifth largest software services firm in India, posted the financial results of the first quarter of its FY 2010. The company observed a 3.03% drop in its consolidated net profit at Rs. 3.2 billion against 3.5 billion at the same period last year. The company was badly hit by hedging losses. It posted a net profit of Rs.470.5 crore against Rs. 418.9 crore which is a 12.3% growth. Reuters reports:
Chief Executive Vineet Nayyar said talks of a recovery in the Indian IT space was premature until technology budgets in the United States rose and that a phase of customers replacing existing vendors with new ones was over.
"That reason for deals coming in to the market space has gone," Nayyar said. "The next set of such an upswing in deals will be when discretionary spends come back (and) it is still 2-3 quarters away."
In the quarter ending in September, the company bagged five contracts. It also observed a 22.7% rise in its operating cost. Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies said that employee salary would rise by 10% from October which would also cause a drop in its gross margin. The company is now looking for acquisition for its future expansion.
On October 19, 2009, Spring Design announced its new Alex e-book reader that runs on Google Android OS. Two days after Alex’s announcemet, Barnes & Noble launched its first Nook e-book reader which also runs on Google Android 1.5. Like the Nook e-book reader, Alex comes with dual screen and featuring “Duet Navigator,” a dual screen interaction technology. The device allows its user to transfer web content to the upper screen to save power. So, if you are reading a big article on some newspaper or website you will not have to worry about power. Spring Design is currently working with content partners, it will release the device by the end of this year.Here is a video clip of the device:
Display: Alex has two screens- one big six inch E-inkE-Ink EPD display and a 3.5inch LCD touchscreen with interactive controls for playing media files and internet browsing. Through the lower screen users can also create enhanced contents for their e-books. They can add multimedia content to their e-books using features like “Web grabs” and “Link Notes,” developed by Spring Design. Technology for the Soul reports:
Spring Design pioneered its patented dual-screen device with ‘touch and extend’ capability in 2007, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the past two years to share its vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device. Alex brings together the efficiency of an EPD display with the responsiveness and richness of navigational convenience of the LCD screen. Its removable SD card gives users extensive storage, allowing them to expand their text with multimedia “add on” editions.
Memory extension: Via SD card slot.
Wireless connection: Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM. Its touch capability makes it a great device for Internet browsing.
On October 18, 2009, Plastic Logic released pictures of its QUE ProReader. Entirely made from plastic, the QUE ProReader was first unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2009. It will mainly compete with the Amazon Kindle DX. According earlier news reports, the QUE ProReader was supposed to be the first official e-book reader of Barnes & Noble but that did not happen. Earlier in 2009, Barnes and Noble and Plastic Logic entered into a partnership agreement under which, Barnes and Noble will support the QUE store (QUEreader.com.). On October 27, 2009, the two companies announced that the QUE ProReader would also become available in all the Barnes & Noble retail book stores around the U.S. and online at Barnes & Noble.com. The QUE ProReader will be launched at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Price of the device has not been announced yet.
Here are some of the specs of the device I collected from news reports:
Length: 11 inches
Width: 8.5 inches
Breadth: one third of an inch
Weight: Less than many periodicals
Display: The shatterproof plastic E Ink Vizplex technology display features Plastic Logic’s pioneering plastic electronics technology. The display also supports touchscreen technology for navigation and other functions.
Format: Aside from the 1 million titles available through the QUE store. The QUE ProReader will support a wide range of formats including Adobe PDF. Users would be able to read newspapers, various business journals and periodicals. It will also support MSWord, MS Excel and PowerPoint files.Aside from Barnes & Noble, Plastic Logic has content partnerships with USA Today, the Financial Times, Zinio, LibreDigital, and Ingram Digital.
Wireless communication: WiFi and cellular access to AT&T’s 3G data/phone network.
If you are a website owner then perhaps the first thing that you have to give a lot of thought is about hosting. When you search about it in Google then you can find many attractive advertisements that within just 10$ per month you get everything you ever dream about. The hosting companies will say that you can get 1 Terabyte bandwidth for just 10$ monthly package. However, when you will see that only 1000 people visit your website at the same time then this dream of terabyte bandwidth vanishes into thin air. I have suffered a lot from this matter in 2009 as I did not have good knowledge about hosting related issues.
Shared Hosting Useless
Shared hosting is a very bad thing if you have a popular website. Even, virtual dedicated server is not good because when you have a lot of visitors coming at the same time then they cannot take the load easily. In fact, if you have shared hosting and one of your entries make the first page of Digg or Fark then the rest can be easily history. Your blog or website may become unavailable for few hours to a few days. So, if you want to earn money through your blog or website then sooner or later you have to go for a dedicated server and it is not cheap. In fact, most dedicated servers would start from $100 per month and depending on the popularity of your website, you can have to spend much more than that each month.
Google is Giving Hosting Free but……..
Google is offering almost all the abilities of a dedicated server at free of cost through its custom domain support for Blogger platform. It is cool and I use it. For example, a few days ago, I had 39,000 page views in a blog in a single day and nothing happened to my domain or hosting. Google took care of everything and it was very smooth. The only catch is that I have to use Blogger platform for my blog. I am a big fan of Blogger but these days, I have started to like WordPress. However, Google will not allow me to install WordPress in its hosting and that is understandable.
WordPress is no good and Useless
Wordpress.com has free offer but you cannot put your advertisement in it. So, you cannot earn money with your WordPress.com blog. If I want to go for a self hosted WordPress blog then I have to go for dedicated server which is quite expensive for most bloggers and website owners.
The market Opportunity
I am sure that many website owners and bloggers like are dying for something that will be affordable but will have all the features of a dedicated server. Go Daddy is promoting Grid Hosting and I have tested it and I don’t think that it is the answer to my prayer. Grid Hosting is some better than shared hosting but still nothing compared to a dedicated server. Sadly, I don’t see any hosting company becoming interested to fill the vacuum. Most probably, they don’t wan to decrease their profit.
Google is the Last Hope
Since no company is interested to provide this kind of facility at an affordable price and Google is giving us free of cost, I think that it is Google who can make the most out of this unanswered market. Google can just give us some more flexibility and can do one of the following things:
1. It can buy WordPress or Movable Type and gives us the free hosting facility to these blogging programs.
2. It can make Blogger vastly improved and then we will have nothing to complain. I really wish that it gave the option of commenting in same page like WordPress or Movable Type.
3. Google may charge some money from the users to use WordPress or Movable Type in their hosting for custom domains.
Other big players in Internet like Microsoft and Yahoo can come forward too. I am sure that in near future, it will be a very big market. Google is already there and it will surely have huge advantage over others.
On October 22, 2009, Microsoft finally launched Windows 7 but unlike the Windows Vista launch event in 2007 at the Times Square adorned by celebrities and the appearance of Bill Gates at the large Nokia Theatre in Times Square, the short one hour launch party at the Skylight Studios near the Holland Tunnel was not so glamorous but very much smooth. The only complain about the place was inadequate seating capacity and small tables that could not hold a notebook.
One of the major attractions of the show was the appearance of the five year old girl, named Kylie, who appeared in the Microsoft TV commercial. She introduced, Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft. PC World reports:
"I'm a PC," said Kylie to a roomful of wide smiles, "and here's Steve Ballmer!" Ballmer had barely gotten out a few kind words about the fun he had meeting Kylie earlier in the day when Kylie suddenly chimed in with an almost indignant "You were late!"
"We're trying to make the everyday usage of the PC better," Ballmer said once the laughter died down. "Number one: It works the way you want it to work.... The things that you need to do all the time need to be simpler."
Later, Ballmer even came to the audience and talked with various people. He was later shown some Windows 7 based products which included Dells, super-thin Dell Adamo XPS notebook.
Windows 7 marketing group Vice President, Brad Brooks demonstrated some major features of Windows 7 such as networking wizards, multi-touch feature support, remote streaming of media and new Windows Live Movie Maker.
On that same day, Microsoft launched its online retail store selling products renowned brands like Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, Sony, Gateway, Fujitsu, Alienware, Toshiba, Samsung, and Asus.
The Wall Street Journal gave a minute-by-minute description of the event. They also posted a video clip:
In Japan, the Windows 7 launch event saw masked warriors and huge Windows 7 bills in major electronic retail stores. Sales people wearing Windows 7 headbands and Windows 7 groupies. Microsoft and Burger King introduced “Windows 7 Whopper,” a burger with seven pieces of meat weighing 770 grams. The whopper will continue till October 28, 2009. Here is a video clip of a Japanese man consuming Windows 7 Whopper.
It was everything that the Windows Vista launch wasn't: Low-key and yet confident. And in many ways, the Windows 7 launch thus matched the tenor of the product itself, a product that, in the words of one Microsoft PR person, "doesn't need a big splash because it sells itself."
Indeed it does. With consumers around the world lining up in front of retail stores last Thursday to be among the first to purchase boxed copies of the product, Windows 7 came racing out of the gates. There was a palpable, even enthusiastic reaction to the event everywhere, and while reviews are universally positive--even from the infamous Apple-loving toadies in mainstream media--the most important and positive reactions this time came from the people who tested Windows 7 over the previous several months.
On October 23, 2009, Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings. The company recorded a profit of $3.57 billion andstock prices went up in the market. The future is really bright for Microsoft.
Ok, so much for the event. Now, for the product itself. How Windows 7 is doing. It is doing great just expected, everybody is satisfied with it. It is better than Windows Vista. Most of the people are happy with its performance. Some are not so impressed.
Windows 7 buying and special offers:
Here is another good news for Windows 7 buyers. Microsoft is making a special offer to buy laptops, and notebooks pre-loaded with Windows 7. Here are the prices of various Windows 7 editions:
Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade version - $219
Windows 7 Ultimate full version: $319
Windows 7 Professional upgrade version- $199
Windows 7 Professional full version- $299
Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade version- $119
Windows 7 Home Premium full version- $199
There is also a Windows 7 family pack offer that allows you to upgrade three PCs at your home for $149.
There is also a special offer for students in the U.S. They would be able to buy the Windows Home Premium Upgrade Edition for $29.99 through a special offer valid till January 3, 2010.
If you just want to buy Windows 7, you can visit the following link:
As you all know, major electronic brands were waiting for the launch of Windows 7 to launch a host devices loaded with Microsoft’s latest operating system. You already heard about Nokia Booklet 3G, the first netbook by Nokia which will be available for $300 in Best Buy. There are also other manufacturers lining up their products. Engadget, published a full list. Some of the products are: Sony VAIO L priced at $1300; HP TouchSmart 300 and 600 priced at $899 and $1,049, respectively; and HP MS200 priced at $599.
Reviews:
No, I am not going to write a review here but present you what others said about Windows 7. Regarding its user interface Engadget says:
Microsoft got a lot right with its new UI tweaks, but it certainly could've taken things a few logical steps further. For instance, it's odd that there's no built-in support of multifinger trackpad gestures -- why is this something that third party vendors have to figure out all by themselves? We understand that the hardware isn't universal, but we'd like to see Microsoft driving the adoption of such functionality by building clear, reliable support for it into the OS. Two finger scroll in particular: it's the best thing to happen to trackpads since tap-to-click, and we think everybody should've figured that out by now.
Here is what PC World review says about Windows 7 Tray:
Windows 7's Taskbar and window management tweaks are nice. But its changes to the System Tray--aka the Notification Area--have a huge positive effect. In the past, no feature of Windows packed more frustration per square inch than the System Tray. It quickly grew dense with applets that users did not want in the first place, and many of the uninvited guests employed word balloons and other intrusive methods to alert users to uninteresting facts at inopportune moments. At their worst, System Tray applets behaved like belligerent squatters, and Windows did little to put users back in charge.
PC Advisor gives an extensive review of Windows 7. Regarding its new file management system it says:
Compared to the Taskbar and the System Tray, Explorer hasn't changed much in Windows 7. However, its left pane does sport two new ways to get at your files: Libraries and HomeGroups.
Libraries could just as appropriately have been called File Cabinets, since they let you collect related folders in one place. By default, you get Libraries labeled Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos, each of which initially directs you to the OS's standard folders for storing the named items - such as My Pictures and Public Pictures.
Here is what Ars Technica says about Windows 7 Windows explorer:
Unfortunately, Windows 7's Explorer also retains bad things, like the monumentally stupid Search window. Searching in Windows 7, as with Vista, is fast and easy. It's just that anything other than keyword search is a nightmare, because there's no kind of search builder. The search interface is just a text box to type in. For keyword search, that's fine—just type in the keywords. But if you want to do something more structured, then you need to use magic or guesswork or something. There are ways of searching metadata, but you have to know the trick.
Gizmodo review said that the networking features of Windows 7 require more work. It says:
What's Not So Good
There are a few spots Microsoft rubbed polish on that still don't quite shine. Networking is much, much better than Vista—the wireless networking interface isn't completely stupid anymore—but the Network and Sharing Center still doesn't quite nail it in terms of making networking or sharing easy for people who don't really know what they're doing. I wouldn't turn my mom loose inside of it, anyway. The HomeGroup concept for making it easy to share files sounds good in theory, but in practice, it's no slam dunk. I imagine regular people asking, "What's up with crazy complicated password I have to write down? Can I share files with PCs not in my HomeGroup? What's all this other stuff in my Network that's not in my HomeGroup?"
In the CNET review, Windows 7 gets an editors’ rating of 4.5 which means it is outstanding and an average user rating of 4.5. Regarding Windows Media Player and Device Stage it says:
When you open Windows Media Player, there's a new Stream option on the toolbar. Click it, and you're presented with two choices. Both require you to associate your computer with your free Windows Live ID. When you've associated a second Windows 7's WMP with that same ID, you can remotely access the media on the host computer. Windows Media Player's mini mode looks much slicker, emphasizing the album art--sometimes at the expense of clearly seeing the controls, but it's a definite improvement.
It also posted two video clips. Here is the first video clip:
Here is the second video clip:
Here is what Digital Trends has to say about running Windows 7 on old machines:
Windows Vista notoriously strangled older PCs, but with the reputation for performance Windows 7 had started to garner, we couldn’t help but test it on the same aging, nearly-broken laptop we turned into a home media server. With a Pentium 4 processor and paltry 512MB of RAM, it wasn’t even technically over the minimum requirements, but we went ahead and pushed anyway. After installing new firmware for the DVD drive to get it to load, it miraculously worked. Unfortunately, it’s no substitute for Windows XP. Where XP could go from power button to desktop in 30 seconds on this machine, Windows 7 hit a much longer one minute and 23 seconds.
Well, if you are a Vista user and also bought the Service Packs, you can do an in-place upgrade. Windows XP users would have to go for a clean install Now, if you are already a licensed user of Windows XP, Vista or 2000 you can get a Windows 7 upgrade version at a discounted price. If you bought a new PC then you need to have the license. The windows retail upgrade version has two bootable DVDS-one 32-bit and one 64-bit. Users will also get a single product key, to install either version. If you buy the Family Pack, you get two DVDs, and a single product key, which can be used to activate three PCs in your household.
Many companies who are still using Windows XP is waiting for Windows 7 with Service Pack which will be released in October 2010. Definitely, the Windows 7 will have lots of bugs and would create lots of problems while installing on a large number of PCS. Normally, it would take something between twelve to eighteen months for a company to fully adopt a new operating system. Gartner Vice President, Steven Kleynhans suggested that companies should not wait for the arrival of the Windows 7 SP1 and immediately start necessary procedures to adopt Windows 7 into their systems. Previously, the service packs were the only way to get patches and bug fixes from Microsoft but now, Microsoft regularly provides fixes through its automatic Windows updates.
The reason is simple - in April 2009 ended a period of free support for this most popular of Microsoft. Over the next five years for free updates will be available only to airborne hazardous gap. Other support will be paid for. By contrast, the majority of Vista by businesses has been omitted.
April 2014, when Microsoft finally plans to discontinue development of Vista, it seems quite distant date, but Steve Kleynhans notes that at the end of 2011 will be a noticeable lack of support for XP, the software vendors, so this time we install Windows 7 on company computers . However, such an operation must be preceded by testing a new system in the corporate environment, because Gartner encouraged to take the test today of all administrators who have not yet done. After 2012 will be a period, which Gartner defines as "XP danger zone."
There are some free downloads, business organizations can use if they are planning to move to Windows 7 from Windows XP.
Windows 7 product guide: A brochure produced by Microsoft marketing department.
Windows 7 upgrade advisor: Helps you to identify problems you are going to face with your hardware or software while running windows 7.
Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) detection tool: A tool required to run XP mode in Windows 7 installed machines.
According to the Computer World while upgrading to Windows 7 some users had to undergo “endless reboots.” It says:
Users began posting messages about the endless reboots Friday, saying that the Windows 7 installation would hang two-thirds of the way through the upgrade. They reported a message on their machines that claimed the upgrade had been unsuccessful and that Vista would be restored. Instead, their PCs again booted to the Windows 7 setup process, failed, then restarted the cycle.
"My upgrade failed in [the] last step," said a user identified as "Manjigani" in a thread titled "Windows 7 -- Install Message -- Upgrade Unsuccessful" on the Windows 7 support forum. "And now it is in continuous loop. I let it run overnight hoping that it will fix itself, but no luck. I am stuck in limbo."
To upgrade to Windows 7, you'll need a computer that has a processor that's 1 gigahertz or faster; has 1 gigabyte to 2 gigabytes of RAM (or memory) available; has at least 16 gigabytes of free hard disk space; and a graphics device with DirectX 9 and a driver model of 1.0 or higher.
If you are facing some problems while upgrading to Windows 7 you should check out this PC World article which gives you some idea.
Amazon is already feeling the heat of competition. After the release of Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader, Amazon dropped the price of its Kindle e-book reader. It also decided to stop the production of the U.S only version of Kindle e-book reader. The declaration came on October 22, 2009. Information Week reports:
From three e-reader models, Amazon has reduced the number to two: one with a wireless connection that can roam internationally and the larger Kindle DX. Both models ship with a wireless connection for accessing Amazon's e-book store at no charge.
Gone is the basic U.S.-only version of the Kindle. In dropping the model, Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle with international roaming, introduced this month, from $279 to $259, which is the same price B&N is asking for the Nook. B&N is taking pre-orders for the device, which is scheduled to start shipping at the end of November.
The Nook e-book reader, which was launched on October 21, 2009, has better features than Amazon Kindle. The device runs on Google Android 1.5 and has access to large quantity of e-book titles as it supports the EPUB format. Users can also buy samples of latest e-books and can lend e-books to others up to fourteen days.
Specs of the Dell Adamo XPS, the thinnest laptop in the world has been leaked over the Internet. So, how is it? There is a serious trade-off between size and capability. The hit sensitive strip, which opens up the lid after you rub your finger on it, works fine as long as there is power. If you cut-off the power, it will not work. In terms of Windows 7 Experience Index, “the notebook with eating disorder” scores a poor 3.3. After all these, Are you ready to pay $2000 just to get a thin notebook.?
Specifications:
Breadth: 9.99mm
Weight: 1.5 lbs.
Processor: Dual-core Intel ULV processors (1.4GHz and 1.9GHz)
Display: 13.4 inch WXGA LED backlit display.
GPU: X4500HD graphics processing unit.
Memory: 4GB DDR3 RAM
HDD: 128 GB which can be upgraded to 180GB.
OS: Windows 7.
Battery: There are two batteries:20 Wh that will run for 2.5 hours and 40 Wh, which will deliver 4 hours of backup.
