2010年3月27日星期六

Top ten notebook design concept

1, Canova dual-screen laptop design two screens are ultra-sensitive touch screen, easy to use, in particular, it allows users to browse the same as reading a newspaper.

2, Sony Vaio Zoom notebook concept of Sony's players have a holographic glass screen, keyboard adopted graphic touch design. In particular when shutdown, the screen returned to a transparent state.


3, Samsung DesCom is basically the concept of a combo-type notebooks, and computer tables to achieve "seamless" integration. But I wonder if there is no desk or table, Ban Zhao did not want to go, then. . . . . . . .

4, MacTab Apple's high-end products, using incredibly thin wireless keyboard. In fact, the iMac is now one machine we will be able to see quite a place of metal thin keyboard, but this more cattle, it can be closely linked to the screen through the magnets and the groove, usually carrying the screen when the shield was still.

5, LG laptop concept design eco ecological concepts LG laptop using fuel cells and organic light-emitting diode display technology, has received Red Dot Red Dot Award for Best Concept Design Award nominations notebook. But I always felt that the design in general, not particularly pretty, but added the current LG phone is amazing creativity!

6, Compenion out of hand at their own expense Felix Schmidberger has two sliding organic light-emitting diode display, when necessary, which can act as a screen keyboard. This design is very charm of the!



7, Samsung Amoled unique design, set of ultra-thin, smooth, and the keyboard on a touch. Amoled said the lack of tactile feedback keyboard.

But I think it looks more general, there is no sense of the kind of high-end technology, seemingly has no texture. . . Perhaps because I am not a cold bar Samsung Computer.

8, "Traveler" This is a concept designed specifically for travelers notebook. Image to say that it is an own photos and data storage capabilities of the GPS navigation system, in addition, it has built-in geotagging features, be able to add a photo shoot in the information. To be honest, outside the very Turkish, which is very Western style. . . .

9, Canvas provides designers with high-quality, while helping the artist to improve "productivity." The most significant feature of this notebook is the "thin", including the touch screen, including all components of all is taking the ultra-thin line. This design is what I love, with an estimated configuration is also very fierce, and the family kind of machine to be placed Taiwan definitely feel so cool. . . . .


10, Apple Macbook 0801 by Issam Sana Da (Isamu Sanada) design, more like a black version of the current Macbook Air.

2010年3月23日星期二

How to use the notebook as far as possible to extension the working time

Reduce the screen brightness is not only power but also to extend the life of LCD screen. Large LCD screen notebook power consumption, but also the useful life of LCD screens have a direct relationship with the brightness of the LCD screen lamp lit side of the hair alone, fluorescent tubes and display content in accordance with instructions from the CPU dynamically lit, providing lamp voltage is Dynamic inverter driven by high-pressure formed, and a suitable not only reduce the brightness of LCD screen can effectively extend the battery time, but also can improve the life of LCD screens.

The use of computer power-saving features. Now the notebook processors and graphics chips have lower operating frequency and voltage to extend the use of time functions, open the appropriate option to be extended battery life.

Hard disk is one of the more power-hungry components, so long as the state will be in a read-write power consumption, the program of visits to the hard drive more hard drives will be more power, so under normal circumstances the use of the battery will not run on the hard drive large-scale software, do not use the battery in the conduct disk defragmentation.

Notebook drive is also a big power, full-speed work under the hard disk drive is more than the costs of electricity, but also have a greater heat, so a long time ago not to use CD-ROM CD-ROM from the time it would be preferable to CD-ROM drive taken out. For the frequently used CD-ROM, the best method is to use a virtual drive software to its virtual hard disk, so that the method is not only power, but also effectively increase drive life expectancy. Can also try by installing NERO DriveSpeed, PowerBooster can reduce software such as CD-ROM, hard drive speed, etc., in order to effectively reduce the power consumption of notebook.

Use and disable external devices. Like pcmcia cards, printers, etc. as long as the peripherals connected to the notebook, even if the notebook does not work will consume electricity, so when we do not need to use these peripherals is best to take them from the notebook down. Port devices such as modem, com port, infrared, Bluetooth, wireless network card, etc. If you do not use often would be better to disable it, but also an energy-saving path.

Timing large-scale software to run. Recommended the use of battery time, do not use some features of the system is complete, but demanding software. Some people use battery-powered playing big games or watching movies, the battery usage time will be "very short", in fact, it is unreasonable to use the battery behavior.

Laptop cooling. On the surface the notebook cooling and energy-saving notebook no connection, in fact, a very close relationship between the two. Laptop due to smaller need its own cooling system to regulate the heat. When the temperature reaches a certain temperature-controlled fan has started, it will naturally increase the notebook's power consumption, so long as we can help notebook cooling, control the temperature of a good notebook, you can reduce the startup time for temperature-controlled fan, which also can indirectly extend notebook battery life. The author in the maintenance of their own notebook computers found that: a lot of dust accumulated on the heat sink, which greatly undermines its thermal performance. I observed most of the notebook is a miniature centrifugal cooling fan from the bottom of the air inhaled, blowing machine outside the radiator to the heat, once the dust build-up in the heat sink on the block cooling, resulting in poor cooling fans often turn to. So summing up: where to place the use of laptop computers must be clean, in order to prevent dust from entering the cooling effect. As the laptop's mobility is good, and some people like to use in bed or a lap, do you not know of textiles into the hairiness scattered rather than in the past, and the hazards of dust, but also because of the plasticity of textile stronger direct impact on thermal paste was admitted to draft , it is recommended when used in the textile, mat a pretty solid following a large book will change the above phenomenon.

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2010年3月11日星期四

IBM Processor Developer: Power7 not inferior to Intel

March 12 message, in February 2010 of the semiconductor-related international conferences "ISSCC 2010", U.S. IBM released the embedded 8-core, mixed containing DRAM, floating-point performance, a server with up to 200GFLOPS microprocessor "Power7" attracted the attention of the participants. The product is manufactured using 45nm process technology, a maximum operating frequency of 4.14GHz. Technology-line on the processor used in new technologies, as well as the advantages relative to competitors, such as processors, interviewed responsible for Power7 processor developed by IBM engineers and developers responsible Ron Kalla. Below is the full text:



- And 65nm process "Power6" in comparison, Power7 in what has improved?

Power6, compared with, Power7 kernel number increased to four times the number of threads per-core executable to a two-fold. In addition, imported to the kernel half of sleep, increasing an average of cache memory allocated to the remaining core of the "Turbo Core Mode" functions. Not only improve performance, but also uses a number of low-power technology. If only from a performance point of view, Power6 not less than Power7, but can not be called low-power processor. The Power7 unit of electricity consumed will be the performance of up to 4 times the Power6.

- The previously external L3 cache as a mixed set DRAM integrated into Power7, this point it has become a topic of concern.

Containing DRAM using mixed mode L3 cache, and is said to achieve our Power7 the largest technological innovations. We have about 10 years ago started to focus on the processor DRAM mixed set, this was finally achieved. It took 10 years to achieve, we can see the high technical difficulty. With the use of mixed composition containing L3 cache, SRAM, mixed containing DRAM memory cell area can be reduced to 1 / 3, the standby power consumption down to 1 / 5. When compared with the external L3 cache, latency (Latency) can be shortened to 1 / 6.

- With no less than Intel's processors do?

Less better than Intel's chips. Particularly in the processor core performance and memory access speed balance, as well as during operation, the average memory bandwidth, but also over other competitors, including Intel. Even if only from the point of view chip area also has advantages, such as: mixed set through the use of DRAM, making integration of L3 cache memory density is higher than the same process technology, Intel's processors.

- Following the Power7 after the "Power8" would be what kind of performance is to have a chip? In addition, your company has been put into operation when using Intel's 32nm manufacturing process processor?

Power8 is still in the conceptual stage of chip design, performance indicators can not open. However, the mixed containing DRAM, etc. We hope to continue to adopt good technology. With regard to commissioning date, you can refer to the past (every three years, a new architecture launch) cycle. While the 32nm production process of a date can not be published, but I can tell that the production has been incorporated into the field of vision.

- With the energy conservation become a global trend, the server processors compete with what changes occurred?

Low-power technology has become an important differentiating factor. IBM in 2001, production in the 180nm process of "Power4" when the power management techniques even responsible for the development team of professionals does not exist. At present, in the chips and systems at various levels have started to use low-power technology. In the future, into a similar power gating (Power Gating) as a low-power technology is a must.

- IBM to engage in one-stop until the server from the semiconductor process development. From the processor is responsible for the development of technical staff point of view, this is not achieved with the competitors to differentiate the key factor?

I very much agree with this view. Can improve the processor performance of "magic-like approach" does not exist. From the semiconductor process until the chip design, firmware, OS, servers, those responsible at all levels must work in their respective positions will do our best. IBM, with such an environment. For example, the company has senior engineers (technical director) to participate in the meeting. By this way with the semiconductor technology experts to explore this even if I am responsible for the design is also extremely useful.

2010年3月10日星期三

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: to reach a settlement with the Chinese government

Google CEO Eric Schmidt (Eric Schmidt) 3 10 said, Google is working with the Chinese government actively negotiating with the Chinese government is expected to soon reach a solution.

Schmidt declined to give more details as well as the timetable for the negotiations, but said, "will soon have some progress." He said that the negotiations between Google and the Chinese Government, and did not relate to U.S. officials Dell xps m1530 Battery. However, China last Saturday, an official said the Chinese government had no direct contact with Google.

January 12 of this year, Google's senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer David Drummond on Google's official blog published an article that Dell xps m1330 Battery, in view of Google operations in China has suffered a lot over the years without reports of attacks and surveillance, as well as in the past years, the Government attempt to further restrict freedom of expression on the Internet, Google's China operations and web sites to consider closing Google.cn.

U.S. State Department spokesman was available on January 15 announced that Google will send a diplomatic note to the Chinese. The spokesman said, "it would express our concern about this incident and asked China to provide information to explain how the incident occurred, as well as how they are prepared to deal with this problem."

But then in January 18, Google executives said that business in China changed to return to normal operation Dell inspiron e1505 Battery, and hope to stay in China.

In response, January 21, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said in an interview, Google and other foreign enterprises operating in China face problems should be resolved through the Chinese law, the Chinese government is willing to help them solve the problem. "Google case" should not be with the United States linked to the two governments and bilateral relations, otherwise read too much into.

Google has agreed to review the early years of its search results in the case in 2006, launched a Chinese search engine Dell Inspiron 9300 battery, Google.cn. Google was operating in China were hit, has undergone a license to the door, tax evasion door, found the dog door, She Huang doors and a series of twists and turns. Google Greater China president Kai-fu Lee, also announced last year that left.