Laptop vs Desktop

Many people have trouble in deciding whether they are best going for a laptop or desktop, there are certain characteristics that you can look out for to help make that decision for you.

The best thing about a laptop is being able to move it around with ease, if you work from home and in an office you can use the same laptop so that all your files are in one place which saves time in transferring them every day. A decent laptop can be considerably cheaper than a desktop as most of the peripherals are included such as screen, keyboard, mouse, wi-fi connection, etc. Another factor that gives the laptop the edge over the desktop is the built in battery, if you were to have a power cut you would not lose any data. You can run your laptop direct from the mains and in the event of a power surge or power cut its inbuilt battery would kick in and allow you to carry on working until that runs out. You are always best keeping the battery topped up as you never know when you might need it.

The laptop does have its downsides such as having a small screen compared to some of the monitors available in today’s world. A good laptop can be expensive and if broken you may not be able to repair it if the component it inbuilt to the main board itself. If you were to get a 2 GHz processor in your laptop it would not be the same as a 2 GHz processor in your desktop, they run at about a 30% slower speed so you would need to compensate for that factor.

If you’re considering a desktop then you will know it has many benefits over a laptop. They are slightly more powerful compared to the equivalent laptop and are easily upgradeable and can be repaired with ease if a certain component was to fail. The average desktop will last significantly longer then any laptop as they don’t break as easily and can be upgraded to support today’s technology.

The main downside to a desktop is the fact it’s not portable, if you want to move it around it causes a lot of hassle disconnecting all of the peripherals etc and reconnecting them once you get to your destination. Another is the fact of not having an inbuilt battery, if you were to have a power cut you would lose any unsaved data. You can buy an external battery to counter act this.

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AMD BROKEN DIVISION

No secret that AMD is experiencing a crisis. Apart from the video card industry that they can reclaim from nVIDIA, but AMD is still one step behind Intel. AMD still trying to block the processor speed of Intel's 45 nm with their first, Shanghai, which seeks to be released along with second-generation 45 nm Intel processors, Nehalem. To deal with processor chip market
increasingly stringent, AMD finally decided to divide the two companies. One company will continue to run the chip design business and continue to use AMD's name, the other
will use the name of the Foundry Company will produce chips. Two separate companies will be working side by side, but still conduct business independently. In addition, two companies that came Abu Dhabi has decided to invest their money for U.S. $ 5.7 billion to make AMD better. The majority of the money injected from Abu Dhabi, the two companies will later be flowing into the Foundry Company, which will create a new factory in Albany, New York. AMD retains 44.4% stake in Foundry Company, and the largest shares held by Advanced Technology
Investment Company. Advanced Technology, a company that didrikan by wealthy Abu Dhabi government, has promised an initial investment of U.S. $ 2.1 billion. Advanced Technology was not the only company that wants AMD. Mubadala Development Company, which bought 8% stake in AMD last November 2007, will pay U.S. $ 314 million to buy 58 million shares of AMD, or approximately 19.3% of the total AMD. Later Mubadala and Advanced Technology will continue to work together to complete the purchase agreement with AMD.

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GOOGLE ADS ONLINE SERVICES Enter the World GAME

GOOGLE has just released the beta version of the program its online advertising, AdSense is an application specifically designed for gaming. AdSense for games program is focused on ad placements on Flash-based games. Google this movement is not a big step, because Google previously had purchased advertising company AdScape Media for U.S. $ 23 million last year. In fact, one of the major players in the field of advertising in this game, PlayFish, a company that publishes social gaming sites for social networking, has been using Google ads since April 2008. PlayFish biggest game, "Who Has the Biggest Brain", has installed more than 6 million times on Facebook. Besides PlayFish, Konami, great companies in the world of gaming has signed a contract with the Google AdSense program.

Apparently, Konami was planning to place their ads on the titles of popular games like "Frogger" and "Dance Dance Revolution". With the new service from Google this, game developers can display video ads or text ads
in the game for profit. Google also has signed agreements with many content providers from the world of games, including Konami, PlayFish, Zynga, Demand Media and Mochi Media. The advertisers who use Google's advertising services are Esurance, Sprint, and Sony Pictures.

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DEVELOP ADOBE OPEN FILE FORMAT DIGITAL CINEMA

Adobe offers a new standard open document file format for the film industry in order to avoid incompatibility and file formats pressing the high cost of film making.
ADOBE IS-known companies with video editing applications and photos and makers of popular software products, such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro. Adobe announced that they are developing an open file format for digital cinema files. Format DNG will be named Cinema it based on the format owned by Adobe, the Adobe Negative file format used for digital photography. DNG format used for photographic purposes.

DNG allows you to develop more creative ideas in a digital negative file. Adobe says that CinemaDNG open format will make the inevitable movie producers of digital format incompatibility problems involving various kinds of digital devices, file formats, and types of cameras. CinemaDNG also create meta data can be added to the digital files so that post-production jobs can be done more easily and make the users can find content more comfortably. Meta data will also facilitate jobs makers of digital advertising. Cinema's ability to dng metadata can be done through a software, namely Adobe Media Player.

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GOOGLE APP ENGINE pursue AMAZON S3

GO GOOGLE tighten competition with its competitors. One was with the release of Google App Engine which will deal directly with Amazon's application, Amazon S3. Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service which helps the software developer store their data. Amazon S3 first released in The United States in March 2006 and Amazon began to open infrastructure for software developers. Competitor Amazon S3 is a Google App Engine, which also has the infrastructure to developers so that they can focus for software development.Google says preview Google releases App Engine has launched, and will be available for the first 10,000 developers the register. Google confirmed that Google App Engine is a weapon The main application developers web use Google's infrastructure. Like Blogger can easily create a blog, Google App Engine ease of creating promising and run a variety of aplications web. Although not the Amazon S3 service free, Google trying to compete with Amazon by offering limited services free. Google App Service Engine without pay includes a variety feature kind of tour, such as storage capacity 500 MB, 200 million CPU megacycles per day and 10 GB of bandwidth per day. A free service is same as approximately 5 million web pages per month and if the developers need more, they can buy at the time future.

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