Friday, March 01
Daily News Stuff 1 March 2019
Tech News
- Lenovo's Yoga C930 has a quad-core CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD, Thunderbolt, a pen, Dolby Atmos sound - and a terrible, terrible display. (AnandTech)
Remember that Acer laptop where greens were really green and whites were green and blues were also green? Same deal here. Might even be the same panel.
AnandTech tested the 1080p model; there's also a 4K option which would necessarily be using a different panel and might be better.
Also, it doesn't have dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys despite being a 14" laptop, so no-one should buy it anyway.
- Chuwi's Aerobook is a 13.3" 1080p laptop that does have dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys. (AnandTech)
8GB RAM and 128GB SSD, which isn't much, but the storage is user-upgradable and the price is expected to be $499. Only real problem then is the CPU - a sluggish ultra low power Core M.
Chuwi also announced the Ubook, an 11.6" model with a pen and detachable keyboard, expected to cost from $469 for the base model to $699 with 1TB of SSD.
- Supermicro's A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F is more than just a forgotten Hugo Gernsback novel. (Serve the Home)
It's a mini-ITX board with an 8 core Atom (the good Atom, so it's merely kind of slow rather than abominable), four DIMM slots supporting up to 256GB ECC RAM, 12 SATA ports, 4 GbE ports plus an extra for the BMC, one M.2 slot (PCIe 3.0 x 2) and one PCIe slot (x4).
And it uses just 33W at full load.
If you need faster networking, the A2SDi-H-TF has dual 10GbE ports rather than the quad 1GbE. And if you need a bit more CPU oomph, the A2SDi-H-TP4F has a 16 core Atom CPU, dual 10GBaseT, and dual 10Gb SPF+ ports.
- Astrophysicists finesse the FRB. (Quanta)
- Is a 32" 4K display with 95% DCI-P3 gamut a good deal at $349? (Tech Report)
Maybe. Some reviews on Amazon say that the contrast ratio is, well, crap. Others seem to be happy with it though.
Social Media News
- Never one to under-react to a fake crisis, YouTube is reportedly disabling comments on all videos featuring young children. (Bleeping Computer)
- The EU just fell foul of its own planned fake news regulations. (TechDirt)
In a fit of irony that only people with at least two functioning brain cells could have predicted.
Video of the Day
Suddenly it all makes sense.
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