• Lenovo's Yoga Book C930 is a 1.7 pound mini-notebook with a low-power (Y-series) Core i3 or i5 CPU, 4GB RAM (hopefully there will be options for more), a 2560x1600 screen, and 1920x1080 keyboard.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  No, that's not a typo.  The keyboard is a 1080p e-ink panel with haptic feedback.
  
  Which means...  If you don't like the keyboard layout, you can change it.
  
  I need to buy twelve of these.
  
  
• Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Extreme is the consumer version of their ThinkPad P1 ultralight workstation.  Same specs, essentially - 6 core CPU, up to 64GB RAM, dual M.2 SSDs, 4K screen, GTX 1050Ti - just with the regular versions rather than the Xeon / Quadro editions.  (AnandTech)
  
  US$2991.55 with a 6 core i7-8850, 32GB RAM, a 4K display, 1TB NVMe drive, and a 4GB GTX 1050Ti.  That's not cheap, but that's a lot of power in a compact and portable device.
  
  
• Netgear's Nighthawk XR700 router delivers 802.11ad - and 10G ethernet via an SFP+ port.  (AnandTech)
  
  Seriously, Netgear?  SFP+ rather than 10GBase-T?  On a router aimed at gamers?
  
  
• The next version of Firefox will block tracking cookies by default.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  That will piss Facebook and Google off enormously.  Good.
  
  
• San Francisco apparently has a problem with birdlime.  (Axios)
  
  
• Australia's new national health IT system is a fuckup of unimaginable but entirely predictable proportions.  It would be illegal in most countries.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• I still don't have NBN.  They're too busy screwing things up and wasting money to actually connect anyone.  (ZDNet)

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, September 01 2018 01:37 AM (ITnFO)

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