Wizard Journal - Updates

Apple working on Ultrathin 15” & 17” MacBook Pro

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 06:50 AM PDT

15" and 17" Ultrathin Apple MacBook Pro

Apple is working to build ultrathin laptop computers that would coming up next in their MacBook Pro series. This could possibly be an attempt to compete with all those "low of weight" Notebooks that have entered into the market recently viz. Samsung Series 9 Laptop (it is too costly ), Google Chromebook and Dell XPS 15z (it is lightweight, slim and quite powerful, alternative to MacBook Pro? Nopes! ).

Apple would be announcing these new series of MacBook Pro somewhere around Christmas (the time when everybody is looking for a perfect gift for their relative, the expensive it is, the better you are rated! ).

The market for ultrathin laptop computers is very competitive and it seems Intel's partners would also be releasing their notebooks during the time of Christmas.

There is advantage in buying ultrathin laptops, they give you better battery life and are quite portable.

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Source: iGyaan

Mozilla planning to create a browser based OS for Tabs and Phones like Chrome OS

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Browser-based Operating Systems for Tablet PCs and Smartphones

Early this year, Google came up with their web based operating system – Chrome OS which can now be found running on Samsung Chromebook and now it seems that the guys behind Mozilla Firefox are also interested to release their Firefox OS (the name is not official).

I don't understand why developers are focusing on browser based operating system. Although, Google has several business and fun apps in their Chrome Store but still if somebody doesn’t want to go for the paid operating system they can easily install Ubuntu (it has everything that you would need in a computer, even a couple of games) or other Linux Versions on their computer.

On the Official Mozilla wiki page, some of the senior devs at Mozilla said that they are planning to create “complete, standalone operating system for the open web” running HTML5 apps. The OS is codenamed as “Boot to Gecko,” and would be designed keeping in mind the needs of future Tablet PCs and Smartphones.

Well, Mozilla is not planning to create their browser-based OS from scratch but use Android drivers and kernel to boot the device (Android like Firefox is Open Source, so there won't be any copyright issues). Senior devs at Google Groups discussion thread said that they would choose Android over Linux since most Tablet PC manufacturers are creating devices for Android (that sounds pretty interesting).

The project is in the primitive stage therefore nothing can be said about the features that developers are planning to put into Mozilla Firefox OS or whatever. I don't support the idea of switching from an integrated operating system like Windows 7 to a browser based OS like Chrome OS or Firefox OS but it would be interesting to check out that stuff, or use it a couple of times in emergency.

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Source: Engadget

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Rabu, 27 Juli 2011