My Sony Vaio P is aging and I do not use it much. Today, I installed a new life into it by installing Windows 8.1. I downloaded the 32 bit version of Windows 8.1 and installed it using USB pen drive. Installation took around 45 minutes as Vaio P is a slow dog, thanks to its ultra slow Intel Atom Z520 processor (I’ve the base first generation model).
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We were able to get a review unit of Mini ITX motherboard, A1SAi-2750F equipped with Intel Atom C2750. It is the top end Intel Atom unit and runs at 2.4 GHz clock speed with 2.8 GHz turbo boost.
The C2750 is a 8 core processor with 8 threads and fully supports 64 bit architecture. In fact, the chipset can accept up to 64GB RAM.
Peripheral information.
Number of controllers: 1
Memory channels: 2
Supported memory: DDR3-1600, DDR3L-1600
DIMMs per channel: up to 2
ECC supported: Yes
PCI Express 2.0 interface (4 controllers)
SATA 3 controller
USB controller
Ethernet controller
It has 4 x 1 MB shared caches level 2 cache. TDP of Intel Atom C2750 is 20 watts. Here are its benchmark results.
As you can see, the performance of the Atom processor is at par with the AMD FX-9370, which is a very powerful CPU. Here are SiSoftware Sandra results.
Omni has now been ported to the Oppo N1 Android phone. Make sure you do a backup of everything important you have on your phone because after installing it, data will be lost. You also need to have TWRP on your phone.
Download it from here. Since there are no pre installed Google Apps, you should separately install them from here (no big deal if you do not need it).
You will have to flash it using TWRP – stock recovery would not work if you want to install custom ROMs. To do that, download the file and put it on your SD card. Get into recovery and select the file in TWRP and flash it.
This tutorial will explain how to download CM and install it on your Oppo N1 Android phone. Before you proceed, make backup of anything important you have on your phone. After you done with that, make sure you have TWRP as your recovery. Stock recovery would not work.
Second, it is important to be on stock ROM. It does not matter if you are rooted or not. Now, download the fully flash able ZIP from here. Put it on your SD card and reboot to recovery and flash the ZIP from there.
You are not done yet. Reboot into TWRP and go to Advanced Wipe -> Wipe Dalvik Cache, Cache, and Data.
Yarvik is working on a 8 inch tablet powered by Intel Atom processor. The tablet would be called TAB07 490i and run Android operating system. The screen size is 7.85 inches and is the first under 8 incher to run on an Atom instead of ARM.
MSI has released a new graphic card called GTX 780Ti Gaming 3G, which is based on Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti. It is a high end MSI GPU and you get the usual Military Class 4 components. The MSI GTX 780Ti Gaming 3G features a custom PCB, TwinFrozr IV cooler that has copper heat pipes and aluminum cooling fins.
Engineering samples of Intel Core i7 Haswell E chipsets have emerged online, and according to the sources, it will be a 22 nm chip. It will be successor to the X79 chipset, which is current top-of-the-line chip. Release date of Core i7 Haswell-E is Q3 2014.
Popular laptop maker, Clevo has leaked details of upcoming mobile Nvidia GeForce GPUs. This includes GTX 880M, 870M, 860M and 860M MXM modules. While concrete specifications are not yet available, we do know that these GPU units are based on Maxwell architecture. This ‘base’ is also being used in GeForce 800-series used in desktops.
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Microsoft is willing to offer up to 1 billion dollars to Samsung for making more Windows Phones. This rumor comes from Eldar, who owns popular site, mobile-review.com. Here is his tweet.
Another “good” news from Microsoft – company negotiate with Samsung and offer 1 billion support if vendor will produce Windows Phone devices.
After Microsoft buys Nokia, it would want the biggest Android OEM, Samsung to put some more resources in WP ecosystem and churn out some more devices that run MS’ mobile OS.
While Samsung is already said to be working on a new WP phone, $1 billion could make it release a lot more devices in 2014.
Nokia now owns more than 90 percent of the WP market, and MS would definitely want more players to get serious about its fast growing OS. It would be interesting to see how MS-Sammy deal fares out.
Chinese manufacture, Haier is now selling a 10 inch windows 8 tablet with detachable keyboard. It is powered by Intel Atom Z3740D bay trail processor. Specs include 10.1 inch display, 1280×800 pixel resolution, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage and 2 megapixel front facing camera, HDMI, USB and 802.11n Wi-Fi.
