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Microsoft’s New Surface Tablet Is Not A Great Value (MSFT)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/surface-pro-will-have-23-gb-of-storage-2013-1

Microsoft is gearing up for the launch of its next tablet, the Surface Pro, on Feb. 9.
The Surface Pro comes in two variations, one with 64 GB of storage and one with 128 GB of storage. But as The Verge points out, the amount of free space users actually get is far less.
The 64 GB model will only have about 23 GB of free space, The Verge confirmed with Microsoft. The 128 GB model will have about 83 GB of free space.
Here’s the problem.
Microsoft is marketing the Surface Pro as an alternative to a traditional laptop. It may look like a regular tablet, but the Surface Pro has all the same guts and specs as many regular laptops crammed inside. The Surface Pro also has the full version of Windows 8, meaning it can run older Windows apps designed for Windows 7.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5882703/your-deleted-facebook-photos-still-arent-really-deleted
Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you “deleted” your photos, they were still kept on Facebook’s servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different…eventually.
Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng got Facebook to comment on the matter, they’re developing a new one which will permanently wipe photo off their servers within 45 days of a user “deleting” the photo from the site.
“The systems we used for photo storage a few years ago did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site,” Facebook spokesperson Frederic Wolens told Ars via e-mail.
Wolens explained that photos remaining online are stuck in a legacy system that was apparently never operating properly, but said the company is working on a new system that will delete the photos in a mere month and a half. For really real this time.
So if there’s some incriminating piece of imagery on Facebook you’re really dying to have removed once and for all, maybe all hope isn’t lost entirely. [Ars Technica]
Google’s New Indexing System Is Fully Caffeinated
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5559015/googles-new-indexing-system-is-fully-caffeinated
Google’s latest web indexing system, the tool that pre-scans the entire web to have a ready answer to your search query, promises “50 percent fresher results for web searches.” It’s called Caffeine. And it comes with staggering Google search stats.
The main difference with Caffeine is that, rather than search one entire group of sites (represented in that lead graphic as a layer), then another, less prioritized group of sites, then yet another less prioritized group of sites, everything with the Caffeine algorithm is pretty much indexed constantly. Teased for several months now, Caffeine is the sort of update Google needs to follow the pace of searching services like Twitter. And indeed, Google will need to maintain/continue such innovations to keep up—our world is translated from analog to digital in more, quicker ways every day.
So now for those wicked Google stats:
• Every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel.
• If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second
• Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database
• Caffeine adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.
• You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information
• If these iPods were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.
[Google]
HP Mini 311 Nvidia ION Netbook Hackintosh’ed
screenshots to come
Source: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189621&pid=1296786
Specifications pertinent to Mac OS X:
Memory – 1024MB onboard with one open DDR3 SO-DIMM slot for up to 2048MB expansion, giving 3072MB total memory – Postpunk confirmed
Chipset – STATUS – NVIDIA ION LE
Graphics – STATUS – NVIDIA GeForce 9400M based (NVEnabler, LCD, 1366×768, QE/CI) – adachis/supervisa confirmed DSDT may be an option
HDMI Port – UNKNOWN – TESTING NEEDED
VGA Port – UNKNOWN – TESTING NEEDED
Universal Serial Bus – STATUS – NVIDIA ION LE
Microprocessor – STATUS – Intel Atom N270/N280 – Researching better fixes to remove need for NullCPUPowerManagement
Keyboard – STATUS – PS/2 based – ApplePS2Old – adachis confirmed
Trackpad – STATUS – Alps Electric – PS/2 based – ApplePS2Old – adachis confirmed
Local Storage – STATUS – NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller
Wireless – G-STATUS / N-STATUS – BCM4312(G) (adachis confirmed) and BCM943224(N) (PZZ confirmed)
Network – STATUS – 10/100 NVIDIA nForce MCP79
Wireless WAN – UNKNOWN – HP un2420 Mobile Broadband (Qualcom2000)
Bluetooth – STATUS – USB/PCIe Broadcom based – superviza confirmed
Audio – STATUS – NVIDIA HDA (VoodooHDA works large amount of static overlay, try 16-bit – adachis confirmed) DSDT may be an option
Webcam – STATUS – USB Based HP Webcam-50 – superviza confirmed
External Optical – STATUS – HP External 556s Optical Drive – theproto confirmed
Feature status:
Battery Status – STATUS – VoodooBattery shows some functions – (adachis confirmed) so does AppleACPIBatteryManager (superviza confirmed)
Sleep/Hibernate/Suspend – STATUS – MORE TESTING NEEDED – Not looking good OOB (superviza confirmed)
Trackpad Options – STATUS – VoodooPS2 not recognizing trackpad – adachis confirmed
Shutdown/Reboot – STATUS – superviza confirmed
Clamshell Switch – STATUS – superviza confirmed
Power Button – STATUS – superviza confirmed
SpeedStep or P/C-States – STATUS – AppleLPC loaded and P/C-States are present -superviza/theproto confirmed
Status legend:
VANILLA – No fixes needed or DSDT/EFI fixes used only
EXTRAS – Extra KEXTs needed but not located in /S/L/E
MODIFICATIONS – Modifications or additions to /S/L/E or any other system file
UNSUPPORTED – No useable driver exists for the device/chipset
UNKNOWN – Initial status indicating further testing/verification is needed
For download packages see:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189621&pid=1296786
Another thread making progress:
http://myhpmini.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2402
source: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/hp-mini-311-ram-can-be-upgraded.html
HP Mini 311 RAM can be upgraded
The HP Mini 311 (or Compaq Mini 311C in Europe) comes with 1GB of RAM soldered to the motherboard. At first glance, that might make this NVIDIA ION-powered laptop a bit less attractive, since it somewhat limits your upgrade options. But Blogeee reports there’s good news: There is another RAM slot that users can take advantage of to upgrade the RAM.
All you have to do is pop open the back and slide in a 2GB module to upgrade the memory to 3GB.
Source: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/hp-mini-311-with-ion-graphics-can-run-os-x.html
HP Mini 311 with ION graphics can run OS X
Want an 11.6 inch mini-laptop with high performance graphics, and the ability to run OS X? It looks like the HP Mini 311 fits the bill.
ASRock ION 330 hackintosh
Source: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=178372&st=0#entry1217787
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