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Lenovo expands its “Think” series

Lenovo is branching off into the workstation arena with its new ThinkStation family of products. Lenovo today introduced two ThinkStation workstations based around Intel’s new 45nm Penryn micro architecture.

The new ThinkStation D10 features two processor sockets and supports Intel’s quad-core Xeon 5400 series processors. The ThinkStation S10, on the other hand, uses Intel’s new Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor.

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The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18.

Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18. The Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the new GNOME 2.20 desktop.

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It’s not often that one gets a chance to attend a demonstration of a new method of human-computer interaction.

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Make sure your system meets all requirements to get all the 4GB, under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista.

This is a quick guide and won’t involve much tech. detail. I’ll try to make it straightforward and foolproof, digging links in the article for technicality. (more after the jump)

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After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team announces that 10.3 RC1 is now ready and available for download.

The team consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap.

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Everyone is talking about Vista, neowin.net thinks that its pretty good, far better than Windows XP, however, there are still 5 (big) mistakes in Vista.

#1 The UAC.

Solution: Have the UAC be a lot smarter. A simple “Always give permission to continue for this action” checkbox at the bottom of the dialog would be nice. It’s bad enough that changing the IP address on Vista requires 5 clicks to get to (versus 2 in Windows XP) but it adds a 6th click to get past the UAC.

#2 Windows Vista was shipped before drivers were ready.

Solution: This is mostly dealt with now (as of July 26th for nVidia users for instance). But when one considers how much reputation damage this caused Microsoft should really give more care in the future. Release a stable public beta long enough before going gold so that developers can provide adequate support.

#3 The new Start menu.

Solution: Make the All Programs button behavior an option between the classic expanding menu or the new menu container.

#4 Unbelievably bad desktop performance.

Solution: Service Pack 1 is supposed to address this sort of thing more thoroughly but the good news is that Microsoft did officially release some patches that improves desktop performance significantly.

#5 Upgrade Pricing is a joke.

Solution: No solution. They aren’t likely to lower pricing any time soon. Once Service Pack 1 has been integrated into the OEM versions (the ones that ship with new PCs) you’ll see nearly everyone opting for Windows Vista on a new machine while older machines continue with Windows XP.

Source: neowin.net