Miscellaneous Tech News
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Appreciating the need for transformation, Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners teamed up to buy out public shareholders and take the company private in 2013. Away from the challenging gaze of the public markets, Dell & Co. transformed the company via acquisition and investment. Five years later, it appears Dell and Silver Lake feel the company is in much better shape and ready for the spotlight once again.
I actually caught wind of this from @dbeato on Twitter. Credit goes to him too
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.
Incoming lawsuit.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.
Incoming lawsuit.
This vote was originally set and decided to build municipal fiber back in 2015, Comcast is the one who re-proposed to the town and the town refused to get hitched.
Long drawn out proposal there.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.
Incoming lawsuit.
This vote was originally set and decided to build municipal fiber back in 2015, Comcast is the one who re-proposed to the town and the town refused to get hitched.
Long drawn out proposal there.
Yep and Comcast is going to sure the municipality for some reason or another and block the roll-out for another 3-5 years.
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Intel finally moves past Skylake with Sunny Cove architecture, coming 2019
Finally, a move away from just bundling more cores together.
In 2019, Intel will release Core and Xeon chips built around a new architecture: the chips will add a bunch of new instructions to accelerate certain popular workloads such as cryptography and compression, with the company demonstrating 75-percent improvement in compression performance relative to prior-generation parts.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.
My hometown did this almost decade ago. It was Charter (Spectrum) instead of Comcast.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.
My hometown did this almost decade ago. It was Charter (Spectrum) instead of Comcast.
http://www.highlandcommunicationservices.com/Those are the kind of options I still only wish for.
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my markets are served only by regional coops and Wave
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Intel introduces Foveros: 3D die stacking for more than just memory
Technology allows tight integration of high performance and low power processes.
In 2019, Intel is going to ship chips using a new 3D stacking technology the company is calling Foveros. Foveros allows complex logic dies to be stacked upon one another, providing a much greater ability to mix and match processor components with optimal manufacturing processes
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New 17-inch LG Gram laptop weighs 2.9 pounds, has nearly 20-hour battery life
LG will show off all new Gram laptops at CES in January.
The mammoth 17-inch laptop appears to take most of its design from the original LG Gram, which Ars reviewed last year. It looks like a standard ultrabook, with a nearly edge-to-edge display and a slightly larger chin bezel. LG claims to have put a 17-inch display in a 15.6-inch chassis, but it's hard to tell how well that statement holds up through images alone.
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Wow, that's a long battery life. I need one of those!
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New 17-inch LG Gram laptop weighs 2.9 pounds, has nearly 20-hour battery life
LG will show off all new Gram laptops at CES in January.
The mammoth 17-inch laptop appears to take most of its design from the original LG Gram, which Ars reviewed last year. It looks like a standard ultrabook, with a nearly edge-to-edge display and a slightly larger chin bezel. LG claims to have put a 17-inch display in a 15.6-inch chassis, but it's hard to tell how well that statement holds up through images alone.
That is also super light for a 17"
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New 17-inch LG Gram laptop weighs 2.9 pounds, has nearly 20-hour battery life
LG will show off all new Gram laptops at CES in January.
The mammoth 17-inch laptop appears to take most of its design from the original LG Gram, which Ars reviewed last year. It looks like a standard ultrabook, with a nearly edge-to-edge display and a slightly larger chin bezel. LG claims to have put a 17-inch display in a 15.6-inch chassis, but it's hard to tell how well that statement holds up through images alone.
That is also super light for a 17"
And small.
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@mlnews What OS? Hoping for ChromeOS, but from the pictures, it is looking like another Win10 box. Doesn't say anything in the description, from what I scanned.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews What OS? Hoping for ChromeOS, but from the pictures, it is looking like another Win10 box. Doesn't say anything in the description, from what I scanned.
Yeah, pictures show W10.
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@wrx7m I don't know for sure, but I would be willing to bet that they can get a lot more battery time out of that 20 hours just by putting on ChromeOS.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews What OS? Hoping for ChromeOS, but from the pictures, it is looking like another Win10 box. Doesn't say anything in the description, from what I scanned.
It's a PC... 8th-gen Intel processors, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 512GB SSD.
So any OS for PC that you want to install.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m I don't know for sure, but I would be willing to bet that they can get a lot more battery time out of that 20 hours just by putting on ChromeOS.
Not likely. If that were true, Linux would get you a lot more battery life. ChromeOS does that by running on low power hardware, often ARM based, and having extreme vertical integration with the hardware.
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