Intel Sandy Bridge-E 6-Core in Q3 2013, New 4-Core Inbound

Though not precisely in official capacity, a few of the rumors we have reported and speculated on recently, concerning Intel's processor plans, have been confirmed. For one, last week we mentioned how the Haswell-EP processors were scheduled for release in 2014, allowing Sandy Bridge-E a longer market life. Secondly, we learned that a Sandy Bridge-E SKU was in the making, called Core i7- 3970X, but we did not have all relevant info on it and could only guess at when it would be available. The folks at VR-Zone are the people responsible for clarifying most things concerning these two matters, having published a roadmap slide. The Core i7-3970X, being a Sandy Bridge E with 6 cores, will have 12 threads, a clock speed...

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Multiple-User Support

One of the features that Google’s latest Android release (4.1 Jelly Bean) comes with is support for multiple users, a feature that can be enabled in AOSP builds, it seems. Some enthusiasts over at XDA-Developers have already played with the capability a bit, and provided us with more info on what secondary accounts on the phone have access to. Apparently, they are not able to access data from the first account, including photos, contacts, music, shared app data and home screen layouts. However, it appears that they will be able to access SMS messages from the first account, as well as recent apps and the default applications, which might be seen as a major privacy issue. For the time being, the multi-user capability of Android is not ready for deployment, it seems,...

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Plextor M5P Series Benchmark

The next generation of SSDs from Plextor, the highly anticipated M5P series have finally been tested and the results confirm that the performance is quite a bit better the new Intel-based M5S and the Toshiba-based favorite M3P series. Plextor’s M5P series is the new top preforming SSD line from the Japanese company and, like many expected, this marks a new collaboration with Japanese NAND manufacturer Toshiba. Technologically speaking, Toshiba’s Toggle DDR MLC NAND is the fastest NAND widely available tech. The new drives feature large amounts of DDR3-1333Mhz DRAM cache and the 256 GB model tested by the hardware experts at expreview.com has 256 MB of such DRAM on board. The top of the line 512 GB model comes with...

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Mahjong, Minesweeper, and Solitaire Screenshots in Windows 8 RTM

The final flavor of Windows 8, set to become commercially available on October 26th and currently released to manufacturing, will arrive with a variety of software packed inside. We have already had the chance to have a look at some of the applications that Microsoft will include inside the platform, but it appears that there will be more software for users to enjoy. Windows 8 is expected to hit shelves with support for various Xbox LIVE and non-Xbox LIVE games, many of which will be available for download through the Windows Store. Microsoft did include some games in the pre-release flavors of Windows 8, but only few of them were actually available for users to enjoy. In the upcoming platform release, however, there...

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HTC One X+ with 1.7 Ghz CPU and Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, Confirmed

Previously known as HTC Era 42, the One X+ leaked about a week ago along with some of its specs. Unfortunately, there was no confirmation on the smartphone's hardware and software configuration until today. The folks over at LandOfDroid have just discovered a NenaMark2 benchmark of an unannounced Android smartphone, the HTC PM63100. This PM63100 is also known as HTC One X+, the same device that leaked several days ago. Initial rumors claimed the smartphone will be equipped with an Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset that packs a 1.7 GHz processor. No word on the amount of memory and storage, but we expect to come with at least 1GB of RAM and, hopefully, microSD card slot for memory expansion. The benchmark score is the first confirmation...

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Windows Server 2012 RTM Leaks Too

A few days ago, Windows 8 was announced to have reached RTM status, and the final code of the platform leaked on the web shortly after. Today, we learn that the same has happened with the RTM flavor of Windows Server 2012 as well, and that it can already be found on various sharing websites out there. The Windows Server 2012 build that was spotted online weighs 3.23 GB and is compatible only with x64 systems. The build includes both Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2012, a recent article on Neowin reports. Microsoft announced four different Windows Server 2012 SKUs set to hit the market in the coming months, namely Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter. With the availability of the...

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IBM Dominates High-Speed Multi-Core Computing with 5.5 GHz System Z

IBM is the company whose processors are found in many of the world's supercomputers, including the greatest ever, thanks largely to the System z and Power7 platforms. If what we are reading here is true, we have something massive to look forward to this month. Long story short, IBM will demonstrate the System “zNext” processor capable of operating at 5.5 GHz, above even the 5.2GHz z196 that has been IBM's best since its launch in 2010. Moreover, there will be Power7+ processors up to 20 percent faster than the long-running and famous Power7 (whose limit is of 4.14 GHz peak clock rate). We'll learn more about the architecture, the different models and their number of cores once the conference begins on August 27 (it...

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ClearOS Community 6.3.0 Available for Download

Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation announced yesterday, August 3, that ClearOS Community 6.3.0 is now available for download. After ClearFoundation renamed their distribution, just a few weeks ago, to ClearOS Community, now they released a new version, 6.3.0. ClearOS 6.3.0 comes primarily with new applications that focus on mail server stack. Based on Zarafa for ClearOS solution, users can now implement a private cloud mail server using this distribution. Among the new applications added to the operating system we can enumerate the following: Zarafa Community for ClearOS, Mail Antivirus, Mail Antispam, Antispam Updates, Greylisting, and more. The commercial version, ClearOS Professional 6.3.0 includes a series of important...

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Windows 8 RTM Apps in New Screenshots

With Windows 8 already released to manufacturing, all that we need to do is to sit tight and wait for the Redmond-based software giant and its hardware partners to start pushing new products out on October 26th. In the meantime, however, we’re somehow left wondering of the latest changes that the platform has suffered since the delivery of the Release Preview. We already knew that there would be a series of performance improvements included in the final bits, along with various graphical changes, and, of course, updated applications. These are apps built by Microsoft themselves using the Windows 8 style (apparently, the company is no longer using the Metro-style term when referring to them) and some of them have been included...

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ASUS New S Series UltraBook with Hybrid Storage and Nvidia Optimus

ASUS is very popular in the mobile space after making history with its well-known and highly appreciated Transformer tablets and Zen line of UltraBooks. What we were missing in the Zen UltraBook ASUS brings in the new S UltraBook Series. The new mobile computers from the well-known mainboard manufacturer are quite a bit thicker than the popular Zen and Transformer devices, but they bring the much needed extra performance, functionality and screen size. We would all like to see 17” notebooks as thin as ASUS’ Zen, but we believe we’ll have to wait for another decade for something like that. The new S series is just 21 mm thick (0.827 inches) and currently only has two members, the S46 and the S56. Both models have the same...

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Apple iPhone 5 Using Insane Glass

Part supplier ETrade Supply has obtained the front glass part of Apple’s next-generation iPhone and, after putting it through a series of tests, concluded that it’s almost impossible to break or scratch. The supplier did some exhaustive measurements and found that the iPhone 5 glass lens is 90.25mm long, 51.60mm wide, while the iPhone 4S part is 76.65mm and 51.60mm. The display area is larger, from 3.61 inches in the iPhone 4S to 4.065 inches in the iPhone 5. Because the glass is thinner in the iPhone 5, “the transmittance of iPhone 5 glass lens is higher than that of iPhone 4S,” says ETrade Supply. The camera hole has been moved from the left side to the right middle above the speaker and, compared to the iPhone 4S, it narrows a little bit. The light sensor hole also moves...

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