Right now we have 4 PC laptops in our house; 5 if you count the iPad 2 being a ‘personal computing’ device. There’s my work HP Pavilion dv6, my personal Alienware M11x, her former Dell XPS M1530, which just got replaced by the Asus Zen book UX 31. In my sixteen years of being in the tech industry, and thirteen being with my wife, I’ve never seen her get so excited, and delighted, about technology and or a PC. The only other time that gets this close would have been when I bought her an iPhone. Sure….
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Dualbooting Windows 7 and Windows 8
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO image became public a few days ago, which is available here, so I am sure a lot of people are interested in trying it out on their development systems without replacing their current Windows 7 installation.
Using Intel® Power Checker to measure the energy performance of a compute-intensive application
Intel® Power Checker provides developers with a quick and easy way to evaluate the idle power efficiency of their applications on mobile platforms with Intel® Core™ processor or Intel® Atom™ technology running the Microsoft Windows* operating system.
Low Power Intel® Architecture for Small Form Factor Devices: Supplemental Information
This entry is a supplement to the article Low Power Intel® Architecture for Small Form Factor Devices, by Ram Chary, Pat A. Correia, Raviprakash Nagaraj, and James Song. Additional technical information presented here was provided by Scott Noble.
The attached Microsoft PowerPoint* slides, included in the file small_form_factor.zip below, are provided to help answer two questions received from a developer by our support team:
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Hear what other developers are saying about the new Ultrabook™
By now you’ve probably heard about Ultrabook and this next evolution in personal computing. Like me, you are probably curious about all of the cool things you’ve been hearing; they’re really light and thin, fast, and have longer battery life than traditional laptops. Well here is your chance to hear what other developers are saying about them as they conduct an 8 week evaluation of Ultrabooks from Asus, Acer and Toshiba. It’s all here including comments, videos, and perceptions from 10 developers from the around the world.
Creating Energy-Efficient Software (Part 4)
Operating Systems
This brief section provides some links to references that describe operating system features that support development of power-aware applications – for Microsoft Windows Vista and for Linux.
Assault on Batteries with the Intent to Perform
by Richard Winterton
Introduction
How you use your laptop has a dramatic effect on the battery. See what a curious Intel engineer discovered while writing this paper.
Low Power Intel® Architecture for Small Form Factor Devices
by Ram Chary, Pat A. Correia, Raviprakash Nagaraj, and James Song
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