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VMware Virtualization With OpenGL Still Smacks Oracle VirtualBox
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 Earlier this year I said VMware`s virtual GPU driver was running fast for Linux -- in comparison to Oracle`s VM VirtualBox 3D guest acceleration support. This continues to be the case with VMware`s OpenGL stack leading the way with superior support and performance. Recently I ran some desktop virtualization tests under VMware Fusion 4.1.3 and Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.18 from the Retina MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion host. Even with the OS X host, VMware`s 3D support exposed to the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualized guest was much faster."
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News: Hands-on with Synaptics next-gen input tech
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Next year, Synaptics` ForcePad will bring pressure sensitivity to touchpads. It can track five fingers independently, each with up to a kilogram of effective force in precise 15-gram increments. We got our hands on the ForcePad, among the company`s other new input tech. We also fingered the ultra-slim ThinTouch keyboard, recently acquired through the purchase of Pacinian. It combines secretive switches with a side order of capacitive touch, and the keys feel as good as those of the MacBook Pro. For an encore, we`ve captured the latest in low-latency touchscreen tech on our high-speed camera."
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Intel Graphics Hit High Point With Linux 3.6 Kernel
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Testing of the latest Linux 3.6 kernel that`s presently under development has revealed some additional OpenGL performance improvements with Intel graphics, at least concerning the latest-generation Ivy Bridge processors."
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Hands On With Windows 8 RTM @ TechReviewSource.com
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Yesterday, Microsoft made the final version of Windows 8 available to developers through MSDN and TechNet. We were able to get our hands on Microsoft`s newest operating system, which has been called a big gamble for the future of Windows. It definitely has a touch-oriented interface and feature set, which some users might love but others might hate."
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Microsoft Windows 8 RTM Screenshot Gallery
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Windows has been reimagined to focus on your life. The beautiful, fast, and fluid design is perfect for a range of hardware: from compact, touch-enabled tablets and lightweight laptops, to PCs and large, powerful all-in-ones with high-definition screens. It`s smooth, intuitive, and gives you instant access to your people, apps, and stuff, so you spend less time searching and more time doing."
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Ubuntu 12.10 Is Faster With Intel Hardware
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While benchmarks have already indicated ARM performance improvements in Ubuntu 12.10, early testing of this Quantal Quetzal release has also revealed that Intel hardware is benefiting too from performance optimizations for this Linux operating system update due out in October."
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Windows 8 GUI Annoyances
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If you have had the “pleasure” of checking out the consumer release of Windows 8, or the final preview release now that 8 has been shipped to manufacturers before distribution in October, you have experienced the glory of the Metro UI. Not that it's being called that now. Now Windows is calling it Windows 8 Style UI. I wish I were kidding, but that's their temporary name while they come up with something better than Metro. But while they wobble around in Limbo, we'll still call it Metro for this article.
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Mid-2012: Arch Linux vs. Slackware vs. Ubuntu vs. Fedora
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At the request of many Phoronix readers following the release of updated Arch Linux media, here are some new Arch Linux benchmarks. However, this is not just Arch vs. Ubuntu, but rather a larger Linux distribution performance comparison. In this article are benchmark results from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.2, Fedora 17, Slackware 14.0 Beta, and Arch Linux."
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Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review @ TechReviewSource.com
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At first glance, Mountain Lion looks like an identical twin of its predecessor, OS X Lion. Upgraders from Lion will face an almost flat learning curve, because almost every feature they`ve learned to use works in almost exactly the same way as before. But Mountain Lion unobtrusively slots in dozens of new featuresApple counts two hundred of themthat enhance sharing, messaging, cloud-based synchronization, security, Web browsing, instant notifications, and accessibility."
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Phoronix Test Suite 4.0 Advances Linux Benchmarking
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Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal expands the capabilities of Phoronix Media`s leading open-source, multi-platform testing software to advance the areas of standardized automated benchmarking, per-commit regression testing, and performance efficiency monitoring."
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Why Windows 8 Start Menu's Absence is Irrelevant
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Although every product deserves healthy criticism, many opinions of Windows 8 seem to be based on misconceptions, especially when it comes to the viability of Metro as a Start menu replacement. For the record, I don't care if you skip the update -- hell, I might pass on it too -- nor do I care if it's the most failtastic operating system in Windows' 26-year history.
However, I believe your opinion should be formed by facts, not irrational rhetoric parroted online by so-called power users and companies that want to sell you third-party programs. The truth is, functionally speaking, Metro is basically identical to the Start menu.
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Alienware M17x R4 (2012) Review, Ivy Bridge and Kepler Refresh
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The term “laptop” can only be loosely applied to the nearly 9.39-pound Alienware M17x--you don’t exactly want to have the thing perched on your lap for any extended period of time. But you know what? Who cares. The M17x is a powerful and (mostly) portable gaming rig, and Dell can call it anything they want; awesome by any other name is still awesome.
The M17x has been in Dell’s Alienware lineup for a while, but now it’s been refreshed with the latest and greatest in mobile components, packing an Ivy Bridge CPU, the Intel Core i7-3720QM, and the newest NVIDIA Kepler-based mobile GPU, the GeForce GTX 680M...
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Apple Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion vs. Ubuntu Linux
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Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion next month, here`s a look at how the latest point release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Linux."
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