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Submission + - Microsoft and HP Working on $199 Laptop to Rival Google Chromebooks (freshinfos.com)

Submitted by nrjperera on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @07:42AM

nrjperera writes: Microsoft has reamed up with HP to make an affordable Windows laptop to beat Google Chromebooks in its own game. German website Mobile Geeks have found some leaked information about this upcoming HP laptop dubbed Stream 14, including its specifications.

According to the leaked data sheet the HP Stream 14 laptop will share similar specs to HP’s cheap Chromebook. It will be shipped with an AMD A4 Micro processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of flash storage and a display with 1,366 x 768 screen resolution. Microsoft will likely offer 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage with the device to balance the limited storage option.

Comment Worse than CAPTCHA (Score 1) 91

by nrjperera on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @07:35AM (#47702359) Attached to: Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human

"For example, in a "ship parking" DCG challenge, the user is required to identify the boat from a set of moving objects and drag-and-drop it to the available "dock" location." This is worse than CAPTCHA

Comment Brain cancer? (Score 1) 79

by nrjperera on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @10:01AM (#43914685) Attached to: Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately

Wow this is impressive. Just what I needed for Christmas, a brain cancer. lol

Submission + - Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help in Education (chronicle.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @11:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a detailed interview on the future of education, Bill Gates was surprisingly down on tablets in education — considering that Microsoft just released Surface. He said low-cost PCs are the thing for students. And he dismissed the idea that giving gadgets to students will bring change, saying that approach has "a really horrible track record."

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