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Lenovo Yoga Laptops

November 25, 2016 By eStormAdmin

Mobile productivity enters a new era with the versatility of a 2-in-1 like none you’ve seen before. It’s loaded with a sixth-generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory, 256GB SSD, and Windows 10 Home. It weighs just 1.27 kilograms while being just 12.7 millimetres thin, giving it excellent portability. And with its 360-degree watchband hinge, the Yoga 900’s brilliant QHD+ display flips wherever you want for versatile use as a laptop, tablet, tent, or stand.

The Yoga 900 is still very portable, but there’s a definite tradeoff, as this new system is a little thicker and heavier than last year’s Yoga Pro 3, coming in at 1.27 kg.

One of the best things about the Yoga 910 is its significantly improved battery life, which, for a system that already lasted pretty long, is a welcome addition. On the Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi), the Yoga 910 lasted just over 10 hours.

 

Filed Under: Corporate, Device Procurement, Education, Hardware, News

COMMBOX Interactive Displays

November 16, 2016 By eStormAdmin

COMMBOX INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS transforming classrooms.

The Classic Range of touchscreens remains Australia’s favourite classroom touchscreen. Classic good looks, including a sturdy aluminium frame, toughened glass and rock-solid reliability makes the Classic Range a winner every time.

Features:

All Classic touchscreens incorporate the highest quality Commercial Grade LED displays, rewarding the audience with superior image quality, excellent viewing angles and brightness. Paired with CommBox GlideTM technology, they provide unmatched visibility from all angles in any light- lled room. CommBox advanced glass technology is chemically etched ensuring that the panels are smooth and frictionless to touch. They feature high performance anti-glare properties, whilst maintaining a crystal clear image.

By utilising only the highest quality components, a CommBox Touchscreen has a 17 year life expectancy and does not require maintenance or replacement lamps.

Connect a Windows PC, Mac or laptop and interact immediately; no drivers or calibration required. CommBox Interactive touchscreens are truly plug & play. A Classic touchscreen comes ready to use straight out of the box, reducing installation time and costs.

CommBox utilises combined camera (optical) and infra-red touch technologies guaranteeing that the Classic touchscreens are ultra-responsive and highly accurate. All CommBox touchscreens provide the ultimate Windows 8 & 10 touch experience with active borders, multi-touch capabilities and gesture support.

Options for stands: Motorised Stand for the CommBox 55” – 103” Interactive and Display. This design can also be used as a floor mount motorised lift in areas where walls are not reinforced by removing the legs. A standard Mobile Stand to suit CommBox 55” – 103” Interactive and Display made of heavy duty powder coated stainless steel or the Tilt Trolley a robust trolley that allows you to raise and lower the screen as well as tilt into a fully at table top. The Tilt Trolley is extremely stable and designed to fit through doorways with 100mm casters for easy movement. Suitable for screens up to 75” in both Interactive and Display.

Take a look at CommBox’s latest video overview for Interactive Touchscreen.

COMMBOX video

Filed Under: Digital Learning, Education, General News, Hardware

The NEW MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

November 9, 2016 By eStormAdmin

The all-new MacBook Pro is the thinnest and lightest MacBook Pro ever. It introduces a breakthrough interface called the Touch Bar that replaces the traditional function keys with a brilliant Retina-quality Multi-Touch display.

The Touch Bar places controls right at the user’s fingertips and adapts when using the system or apps like Mail, Finder, Calendar, Numbers, GarageBand, Final Cut Pro X and many more, including third-party apps.

Available in silver and space grey, the new MacBook Pro also features the brightest and most colourful Mac display, built-in Touch ID, a more responsive keyboard, larger Force Touch trackpad and redesigned stereo speakers that deliver high dynamic range. With cutting-edge graphics, powerful processors, superfast SSDs, Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports and macOS Sierra, MacBook Pro is the ultimate notebook for professionals and consumers.

Notable changes

  • The 13-inch and 15-inch versions of the new MacBook Pro are 17% and 14% thinner than their predecessors
  • The 13-inch version weighs just 1.37kg
  • The Force Touch trackpad has also been hugely improved, twice as spacious as that on the previous model.
  • Up to 130% faster graphics and up to 67% brighter display
  • Up to 3.8GHz Turbo Boost processing
  • Up to 40 Gbps data transfer
  • Supports up to two 5K displays

Filed Under: Apple, Design, Education, eStorm News, General News, Hardware

Solid State Drives vs Traditional Hard Drives. Which is right for you?

April 19, 2016 By eStormAdmin


  Gone are the days of simply choosing the drive that had the largest capacity that your budget could afford. Solid-state drives have made huge advances in recent years and have started to become affordable for the average consumer. So which should you choose?

 

hard_drive_western_digital_sataHard-Disk Drives

These are the traditional type of computer storage and have been around for decades with minor changes under the hood. Due to there age, they’re a mature technology and considered by many as the default storage medium. Basically they are rotating magnetic platters and with read/write heads that move across the surface to access the data. These drives are called “mechanical” because of the moving parts, and are susceptible to failure from time to time… usually at the least convenient time.

They are available in several speeds that are measured by how fast the platters spin.  Most drives in desktop PC’s are 7,200 RPM, but in laptops you may find 5,400 RPM.  Occasionally in servers or higher end storage you will find 10,000 RPM.  The faster they are, the more expensive they are.  You can increase performance and speed by using other technology such as RAID, but that’s another article.

Modern drives are readily available in up to 8TB these days, with 2 or 3TB being considered pretty standard.

In summary. HDDs are best used when you need to store a lot of data, and high performance is not essential. As a result, HDDs are the norm for a desktop computer, and every day home consumer.

ssdSolid-State Drives

Solid-state drives essentially perform the same role as a HDD. But rather than using mechanical moving parts, they use NAND flash memory. This means they are far more robust than traditional hard drives, and offer significantly greater performance.

Solid state drives normally connect using the same SATA interface as a HDD, but a few can use PCI for very high performance applications. Data access is typically a fraction of a millisecond and data transfer can be in excess of 500MB per second.

With those fast data access speeds, your operating system usually boots within a few seconds.

So far this all sounds pretty good!  So where’s the catch?  As always, it comes down to money.  This performance, when compared to HDDs, does not come cheap. If you want to spend the same money as you would on a HDD, but you want the performance of SSD, expect to be dealing with a much smaller capacity. The capacity of SSDs range from about 60GB to 2TB with the larger cost around $1300. In most cases, this is above the budget of the average consumer. It is however becoming popular to buy a smaller SSD for installing applications and your operating system, and then a larger traditional HDD for storing your data such as photos, music and movies.  Be warned though, HDDs would often give warning signs of imminent failure… SSDs will tend to simply go from working perfectly, to being completely dead in the blink of an eye.  BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!

 

momentus-100021850-largeHybrid

 

A hybrid hard drive is a mixture of a traditional HDD drive and a small solid-state/flash drive in a single package. The drive monitors the usage of data being read and keeps a copy of the most frequently accessed data on the flash memory as a cache. This results in SSD like performance at a fraction of the cost. They cost slightly more than traditional hard drives but nowhere near as much as solid state drives. They can often make an ideal cost effective solution.

 

All in all, I’m a fan of SSD.  And for me, if it’s in the budget, I will always get, and always recommend SSD.

Filed Under: Brisbane IT Support And Managed Services – EStorm Australia, Hardware, Infrastructure, IT Support, Managed IT Support Melbourne

Apple Launches New iMacs & Magic Accessories

October 14, 2015 By eStormAdmin


Today Apple have announced the updated range of their iMac products, introducing a new 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K Display and 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display.




Apple Launches New iMacs




The new desktop computers feature faster processors and graphics, two Thunderbolt 2 ports and up to 2TB of Fusion Drive storage for stock configurations. The 4K 21.5-inch iMac has a 3.1GHz Core i7 Broadwell processor and integrated Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200, while the 5K 27-inch iMacs have 3.2GHz to 3.3GHz Core i5 and i7 Skylake processors and dedicated AMD Radeon R9 GPUs.



Apple have also launched new Magic Accessories, including the Magic Mouse 2, Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard.




Apple Launches Magic Accessories




The new Magic Mouse 2 now has a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery that uses a Lightning USB cable to fully charge in two hours. It also has a redesigned internal structure that includes fewer moving parts.




The new Magic Trackpad 2 features Force Touch (similar to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus) and a larger edge-to-edge glass design with 29% more surface area.




The new Magic Keyboard features Bluetooth for wireless connectivity and also has a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery that will charge through a Lightning USB cable. The updated keyboard has been redesigned to give 33% more stability and offers a lower profile for more precise and comfortable typing.




All products are available through Apple’s online store and retail stores today.




Apple Insider has done a review on the new iMacs and has written a guide to help you find what product will be best suited to your needs. Read more here.

Filed Under: Apple, Hardware Tagged With: Apple

Microsoft To Release Their First Laptop, The Surface Book

October 7, 2015 By eStormAdmin


On Tuesday Microsoft Corp unveiled their first laptop, a new range of Lumia smartphones and a new Surface Pro tablet which will all be running their latest operating system, Windows 10.




The laptop, named the Surface Book, has a 13.5-inch display with 267 pixels per inch and features a track pad made of glass. Microsoft have claimed that it will be twice as fast as Apple’s MacBook Pro.




The Surface Book combines 6th Generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and up to 1 TB of storage with Intel HD graphics and optional discrete NVIDIA GeForce graphics. Microsoft have stated that the Surface Book could be used for photo and video editing, fast rendering or gaming.




Like the Surface tablet, the screen can be detached and Microsoft is boasting an “advanced touch and precise inking experience”.




With 12 hours of video playback battery life and full size backlit keyboard Microsoft is pitching the Surface Book as the “first full laptop in the Surface family.”




The Surface Book goes on sale in Australia on November 12 with preorders starting from October 7.




If you have any questions in regards to this product or would like to enquire about setting this up in your business, please contact the eStorm office on [email protected] or 1800 ESTORM




For more information on Microsoft’s newly updated products please visit this page.

Filed Under: Hardware, Microsoft, Windows Tagged With: Microsoft

Google OnHub, Google’s first Wifi Router

August 24, 2015 By eStormAdmin

Today Google have released their first Wifi Router for homes, the Google OnHub, designed to improve internet speed and guide the future of Wifi connectivity.

The cylinder-shaped router, named OnHub, comes with 13 in-built antennas that scan the airwaves to find the fastest connection available.

OnHub allows users to prioritise a device so that they can get the fastest internet speeds possible for data-heavy activities such as streaming movies.

Based on the specifications, the OnHub certainly has what it takes to make a good home router. It supports 802.11ac, the latest and greatest type of wi-fi communication tech. It’s an AC1900 router, which means it supports wireless communications of up to 1,900Mbits/sec, with 600Mbits/sec supplied across the 2.4GHz spectrum and the remaining 1,300Mbits/sec delivered over 5GHz.

Google have said that the OnHub will automatically update itself when new features arrive and the latest security is upgraded.

The OnHub comes days after Google’s announcement of their new parent company ‘Alphabet’. Alphabet is the parent company that will house Google and its subsidiary companies. It looks as though household devices will come under the Alphabet company.

Last year Google purchased Nest, a smart thermostat maker, in hopes to lead the way with how household devices link to each other and electricity grids.

It is expected that the global market for “Internet of Things”, the concept of connecting household devices to the Internet, will nearly triple to US$1.7 trillion by 2020. The OnHub appears to be Google’s attempt at being industry leaders in this movement. The OnHub has been created with the technology to connect to household products when they eventually come equipped with Wifi.

For more information on the specifications of the OnHub, see CRN’s report.

At this stage it has not been confirmed when Google’s OnHub will be for sale in Australia, but it is currently retailing for $199 in the US.

Filed Under: Hardware Tagged With: Google

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