Posted by George Hotz on under kernel patches, flakiness, vta, payload, props, map | 
Vista, Windows 7, International, 64-bit support
Less flakiness in the payload
Cydia tar cleaned up
Improved logging with slightly more useful errors
New kernel patches, codesign errors gone. Props posixninja
Added vm_map +x, passed vm_check
No winterboard yet, but now that ball is in Saurik's court :-)
Still in
beta, use caution
purplera1nHappy 4th everyone!!!
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Posted by on under iolo technologies, tune up software, boot times, sleep mode, promes, vta, old windows, software firm, term tests, boot time, different story, mth, software software, real world, nbsp, improvements, sleep |
There's no question that
Windows 7 promises plenty of improvements over Vista, with one of the biggest being faster boot times. While that's certainly been the experience for some, Iolo Technologies (a maker of PC tune-up software) found some significantly different results in their long term tests, which they say show that Windows 7 isn't faster than Vista at all in real world use. Specifically, they found that while Windows 7 actually got to the desktop fairly quickly, it took a full minute and 34 seconds to actually become usable, compared to a minute and 6 seconds with Vista. They also unsurprisingly found that things got worse over time, with a three-month old Windows 7 install adding a full minute to the boot time, although in that case it did actually fare somewhat better than Vista. Of course, we are talking about complete reboots here, and it's a different story when Windows 7 is simply coming in and out of sleep mode. Details on the tests are otherwise a bit light, but Iolo is promising to release its complete findings next week.
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Software firm finds Windows 7 doesn't boot faster than Vista originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under series laptops, hothardware, cutie pie, fri, vta, writeup, benchmarks, unveiling, midget, knees, champ, scratch, atom, intel, nbsp, ing |
We've already
witnessed the
unveiling of ASUS' largest two
UL series laptops, so it's only fair to pass along an in-depth look at the midget of the bunch. The UL30A was recently taken for a ride over at
HotHardware, and while we've had our suspicions as to whether Intel's
CULV platform really would provide an incentive for to-be netbook buyers to spend a bit more, it seems as if this ultraportable definitely is worth the extra scratch. Unlike your average Atom-powered netbook, the UL30 could actually handle 720p video like a champ (though 1080p brought it to its knees), and even with Vista taking a toll on its resources, day to day work was found to be surprisingly snappy. At $749 and up, the seductively silver UL30 was found to be a solid buy in its category, but we're not asking you to take our word for it. Hit that read link for the full writeup, benchmarks and all.
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ASUS 13.3-inch UL30 gets reviewed, called a cutie pie originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under pc world uk, laptop store, dv3, vta, holdouts, s line, touchscreen, laptops, currency, hp, germany |
As one of the last two Vista holdouts on
HP's online laptop store (the other being HDX16), we were wondering what was going on with the Pavilion
dv3. Well, it's still not stateside, but Germany and the UK can apparently pick up the
Windows 7-equipped touchscreen dv3-2200 now for £799.99 / €899 (somewhere between $1,305 and $1,350, respectively, in comparable US currency), with difference of pricing based on the separate listings. Additionally, we spotted the 11.6-inch
dm1-1000 -- which was also
leaked alongside the dv3 -- with a 1.2GHz Celeron processor and that hot new OS from Redmond. We're sure it'll come to the US eventually, but for now we're just gonna have to wait ever, ever so patiently.
[Thanks, Adam and everyone]
Read - Official HP dm1-1000 page
Read - Official HP dv3-2200 page
Read - PC World UK listing for dv3
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HP's Pavilion dv3 and dm1 wash ashore on European land originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under firecrackers, vta, firepower, germans, fireworks, orgy, new year, eve, arsenal |
For the three days leading up to New Year’s Eve, the space behind the glass counter is crammed with an arsenal of fireworks with names like “Bombastic,” “Extreme Firepower” and “Hasta la vista.” In these three days, Mainusch will sell up to eight crates worth of firecrackers and fireworks, earning enough money to cover the shop’s rent for 3 months.
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