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Each time a new version of Windows is released, many computer users find that their hardware is suddenly outdated. For cash-strapped schools, upgrading to the latest hardware with each major software release is simply impossible. A New York startup called NeverWare is offering a possible solution—a server that lets even decade-old PCs upgrade to the latest Windows 7 operating system.
Once NeverWare’s server, called the JuiceBox a100, is added to a school’s existing computer network , it does the hard work of running the latest operating systems for numerous aging computers on the same network. To users of those old computers, it will feel as if the PCs are running the latest version of Windows, when in fact they are accessing it over the network. Their typing and mouse commands are sent to the software on the server, and the imagery for their display is sent back.
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Apple has introduced the first implementation of Intel’s new Thunderbolt technology for high speed communications, aimed at providing a very fast new data connection for mobile professionals.
Intel confirmed in a press release that Thunderbolt, “formerly codenamed ‘Light Peak,’” is an “Intel-developed technology” that is “coming to market through a technical collaboration with Apple, and is available first on Apple’s new line of MacBook Pro laptop computers.”
The new specification accommodates faster, simpler connections between devices, acting as a next generation FireWire but with speeds of up to 10Gbps, which Intel points out is fast enough to transfer a full length, HD movie in less than 30 seconds or to backup an MP3 collection large enough to play nonstop for a year in just ten minutes.
That’s 12 times faster than FireWire 800, and 20 times faster than USB 2.0. It’s even twice as fast as Intel’s USB 3.0 specification, which Apple hasn’t adopted yet. Unlike just an upgrade to USB, however, Thunderbolt delivers the ability to daisy-chain multiple devices without using a hub.
New MacBook Pros support six devices, such as one display and five separate peripherals, turning the professional notebooks into flexible, high powered workstations for video editors and other professionals just as Apple gets ready to release its new edition of Final Cut Pro.