Easy Trade Up

Microsoft wants you to own a new Windows 10 laptop and they will pay you when you switch from your old MacBook or laptop.

A promotion offer from official has been launched named it “Easy Trade Up”, by using this offer users can get $200 for an old laptop and $300 for selling a MacBook. After that user can spend that money back to buy a Windows 10 laptop that will cost around $599, Users will purchase it directly from Microsoft Store.

The list of Windows 10 devices from which users can choose includes the Asus ZenBook UX205, Dell XPS 13, and HP Spectre x360.

Surprisingly, Microsoft has not added its own devices in the list. Sadly, both the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are nowhere to be in offer.

If your device isn’t more than five years old, you can get good price by selling that device through Amazon, eBay and even Gazelle. And if your laptop is more than five years old then it makes sense to go through Easy Trade Up program by Microsoft.

More than 1.1 million users has been installed Windows 10 on their devices, its great news for Microsoft and awful for manufacturing companies, as most individuals held off on buying new device when they want to upgrade their OS for free. After a low period of PC sales in the summer, it's not much surprising to expect such kind of offer from Microsoft and manufacturers to get users to buy new device.

HP Pavilion Mini

HP Pavilion Mini

HP Pavilion Mini is one of the best and latest quiet, small and efficient desktops in the market, and it's one of the best and elegant looking mini desktops we have seen the release of the Apple’s Mini. With versions starting at $269 the Pavilion Mini desktop is an affordable option, with enough storage memory and good power for day-to-day processes.

The device is equipped with 1TB of space, an Intel’s 1.9GHz Core i3 CPU and 4GB of main memory (which can be upgrade up to 16GB if required); a much faster model with Core i5 processor is also available, as is a cost effective choice with a low capable Pentium processor and 500 GB of hard drive.

Design

Weight is only a 660g and with a powerful footprint of 144mm x 144mm x 52mm, the Pavilion Mini takes low desk space than the Mac Mini, and little bit more taller than the Acer One R85L (which is around three times tall); if you didn't know much then you can easily confuse with HP Pavilion Mini for a Wi-Fi router or and external drive. Overall style is like an early 2000s iMac, favoring the combination of semi-translucent and shiny white plastics over aluminum bodies you can find on many other Mac copies. With fewer proportions and without square edge in sight, the HP Pavilion Mini is a nice looking little device that would grace the workspaces.

On front there are small USB 3.0 slots near the power button, and on the right side there's a SD card socket for quick photo accessibility. On the back there are two USB 3.0 sockets with a DisplayPort, HDMI, 3.5mm microphone/ headphone, RJ45 Network and DC power slot. The bottom is covered with a rubber pad that stops the device to slide around, and it can be removed to get access to the screws, you will need to put it back in order to get access to the internals.

Specifications

The complete specifications of the device are given below:

·         CPU: Intel Core i3-40255U, 1.9GHz.

·         RAM: 4GB 1,600MHZ DDR3.


·         Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5500.

·         Optical drive: N/A.

·         Storage: 1TB 5,400rpm HDD.


·         Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi.



·         Ports: 4 USB 3.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, headphone/microphone jack, SD Card.

·         OS: 64-bit Windows 8.

·         Size: 144mm x 144mm x 52mm (W x D x H).

The specifications aren’t looking bad for such an efficient device, and in real world performance was far better than a taller desktop from such a small package. The HP Pavilion Mini takes just some seconds to boot, and 1080p video streaming didn't an issue.

If you are looking forward to buy a mini to look elegant in your office, sit sneak under your television or meet the device requirements for a kid's homework, then the Pavilion Mini is a best contender.

While the core specification may not compatible with the requirements of game lover (who want to consider it as Alienware Alpha or Maingear Spark), or more intensifier process, the higher end device more than fulfill the requirements of those who looking for a computer for entertainment at home, and the price is favorably against the price of Acer Revo RL85.

Delete All Emails in iOS 9

We have heard the complaints about people are not able to delete all email from their iPad or iPhone. There have something technical to do, as they need weird finger gymnastics and it doesn’t work all the time.

Happily, Apple has heard this complain too, so in latest iOS9 they have included a quick method to delete all email easily. Just go in your inbox, click the Edit link in the top right corner in inbox, then click the Trash All link in the bottom right corner. You will be given a warning to confirm that are you sure to delete all your email? Do so and all your emails will be deleted and sent to the trash folder. Remember that this method will not work if you are in the folder of All Inboxes- it will work only with per-account basis.

If you want to delete all email from your iPhone, go to your All Trash (or Trash) folder, tap the Edit link, then hit the Delete All link, and then confirm. Now all unwanted emails removed permanently!

However, if you are not using iOS 9 yet, you still need to use a workaround. Select Inbox or All Inboxes, press Edit button, hit the circle to the left side of each of your email, then click and hold for a while Move button with one finger, then, with other finger, uncheck all the emails you checked recently. When you move your finger from Move button, all of your emails should be selected to shift into new location; select to move them to the Trash.

Most Powerful Gaming Laptop

Alienware 18

A 14 inch laptop for gaming is in about each buyer’s repertoire, while 15 inches are a setup, and just little bit harder to find out. At 17.3 inch, the gaming laptop makes their separate niche, built by some well-known brands and even small mainstream builders, like HJ and Toshiba.

An 18.4 inch gaming laptop, however, is a ghost. When a laptop gets to be so powerful it need a rolling bag to play around (and price as much as a down payment for a small home). The Alienware 18 is like that – for $4,166.

With dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M GPUs – The powerful mobile graphics chip – and a most powerful fast Core i7 processor by Intel, the Alienware 18 laptop is the best option for mobile gaming rigs equipped with two turbo chargers. The hardware specifications are much hot to make any laptop nerd faint.

The rest of the designed series of Alienware laptops, this 18.4 inch get a makeover until the Alienware 18x comes in the market two years ago. The Dell has moved beyond from gaming platforms that look and feel like trapezoids and has equipped a more elegant look with round corners.

The new look is impressive, accented with small lights, and much stunning thing to look at the front than the automatic grill aesthetic. The new design comes with a space ship. On top of the latest design, the Alienware 18 laptop has some other niceties, including magnesium alloy base and an aluminum clad lid. The internal design of laptop is also comes completely with a soft rubbery material, a best place to rest your arms for gaming sessions.

Put all things together, this gaming laptop is a meticulously part of hardware that it closes blush without any gap. You will not seek a single misaligned section on the machine even with all the body lines interconnected with the laptop's body design. This technology even empower to the laptop’s ports, which are all built with metal.

Alienware 18 Specs

·         Graphics: 2x Nvidia GeForce GTX; Intel HD Graphics 4600

·         CPU: Intel Core i7-4910MQ  2.9GHz (8MB cache, quad-core up to 3.9GHz with Turbo Boost)

·         RAM: 16GB DDR3L (2x 8GB at 1600MHz)

·         Storage: 256GB mSATA SSD

·         Screen: 18.4-inch, 1920 x 1080 WLED TrueLife Display

·         Ports: 4x USB 3.0,  RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet IPv6, HDMI 1.4-out/ 1.3-in, Mini DisplayPort, 2x audio out ⅛-inch ports, 7-in-1 media card reader, line-in microphone ⅛-inch, Kensington security lock

·         Connectivity: 802.11ac dual band Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 4.0

·         Camera: 2MP webcam, 1080p video

·         Optical drive: Slot-loading, dual layer Blu-ray reader

·         Weight: 12.06 pounds

So than the Origin EON17-S and Alienware 17, or any other gaming laptop in the market, users should think deep and hard before purchasing an Alienware 18 because there are too many more sensible and affordable options in the market. For the same roughly price, you can have a desktop around an Nvidia Titan (or two) and you will still have enough money to build a powerful gaming machine.

Apple's next IOS update, coming on June 8, 2015

IOS 9

IOS 9 is latest operating system from Apple for its i devices like the iPad and iPhone, released at the global Developers Conference on June 8. iOS 9 develops on the content that was introduced in iOS 8 and iOS 7, bringing little design improvements, improved functionality, refined features, and performance improvements. iOS 9's great focus is on proactivity and intelligence, allowing its devices to learn more user interaction and act on that data, opening apps when we think in mind about that, making recommendations on different places that we might like, and helping us throughout our daily life to ensure we're where we want to be at the same time.

IOS 9 Features

Low Power Mode

I cannot say much things about new Low Power mode feature. I love that because it asks at 20% and again at 10%, and then turns off itself automatically once you are charged up to 80$%. And you still can use all the features of your iPhone: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Location Services, GPS, etc. 

Automatically organize your selfies in Photos

A small but very useful tweak to the new iOS 9 to keep all your photos well organized, if you are a selfie enthusiast, it is very useful for you. Pics taken with the front camera get placed automatically in a Selfies folder.

New San Francisco font

A font designed by Apple that was also used in the Apple Watch. This latest San Francisco font is used in Spotlight search, Settings and in the native applications.

An intuitive Shift key

I really love this tweaks made to the existing iOS keyboard—especially the Shift key in IOS9. I know, this is very far from revolution, but this tweak makes it very easy to tell if the caps lock is turned on or off.

Go back to previous app with small, new Back button

The new Back button rocks my way of using iPhone and iPadPro. If I am using Twitter, and I got notification or message from Instagram, I can view that message, tap to Instagram, switch inside Instagram, and still can go back to Twitter.

Siri is now your new personal DJ 

In new iOS 9, Siri’s gotten a lot worth. Siri is not only serving up data about the different directions and weather, but it can answer all your complex questions like, “get me photos from last winter.”

Easy editing of long piece of text

Feature is only work with iPad, you can put two fingers on the keyboard and it quickly becomes a trackpad, and let you select large piece of text with one click. The new feature on the bar assit you format the content or copy/cut/paste it with one tap.

Microsoft Surface Pro 4

Surface Pro 4

As Apple is going to release big this fall with 12.9 inch iPadPro, Microsoft is now supposed to be release an even big Surface Pro 4. Microsoft's previous flagship Surface Pro 3 model, comes with 12 inch display and fifth-generation of Intel’s Core i processors, may get new Surface Pro 4 enhance this fall with a more than 13 inch display. "Microsoft is planning to build two next-generation Surface 1 models, one will equip a 12 inch screen and the 2^nd will equip more than 13 inch display," DigiTimes report that. The release often has a mixture of track record with expectations.

Right now, Microsoft provides a 12 inch Surface Pro 3 and the 10.8 inch Surface 3. The model with small screen is considered the min-level offer, which introduce with Intel Atom processor, and the model with larger screen is presented as a tablet book that can be utilized as an Ultra book when compared with Microsoft's Type Cover keyboard.

If the Surface Pro 4 comes to market in this fall, it may offer with sixth-generation of Intel's processor. Even Intel not yet reveal anything about Skylake, Microsoft present  Surface Pro 3 with the latest processor, and the built-in Gen9 graphics card could be used to run more than three videos with more than 4K resolution. Microsoft is supposed to host an event in October. Even details of the event are not available yet; Microsoft could also use that event to release Windows 10 smartphone, might be new Lumia mobile or might be Surface Phone or update hardware of tablet. There is no predicted price information for the new Surface Pro 4 model. I am expecting the 12 inch tablet will cost round about the same price as the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. The base Microsoft Pro 3 tablet with an Core i3 processor, 4GB RAM and 64GB storage is priced around $799 ( AU$1,126), £516, and the Keyboard Cover include $129 ( AU$181, £83) to the price.

The big more than 13 inch Surface Pro 4 will seems to cost more because of the productivity features it can offer. For comparison with Apple, its cost difference between the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro is around $100. The Microsoft Surface 3 model starts around $499, offering Microsoft a gap of $300 between the prices of Surface Pro 3.  The two models cannot compared directly because the Surface 3 comes with Atom processor and Pro 3 comes with powerful Core chip by Intel, but the price difference tell us and idea on pricing for the upcoming model.

Remember that the price will boost once you choose the model with more storage space, a more powerful Core I Intel processor and increased main memory space. You'll like also to purchase a keyboard as Microsoft is not offering free Type Cover Keyboard with device, but Microsoft used to provide a Surface Pen to artists started and writers with its Pro series.