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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO Business Intelligence

The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. Then in 2020, Tomago moved its ERP system back on-prem — a decision that’s paying dividends. “We

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US consumers spent record amounts on video games in 2020, NPD reports

The Verge

billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Group report , a 27 percent increase compared to 2019. Spending on hardware hit its highest level since 2011 at $5.3 NPD classifies video game spending as money spent at retail and digital storefronts on “video game hardware, content, and accessories.”.

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Early reviews of Microsoft’s new Surface Duo praise hardware, pan buggy software and muddy camera

GeekWire

Tech reviewers are giving the company high marks, mostly, for the unique hardware of the Duo, a hinged device with two 5.6-inch — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) September 10, 2020. Overall, in terms of the hardware, he says, “I’m not going to say that Microsoft nailed it with the execution, but they came damn close.”

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Review: 2020 M1-Based MacBook Pro

Scott Lowe

I hadn’t done a personal hardware refresh in a while; my laptop was a 2017-era MacBook Pro (with the much-disliked butterfly keyboard) and my tablet was a 2014-era iPad Air 2. Included in that order was a new 2020 13" MacBook Pro with the Apple-designed M1 CPU. Read on for more details. Speaking of software… Software.

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Listen to the sick Mac sound effect song that Apple opened its keynote with

The Verge

Cook — using Apple’s Pro Display XDR, MacBook Pro, and Logic Pro, of course. The video’s fun, too, featuring a wide array of Apple hardware from throughout the years, including old iBooks and the sadly defunct iPod Hi-Fi. Mac 2020 alert. The song itself is called “Start Up” and is a surprisingly chill listening experience.

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HP Envy x360 (2020) review: AMD wins again

The Verge

Not only does the 2020 Envy x360 look as nice and perform as well as last year’s Spectre x360 (which starts at $1,099), but using it also feels quite similar to using HP’s $1,500 Elite Dragonfly, one of the best business notebooks on the market. This is far from a deal-breaking problem, of course. Battery life is also good.

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. The whole interview is worth a listen, of course. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe.