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Review: Dell Latitude E7370

Scott Lowe

As part of my Linux migration (see my initial progress report ), late this past week I started setting up my first non-Apple laptop since 2003. From a Titanium PowerBook G4 to multiple generations of aluminum MacBook Pros to (finally) a MacBook Air, I’m familiar with the quality and reliability of Apple hardware. 16 GB of RAM.

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Technology Short Take #67

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. By the way, I alluded to this sort of architecture in December 2006 while discussing the future of the operating system; see this blog post.).

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Macintosh iPhone Linux' Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Apple on Intel. Apple and Virtualization. This is What Snow Leopard Needs.

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. x86 marches on! Technology Short Take #37.

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Fountainhead: Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing

Fountainhead

As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well. Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, Unix. ► 2006. (2). Very cool, guys. Ken Oestreich. Labels: Infrastructure Orchestration , Unified Computing.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). August 2006 (31).