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Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Ultrabook Review

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lenovo ideapad yoga 13 ultrabook

During the first few days, I tried using the Yoga as a tablet on several occasions and thoroughly enjoyed myself, but after my initial excitement cooled down, I find that I barely use the laptop’s touch capabilities, except when triggering them by mistake when trying to get rid of dust on the screen. Having said that, it’s nice to be able to use Windows 8 as its meant to be, and I’m sure that with time, I will find more and more uses for the Yoga’s excellent touch screen.

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via MakeUseOf – Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Ultrabook Review & Giveaway

I can remember Steve Jobs too saying something about the bad ergonomics of a touchscreen on a desktop machine …

In the title’s linked Apple knowledge-base page there are show some

… limitations of the Fusion Drive, such as the inability to add more than one additional partition to the hard disk portion, and the fact that Boot Camp Assistant does not support 3 TB configurations. Other issues include some potential problems using Time Machine to restore to a Fusion Drive.
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via 9to5mac.com

Boom!

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Apple's Lightning connector

In keeping with recent meteorological themes – iCloud, Thunderbolt – yesterday Apple introduced the new “Lightning” connector for its mobile hardware.

With this funny line Rainer Brockerhoff starts an interesting article on why Apple chose this new connector for it’s iDevices hardware and not the commonly used micro-USB

Airstash Range, extend your iOS-based storage space

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The AirStash™ is an easy to use pocket-sized wireless flash drive with built-in media streamer and 2-way wireless file transfer that offers expandable iPad, iPhone, and iPod storage for movies, photos, music, eBooks, and documents.
Users can download more apps and still carry dozens of movies or thousands of photos and wirelessly stream them to their iPhone or iPad. AirStash™ uses standard SD cards for storage, so it’s infinitely expandable.
The product comes with the option of either an 8GB or 16GB SDHC card, so that the user can experience the AirStash™ straight out-of-the box. Stop emailing files to someone in the same room! AirStash™ lets you carry your files with you and share them between devices quickly and easily, using industry standard WebDAV technology.
Save and access files wirelessly, or plug AirStash™ into a computer’s USB port to drag-and-drop your files. It works with new and existing apps including Apple’s Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for iPad.

Maxell AirStash →

Definitively a product to keep an eye on …