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Intel wants your legs to be cooled when you use a laptop.  A laptop can get really hot when you let it sits on you for quite some time.  Bad designed laptops end up be really hot quite quickly, and if you touch these, you think you are touching the hot part of the stoves; it’s a little exaggerating, but it does make you think that laptop makers need to redesign their products.  Intel promotes a new way of cooling a laptop to prevent heat from inside the laptop heating up the outside of the laptop by using Intel Laminar Flow Technology.

Months back, Intel demonstrated laminar flow in Taiwan using animation to show how laminar flow works.  You can picture this, inside a jet engine, extreme heat exists, and if the heat is not redirect away from a jet’s internal combustible components, the result could be catastrophic for a jet without a proper cooling technology.  Although a laptop’s temperature could never rise to the level of a jet, but by implementing laminar flow, Intel suggests that the heat within a laptop could be redirect to a proper outer ducting and away from a laptop’s skin.

Laminar flow could be a crucial element that laptop makers would want to use on their super thin laptop models.  Nowadays, more laptop makers are trying to make thinner laptops, as thin as possible.  Laminar flow can provide a solution for laptop makers.  It’s not clear how much thinner a laptop could get by implementing laminar flow, but you and I can expect that the future laptops to be found in electronic stores near you may be a lot thinner than you could ever imagine.  Source.

The people who are having an interest in Chrome OS may like Jolicloud.  Jolicloud is a brand new operating system that is still in a beta stage.  You need an invitation in order for you to test drive Jolicloud.  Just like Chrome OS, Jolicloud relies on the Internet (cloud) for storage.  It will be super fast and easy to install, and you don’t even need a powerful computer to install Jolicloud.  There is no need for an expensive machine as Jolicloud is very much relying on the Internet.  Expect Jolicloud to work smoothly on the growing list of netbooks in the computer market.  If you have a netbook from Acer, Compaq, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Asus, Dell, Intel, MSI, and Toshiba, then Jolicloud can be installed on your netbook.  Check out Jolicloud’s screenshots.  Can we say, Chrome OS has a new competitor?

Black Friday came, and it was time for me to shop for a new PC.  Yep, you heard me right, a PC and not a laptop.  I have quite a few laptops, but my old PC was decommissioned two years back; I figured that I need a new PC that should be affordable and with strong horsepower.  I went to BestBuy and saw HP P6210Y, with some investigation among other few models nearby, I grabbed the P6210Y.  Plus tax, the total price was summed up to $600.  It turned out to be a good buy, so far!

This mean machine has 2.60GHz AMD Athlon™ II X4 620 Quad-Core Processor, Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM (although I hope it could be DDR3), 640GB (7200RPM) SATA, DVD Burner With LightScribe Technology, NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Shared video memory 512MB, High Definition Audio, USB 2.0, mouse and keyboard included, and 1 year service and support warranty.  Brought home, booted it up, and Windows 7 was beautiful (still is).  Afterward, I was able to install virtual machines onto P6210Y with ease, and the virtual machines worked as if it was on the real dual core machines (I configured virtual machines with 2 processors).  So far, everything is running very fast and stable, the fan is very quiet, and the temperature of the machine is at 60° C.  Too bad, I only had this machine for 2 days, and so I cannot review it as if I have had it for couple months or more.  This is why this review can only be taken as a grain of salt.

For I had made a purchase of this machine with BestBuy, a drawback was that out of the box, it got no restore CD.  A sale representative at BestBuy told me they could make one for me, but they told me to wait for 4 hours to get my restore CD and the PC, because they needed the PC for making a restore CD.  Fortunately, I know something about computer and software, I said no thank you as I could make a restore CD using Windows 7.  My suggestion to you, before you do anything to a brand new PC, make a system image and a repair disc using Windows 7 in case something might go wrong with your PC at a later date; you will have an option to restore your system to the brand new state.  Another drawback is this machine doesn’t have a TV tuner card, but I have always wanted one.  The machine doesn’t come with speakers, and so don’t forget to grab the speakers if you need them.  Hopefully, you already have a monitor for your PC, or else you have to buy one.  One more thing about the restoration, you can call HP’s tech support to have a restore CD to be sent to you, but you need to pay a hefty shipping price (range from $21 to $30).

I’m very happy with the purchase so far, and I’m surprised that the price for this machine in store has the same price with the one over on the web minus the shipping cost.  Hopefully, I will be able to say good things about this machine six months down the road.  I have found another machine online that is very much like the one I purchased from BestBuy, but this one is a different model although it’s a 6210 series.  For your information, if you click on the link and purchase this PC, Amazon will have to pay me a commission.