Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7
Arr… Vendors in Beijing’s Zhongguancun market are charging customers $7 to install Windows 7 onto any computer. The hilarious part? The copies of Windows are pirated.
The service takes about 40 minutes and includes a full install as well as a quick crack. Win7 Family Edition costs $11.
I haven’t actually seen any Win7 cracks – it just never came up in my searches – but this points to the possibility that either Win7 is hard to install (which I don’t believe is the case) or that the cracks are quite complex right now, similar to the old tricks you had to play with XP.
Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes [Windows 7]
Toppling 7000 dominoes to commemorate the launch of Windows 7 definitely riled up the employees at Microsoft’s Hyderabad center in India, but they probably didn’t think it through in terms of the jokes it might generate. [Ars Technica]
Posted: October 28th, 2009
at 1:26pm by Sean Fallon
Topics: Microsoft, Windows 7 dominoes, Windows 7 liftoff, dominoes, india, windows 7, windows 7 launch
Albatron’s 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video
While Dell and HP were busy holding a competition to see who could do a worse job of announcing their new optical multitouch displays, Albatron was crafting away a 42-inch monstrosity to completely steal their thunder. The optical part refers to a pair of CMOS sensors embedded in the bezel which are responsible for touch detection, a cheaper alternative to your typical capacitive and resistive tech, which requires an extra USB connection between the monitor and computer. Although some issues were found with Windows 7’s multitouch implementation, the promise of recognizing more than two fingers with the proper software support and the general responsiveness of the unit whet our appetite for more. Alas, nobody dares speak of a price, but a 1080p 22-inch model is already available for $450, in case you wanted to add to your touchy-feely shortlist. The video after the break contains the hands-on and a little mystery — why is there Bulgarian handwriting on the whiteboard in the background?
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Albatron’s 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 28th, 2009
at 1:23pm by Vladislav Savov
Topics: AlbatronOtm, Cmos, CmosSensors, Hands-onVideo, MultitouchDisplay, MultitouchMonitor, OpticalTouch, OpticalTouchMonitor, TemperedGlass, TouchscreenMonitor, Windows 7 multitouch, Windows7, Windows7Multitouch, albatron, albatron otm, cmos sensors, display, hands on, hands-on video, monitor, multitouch, multitouch display, multitouch monitor, optical touch, optical touch monitor, otm, screen, tempered glass, touchscreen, touchscreen monitor, video, win7, windows 7
MSI’s Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one PC brings 21.6-inch multitouch panel, Win7
MSI’s Wind Top line seems to be expanding at a breakneck pace, and the latest entry is actually worth bending over backwards to get a look at. Boasting a 21.6-inch multitouch display (1,920 x 1,080 native resolution), the all-in-one desktop also features Windows 7 Home Premium, 4GB of DDR2 memory, a 640GB hard drive, NVIDIA’s GeForce 9300 integrated graphics set (or Ion, if you please), an HDMI output, a bundled wireless keyboard / mouse and your choice of a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T6600 or 2.1GHz Pentium T4300 processor. You’ll also get eSATA support, WiFi, a 1.3-megapixel camera and a 6-in-1 card reader. Three versions are up for pre-order right now at Amazon, with the cheapest pegged at $659.99 and the most pricey at $899.99.
[Via Engadget Korea]
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Read – Amazon pre-order page
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MSI’s Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one PC brings 21.6-inch multitouch panel, Win7 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 28th, 2009
at 10:18am by Darren Murph
Topics: AioPc, All-in-onePc, AllInOne, AllInOnePc, MSI, MsiWindTop, WindTop, WindTopAe2220, Windows7, ae2220, aio, aio pc, all-in-one, all-in-one pc, desktop, ion, msi wind top, multitouch, wind top, wind top ae2220, windows 7
Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video)
If 7,000 dominoes fall in a forest of cheering Microsoft employees, do they make enough noise for us to care? We don’t usually tell Microsoft how to run its promotions, but a domino installation that takes a full three minutes to topple is pretty much an open invitation for “slow boot-up” jokes, and a climactic finale that revolves around a hot air balloon version of your logo crashing against a glass ceiling might also create the wrong impression. Ah well, these guys are engineers and not choreographers, after all — you can see the fruit of their labor after the break.
[Thanks, Colin]
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