Cramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. Smartphone screens are too small for desktop OSes, and connecting a keyboard and mouse is usually out of the question. But now Canonicals Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop OS only when it actually makes sense.
Canonical announced today that it will seamlessly integrate Android with the Linux-based Ubuntu distribution. A device running Ubuntu for Android loads Android during typical smartphone use cases, then switches to Ubuntu once its been slid into a dock that connects to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Well out in front with almost half the votes, ASUS was voted as the maker of the best desktop motherboards in 2011 by TweakTown readers. In second place GIGABYTE got 20% of the votes while ASRock came in third with 14% of the votes. Read more…
HP intros a new AIO Desktop PC that is aimed at Business Users, it is called the HP Omni Pro 110 and comes with a 20-inch widescreen HD anti-glare display and a few specs that would make me refer it to a Business user. It packs the power of a Intel Core 2 Duo processor, there is up to 1TB hard disk drive storage which makes it ideal for office with tons of paperwork, up to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM so productivity is alway on track, ENERGY STAR-qualified meaning it will burn less electricity than the everyday PC plus there are other specifications which may also come in handy including its webcam with a microphone which could be used in online conferences and a DVD Writer for backup of old files to a DVD disc.