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Even though these "division twoâ€ laptops wonâ€™t be built by Sony, Ryosuke Akahane claimed that they would have a "taste of VAIO, the style of VAIOâ€. The laptops will still bear Sony's name, and the company will put the models through the same quality assurance tests as division one VAIOs before approving any third-party designs.They will also include many of the features to be included in new models of Sony-made VAIOs, such as the Assist button â€“ press this and a recovery centre will launch to help customers save and rescue data.Akahane insists the new products will be of the same quality as existing VAIOs. "The quality criteria itself is no different between division number one and division number two.â€Instead the difference will be in the technology. "We will include new technology [such as the latest processors] in division number one first, and then we can learn and we can get the know-how, then we can transfer [the technology] to the products coming from division two.â€

We asked Akahane if Sony had considered setting up a different brand in a similar way to Dell with its Studio and Inspiron lines, but he was definitive in his answer. "No. We had a discussion for that, but the conclusion is no. Making a new brand is an investment, itâ€™s not efficient, and also for the customer we wanted to enhance the identity of VAIO more and more and for that having a different brand is not good.â€We go behind the scenes of Sony's VAIO testing lab, including photos Akahane has set an informal target of ten million sales of VAIO laptops in 2010, rising from around 6.8 million in 2009. Explaining the need for this dramatic rise now, he explained: "We need a certain market share. And if we donâ€™t have a certain market share, itâ€™s tough to survive.â€ However, he ruled out buying a rival to boost Sony's sales in the immediate future.So who is Sony targeting with its new strategy? "Itâ€™s more HP and Apple [than Acer]. We have been launching new technology and new products, and we believe weâ€™ve made lots of innovation. Weâ€™ll continue with those challenges, and at the same time the network service is very important.â€

The network service Akahane refers to is based on the PlayStation Network, Sonyâ€™s rival to Xbox Live. "In our case, we have more devices [than Apple] â€“ such as TVs and PlayStation, and also we have to realise the synergy among those products.â€The example cited by Akahane was watching a movie: you download it on a TV but need to leave your home for work, and with a synched network service you could watch the rest of the movie from the exact point you stopped watching on your Sony Ericsson phone or VAIO laptop.Akahane wouldnâ€™t confirm when this service would become available, but we expect it to arrive late in 2010.There has been a bit of a burst of action lately with engineer's utility updates. No, come back! This is important.You may think that engineers are a vanishing species and it's all about just unwrapping the latest Chromebook, which will immediately solve every computing problem you ever had, but it's not: despite the dire forecasts of the death of the PC, other forces are at work, including both the growing demand for data storage and the relentless pace of hardware improvements.I really like the first-generation hybrid laptop drives: the 750GB Seagate with a reasonable amount of flash as cache for the spinning disk, for instance, does a stunning job of extending the battery life of my superannuated Dell Vostro 1510 laptop.

The next generation is even more interesting: two completely separate physical drives inside a single 2.5 inch form factor, neither of them especially small in gigabytes, makes a hugely persuasive upgrade for laptops with build dates way back in the noughties.Looking at screws on the bottom of their laptop is considered to be as safe as riding up the inside of a cement mixer in a rainstorm, on a penny-farthing.But that kind of upgrade is viewed as voodoo by many. Looking at screws on the bottom of their laptop is considered to be as safe as riding up the inside of a cement mixer in a rainstorm, on a penny-farthing. Then they see just how many boxed-set episodes of Breaking Bad can be carried around in iTunes on my Dell, and they start badgering away: how did you get all that room?The missing link that makes upgrades possible is disk-imaging software. There are several makers, but I tend to fiddle about with the Paragon Software suite when I have to do some imaging.

The idea of a disk-imaging tool is that it grabs every last bit left on the old disk and deposits it wholesale on the new one. Sometimes this involves some intermediate storage like an external USB drive or a network server; other times all you need is to pop the lid on the box and make use of the almost always unused extra SATA connectors on the motherboard.I was intrigued to see that every disk-imaging company issued new versions of their software in this field as soon as Windows 8.1 appeared: of course every new version brings with it improvements that may as a side-effect chop off some previously vital dependancy, and with the huge improvements common to Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 I was expecting to see some handsome increases in speed or the range of networked NAS boxes the utilties could use.Instead, I ran into a bit of a speed-bump. After finding that a 500GB drive used to build Windows 8.1 on a recycled Vista machine might, possibly, have one or two boringly electrical issues (translation: it would only boot if given a sharp tap at just the right moment, and could take 20 minutes to shut down), I grabbed Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 14 suite and even went so far as to take the 3-machine family pack option.

Migrating from the wobbly 500GB drive to a much nicer 160GB 10,000rpm Raptor drive looked to be easy as pie; the basic 8.1 C drive being copied in well under 3 minutes on the Dell Precision T5500 I was using as a project machine in this case. Whip out the offending drive, substitute the Raptor on the primary boot SATA connection and... watch it sit there perpetually rebooting.What I had missed, so that you don't, was the critical change to the Shutdown menu in Windows 8.1. After Paragon had copied the drive contents from junk drive to Raptor, I had to shut the machine down to complete the swap: and at that moment, the only indication of impending doom was that the pop-up menu said update and shutdown, not shutdown.This meant that as Paragon was reading the blocks of the source disk, Windows was making an invisible and unstoppable background download of a system update. While the source disk contained all the files required to apply the updates at the next restart, the target disk didn't. Boot from the target disk and the update kicks off, but never completes, since it is missing some files which landed on the disk after the low-level copier swept over it like a searchlight across the flank of a tanker.

Infinite reboot cycle was the outcome. To fix this I had to put the whole machine out in the car-port so the flakey source disk didn't stop, let the updates finish, reboot another couple of times to ensure no more updates were due, unplug the LAN lead... and then finally run the disk copier.Now, to my mind this calls into considerable question the assertion made by Paragon that this latest version supports Windows 8.1. In fairness, it is certainly reprehensible that updates can arrive from Microsoft in complete sets which a well-recognised and long-standing utility can then blow apart; but on the other hand it's not difficult for Paragon to put up a dialog saying, oh, you have updates in progress. Please reboot to apply them and then we can get to work. Or maybe it is difficult, since across all the 2013 wave of updates, Microsoft has decided that background works-in-progress of all kinds (updates, role additions, network operations) do not show any progress information to the user.Unlike a lot of nerds, I am keen to use Windows 8.1, because the various improvements - especially the full-fat no-limits Hyper-V role - are fantastically useful. However, it is clearly going to take some time for the market to catch up to all the implications of what is a radically new way of thinking.

Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels.Light Peak is an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions. Intel hopes Light Peak will one day replace the host of other PC interconnects, including USB, DisplayPort and HDMI.Intel has fitted Light Peak into a regular USB cable, with optical fibres running alongside the electrical cabling. Intel provided a visual demonstration of how data is passed through the cable, by shining a torch into one end of the cable, with two little dots of light visible to the naked eye at the other end.The demonstration laptop was sending two separate HD video streams to a nearby television screen, without any visible lag. The laptop includes a 12mm square chip that converts the optical light into electrical data that the computer understands. The technology hasn't yet been integrated into the screen, which explains the ugly black box sitting between the two devices.Intel's chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, claimed that the bandwidth afforded by the optical technology is practically unlimited. Light Peak begins at 10Gbits/sec, simultaneously in both directions, he said. We expect to increase that speed dramatically. You'll see multiple displays being served by a single Light Peak connection. There's almost no limit to the bandwidth - fibres can carry trillions of bits per second.

Rattner said the technology will find its way into everything from home PCs to server farms. The potential of that headroom will lead people to rethink the design of their systems, he said. We've very, very excited about the potential of Light Peak.An Intel spokesman said Light Peak hardware should start to become available to manufacturers by the end of this year.The number of smartphones and tablet computers shipped with Google's Android operating system will break the 1 billion barrier this year, according to research group Gartner.Android is forecast to reach 1.1 billion users in 2014, up 26% on last year, with the strongest demand in emerging markets.Apple's iOS and OS X operating systems are expected to be in 344 million new iPhones, iPads and Macs this year, Gartner added, representing a 28% jump on the number of devices shipped in 2013.

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