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BMAX Y14 is a thin, light, and affordable laptop… with a 6-year-old processor

One way to make affordable laptops is to use cheap current-gen parts. Another way is to use older components that were expensive a few years ago, but which have come down in price since then. The BMAX Y14 Pro is a laptop that takes a mix of both approaches. It’s a $500 laptop with modern […]

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One way to make affordable laptops is to use cheap current-gen parts. Another way is to use older components that were expensive a few years ago, but which have come down in price since then.

The BMAX Y14 Pro is a laptop that takes a mix of both approaches. It’s a $500 laptop with modern features including a sleek thin and light design, USB Type-C ports, and quad speakers. But it’s powered by a 2015-era Intel Core M7-6Y75 processor.

That’s a 7-watt processor based on Intel’s 6th-gen Skylake architecture. It’s a 2-core, 4-thread chip with support for turbo speeds up to 3.1 GHz, but in terms of performance, it trails behind newer chips like the Core m3-8100Y, Core i3-10110Y, or Core i3-1115G4 processor in benchmarks.

Honestly, BMAX probably could have gotten better performance by opting for a Pentium Silver N6000 chip, a current-gen low-cost, low-power processor based on Intel Jasper Lake architecture.

And one other upside to using a newer chip? The computer would be compatible with Windows 11. Microsoft doesn’t officially support installing its new operating system on computers with 6th-gen Core processors, which means that the BMAX Y14 Pro will be stuck with Windows 10 unless you want to install Linux or risk an unofficial, unsupported Windows 11 update.

The good news is that Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 through 2025. The bad news is that means this computer will no longer be fully supported after 2025.

Anyway, maybe 4 years of support is good enough for a relatively affordable compact notebook. So here are some other key specs for the BMAX Y14 Pro for folks that might be considering one:

14.1 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS touchscreen display with 360 degree hinge
8GB RAM
256GB SSD (M.2 2280)
37 Wh battery
WiFi 5
quad speakers
2 x USB Type-C ports
microSD card reader
3.5mm audio jack
AC power jack

The notebook weighs about 2.9 pounds and measures less than half an inch thick. It’s a passively cooled (fanless) laptop with a backlit keyboard, and slim bezels around the display, measuring just 4mm (0.16 inches) along the top and side edges.

The BMAX Y14 Pro is available from the BMAX AliExpress for $500.

via AndroidPC.es and NotebookCheck

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Microsoft, Rust, LXQt: Asus stellt Surface Pro in günstig vor

Was am 8. November 2021 neben den großen Meldungen sonst noch passiert ist, in aller Kürze. (Kurznews, OLED)

Study: Glow-in-the-dark worms may shed light on the secrets of regeneration

Fluorescent proteins enable scientists to watch cells inside as the worms regenerate.

A whole three-banded panther worm from the muscle transgenic line, where the muscle cells are glowing green.

In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein from jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, scientists at Harvard University have genetically modified the three-banded panther worm to enable the creature to emit a similar green glow, according to a new paper published in the journal Developmental Cell. Their hope is to uncover the secrets to regeneration.

Most animals exhibit some form of regeneration: regrowing hair, for instance, or knitting a fractured bone back together by growing new skin. But some creatures are capable of particularly amazing regenerative feats, and studying the mechanisms by which they accomplish this could have important implications for human aging. If a salamander loses a leg, the limb will grow back, for example, while some geckos can detach their tails as a distraction to evade predators and then regrow them later. The zebrafish can regrow a lost or damaged fin, as well as repair a damaged heart, retina, pancreas, brain, or spinal cord. Cut a planarian flatworm, a jellyfish, or a sea anemone in half, and it will regenerate its entire body.

And then there is the three-banded panther worm (Hofstenia miamia), a tiny creature that looks a bit like a plump grain of rice, so named because of its trademark trio of cream-colored stripes across its body. If a panther worm is cut into three parts, each part will generate into a fully formed worm within eight weeks or so. These worms are found primarily in the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bermuda, as well as Japan, and they are voracious predators, not above taking a few bites out of their fellow panther worms if they're hungry enough and can't find other prey. And they offer a promising new model for studying the mechanics of regeneration.

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