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Lenovo is updating its ThinkPad X1 Carbon line of thin, light, and business-class laptops with new models sporting the latest Intel processors, support for up to 16GB of RAM, and an even more compact design. The 2016 Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon still features a 14 inch display, but the new models with Intel Skylake processors weigh […]

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Lenovo’s latest Yoga-style notebook features a 14 inch display, a compact design, and ThinkPad styling. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga features a black case, the Lenovo TrackPoint keyboard system, and a hinge that lets the touchscreen display fold back 360 degrees so you can use the computer like a tablet. Speaking of that display, it […]

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Lenovo’s latest Windows tablet has a 12 inch display, an Intel Core M7 Skylake processor, support an optional digital pen, and an optional keyboard dock. But what really makes the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet unusual is that you can attach optional modules to add functionality. Just clip the module to the bottom of the device and you […]

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Want a small PC with enough graphics performance to power up to 6 displays at once? Zotac’s got you covered. The company is introducing several new small form-factor ZBOX computers, including two models with AMD Radeon graphics and one with Intel Iris Pro graphics. And one of those computers has 6 DisplayPort jacks. Here’s a […]

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The Zotac ZBOX C line of computers are small, fanless desktops that can be used anywhere you want to place a computer that runs silently. They use passive cooling to keep from overheating, and they’re generally equipped with low-power processors to keep from generating too much heat in the first place. But this year Zotac […]

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When I reviewed the original Zotac ZBOX Pico mini PC in 2014, it was one of the smallest fully-functional Windows computers money could buy. These days there are plenty of smaller options. But the Pico line may be a better option if you’re looking for a tiny computer that’s still small enough to hold in […]

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  Zotac has been offering tiny desktop computers for several years, but now this year the company is launching its smallest model to date. The Zotac PC Stick is a PC-on-a-stick that looks a bit like a variation of Intel’s Compute Stick. But this model has a few features that set it apart from Intel’s […]

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We've long cried out for laptops with lots of RAM, so that they can handle workloads as varied as hosting development virtual machines or running Chrome, and with Skylakes it looks as if they are arriving in abundance. The updated thin and light X1 range bump RAM up to 16GB, and in the rest of the business laptop range, there are now plenty of options that go even further than that.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T460s

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When we reviewed it earlier this year, we felt the T450s was a solid corporate workhorse. Although a little larger than the X1s, it took more memory (up to 12GB), and sported much easier end-user servicing. Its Skylake successor will be available from February with prices starting at $1,059 and it provides more of the same: an Ultrabook built for business. It's still a fairly thin 3lb laptop, but now takes up to 24GB RAM, with optional discrete Nvidia GeForce 930M graphics, up to 512GB PCIe SSD, and a 2560×1440 screen.

At 0.74 inches, it's slightly thicker than the X1 range, but this extra width provides for a full size Ethernet port, full size HDMI, mini-DisplayPort and an optional smartcard reader. Lenovo says that servicing has also been improved: there are 5 captive screws that provide quick access to storage, memory, WWAN and Wi-Fi, and the batteries. Though this means that the machine has shed the VGA port that was included on the T450s, the options and accessibility mean that it packages a lot of power into a small system, without giving up serviceability.

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LAS VEGAS—Last year's Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon was a return to form for Lenovo's X1 Ultrabook, with a keyboard to die for, strong performance, and a 14-inch screen in a 13-inch package. This year, Lenovo is taking the X1 branding—light, powerful, high-end machines—and diversifying it. No longer just a laptop, the company is launching a Yoga-brand 360-degree hinge X1 laptop, an X1 tablet, an X1 all-in-one PC, and even an X1 monitor.

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2016 ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Let's start with the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop. It's been bumped to support Intel's latest Skylake processors—and with it, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of NVMe storage—and made a little slimmer with it, down to 0.65 inches. It's shed a little weight, down to 2.6lbs, while still managing to contain a slightly larger 52 Wh battery. It'll be available in February with prices starting at $1,299.

Lenovo's big novelty with the X1 Carbon is an optional docking station using WiGig. This short range, high speed (4.6 gigabits per second) technology uses 60GHz radios to transmit video, USB 3, and Ethernet data. The X1 WiGig docking station ($250, available this month) sports DisplayPort, HDMI, USB 3, USB 2, audio, and gigabit Ethernet ports, and makes docking as simple as putting the laptop near the docking station.

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There are dozens of sync and backup services available on the Internet, but most have a major drawback. They rely on external cloud-based hosting.

This may work well for smaller files, but when large videos have to be distributed among several devices people may run into trouble. This is one of the reasons why BitTorrent Sync has become quite popular.

Dropbox, one of the leading cloud syncing services, also appears to realize that there’s an opportunity here. Behind the scenes the company has been working on a technology that allows users to share files across different devices through secure P2P transfers.

This month the company scored a patent for a secure peer-to-peer synchronization system through which users can quickly share and collaborate on files without uploading them to Dropbox’s servers.

“Peer-to-peer distributed sharing of the content items in such an online content management system can eliminate bottlenecks, thereby increasing the speed at which the content items can be shared among the individuals,” Dropbox explains

“In particular, in peer-to-peer distributed sharing, the individuals can directly transfer the content items from one computer or electronic device to another, instead of uploading and downloading the content items to and from remote storage in the online content management system,” they add.

This type of peer-to-peer sharing is useful for groups of people who require access to the same files, especially if they are large. In addition, the technology could also help to quickly share the files of one person between different devices.

However, P2P syncing can also lead to all kinds of conflicts and errors, in particular when more people are working on the same file at the same time. After all, the system must know what files are the most recent and how to properly distribute them.

To address this Dropbox’s system will allow users to provide a cryptographic key to a server. This signals what version of the file they have and how it should be synchronized across the other devices.

“…the recipients can use the cryptographic key during peer-to-peer distributed sharing of the version of the content item among the user and the recipients in a shared network (intranet or Internet) without synchronization conflicts …,” the patent reads.

The patent is an interesting development. If Dropbox goes ahead and implements a form of peer-to-peer syncing then this would greatly increase the appeal to users who share large data files, such as editors and graphic designers.

In a way it’s framed as a competitor for BitTorrent Sync, which specifically targets this niche. Launched in 2013, BitTorrent Sync allows users to become their own cloud and share massive files without storing them on external central servers.

BitTorrent Sync previously announced that it was seven times faster than Dropbox, which may have prompted the cloud syncing service to follow BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer lead.

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