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• Chromebooks beat Mac notebooks 1.4-to-1 in U.S.

  Chromebooks have sold primarily to educational organizations, particularly K-12 schools, because of their low price and easy manageability.

• ​CIO profile: Berys Amor

  Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s IT chief leads a team building customised technology solutions that improve how the firm's clients do business.

• Laptops, tablets could pack more DDR4 memory with Samsung breakthrough

  Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.

• Google has doubled its bounty for a Chromebook hack to $US100,000

  Google doubled the bounty it will pay for a successful exploit of its Chromebook laptop to US$100,000, sweetening the pot in hopes of drawing more attention from security researchers.

• ​Campari Australia ditches HP tablets for Surface Pros

  Campari Australia has rolled out 60 Microsoft Surface Pro 3 i5 tablets in a move that the beverage supplier says has revolutionised its sales cycle.
  

• Laptop not charging

  Reader Bballgurl84life's laptop battery isn't charging.

• Laptop tips: Add RAM, recycle a hard drive

  It's been almost a year since I served up some nice, hot laptop tips--and that's inexcusable. I'll make it up to you this week with some useful advice on adding memory to a laptop, turning an old laptop hard disc into an external drive, and using your laptop's power settings effectively.

• Caring for your laptop

  You're more likely to damage a laptop than a desktop PC (no one has ever driven off, forgetting the desktop on top of their car), and once damaged, laptops are harder and more expensive to repair.
  

• BYOD is as entrenched (and complicated) as ever

  The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years now, and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still grappling with how to make it work.

• Power to the portable: 3 high-performance mobile workstations

  When you're running a large-scale simulation or editing a professional video, you need more computing power than most laptops can give. In this roundup, we review three high-powered Windows mobile workstations.

• Digital nomad survival tips you can use anywhere

  Mike Elgan traveled over three continents in the past 18 months and has these tips for staying connected, keeping powered up and protecting your valuable gadgets from theft.

• Forget the high margins, Apple - cut iPad Mini prices

  Apple sold 14 per cent fewer iPads in the quarter that ended June 30 than in the same quarter last year, while the revenue from those sales plummeted by 27 per cent. The solution? Cut prices, say analysts.

• The lazy geek's guide to building a home media center

  Anything less than a DIY digital home entertainment project means making the most of Apple TV

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  Optimised learning in corporate classrooms

  Students attending Dell™ Global Learning & Development (GL&D) technical support classes needed fresh system images, but manual delivery took hours between classes and over weekends. Dell deployed its own cloud client computing solution to enable one IT support person to re-image and reboot the thin clients and laptops in its GL&D classrooms with just a few mouse clicks.