8. Fedora 11
Fedora 11, Red hat’s community focused Operating System is for Laptops and Desktops. In Performance Fedora 11 beat Windows and now Fedora is polished and more professional.
Although Fedora does not have all the desktop refinements like in Ubuntu (Linux), it uses ext4 as its default file system which speeds performance and maintains integrity where as ext4 on Ubuntu is an option. Ubuntu have made ext4 file system as option because some incompatibilities in application caused data loss problems. But I don’t know exactly, the problem may be solved in Fedora 11.
Fedora 11 takes 20 seconds to reach login menu completing the boot process and the boot time may be still less some thing windows Operating systems have not achieved.
New features of Fedora 11 include GNOME 2.26, integrated Thunderbird 3, OpenChange, eclipse Profiling Tool and more. Netbeans 6.5 is added in Fedora 11 which is the most significant update. But many studies revealed that Fedora 11 does not have potential to impress the crowd.
9. Apple Macbook Pro
At World Wide Developers Conference Apple added its new Macbook pro to the Macbook family?
The new 13 inch Macbook Pro wears a white polycarbonate shedding off aluminium enclosure. Due to recession macbook prices are slashed but maintained improved features. These include
- SD card slot
- back-lit keyboard
- Expandable up to 8GB RAM
- Expandable up to 500GB hard drive
- Colour gamut increased by 60%
- Gigabyte Ethernet
- Bluetooth
- Magsafe power port
- One Firewire 800 port
- Two USB 2.0 ports
- Mini Display port
- Built-in iSight camera and microphone
- Airport extreme
- Combo optical digital audio in and out ports
Specifications of the new 13 inch Macbook air include
- 2.13 GHZ Core2 Duo processor
- 2GB DDR2 RAM
- 160 GB hard drive
- Integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M Graphics
Macbook pro is available in 15 and 17 inch displays.
10. Microsoft free antivirus (Morro)
Microsoft Officially released it long anticipated antivirus “Morro” now named “Microsoft Security Essentials”. It is released for public beta testing and if your Pc is loaded with original licensed copy of Windows XP (service pack2 or above)/Vista/Windows 7 you can download this free antivirus from official Microsoft website for free with out additional charges and also you are free to get free updates with out subscription.
Microsoft limited this public beta version to 75,000 downloads and the first beta test release is available for citizens of US, Israel and Brazil. The next preference goes to China. This time Microsoft is not accepting any additional participants to download and test Microsoft security essentials beta version. Hope the next release will be available around the globe.
Microsoft Security Essentials is an anti-malware solution protecting your PC from virus, Trojans, Spyware and Rootkits.
4 features Microsoft Security Essentials offer –
- Real time antivirus protection
- Real time antispyware protection
- Remove known spyware and virus
- Remove most widespread malware
When you install MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials), Windows Defender is disabled automatically.
Most advanced feature associated with MSE is DSS (Dynamic Signature Service). Here how it works, when this antivirus detects a file or program making suspicious actions and no virus signature is detected on it MSE will send this suspected program or file to Microsoft servers. If a new signature is detected on the file or program you sent to Microsoft servers, MSE will guide you in removing the infection.
The size of MSE is very small and ranges from 3MB to 7MB and it consumes less resources and run in background with out prompting you with pop up security messages. It will only alert you when malware is scanned.