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Five Curious E-Ink Devices — from Laptops to Wall Screens

Hello, tekkix residents! This is Viktor Sergeev from the MTS Digital special projects team. I brought you a note about your boy's selection of interesting new E-Ink products. This technology is used not only in e-readers, as we are all used to, but also in a variety of devices — from hybrid tablets with a battery life of about a month to wall displays that can turn your apartment into an art gallery. So, let's go!

From security to travel: special-purpose mobile devices

There are mobile devices on the market for specific tasks: working in high-security conditions, extreme environments, or where models without a camera and other standard features are needed. Such devices are chosen by travelers, security guards, and those who want to minimize attention from Apple and Google.

Repairing a unique ARM netbook from 2011 — Toshiba AC-100

My long-time readers surely know how much I love unusual netbooks with exotic processors and unusual operating systems on board. One of these devices is on my desk today: the Toshiba AC-100, which was released as a netbook for internet surfing for $200 back in 2011 and was notable for running on an extremely exotic platform - the ARM chipset NVidia Tegra 2 coupled with a desktop multicontroller and Android as the OS. But here's the trouble: the device's display backlight was not working. In today's article, we will: learn the history of netbooks and how the AC-100 appeared, repair the cable with improvised means, and take a look at this wonderful beauty in practice. Interested? Then see you under the cut!

To bind or not to bind: how we manage the identity of corporate "Macs"

Hello! My name is Pavel, and I am the head of office IT infrastructure at Yandex. For more than a year of my work, to one degree or another, I have dedicated myself to "Macs" and other Apple devices. And the company now has more than 20 thousand of them, and managing such a fleet is a non-trivial task.

Laptop with two screens or two screens for a laptop — which one would you choose?

tekkix, hello! This is Anton Komarov, author of the special projects team at MTS Digital. Today we will talk about GPD Duo: what kind of laptop is it and is it worth buying.

Task with a star: which laptop to buy for a schoolchild?

Parental "hot topic": does a schoolchild need a laptop? If 10 years ago there would have been an adult discussion here, today the answer is obvious: yes, for homework, access to educational resources, creativity, and... entertainment, no matter how scary this word may be for those who believe that school is work and hard long-term labor for children.

How to turn a laptop into a Cheburashka. Review and personal impressions of a system with two additional portable displays

Hello everyone! I am Anton Komarov from MTS Digital. Today I will talk about my personal experience of working on a laptop with three displays at once.

New modular laptop from MNT Research: what kind of device is it and what are its capabilities

Hello, tekkix residents. This is Viktor Sergeev from MTS Digital. At the beginning of 2024, the modular laptop MNT Pocket Reform from MNT Research, which we have already written about, went on sale. This is a device with good repairability, which is also quite well protected in terms of information security. Now a new model has been released - MNT Reform Next, this is already the second generation of the device. What it can do, read below.

Is it worth switching to a computer with an ARM processor in 2024?

In the summer of 2024, most major laptop manufacturers began releasing devices with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. They are based on the ARM architecture, which is characterized by increased energy efficiency. And if earlier chips on this architecture lacked performance for "adult" tasks, then in the latest generations they have approached the products of Intel and AMD. Therefore, they began to be used not only in smartphones but also in computers.