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Homes For Scotland 2022 Awards Shortlist

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Homes For Scotland 2022 Awards Shortlist

23 March 2022

Homes For Scotland Announces 2022 Awards Shortlist

Home building body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced the shortlist for its 2022 awards programme as it plans for a return to the largest annual gathering of its kind where winners will be announced.

With a focus on “going the extra mile” to deliver developments or practices which stand out from the crowd, those companies making the judges’ first cut are:

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Homes For Scotland 2022 Awards Shortlist News

Development of the Year – large (100+ units)

sponsored by Anderson Strathern

 Winner announced at the HFS Annual Lunch, with no prior shortlist released

With last year seeing an amalgamated 2020/21 shortlist and virtual awards showcase due to restrictions caused by the pandemic, updates to 2022 categories include a focus on the transition to net zero within the Innovation of the Year category – designed to showcase examples of real innovation within the sector as it contributes to a national commitment of net zero emissions by 2045.

In a further change, no prior shortlist has been released for the Associate Member of the Year category, with members of the HFS senior management team asked to nominate candidates within the HFS membership who have gone the extra mile, engaging with the organisation’s work and providing vital support to other members over the course of the year.

Reflecting the programme’s ongoing robust judging process, the independent panel will be undertaking site visits to all those shortlisted in the Development of the Year categories alongside corresponding online interviews to determine who will take one of three headline Home Builder of the Year awards. Those shortlisted under the Innovation of the Year (Transition to Net Zero) category will also be invited to an online interview.

Winners will be revealed at the Homes for Scotland Annual Lunch (sponsored by Burness Paull) at the EICC on Friday 20 May which will be hosted by impressionist and comedian Jon Culshaw. Over 900 senior industry representatives and guests are already confirmed to attend what remains the date in the Scottish home building industry calendar.

Chair of the independent judging panel David Knight, former Managing Director at Avant Homes said: “I was delighted to be asked to Chair this year’s refreshed judging panel and have been hugely impressed by the demonstrations of “going above and beyond” which have been evident throughout the entries received.

“Whether that be examples of innovation, diversity, sustainability measures or meeting customer needs, HFS members have shown their commitment to delivering high quality places for people to live during what remain difficult circumstances.

“With the judges now set to embark on the site visit and interview stage of the process, I am very much looking forward to seeing these submissions come to life and to the difficult task of deciding upon the winners.”

The independent judging panel comprises:

David Knight (Chair) – Former MD, Avant Homes Johnny Cadell, Principal Architect & Designer, A+DS Emma Marriott, Director, Emma Marriott Consulting and Board member of Construction Scotland Innovation Centre Andy Mason, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Housing, Lloyds Banking Group Scott Peterkin, Partner, Burness Paull Sarah Stanger, Former Sales & Marketing Director, CALA Homes (East) Jane Tennant, 2022 Chair, Scottish Young Planners’ Network Carrie Thomson, Principal Planner, Scottish Government

Previously on e-architect:

Homes for Scotland Awards 2018

Shortlist for Homes for Scotland Awards 2018

Homes for Scotland Awards

Homes for Scotland Awards Shortlist 2016

Homes for Scotland Awards 2016

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2019 Confirmed Acts for The Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the world’s largest arts festival with performances spanning the whole of the artistic spectrum, including comedy, dance, musicals, opera, theatre, spoken word and cabaret. To be as inclusive as possible, the festival is open to all performers, both newcomers and big international names. In 2018, the festival ran for 25 days with over 55,000 performances. In 2019, the festival is set to take place from 2nd to 26th August, although some performances may start earlier. Here’s some of the acts who have already been confirmed for this year’s festival.

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Comedy Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Star of BBC’s Have I Got News For You Paul Merton is heading to Edinburgh again with his highly-acclaimed Impro Chums, ready to take audience suggestions and turn them into something hysterical. Venue: Pleasance Courtyard. Dates: August 8th – 17th. Time: 4pm.

Henning Wehn: Get On With It The self-proclaimed German Comedy Ambassador, Henning Wehn has wowed audiences with his stances on being an immigrant in the UK and German stereotypes. Having appeared on several TV comedy shows, including 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI, he will perform his current stand-up show Get On With It. Venue: The Queen’s Hall. Dates: Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday beginning August 1st. Time: 7pm.

Spontaneous Potter Whether you are a fan of the books by J K Rowling or not, it is impossible not to like this hilarious take on Harry Potter. A complete improvisation performed by the Spontaneous Players and based on the title of a fan fiction which changes daily, there is even live musical accompaniment to the play. Venue: Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre. Dates: July 31st; August 1st – 25th. Time: 9:30pm.

Daniel Sloss: X Beginning his comedy career at the age of just 16, Daniel Sloss has been a hit on the comedy circuit for over ten years. This year he is making a one-night return to the Edinburgh Fringe following the success of his two Netflix specials. Venue: Edinburgh Playhouse. Date: August 15th. Time: 7:30pm.

David O’Doherty: Ultrasound Well known for his musical comedy, playing songs on the keyboard he was bought for his Confirmation, David O’Doherty returns to the Fringe for the eighteenth time where he will once again attempt – and fail – to fix all the wrongs in the world. Venue: Assembly George Square. Dates: July 31st; August 1st – 12th; 14th – 26th. Time: 7:30pm.

Theatre Of Mice and Men Performed by Nigel Miles-Thomas and Michael Roy Andrew, John Steinbeck’s drama about two migrant ranch workers and their experiences during the Great Depression had a hit run in 2015 and is back by popular demand. Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot. Dates: July 31st; August 1st – 12th; 14th – 19th; 21st – 26th. Time: 1:30pm.

Fawlty Towers the Dining Experience Back at the Fringe this year is the longest-running tribute show Fawlty Tower the Dining Experience. A fully-immersive performance, you will get served a three-course meal and be guaranteed non-stop laughs throughout. The show is 70% improvised so it is never the same experience twice. Venue: Imagination Workshop. Dates: August 1st – 2nd; 4th – 26th. Times: Vary; check the calendar on the Fringe website for more details.

Kemp’s Jig Steve Taylor stars as Will Kemp, actor and celebrity of Shakespearean England. Kemp has created many comedic roles for Shakespeare and wishes to explore these further, but as Shakespeare’s profile grows, the Bard craves respectability. After too many disagreements, the men part company, leading Kemp on a publicity stunt of Morris dancing up and down England. A must for fans of Shakespeare in Love or Upstart Crow. Venue: theSpace on the Mile. Dates: August 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 13th, 15th, 17th. Time: 6:55pm.

Trainspotting Live Irvine Welsh’s classic is brought to life in this immersive theatre experience. Taking place in a tunnel underneath the city of Edinburgh, the audience are full participants in the action, including the famous toilet scene. This will be the play’s fifth time at the festival, after selling out four previous seasons; be sure to book ahead to secure tickets. Venue: Venue 150 at EICC. Dates: August 1st – 6th; 8th – 13th; 15th – 20th; 22nd – 26th. Times: Vary; check the calendar on the Fringe website for more details.

The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar A funny adult twist on the well-loved children’s classic, The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar tells the story of a caterpillar with a love for food who is struggling to turn into a butterfly. As his classmates make the change around him, he is still in search of a cocoon that fits his size. Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall. Dates: August 12th – 17th; 19th – 24th. Times: Vary; check the calendar on the Fringe website for more details.

Under Milk Wood Following 2018’s hugely successful run of Sophocles’s Antigone, the Malvern Theatre’s Young Company perform again at the Fringe this year, this time with an adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, the funny and poignant tale of a Welsh seaside town and its inhabitants. Venue: theSpace @ Niddry Street. Dates: August 12th – 17th. Time: 3:50pm.

Musicals and Opera Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: Less Miserable The Coily Dart Theatre Company present a show about Gilbert and Sullivan in the afterlife. Gilbert claims that as masters of the genre of musical theatre, all current musicals are just variations on their own plots. Sullivan then challenges him to a task: to tell the story of the longest-running musical but only using their songs. Gilbert accepts, but only if he can have his happy ending. As Gilbert takes on the challenge, you will be treated to music from each of their operettas and lots of dancing and singing. Venue: theSpace @ Niddry Street. Dates: August 2nd – 3rd; 5th – 10th. Time: 11:20am.

Songs For a New World Telling the story of a group of immigrants finding their feet in their new life in post-World War II New York, Simply Theatre perform a new adaptation of this rarely-performed song cycle with a cast of ten and live music. Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall. Dates: August 2nd – 3rd; 5th – 10th. Time: 5:50pm. Best of the West End After selling out their shows the previous three years, American Performing Arts International return with a selection of hits from West End musicals to delight audiences again. The group will also be performing the Best of Broadway during the Fringe as well. Venue: theSpace @ Symposium Hall. Dates: August 2nd – 3rd; 5th – 10th. Time: 11:05am.

Elizabethan Based on genuine songs from the Renaissance period, David William stars as Tobias Bacon, who lusts and lutes his way through Elizabethan England with his three lovers, all with the help of the audience and some very silly wigs. Venue: theSpace @ Surgeon Hall. Dates: August 2nd – 10th; 12th – 17th; 19th – 23rd. Time: 6:05pm.

Verity Verity is not having a great time at the moment. She has just been ditched by her fiancé on their wedding day and it is quite possible she is about to be fired. And if that was not bad enough, her family are always on her back. Join Verity as she tries to put her life back together, which involves a spot of online stalking, drinking a hell of a lot of cocktails and making an unlikely friend. Venue: theSpace on the Mile. Dates: August 13th – 17th. Time: 4:50pm.

Music The Aretha Franklin Story Featuring the star of Thriller Live in the West End Cleopatra Higgins, you will journey through the life of the Queen of Soul and 21-times Grammy Winner, Aretha Franklin. Performed by Night Owl Shows, they deliver Franklin’s story and music in their own signature style. Venue: theSpace @ Symposium Hall. Dates: August 2nd – 25th. Time: 2:50pm.

Bala Baile Edinburgh-based Latin trio Bala Baile perform a unique blend of Cuban son, boogaloo and the blues. This year they will be performing their original music in the Jazz Bar, the perfect venue for a Latin party. Venue: The Jazz Bar. Dates: August 8th; 11th – 14th. Time: Midnight.

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of the Beatles For a different take on the music of the Beatles, performed on trumpet, sousaphone, saxophone, trombone and drums, head to see Brass Gumbo. A Scotland-based jazz and funk brass band, they do a great job of making the melodies their own. Venue: The Jazz Bar. Dates: August 19th – 23rd. Time: 4pm.

Massaoke Mixtape A fantastic way to spend the late evening, Massaoke Mixtape has all the fun of karaoke, except you are doing it en masse. A huge singalong bonanza, you the audience will help the live band create the ultimate mixtape with the aid of giant video lyrics. There will be classic anthems, mashups, megamixes and more. Venue: Assembly George Square. Dates: August 1st – 4th; 8th – 11th; 15th – 18th; 22nd – 25th. Time: 11:30pm.

Rock Choir Live Described as the most popular choir experience available to the general public, Rock Choir has over 30,000 members across 400 communities and is the largest organisation of its kind to offer people the chance to sing without the need for an audition or the ability to read music. Venue: theSpace Triplex. Dates: August 2nd – 24th. Time: 7:20pm and 8:20pm.

Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus Cirque Berserk! Cirque Berserk! are Britain’s largest theatre-circus spectacular and are back at the Edinburgh Fringe after their highly successful debut last year. Bringing traditional circus acts bang up-to-date, the troupe have over 30 performers, including acrobats, aerialists, stuntmen, dancers and musicians. Venue: Pleasance at EICC. Dates: August 2nd – 20th; 22nd – 25th. Times: Vary; check the calendar on the Fringe website for more details.

Circa: Humans One of the most popular acts to perform at the Fringe, this year Circa’s show explores the human body, what it means to be human and how our bodies and aspirations are connected to the world around us and make us who we are. Performed by ten acrobats, the question of how much we can take – both physically and emotionally – is asked and pondered. Venue: Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows. Dates: August 2nd – 6th; 8th – 11th; 13th – 18th; 20th – 24th. Time: 7pm.

Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall Ceildh is a social event with Scottish folk dancing, singing and storytelling, and this event gives you the opportunity to try this tradition yourself. Priority admission is given to those who come without handbags, rucksacks and bags, and although taking videos and photos is OK, the musicians are very strict on the use of mobiles for other reasons. As dancing and singing is thirsty work, there is also a bar there for your enjoyment and refreshment. Venue: Lauriston Halls. Dates: August 2nd – 3rd; 5th – 10th; 12th – 17th; 19th – 24th. Time: 9pm.

Black Blues Brothers A completely unique act, the Circo e Dintorni fuse together rhythm and blues with African culture to perform their version of the cult hit movie The Blues Brothers. Watch as the five acrobats perform dances, fire routines and make human pyramids using the furniture and surroundings as props. Venue: Assembly Rooms. Dates: August 1st – 25th. Time: 4:30pm.

From India to Triana A wonderful journey of dances around the world, The Rootless Company explore the similarities and differences of the globe’s dance styles, from the primitive sounds of India to the passionate flamenco. This performance is a glorious mix of world communities coming together to connect as one. Venue: theSpace Triplex. Dates: August 2nd – 10th; 12th – 24th. Time: 6:10pm.

Children’s Shows Children are Stinky All the way from Australia come the Circus Trick Tease who will bring you circus acts such as acrobatics, stunts and hula-hooping along with a great soundtrack and lots of belly laughs. Circus Trick Tease are a five-star act and are often sold out, so book early to avoid disappointment. Venue: Assembly George Square Gardens. Dates: August 1st – 6th; 8th – 13th; 15th – 20th; 22nd – 26th. Time: 1:30pm.

Lost in a Book Melissa loves reading her favourite fairy stories. But then one day, as she is rereading them, she goes from turning the pages to actually living in the stories themselves. As she jumps from tales such as Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast, she tries to fix the problems she causes. But with no way of controlling how the stories go, will she manage to find her own happy ending and make her way back home? Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall. Dates: August 6th – 8th. Time: 11am.

Morgan and West: Unbelievable Science If your young ones love explosions and thrills then this show is perfect. Morgan and West are magicians, time travellers and all-round great chaps but they have a secret – they are also amazing scientists, super qualified in the fields of chemistry, biology and physics. In this show, you will see them conduct experiments right before your very eyes. Venue: Assembly George Square. Dates: July 31st; August 1st – 20th; 22nd – 25th. Time: 4:30pm.

The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show A multi-entertainment show including live music, jokes, magic and family time, this show aims to tease and embarrass the teenagers in order to get a giggle out of the younger audience. A fun experience for all the family. Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall. Dates: August 2nd – 11th; 16th – 18th; 23rd – 25th. Time: 1:25pm.

Shark in the Park Based on the books by Nick Sharratt and performed by the Nonsense Room Productions, the creative team behind The Hairy McLary Show, the family-friendly musical tells the story of Timothy Pope as he goes on three adventures with his telescope. Venue: Assembly George Square. Dates: July 31st; August 1st – 13th; 15th – 18th. Time: 10:30am.

Splash Test Dummies From the makers of Trash Test Dummies comes a new show all set around the theme of water. Watch as they perform acrobatic stunts such as diving from bathtubs to beaches and make you roar with laughter with their slapstick silliness. Venue: Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows. Dates: August 3rd – 11th; 13th – 18th; 20th – 24th. Time: 1pm.

Here’s just a sample of what’s going to be on at this year’s festival. More and more acts will be announced every month in the run-up to August. Keep an eye on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s website to stay updated.

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Are Intel pc processors any good?

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Are Intel pc processors any good?

This year’s Customer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased 110-inch curved Tv sets, watches that screen your vital signs and symptoms, self-riding automobiles … and the technology industry’s efforts to shrink violence in the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.Though Intel PC processors came a long way.

The one’s efforts are being led via Intel, the massive (annual sales of $52bn) maker of microprocessors for laptop, tablets and cell phones, among other things, and its new CEO, Brian Krzanich.

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Near the give up of an excessive-profile keynote address wherein he tested “bright earbuds”, three-D printing, advances in video gaming and an embedded processor designed to allow “wearable computing,” Krzanich paused and stated:

“Okay. I’m going to replace gears for a minute now. … This isn’t an issue we’d commonly communicate approximately at CES. However, it’s miles an problem this is paramount and personal to me. That problem is battle minerals.” After he confirmed a somber video about the devastation within the Congo, where greater than five million humans have died on account that 1994 – many killed by way of armed organizations the use of income from the mining of four minerals, tantalum, tungsten, tin, and gold – Krzanich promised that each Intel microprocessor would henceforth be warfare-free. The arena’s first battle-unfastened processors might be established as no longer containing minerals sourced from mines that finance preventing inside the Congo, he said.

However, not all businesses have joined the unorthodox anti-battle campaign. While Intel and its NGO companion within the Congo, the Enough Challenge, were marking what the activists referred to as a “massive step forward to defend the warlords”, numerous powerful change institutions – the us Chamber of Commerce, the Enterprise Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers – have been asking a panel of federal judges to overturn a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulation that calls for businesses to disclose their use of minerals from Africa.

Those other associations (Intel is a member of all three) argue that requiring groups to file any source minerals from the Congo quantities to an abuse of government power.

In the Congo, should companies live or go?

As we’ve got said earlier than at Dad, or mom Sustainable Business, the warfare-free minerals difficulty is a thorny one for large Enterprise. An enormously straightforward option for companies would be to avoid the Congo absolutely – there are sufficient sources of the minerals someplace else – but that could set back the economic system of this desperately contrary kingdom. The venture for NGOs and companies that want to do the right aspect for the DRC is to locate methods to do Commercial enterprise with the area without helping rebel groups.

Electronics industry leaders inclusive of Intel and HP are operating each on their very own and with coalitions together with the Electronics enterprise Citizenship Coalition (EICC), which need to transport the DRC from a wartime to a peacetime financial system, to do simply that.

It is a frightening assignment. Supply chains lack transparency. It is tough to affirm that minerals shipped out of place are war-free. Meanwhile, others who use the metals, inclusive of the jewellery, aviation, and car industries, have remained on the sidelines.

“The solution is not clean,” Krzanich said, “but not anything worthwhile ever is.”

Of the four minerals, tantalum is the one on which the electronics industry may have the greatest effect, so that has been the industry’s pinnacle awareness. The process of untangling Supply chains for precious metals has been painstaking, as I discovered in Las Vegas, wherein I moderated a panel with Krzanich, Sasha Lezhnev of the Enough Mission and the actor and activist Robin Wright, who has visited the Congo. (Complete disclosure: Intel paid me to moderate the panel.)

How agencies rank on warfare minerals

Krzanich, who have become Intel’s CEO closing Might also, previously ran the organization’s Manufacturing and Supply chain operations, so he changed into correctly positioned to manipulate the issue. In contrast to, say, Apple or Dell, which outsource maximum or all of their production, Intel makes its personal silicon chips and takes pleasure within the environmental excellence of its “fans” within the US and some place else.

When Krzanich first found out approximately war minerals, he knew that he didn’t want Intel engulfed in a problem that had the potential to undo decades of proper work around smooth production and company obligation. “I want to be loved,” he joked. “We had to get ahead of the difficulty.”

Through evaluation, Apple initially ignored overtures from the Enough Venture, Lezhnev stated. While the organization couldn’t get a meeting with Apple, college students protested at the outlet of a brand new store in the tony Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC in 2010. Now not lengthy after, a cell phone rang in Enough’s DC office: Steve Jobs was on the road, asking what the fuss was about.

The usage of a tactic called “rank ’em and spank ’em,” Enough on account that then has rated tech companies on their struggle-minerals policies. Intel and HP lead the ratings, with Apple, Dell, and Microsoft no longer some distance behind. Laggards consist of Nintendo, KTC and Sharp.

You also ought to look past the branding, due to the fact these PC days’ Core chips are distinctive from closing yr’s. Intel usually brings out a new era of processors every 12-18 months, and the Middle range is now in its seventh generation.

Technology game

Every generation of Middle chips has its code call, inclusive of Sandy Bridge, Haswell, and Skylake. The cutting-edge is Kaby Lake. Every technology brings more desirable functions, and a few mark a shift to a new production era, measured in nanometres. Smaller is higher. Center iX chips have long gone from 32nm to 22nm to nowadays’s 14nm. Shrinking the transistors permits Intel to place greater of them on Each chip, and consequently add new capabilities.Intel i7 processor pricre is 1200$ now. And building Intel desktop computers isn’t easy on a budget. Even intel i7 laptops. Hp intel laptops are pricey too!

The technology is proven through the first wide variety after the sprint in Each Middle chip’s name. As an example, a Core i7-3770 is a 3rd generation chip, While the Center i7-7770 is the 7th era version of the same CPU. Intel says the rest of the variety – in this case, 770 – is its SKU (stock-maintaining unit) designation. Better numbers typically suggest higher performance and different capabilities; however, I don’t have room for all the information you may discover online.

All Intel’s processors now include a photographs co-processor. That is also given a technology quantity. However, it’s one step in the back of. For instance, 7th technology Middle i7 chips have HD photographs 620 or something, While sixth-gen chips have HD images 520. The satisfactory photographs chips get Iris branding.

Velocity vs. strength consumption

People who want overall performance, which include game enthusiasts, frequently bitch that processors aren’t getting faster each 12 months like they used to. They may be getting a touch quicker, but mostly they’re getting smaller and consuming much less power. The key point, stated above, is

“performance per watt.”

Chips that use less electricity generate much less warmness, so they don’t want as tons cooling. This enables Producers to make thinner laptops with higher battery life, that is what most people want.

Development is now indicated primarily using the fall in TDP (Thermal Layout power) rankings. The second-gen Core i5-2500 in my 2011-vintage computing device Laptop is still quicker than most cutting-edge Intel chips. However, it runs at 95W. It’s barely slower than a present day Center i7-7600U. However, that runs at handiest 15W.

In other words, you could now position the same processing energy in an extremely skinny PC that used to need a tower machine with large cooling lovers.

Of course, chips with a Higher TDP will commonly run quicker, different matters being identical. In Intel’s current line-up, the small quad-Core chips with HQ after their names run at 45W or 47W, While the U chips are 15W or 28W designs. The Y chips eat simplest four.5W: see under.

Beneath the Center

Intel turned into able to out-Design and out-manufacture competitors including AMD but confronted a harder venture While ARM processors started to dominate the markets for phones, smartphones, and capsules. Intel’s chips were massive. Electricity-Hungry and steeply-priced; ARM chips were small, phenomenally energy-efficient, cheap, and speedy Sufficient.

Intel bought ARM chips for some time before figuring out to create its personal range of small, cheap and energy-efficient Atom processors to compete in this booming marketplace. Atoms, In contrast to ARM chips, could execute the x86 commands had to run Microsoft Home windows software.

Atom chips didn’t penetrate the phone and pill markets in sizeable numbers. However, they were successful in powering standard, small-display Home windows “netbooks” just like the Asus Eee Pc and Samsung NC10.

These first Atom chips had been as an alternative gradual. While designs became fast Enough for standard-cause use; Intel started branding them with well-known names – Pentium and Celeron – that had more prestige. These two strains dominate nowadays’s entry-degree Computer marketplace.

Unluckily, there doesn’t appear to be any common sense to Intel’s numbering device, past the fact that X7 Atoms are quicker than X5 Atoms, which might be better than X3 Atoms. Pentium-Atoms ought to additionally be more rapid than Celeron-Atoms. However, you’d have to run benchmarks to make sure.

Why Y?

In 2014, Intel introduced a new family of processors, which it referred to as Middle M. It stated that Middle chips had been for Folks that wished energy, and Atom chips had been for Those who wanted battery life, but Core M might bridge the two.

The Core M wasn’t a fulfillment within the Windows computer market, though Apple used it in the MacBook – the version satisfactory regarded as having a single USB-C port. That can be why the M range has survived. (Digital Fashion’s headline positioned it brutally: No person desires Intel’s Center M processor, and Computex proves it.)

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Unluckily, with Kaby Lake, Intel modified its naming device via placing a Y in some chip numbers. The Core m5 became the Center i5-7Y54, and the Center m7 became the Center i7-7Y75. People who might imagine They’re getting a Full-power 15W Core chip will, in reality, be getting a slower four.5W Core M. Caveat emptor.

Benchmarks

When buying a new Computer, you can take a look at the CPU’s call to get its age and relative performance level. The blurb also has to inform you the clock Pace and whether or not it’s a twin Core or quad-Middle chip. Greater GHz and more cores are usually better, even though a twin-Core chip can still be faster than a quad-Core.

After that, you may search for benchmark comparisons, in particular, if the benchmarks measure the types of things you commonly do – maths processing, video rendering, gaming or whatever. The hassle is that there are dozens of criteria and it could be hard to locate outcomes for new Pcs.

However, you could discover benchmarks for maximum processors(Intel & AMD mainly) at websites along with PassMark, Geekbench, and AnandTech. You can additionally examine PCs head-to-head at CPU Boss, CPU World, and AnandTech.but, for now, Intel processors revolutionised Pc gaming

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Heads-up

I'm gonna cut back the daily translations for a while. Sohee's Marie Claire magazine interview came out yesterday & is my new priority. But progress is very slow (only 20% completed in two days; the Hangul text is quite complex).

Meanwhile, the Single Rider publicity campaign is in full swing: Mandoo sat for a 3rd set of interviews today; Lee Byung-Hun & Gong Hyo-Jin have also been commenting about her. A lot of interesting remarks, but also quite repetitious so it's a mixed bag. I'm thinking of picking out relevant quotes & translating these abridgments instead.

Compounding matters, Yeeun’s new reality series held their new conference today as well. As such, I'm already struggling to keep up with everyone. Sunmi's Grazia pictorial & Hyuna's 10th anniversary activities preceded the latest blitz, so 4 of the 7 WG girls are currently in the spotlight.

I'm also mulling about translating just the daily headlines (popular on Twitter) while focusing on the Marie Claire article. Contrary to overseas perceptions, there are still dozens of daily reports about the WG girls, especially during public appearances. I'm been archiving these articles & photos for my private blog for years. But additionally compiling, organizing & translating the headlines will be quite laborious. Then again, I-WFs risk losing touch if no one else is willing to highlight them.

Finally, Hyelim is starting classes next Monday according to the school's academic calendar. (Today was their orientation day; I'm not sure if she went but she posted pics from an unfamiliar place, possibly the campus grounds or her new digs.)

The Hankuk University of Foreign Studies website has a lot of English info available. Unfortunately, only the English Linguistics & English Literature/Culture departments of her faculty (College of English) apparently posted their coursework online, not her EICC department. Still, all the courses under her faculty is listed here:

http://webs.hufs.ac.kr:8989/src08/jsp/lecture/LECTURE2020L_G.jsp?ag_ledg_year=2017&ag_ledg_sessn=1&ag_crs_strct_cd=A1&ag_compt_fld_cd=%&ag_campus=%

She has to get 134 credits (in 4 years) to graduate~

According to the calendar, her spring semester is from Feb 27 to Jun 16, & the fall semester is from Sep 5 to Dec 15. There are mid- & final exams for each term:

http://international.hufs.ac.kr/courses/

I don’t think she’ll be available again except during the school vacations. Unfortunately, JYP will field more bankable artistes during the lucrative & prestigious summer period. Maybe she can moonlight as an occasional emcee along the way, but I doubt she can be a more regular showbiz part-timer like, say, Kyuhyun.

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