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So, from the disastrous update that plagued Windows 10, through to the triumphant return of a compact PC from Apple, here are the computing highs and lows of 2018. Windows 10 rolls into serious trouble The most recent update for Windows 10 was a definite low point for Microsoft this year, for sure. Sadly, it’s the most buggy and gremlin-filled update ever released for the desktop operating system, to the point where the rollout was actually halted. Indeed, it was stopped for over a month as Microsoft sorted some serious flaws out including a bug that deleted some users’ files (the very worst kind of bug, naturally). And when the rollout was eventually resumed, some Windows 10 users continued to be frustrated by further issues, including re-occurring problems with Intel drivers and more. In short, the whole thing has been a mess, and it isn’t surprising that the October 2018 Update has been a very sluggish process overall.
Compounding all this woe is the fact that this year, Microsoft has been busy boasting about how AI and machine learning tech has been employed to help streamline its update rollouts to be even smoother and quicker. Well, if that’s AI in action, we won’t be asking Cortana to organize our next birthday bash – not unless we decide to hold it in a brewery, in which case, we’d like to test a theory… Huawei knocks up the best laptop in the world It’s not often that a notebook – or indeed any device – comes straight out of left-field and completely blows us away, but Huawei’s MateBook X Pro certainly did that as one of the highs of 2018. When this laptop was first revealed at MWC, sporting a neat trick for hiding away the webcam, it caused gasps from the assembled press. And when the MateBook X Pro went on sale, it immediately grabbed the coveted number one spot on our best laptops list, ousting our previous firm favorite, Dell’s XPS 13, and indeed the MacBook Pro (to which the Huawei machine bears more than a passing resemblance).
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Yeah, so it looks MacBook-esque, plus the display’s aspect ratio is unconventional, and the aforementioned clever webcam is actually flawed in some respects – but these are but tiny niggles. In the big picture, the MateBook is a beautifully designed portable built around a gorgeous screen, stuffed with powerful components, yet still managing to offer superb battery life, and a relatively competitive price. All this from a firm which is known for its phones – not notebooks – making the MateBook X Pro the biggest and most pleasant surprise of 2018 for us. More of this, please, Huawei.
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Intel’s cannon fails to fire (again) One major drag in the past year was Intel’s announcement in April that – once again – its 10nm Cannon Lake processors were going to be delayed. Yes, these are the same CPUs which were expected to succeed Skylake (6th-generation) chips way back in 2016, and were subsequently delayed multiple times. While Cannon Lake silicon is actually shipping in very tiny amounts, mass production is where it’s at, and this year, we discovered that won’t happen until 2019. Why? Intel simply can’t hone its 10nm manufacturing process to get yields where they need to be. This constant stalling is a rather worrying state of affairs, and indeed late this year, a rumor even floated around that Intel had cancelled Cannon Lake, forcing the company to come out and clarify that it was still making ‘good progress’ on the silicon.
Although that’s obviously a relative term, given the history here. Volume production of these CPUs is expected to start in the second half of 2019, although PCs with the processors inside probably won’t be on sale until the very end of the year.
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