Laptop - evolution - Asus Taichi - Windows 8

Always there is time in technology arena that something so good comes-in that it has potential to change the way things work and that time is now. Laptop Generation is continuously being bombarded with innovations and design and recently the Tablet market creating its own space. But I ended up seeing the grand offering Asus Taichi showcased at Computex 2012. Innovative dual display sleek design of Asus Taichi is a sign enough to see what could be expected in Laptop arena in coming days.


Asus Chairman Launching Asus Taichi at Computex 2012:
(see the demo though I found it little hard to follow to slowly speaking Asus Premier, No Offence. ;-))

One of the important things that i think for laptop are the displays - I read a lot on laptop. And Asus Taichi pack HD IPS display with resolution 1920x1080. Primary display which lets you use it as a laptop and When the lid of laptop is closed metro UI is available on the secondary screen and its just a touch thin device. Running Windows 8 this is available in 11.6 and 13.3 inch models. This also packs in the Ivy-Bridge Corei7 processor with 4GB RAMs, so performance isn't something that should be doubted about these laptops.  It just looks polished - I am one of the few folks who doesn't like android interfaces on Tablets. (The reasons there of I will put in another post). I doubt that this would be available in India anytime soon.

Let's hope Asus decides to launch it here too.

Getting email confirmations

Here is an Interesting thing that I found with Mozilla Thunderbird.
The actual email interfaces as initially developed(RFC and all) allows a mail to get a confirmation as soon it is read by its receiver, back to the sender. But this facility is available in corporate business mail accounts only. The mail sent from free email services like yahoo and gmail don't ask the receiver for any "read confirmations" neither they can reply a "read confirmation" for the mail these free accounts receive.

But here is the thing, I figured a catch to this and here it is. Gmail allows an easy SMTP interface to access and send mails thru its email clients like Thunderbird. so what I do is I just configure Mozilla Thunderbird to receive and sent emails thru my gmail account. Thunderbird has the capability to ask for read confirmation for all the mails sent thru it, and this does the work. so I actually request read confirmation for all my mails, but point to be noted is that "read confirmation receipts" can only be received for mails sent to corporate mail ID's and not to free accounts like yahoo and gmail itself as these don't allow any read confirmations.
Still It solves my purpose, The important mails I send are directly to corporate ppl and I am able to track that , at no extra cost what More I can expect from the free email service. Google Rocks!, It provides complete services to users and finds a complete different channel to get revenue(the ads we see in the sidebar.) Pretty decent enough.
Also Microsoft too offers Windows Live mail client (download here) which can be used to access hotmail(and gmail too) accounts on PC. Effect of competition. Still proprietary so no other email client may use it.


Disclaimer: This is totally receiver's domain dependent, though it has worked for me, but can't say it would work for all domains. If it doesn't work with any domain,Let me knw I will post it here.