What's New in Windows 10's First Big Update, the "Windows 10 Fall Update"

Did You Know? Lucy, the most complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found and referred to in the popular press as the “missing link”, was named after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. Geek Trivia In The United Kingdom Which Of These Literary Works Has A Permanent Copyright? Pride and Prejudice → Alice's Adventures in Wonderland → Frankenstein → Peter Pan → Advertisement Download Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies Audiobook (A $9.92 Value) This audio book is the perfect way for some to learn great techniques and methods to combat anxiety while in pressured public situations or in the comfort of your own space. You'll find practical methods for reducing your level of anxiety; proven therapeutic exercises and sound advice on nutrition, relaxation and support; and tools to identify disorders, spot what is causing the anxiety, and various methods of treatment. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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If you prefer, you can read this column in a web browser instead. No, The Surface Book is Not Twice as Fast as a MacBook Pro When Microsoft announced the very interesting Surface Book laptop / tablet hybrid, they also claimed that it was twice as fast as a MacBook Pro. That claim seemed ridiculous then, and after some benchmarking, we know that it is. Surface Book vs. MacBook Pro: It isn’t twice as fast. It’s three times as fast Of course we had to pit the Surface Book vs. the MacBook Pro. It's like Ford vs. Chevy, or Coke vs. Pepsi. Each side has its diehard fans, plus others who just want to know which is better. Microsoft claims its new Surface Book is "twice" as fast as its equivalent MacBook Pro. Well, we ran some benchmarks, and hate to say it, but Microsoft lied. The Surface Book isn't twice as fast. It's three times as fast. If you go on to read the article, you’ll find that all of the tests found the two machines almost equal, with the MacBook Pro winning by a small margin in CPU and Geekbench and various other tests — despite the Surface having a newer Skylake processor that hasn’t made it into the MacBook yet. So where does the Surface Book beat the MacBook? Graphics performance in certain tests, if you pay for the higher-end Surface Book that has the extra discrete graphics card in the keyboard base. And the “three times” nonsense? That’s from a Tomb Raider video game frames-per-second benchmark. Nevermind that the tests were using OpenGL on the MacBook against DirectX on the Surface, rather than using Apple’s new Metal API, which is more similar to Direct X than OpenGL is. It’s a good way to pad the numbers to make the Surface look faster. So no, the Surface Book is not actually twice as fast. Or 3 times as fast. In real-world performance, the MacBook Pro is actually (slightly) faster, which shouldn’t surprise anybody. The only place the Surface Book is faster is… playing video games. Which pretty much always requires Windows anyway, since the state of gaming on Mac is virtually non-existant. Previous Thoughts You Might Have Missed: Saturday: Facebook is the Single Biggest Reason Your Battery is Dead Friday: Microsoft is Pushing Windows 10 Just a Little Too Hard Thursday: Android is Hilariously Insecure – 87% of Phones are Vulnerable Wednesday: How to Protect Yourself from Security Holes in Adobe Flash (and Other Plugins) Monday: Do You Buy Physical Media or Have You Gone Digital? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Scriptlet A Scriptlet is a piece of Java software code used in web pages to perform specific functions or processes. Scriptlets can be maintained in a browser’s cache and referenced (called on) as needed after the initial download (until the cache is cleared). What We're Reading from Around the Web Facebook starting to fix iPhone battery drain issues with latest app update, explains why its happening NSA advisory sparks concern of secret advance ushering in cryptoapocalypse [ArsTechnica] Watch Michael J. Fox demonstrate Nike's self-lacing sneakers on Kimmel [The Verge] The Darknet: the Battle for "the Wild West of the Internet" Apple blocks old, unsafe Adobe Flash plug-in versions in OS X Safari Cancer myths about antioxidant supplements need to die [ArsTechnica] How to Repeat Specific Rows or Columns on Every Printed Page in Excel If your worksheet takes up more than one page when printed, you can print row and column headings (also called print titles) on every page so your data is properly labeled, making it easier to view and follow your printed data. Read This Article → How to Change Your Windows iCloud Photos Folder Location When you install the iCloud client on your Windows computer, it configures the shared folder in a specific location. You can, however, move this folder to another location, even another shared cloud folder or backup drive. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s First Big Update, the “Windows 10 Fall Update” The first big update to Windows 10, reportedly arriving at the start of November, fixes a lot of problems with Windows 10. Microsoft is streamlining activation, restoring colored window title bars, integrating Skype, and improving the Edge browser. But they’ve also added advertisements to the Start menu. Read This Article → How to Install and Use Bookmarklets in Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge doesn’t yet have browser extensions, but it can use bookmarklets. Bookmarklets work just fine in Edge, and they make up for the lack of browser extensions. You’ll just have to install them manually first. Read This Article → Would Write Performance Improve if a Reformatted Hard-Drive was Filled with Zeroes? If you are going to reformat a hard-drive, is there anything that would ‘improve’ write performance afterward or is it something that you should not even worry about? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. Read This Article → How to Insert Page X of Y into a Header or Footer in Word We've shown you how to add "Page X of Y" to a header of footer of large spreadsheets in Excel. The same thing can be done in Word for longer documents. It's a bit different than in Excel, so read on to find out how. Read This Article → How to Hide Apps You’ve Purchased on Apple’s App Store and Google Play Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft’s Windows 10 all keep a list of apps you’ve purchased — or just downloaded, if they’re free. This list will become cluttered over time, especially if you download and try out a lot of free apps. 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