ASAP IT Technology Blog

Personal laptops offer an array of benefits.  Due to its compact size and portability-laptops are very popular among working professionals, business owners, and gamers.  Laptops have a wide range of customers from different fields and use.  Working professionals can now easily take their work with them wherever they go, especially working in remote areas. 

Having a laptop allows accessibility to important documents and emails on the go.  Not only that, laptops can complete difficult tasks and run software that once only ran on powerful desktop computers.  As laptops become the primary choice for a personal and working computer, the use of a universal docking station can expand its use and capabilities. 

Docking stations allows the user to access many USB adapter ports to run extra devices such as hard drives, flash drives, audio devices, keyboards, and much more.   In addition, having a docking station allows for optical media and monitors.  Having a docking station can transform a simple laptop into a full range work-station.  It is ideal for home and business offices. 

Laptops are stronger and more compact than ever before, however, there are certain limitations.  Most laptops have 1-3 USB ports and a smaller viewer screen.  Some may like the convenience of having multiple USB ports to be able to access hard drives and connect to a high-resolution screen while at home or in the office.  The universal docking station is a simple easy to use a device that can maximize the use of laptops better than ever before. 

ASAP IT Technology, owned and operated by ASAP Semiconductor, should always be your first and only stop for docking stations, USB adapters, optical media, and computer hard drive parts. ASAP IT Technology is also the premier supplier for docking stations, USB adapters, optical media that is old or hard to find, they can help you locate it. ASAP IT Technology has a wide selection of parts to choose from and is fully equipped with a friendly staff, so you can always find what you’re looking for, at all hours of the day. If you’re interested in obtaining a quote, contact the sales department at www.asap-ittechnology.com or call +1-714-705-4780.

By as early as the second half of 2018, Microsoft Corporation has plans to release a line of low-cost Surface tablets. The goal of this new line is to provide a cheaper device than Apple Inc.’s iPad. This is no new effort by Microsoft. In 2012, the software company launched its consumer-oriented hardware promotion, with the introduction of the original Surface RT. At the time, the starting price for the device was $499. After receiving sub-par reviews by both consumers and product reviewers, Microsoft moved on to the much pricier Surface Pro.

This line of tablets was well received and most likely contributed to the demand of Apple’s “Pro” iPad, which launched in 2015.

The new tablets will be equipped with 10-inch screens, which is smaller than the standard 12-inch screen of the Surface Pro laptop line, but about equal to the standard iPad. The new Surface tablet will have a price point of around $400 and will feature round edges like the iPad. USB-C connectivity will be used, which is a first for the Surface line tablets, along with a new charging and syncing standard that is used by latest smartphones.

The tablets are anticipated to be almost twenty percent lighter than the higher end models but will have around four hours left of battery life. The current Surface Pro model has around thirteen and a half hours of battery for one single charge. It has been speculated that Intel Corporation will provide the main processor and graphic cards for the new tablets, although representatives at both companies have declined to comment or confirm.
               
Apple has sold almost 44 million iPads which has generated almost $20 billion in revenue just these past 4 quarters. The entire Surface hardware business for Microsoft has generated $4.4 billion in the same period. Market research shows that Microsoft has sold almost 725,000 tablets in the first quarter of 2018, which is an increase of 1.8 percent in comparison to early last year. Apple has sold 9.1 million iPads in the same period. Microsoft has plans to release multiple Surface models, include a 64 and 128 gigabyte version that connects to LTE networks and running Windows 10 Pro.
               
ASAP IT Technology, which is owned and operated by ASAP Semiconductor, provides a unique procuring experience for customers. The website offers a streamlined platform for purchasing IT hardware parts. Any individual can access the website as a resource to purchase specific technology hardware parts. With a dedicated account manager and support 24 hours throughout the entire year, customers can expect fast quotes and reliable access to hard to find or obsolete parts. 

Jim Keller is a widely known name in the tech world. He is known as the man who brought AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, to the forefront of the industry. He is the man who crafted some of the best known central processing units ever used. He made the choice to leave all of that behind and took a job over at Tesla, to help them build up their artificial intelligence programs, but now, he’s decided to come back to his roots by taking a job at Intel.

This is such huge news because his contributions at AMD allowed them to dominate the market in the early 2000’s. No matter what CPU you were looking at, the K7 designs or the k8 designs, you could see how important of a product they were to the tech industry in the early 2000’s. Both CPU’s made huge strides in the tech world by finally providing a central processing unit that could actually reach 1GHz, which was ground breaking at the time.

Keller did decide to take a break at AMD and took a job at Apple, in order to help them out on the cellular side. After he built up a flawless team at Apple, he decided to head back to AMD where he worked until 2015 where he moved to Tesla.

Jim Keller joining Intel shows how dedicated Intel is to change. A company that used to be afraid to shake things up is choosing to add new members to its community. These additions are sure to add dimension to a company longing for change.
 

ASAP It Technology is the premier supplier of computer hardware parts. ASAP It Technology has a wide selection of parts to choose from and is fully equipped with a friendly staff, so you can always find what you’re looking for, at all hours of the day. If you’re interested in obtaining a quote, contact the sales department at sales@asapit-technology.com or call +1-509-449-7700

The release of Netgear’s Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Wi-Fi router is said to be the next big thing for the online gaming community.  The XR500 takes wireless routers to the next level, boasting many innovative features­­­ – all of which should increase speed and reduce interference and lag time.  Some of the key features making that possible include: four external high-performance antennas; 15 added channels in 5GHz; incredibly fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi; and a dual-core 1.7GHz processor. Netgear has also added a gaming dashboard that is customizable with real-time bandwidth utilization and the ability to stabilize pings.

Netgear’s addition of the DumaOS operating system is sure to optimize user performance, giving its users a serious advantage over their opponents. DumaOS offers its users a solution to bufferfloat (latency that comes from a router having to buffer too much data at once), allowing multiple users in one household the ability to surf the internet without causing the speed to suffer.  Users can also control the amount of bandwidth going to each connected device, allowing your high priority devices to receive as much bandwidth as they may need.

An additional benefit to this new OS is that it comes with a gaming VPN (virtual private network) client.  VPNs act like a firewall, protecting your personal data while you’re online from any unauthorized user access; this means any data you are transmitting will be encrypted and protected.  Today, when hacking and identity theft have become so commonplace, Netgear’s innovative technology is sure to be an asset to the online gaming community.

ASAP IT Technology is a premier logistics and supply-chain partner for IT technology manufacturing and technology-driven companies– with a continuously increasing inventory, you can be sure ASAP IT Technology will have everything you need and more.  ASAP IT Technology will ensure all needs are addressed in a timely manner.  ASAP IT Technology is known for having hard to find and/or out of stock computer parts and can always help you find cost-effective solutions.  For a quote, reach out to the main office by phone: 714-705-4780 or by email: sales@asap-ittechnology.com

This network interface card’s job is to connect a computer to a local network or internet. It does this by creating electrical signals that are both compatible with the computer and the network nearby that it connects to. Basically, all PCs, both desktop, and laptops have a network interface card built in. The card is held securely in the computer by the bracket. This bracket can also have a cable jack or antenna on it with an indicator light that the card is inserted correctly and working.
 
The most common adapter has a number of computer chips used to process signals from the network to the PC. These computer chips are in a plastic circuit board that can be injected into the actual PC and connecting to the motherboard. There are several types of network interface cards, one of the more recent ones work with Wi-Fi wireless networks through an antenna to send signals.

Not all are wireless, there are also ones that use actual Ethernet cables to connect the computer and internet. Ethernet cables have a plug that connects that network card and the internet as one.
 
These connections transfer waves and signals to communicate which website you are trying to access and turns them into the data you see on your screen. To put it simply, the card is a middleman for everything you are trying to access on your PC.  The circuit boards are automatically programmed when placed in your computer. The make and model are used to properly pass all of the data specifically for your network. Without programming, these cards do not work.
 
ASAP IT Technology has a dedicated and expansive array of technology parts, making us the premier supplier of a number of parts. We serve customers as a one-stop shop and primary destination for product sourcing. ASAP IT Technology will ensure that your needs are addressed in the most expeditious and transparent manner, all the while offering cost-effective computer hardware component solutions. If you are interested in a quote, please contact our friendly sales staff at www.asap-ittechnology.com or call 714-705-4780.