Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG Review

Summary

The Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG sports a "unique" look and comes with host of "cool" features such as a full HD screen, translucent plastic build, and backlit keyboard. Even at its asking price, it's a good choice for meeting your multimedia needs.
Pros:

Full-HD (1920x1080) screen

Good build quality

Very distinctive design

Handy features such as "Quick Web access"

Good backlit keyboard

Cons:

"Vibrant" colour might not be to everyone's liking

Tedious approach to manually notebooks battery choosing graphics options for individual programs

Comparatively low battery life
Full Review

The first thing you notice, right of the hp compaq nx7400 battery bat, about the Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG laptop is its 'vibrant' colouring. For our test piece that colour would be green. Yes that's right, green - a colour choice which evoked gateway NV79C battery plenty of not too flattering comments from my office colleagues. While visually it definitely sticks out from the rest of the laptop crowd, let's see whether this holds true at the performance end of the spectrum as well.


Design

The VPCCB15FG laptop Portege R705 Battery has a translucent plastic green back lid with the Vaio design imprinted in the middle and a smaller size Sony logo at the top. This same translucent plastic moulding extends to the palmrest and the area above the Portege R700 Battery keyboard - not covering the keyboard, screen bezel and the bottom of the laptop. It has to be noted that this green plastic form does attract its' fair share of finger impressions and smudges.
The laptop features a full sized chiclet style keyboard with the TOSHIBA PA3534U-1BRS Battery multi-gesture touchpad located below the keyboard, positioned towards the left end. A dark bezel borders the 15.5-inch LED backlit screen, and together with the backlit keyboard's dark colouring, provides for a pleasing contrast to the surrounding green tone. In my opinion, this colour contrast has a better visual appeal than if the entire latop was coloured in one colour.
In line with Sony's promotion of this series' vivid colours, the other PA3534U-1BRS Battery colouring options for this particular series are orange and black. Sony offers a washable keyboard skin - which also comes in a variety of colours, and costs Rs. 1690 - that fits over your keyboard and keeps it clean. While we didn’t get this for our review unit, it should come in handy Lenovo T61 Battery given how the keyboard keys, due to the backlighting feature, are slightly elevated and consequently has spaces underneath them where crumbs could get in.
The Vaio laptop weighs 2.8-kg with a Compaq Presario CQ56 Battery six-cell battery, which is comparably heavier than other laptops we have Compaq WD548AA Battery reviewed - it's important to note here that given the laptops designated use indoors, this shouldn’t be a point to really fret about.
Features

This Vaio laptop comes with a good 15.5 inch full-HD screen - this is very good feature for a laptop with such screen dimensions. The viewing angles are good from the horizontal axis and to a HP G4 Battery lesser extent the vertical axis - the view from the top vertical axis is HP G72 Battery good, however the view from the bottom axis gives a darkish hue to the on screen picture. As with most mainstream laptops that have a glossy screen, the Vaio's screen reflective nature will be an irritant at times. Having said that, viewing videos, images or text on the Vaio's screen is a pleasant experience.
The laptop holds true to the saying that Replacement Acer Laptop battery "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - some folks will like it, but even more folks will not be too appreciative of certain colour choices - such as the green, orange and the even more Replacement Dell Laptop battery "vibrant" pink in some of the other models. Nevertheless, it's always good to see companies come up with something new in laptop designs every now and then. The laptop's plastic translucent-like properties allows for the edge of the Replacement HP Laptop battery back lid as well as the touch pad to appear glowing.

The laptops' plastic appearance should not detract from the fact that it has a Cheap Apple Laptop battery good build quality. The power button is located at the top right of the keyboard, next to the "Vaio", "Web", and "Assist" shortcut buttons. The speakers are placed along the same horizontal as these buttons, with one speaker extension at each of the right and left Replacement Fujitsu Laptop battery ends. There's a 1.3-megapixel (MP) webcam placed at the top of the laptop's screen bezel.
Keyboard Usability

The keyboard’s multi-gesture enabled touchpad was generally very responsive, and so were the dual mouse buttons.
The keyboard, which has chiclet style keys, is Replacement Sony Laptop battery very comfortable to type on and provides good tactile feedback. This is not a downside to the keyboard, but just my personal observation, that the arrow buttons could have been larger in size. The keyboard's backlight feature adds a nice touch to typing under dark or low light settings - It lights up when the ambient light dims out to a particular level.


Hardware

Under the hood, the Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG laptop features a Intel second generation 2.30 Ghz Intel Core i5-2410M (Sandy Bridge) processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, on-board Intel HD graphics and AMD Radeon 6630M graphics with 1GB of RAM (the laptop automatically switches between the Cheap Lenovo Laptop battery discrete and integrated graphics of the CPU, as and when required) and a 500GB (7200 RPM) hard drive. A point to keep in mind with the switchable graphics mode in this laptop is that unlike in laptops with Cheap Asus Laptop battery Nvidia's switchable graphics, we were unable to manually force the entire system to choose a single graphics option (you aren't allowed to run either the AMD/Intel graphics exclusively). However there is a rather tedious process by which a prompt, which pops up whenever a new application is run, will ask you which graphics option to Replacement Toshiba Laptop battery enable for all the individual programs. I have to say that having to go through the trouble of choosing which graphics option to use, each time a new application was run was rather cumbersome.

The laptop has three USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, Gigabit Ethernet port, VGA port, HDMI, headphone and Cheap Samsung Laptop battery microphone jacks, DVD writer and a multi-card reader. It also features Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/ n and Bluetooth 2.1 wireless connectivity. There is also a handy switch for enabling/disabling wireless network (both wireless internet and Bluetooth) connectivity - and unlike most Cheap IBM Laptop battery other laptops which use symbols, the "Wireless" tag is written right above the toggle and the "off" and "on" positions are clearly labelled. This makes it visually intuitive for the user to enable/disable wireless connectivity.

More details can be seen on this review's "Specifications" page.



Software

The laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium. The Sony Vaio laptop also comes with its own handy software bundle. One such feature is the quick web access. By pressing the "Web" button, when the Replacement Compaq Laptop battery system is switched off, the system initializes a browser type interface which allows you to just browse the net. This feature starts up pretty quickly, and if you are in a hurry and just want to check some important information online without having to go through the process of the entire system starting up, the "quick web access" feature is Gateway Laptop Batteries invaluable. The browser used is the Splashtop Browser which comes under the Mozilla Public license. If you press the "Web" button, when the computer is already running, it will open the systems default web browser (I.E, Firefox, Chrome)
The other button is the "Assist" button which battery for notebook upon pressing starts up the "Vaio Care Rescue". Just like the "Web" button, this can be accessed without having to enter into the latitude d800 battery main OS installation. When the system is already on, pressing this latitude d830 battery shortcut button will open the "Vaio Care 6.3" program, which is a feature that allows you to troubleshoot problems, run maintenance and tune up facilities and other related utilities.
When the system is already on, pressing the "Vaio" shortcut button will open the dell d620 battery Media Gallery player, which is a feature that allows you to access your photos, videos and music all through one interface. You should keep in mind that this all-in-one feature is latitude d610 battery already provided by Windows, but the Media Gallery player latitude d600 battery does have its charm, in other words "Gesture Enabled" controls - a very cool feature indeed. You can use hand gestures in front of the inbuilt camera and according to your movement, as predefined in the program's settings, you can pause a playing song, move to the next/previous song/picture. I did get quite a few weird glances from people passing by dell latitude d630 battery who thought I was merely waving my hand at the laptop for no particular reason.
Among the other software included in the lenovo t61 battery laptop was the Microsoft Starter 2010 Edition - quite useful as this is not a trial version - which features Word Starter 2010 and Excel Starter 2010. Other software included are the PMB Vaio edition for managing your photos; Arcsoft Web companion 4 for capturing images and video - with an added video monitor lenovo x60 battery mode; Vaio Control Centre for configuring various system settings; lenovo x61 battery Vaio Gate which comes up as a popup from the top of the screen whenever you move the cursor there, and provides easy access to apps and links - it has to be pointed out that some folks might find this thinkpad t60 battery functionality rather irritating; Evernote for Vaio; McAfee PC Security Center 30 day trial: Vaio Data Restore Tool; Vaio Media Plus; Vaio Transfer Support. A point to keep in mind is that most of the software mentioned, is redundant with Windows already providing similar functionality.


Performance

The Sony Vaio laptop had a score of 114 on the Worldbench 6 benchmark - for comparisons thinkpad t42 battery sake, that would be 2 points more than the Acer Aspire 5755G. This Vaio laptop should be more thinkpad r40 battery than capable of performing most multiple processor and memory thinkpad x41 battery intensive tasks without any issues.
During synthetic testing, the latitude e6400 battery laptop's hard disk recorded an average read speed of 82 MB/s and a PC Mark Vantage score of 6828.
As with any system running switchable graphics, the performance Dell 312-0928 Battery difference between the Intel and AMD adapters in 3DMark06 is quite telling: the discrete card scored nearly double that of the integrated graphics (3285 for the Intel adapter and 6442 for the NVIDIA). FarCry 2, played at 1024x768, DirectX 10 mode, AA 2x, and 'Ultra High' Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t Battery settings, registered a average frame rate of 32.90 fps. For Metro 2033, played at 1024x768, DirectX 11, Very High Quality, AAA, AF 4X, and all settings maxed out registered 10.20 fps. Given these scores, playing games at low to Dell Vostro 1220 battery medium settings, would make for a comparatively smoother sailing for gamers.
Watching both 720p and 1080p HD videos is a pleasure on the Lenovo L09S8L09 battery Full HD screen. The sound output from the built in speakers, is appropriately loud for a small-medium HP HSTNN-Q09C Battery sized room, but it does sound very shrill. Listening through headphones would be the best option.
Throughout our testing, the Sony Vaio did a good job of HP F4098A Battery keeping itself cool, which is a positive aspect for any laptop. However, you do notice that the section of the bottom part of the laptop that is next to the exhaust heats up slightly. Moreover, the HP 361742-001 Battery laptop was barely audible during operation, which is another positive feature of this laptop.
The laptop's six-cell battery lasted for 1 hour 4 minutes through one HP F4809A Battery of our battery tests, at high performance mode, and having the wireless connectivity mode HP HSTNN-IB13 Battery enabled. Having said that, you should be able to extract around 2.5 hours out of the HP HSTNN-DB13 Battery laptop's battery for doing lighter every-day work such as browsing the web and listening to Compaq 319411-001 battery music. But despite the Vaio laptop registering a lower battery life than most other mainstream laptops, given the configuration of this laptop and its intended use indoors, battery life shouldn’t be a major concern.


Upgradability

There are two covers at the bottom of the laptop HP 371785-001 battery that can be opened – one at the bottom-left section which is bordered on its top right side by the second cover. The cover at the left contains the hard disk and the neighbouring cover HP F4812A Battery contains the memory modules. There are two memory slots, one of which is occupied by a 4 GB memory module. You can upgrade the memory to a total of 8GB by adding another memory module. Removing the cover for the hard disk slot was very easy - you don’t have 3 Cell HP MINI 110 Battery to expend that much effort in opening this slot when compared to most other laptops. Removing the memory slot cover was comparatively harder although still easier than opening slots in most mainstream laptops.

Bottom Line
As far as appearances go, the Sony Vaio HP 537626-001 battery VPCCB15FG is definitely a unique laptop, and one that everyone will notice no matter where you go. That the laptop delivers on the performance side of things, and has features such as full-HD screen, good HP NY220AA Battery backlit keyboard, are a big plus for this laptop. Putting all of these factors into perspective and you HP NY221AA Battery realise that the price tag on this unit is not that high. Keeping in mind that you genuinely like the colour choices for this unit, the Sony Vaio VPCCB15FG is a good contender as a 6 Cell HP Mini 110 Battery home entertainment and multimedia laptop and one that you should definitely check out.

HP Or No HP: The PC Lives

Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users’ storage needs will keep it around a good long while.
The signs to the contrary are everywhere, haven't you seen them?
•Hewlett-Packard, the largest Acer Aspire 7741 Battery computer maker in the world, said Wednesday it's looking to get out of the consumer PC business. HP believes its fortunes lie in a business similar to IBM that focuses on supporting large enterprises instead of trying to profit off the razor-thin margins of Pavilion PCs.

•Also recently, Mark Dean, IBM's Aspire 7741G Battery chief technology officer for the Middle East and Africa and an engineer who worked on the IBM's first PC, the 5150, declared the end of the PC. Dean argued the traditional mouse-and-keyboard computer was going the way of the vacuum tube, typewriter, vinyl records and a number of other extinct or outmoded technologies. The IBM exec says he now uses a tablet as his Acer Aspire 7551 Battery primary computing device.

•Market research firm IDC recently cut its PC growth forecast for 2011 by nearly 3 percentage points from 7.1 to 4.2 percent (IDC and PC World are both owned by International Data Group).

Clearly, the PC is dead, right? Well, no.
First of all, despite falling growth in Aspire 5742 Battery PCs this year, IDC also predicts PC sales will rebound in 2012 driven by laptop sales. Shoppers are expected to opt for PCs next year thanks to devices with thinner designs, longer AS10D71 battery life, instant on, and touch.
But it's not just sales that will keep the PC afloat, there also are practical reasons to keep the PC alive for the foreseeable future.
We All Drive Trucks For A Living

Steve Jobs in 2010 famously compared PCs to trucks. The argument goes that more Acer Aspire 5742G Battery people will gravitate toward using tablets while PCs will be used by people who need Aspire 5741 Battery some serious horsepower to drive down the digital highway such as graphic designers and video editors. The premise of this argument is that people largely use PCs for doing email and other light typing, Aspire 5741G Battery checking Facebook, watching videos and playing games.

The problem is an untold number of people still need to use PCs at work, because tablets (at least as they stand now) simply aren't up to the job.
Consider a secretary needing to Aspire 5736Z Battery simultaneously enter data into a spreadsheet, update a contacts database, create a mail merge Aspire 5552 Battery document to send to 1000 clients, and search online for a restaurant for the next office party. Or what about this recent quote from a PC World reader who works as a teacher: "I do so many things with my PCs . . . Just a short time Aspire 5552G Battery ago I had Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Thunderbird, Firefox, Notepad ++, Irfanview, Dreamweaver, and NXT-G running simultaneously. This is typical for me on any given day."
Even lowly writers are better off using a HP KS526AA Battery PC, as PC World's Tony Bradley recently discovered during a month-long bender with an iPad.
PCs Are Flexible

Unless you own a Mac, you can adapt your PC to your Aspire 5551 Battery situation with relative ease. Need more RAM? Just open your PC up and plug in a new stick. Want to swap out Aspire 5253 Battery your 320GB HDD for a 512GB SSD? No problem. Tired of Windows and want to give Aspire 5336 Battery Ubuntu a try? It's only a download away.
Tablets aren't even close to being this flexible. You might be able to Aspire 5251 Battery jailbreak the iPad to get unauthorized software to run on it, but that's much more involved than inserting a BT.00604.049 bootable thumb drive. Tablets are also designed to be replaced year after year because the BT.00603.111 hardware is largely static and unchangeable, while PCs can change as your needs change and are typically serviceable for at least 3-5 years.

Innovation Is Out There

Sure, the basic look and feel of a PC hasn't changed ACER AS10D75 that much over the years. The basic set of components including a display, keyboard, CPU, and mouse have remained largely static AS10D73 Battery whether you're looking at a desktop PC or laptop AS10D61 clamshell. But consider this: the standard automobile has had four wheels, an engine, and a steering wheel for more than 100 years, yet that hardly means that automotive technology is standing still.
PCs with integrated touchscreens such as ACER AS10D51 Battery the Acer Aspire Z5610 are evolving, voice control is getting better, and Microsoft's Kinect Windows SDK may open up a AS10D41 whole new world of interaction for the PC. Who knows? Maybe those wall-sized PC displays predicted by tech luminaries and sci-fi writers may become a standard part of most people's homes before the decade is out.
You Need To Store Your Stuff

Right now, tablets have puny storage AK.006BT.080 capabilities compared to a PC, where 500GB drives are standard and 1TB drives are easy to come by.
But what about "the cloud," you say? "We'll just store all that AS10D3E stuff online." Maybe. But the future of the cloud is currently up for debate. Amazon and Google want you to use the cloud as if it were a hard drive accessible from ACER AS10D Battery anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Apple's iCloud, meanwhile, is AS10D31 designed to sync your stuff across all your devices. If Apple's vision wins out, you'll still Gateway NV53A Battery need a device with a large amount of storage in your home as a central repository for stuff that's not being stored online such as older photos. One day, tablets may fit that bill, but for now PCs are still a better place to KS526AA Battery 12 Cell keep your files.

Tablets are a great tool for using on the go, and it's a fair comment to say we're living in the Post-PC era or PC-plus era as Microsoft calls it, but the PC has a lot of life left in it and tablets are no replacement for my Lenovo X220.

Upgrade Your Life: Laptop Battery Life

Laptop battery wearing down? In this week's episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News' Becky Worley shows us how to help batteries last longer ... and what to do when they run out!


First, the basics


Most laptops use batteries that can last for 3-5 years, or about 1000 charges. (A premium laptop's battery might last longer.) Every time you charge your Compaq Evo N610C Battery , the total capacity of the battery is diminished. Originally it may have had a run time of 3.5 hours, but after LENOVO IdeaPad S10 battery a year it'll run out of juice at 3 hours, even on a full charge.


If your battery capacity has diminished, there are a few things you can do about it. First, you have to hp g62 battery correctly gauge how much capacity has been lost. There are free downloads to do this job, like HP F4809A battery Eater (for Windows PCs) or Coconut Battery (for Macs). These will compare your battery's current maximum capacity to how long it lasted when it was new.


Calibrating your Battery


You can't miraculously reconstitute your HP DV6000 battery 's capacity. It loses power over time due to chemical reactions taking place in the Dell Latitude D600 battery , as it chugs along powering your laptop. You can't undo those changes, but there is one common battery issue you can fix: In many laptops, the operating system's battery meter gets out of sync with how much juice the battery actually has.


Imagine if the gas gauge on your car dashboard was misreading how much gas you actually had in the tank. You'd either run out of gas when you thought you had a quarter of a tank left, or you'd be filling up too frequently. In your HP F4812A Battery laptop, this can mean your laptop shuts down abruptly when the meter says you have 30 minutes left. Or else the meter might warn that you only have 2 minutes of battery life left and shut your laptop Lenovo Thinkpad T61 Battery down, when it really has another 20 minutes remaining.


Recalibrating gets the Sony VGP-BPS8 battery meter to correctly read the current state of the battery, so you and the operating system know where you stand with existing battery life.


How to recalibrate


First, charge your laptop's Latitude D610 battery battery to full, and leave it that way for at least two hours. Then unplug your laptop hp mini 210 battery , and set its power management settings to never turn off or lower the monitor brightness. (HP has instructions for how do to this on Windows 7 and Vista, as well as Windows XP, while Apple has instructions for Mac laptops on their site.)


You want to drain the HP HSTNN-LB42 Battery completely, then let your laptop sit for at least five hours this way -- like, say, overnight. (Just be careful and mute the volume, since some laptops make a warning sound when they're about to run out.) Afterwards, charge battery Evo N610C up again, and you should notice a more accurate portrayal of your battery capacity. In some cases, you may even get more life out of it.


Best practices to maintain battery life


You'd think that the best way to keep your laptop's battery from wearing out is to not use it. Right?


As it turns out, batteries are like muscles; they need to be worked out regularly to Lenovo T61 Battery stay healthy. Ideally, you'd use your laptop unplugged at least once a day, like on a train or bus commute or on the couch in front of the TV. If you're not going to use it, constantly charging your battery is a bad idea; HP recommends on their website that if you're going to hp dv2000 battery leave your laptop plugged in or put up in storage for more than two weeks, you should take the battery out of your laptop.


Past the expiration date


So when is it time to throw out that old battery? The answer, surprisingly, is "never." Laptop batteriescontain lots of toxic chemicals, and should never end up in landfills. Fortunately, e-stewards.org has a list of environmentally responsible recyclers that will take your old battery with no fuss.


When is it time to replace your battery, then? Use the free utility apps Becky mentioned, and when they say that your TOSHIBA PA3534U-1BRS Battery can only hold around 25% of its original capacity it's probably time for a new one. You can buy a replacement battery from the original laptop manufacturer, and there are plenty of places online that sell discounted PC laptop batteries, like wholesalebattery and laptop-computer-batteries.org. Owners of newer Mac laptops can get their laptop's non-removable battery swapped out at any Apple store, with a scheduled appointment.

Hacking laptop batteries: A new security threat

Accuvant Labs' Charlie Miller describes how to hack Apple laptop batteries
LAS VEGAS--The latest security threat to your laptop HP 537626-001 battery comes from an unexpected source: its HP 537627-001 battey .
A security researcher demonstrated today at the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 Battery Black Hat security conference how he was able to gain complete control of the microprocessor embedded in batteries used in Apple Macintosh laptops and then remove or bypass the built-in safeguards.
"I can clearly brick the Lenovo 57Y6440 battery," said Charlie Miller, principal research SONY VGP-BPS22 battery consultant at security firm Accuvant Labs. "That's a cinch. I'm a pro at that."
Miller suggested it would be possible to SONY VGP-BPS22A battery overheat a battery and start a fire by convincing a controller that the battery was discharged, even though it was completely full, but said he LENOVO 57Y4559 battery ss has not tried it and an analog fuse may prevent disaster. "The charger will think the remaining capacity is whatever I want," he said. "So it might overcharge."
Accuvant posted working code today featuring an interface that Miller wrote that makes it easier to send commands to the battery controller.


Sniffing battery-to-laptop communications
(Credit: Accuvant Labs) Bricking a battery, of course, doesn't mean that a laptop SONY VGP-BPS20 battery ceases to work. And older MacBook Pro laptops have batteries that can be replaced in Apple MB771 seconds. But newer MacBook Pro laptops, and the MacBook Air, have batteries that are not designed to be replaced by their owners.
Even worse, if malware successfully slips past the defenses built into MB771LL/A OS X and takes up residence on a laptop, it could continue to keep bricking replacement batteries.
Miller said the attack could take place in the HP ProBook 4320s battery other direction as well: Malware inserted into the battery's firmware could try to seize control of the computer even if the SONY VGP-BPS20/S operating system were reinstalled. "If the OS kernel has a bug, you could attack the HP ProBook 4520s battery OS from the battery," he said.
Apple uses three chips made by Texas Instruments to control its LENOVO 57Y4559 battery laptops' batteries. Two provide protection against overcharging, short circuiting, and so on, while the TI BQ20Z80 chip keeps track of the Lenovo 57Y4558 battery battery's status, maintains the charge, and communicates with the laptop.
Miller's presentation described how he began trying to figure out how the laptops communicate with their batteries and discovered that Apple did not change the default LENOVO 57Y4565 battery password. Here's an excerpt:


For the batteries that ship with all the Acer Aspire 3935 Battery Apple laptops I tested, the password to unseal the SAMSUNG AA-PB9NC6B battery and the password to enter full access mode are the hard-coded values provided in Texas Instruments documentation. In this work, I provide API functions which can be used to communicate with the AA-PB9NC6W battery . This allows the ability to make arbitrary configuration changes as well as dumping of the data flash and instruction flash. I provide IDA Pro scripts to disassemble the machine code from the firmware. We provide a way to dell 312-0234 battery disable the firmware checksum as well as to make arbitrary changes to the smart battery firmware. Due to the nature of the Smart Battery System, changes made to the smart battery firmware may cause safety hazards such as overcharging, overheating, or even fire.
One of the utilities he released today lets you change the password from its default setting.

Hacker can shut down Apple MacBook battery

Forget computer viruses and worms. What's maybe the worst thing a hacker could do to your Sony VGP-BPS9 battery ? Access it remotely and shut it down -- or maybe even blow it up.
Which is why famous Apple hacker Charlie Miller wanted to do just that.
"I don't want to wake up one day and have my
sony VGP-BPS9A/S computer blow up," said Miller, who is an avid user of Apple products. "I want to be the one looking at that -- not the bad guys."
How would a TOSHIBA PABAS057 person blow up a laptop without even coming near it? By tampering with the software that runs its Sony VGP-BPS8 battery, said Miller, who demonstrated a way to hack into an Apple laptop battery and shut it down, but fell short of actually making it explode.
Apple did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
Miller explained his hack in a presentation at the Latitude D610 battery Black Hat security conference Thursday in Las Vegas. After the talk, he sat down with CNN to talk about Sony VGP-BPS10 Apple security, hacker ethics and why long passwords can be annoying.
The following is an edited transcript:
CNN: Tell me what you were able to do with Apple's laptop batteries.
It's sort of complicated, but the way batteries get charged in your Sony VGP-BPS13AS laptop is there's a little chip in your battery and the computer talks to that chip to figure out what's going on. That chip will tell it how much charge it has, how much charge it needs, how much charge it should give it -- that sort of thing. What I figured out was how to change the software that runs on that chip.
When it comes from the Sony VGP-BPS21 factory, they don't want you messing with it, so they set up passwords and stuff to prevent you from doing that. There's two passwords, actually, and Apple didn't change those, so you can just find documents on the IBM 40Y6799 Internet that said what those were and then I could change the firmware on the chips to make it (the battery) do whatever I wanted.
So what does that allow you to do?
Well, you could make it not work anymore. You can make the battery to where the computer doesn't even know it's plugged in. ...
My goal was to see if I could make one blow. I never did that. There's lots of different protections to Vostro 1500 battery stop that from happening, and also I was a little scared to blow one up in my house, you know.
Why blow it up? Why was that the goal?
I approach it like, what can people do to me, right? So I don't want to wake up one day and have my computer blow up. I want to be the one looking at that -- not the bad guys.
So I found this thing where Apple didn't HP DV6000 battery change their passwords. Well, now they're hopefully going to change their passwords, right? So then next time I buy a laptop from Apple I won't have to worry quite so much that someone will do something (bad).
I released a tool that you could run, if you're particularly paranoid, that would fix this Dell Latitude D600 battery problem.
Is this the first time a hack has targeted a battery?
No one that I know has ever looked at 6 cell acer battery -- or no one has ever published anything about it. You carry this thing around with you, and it has a chemistry set in it.
Other people go into a store, and they think about what to buy. I think about how to steal stuff. I don't (actually) do it -- that's just kind of how I think.
You target Apple products primarily. Tell me why you've chosen to do 9 cell acer battery

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That's a good question. I started this gig four years ago -- and so back then the Apple products were way easier to break into than, say, Windows.
Really?
Yeah, they were very far behind in security.
That goes against the common perception.
Yeah, I know. People thought they were secure when they weren't. And when I told people that, no one would believe me.
So the reason I started is it was easy. But since then, with (OS X) Lion coming out, it's caught up. Now it's not any easier anymore. I either have to find something else that's easier to work on -- or whatever.
Do you like Apple products?
Yeah, I have an iPhone in my pocket right now. That's another reason. If I use acer 5100 battery , I want it to be secure. I don't want Steve Jobs having a commercial saying it's secure -- I want it to actually be secure. That's my job to figure out what's secure and what's not.
Currently, do you think acer 5050 battery are more secure than their counterparts?
(Apple) iOS is definitely more secure than Android. Lion acer 3680 battery is basically comparable to Windows 7. You can nitpick on those two, but they're basically both really good.
Android is lacking a couple of features that iOS has, so it's behind.
Do you have any security tips for iPhone users?
Make sure to set a passcode for it. Otherwise, if someone picks up the acer um08a73 phone, there's nothing there. So set a passcode. It's not going to protect it forever, but at least it's some barrier for some kid that picks it up.
Don't jailbreak your phone if you care about the acer um09e71 security of it -- because that breaks all of the security. Make sure to configure for remote "locate and wipe," so if you lose it you can either find it or blow away all of your data on it.
How long is your mobile password?
It's four digits, which Dino (fellow Apple hacker Dino Dai Zovi) showed in his Dell Vostro 3300 battery talk you can break in 18 minutes. So if I don't get my phone back in 18 minutes I'm in trouble. I've tried longer ones, but it's just impractical. I couldn't stick with it.
How did you get into hacking in the very beginning?
I've been into computers and thought hacking was cool. I got my Ph.D. in math from Notre Dame and I got hired by the NSA (National Security Agency) to be a cryptographer. But when I got there, I didn't really like Dell MT3HJ , so they had a training program in computer security, so I learned the basics of my training there in an internship.
Where do you do your work?
At my house. I work out of my house. I'm a consultant. I spend half my Dell U164P

time doing consultant work and the rest of my time doing research -- like this DELL N855P kind of stuff.
Where do you live?
St. Louis.
How long did it take you to do the battery hack?
It took about seven months -- it took a DELL D837N really long time. Most of my research projects are like two weeks, or a month or something. But this one was so far from my comfort zone, and there had been so little written about it that it really took a long time.
So basically you're giving away information about how to break things in an effort to make it more secure. Some people might be confused by that.
I mean, people think that -- like with my Dell XPS M1530 battery thing -- that if people didn't talk about this, no one would have ever found out about it. And that's just not the case.
No matter what we talk about here, there's always bad guys -- or guys who are trying to do this to make money -- that are just as smart as us. And there are way more of them.
All we can do is present to everyone what we know. You can't defend against something you don't know.
Do you feel paranoid using Apple products knowing how many flaws you've been able to find in them?
A little bit. But they've gotten so much better. Like the iPhone. For the first year, when the iPhone came out, it was horrible. It was awful. It had no security in it, basically -- at all. And then when the Dell Studio 14z battery second iPhone came out it was much better. And since March it's had basically every feature a security guy would want.
It's not just me. I think it's everyone saying they want more secure devices.
Do you work with Apple?
Not exactly. I have a cordial relationship with them. I shared with them my paper on the Dell XX327 battery stuff like three weeks before the talk. But then again, if they would have told me not to do it I would have said, "Go to hell." I don't want to be their adversary. I want to have them fix stuff -- and I want them to get better. I try to share with them.
Are they working on this dell XX337 battery thing?
Unfortunately, there's not a lot they can do except start again and get it right.
Have hackers ever targeted you?
If they have, I haven't caught 'em.
I'd be pretty easy to hack, I think. I don't practice the laptop computer batteries best security myself. I'm impatient. So anytime security is going to add a lot of hassle I'm not going to do it.
I'm the cobbler 9 Cell Dell KY265 whose kids have no shoes or whatever. And everyone knows exactly the software I use, the dell KY477 hardware I have, so it probably wouldn't be that hard.
I just try to be a really nice guy so no one wants to go after me.

Getting There: In Which Our Reporter Flies to the American West, Is Captivated by the View

My ungodly departure hour has come and gone, and now I’m off, writing this as my plane cruises over Toledo, Ohio. I’m on my way to sony VGP-BPS9/S Supai, Arizona, a tiny town on the Havasupai Indian Reservation where I’ll try to find both glorious seclusion and the most comfort possible with the officefull of gear that I’ve amassed for review.
After testing out a great deal of backpacking equipment on the roof of the H018N Forbes Building in Manhattan–first through a campout on the hottest night of the year, then with some follow-up visits to document details–I’ve piled the winning gear into a backpack, then piled the winning backpack into a suitcase (as anyone who flies to a hike will tell you, baggage handlers can be rough on straps, and without in-tact straps I can’t have a dell R822G battery backpacking trip at all).
Most of what I’m bringing with me is now in the cargo hold of my airplane, but I’ve kept a few choice bits with me for the flight. These are essential for a good start to a trip that needs to be relaxing, fulfilling and productive.
Ultimate Ears In-Ear Headphones
Back in January, when Michael Noer sent me to Bucharest on four hours’ notice, I brought a few pairs of noise-canceling headphones with me to test head-to-head. The unexpected winners of that review were not the dell Dell KM771 bulky active-noise-reduction headphones that are ubiquitous in first class; instead, a tiny pair of in-ear phones from Sennheiser won the dell WU841 day; they were comfortable, light, more practical to sleep in, and vastly more compact than over-the-ear headphones, and they blocked noise nearly as well.
On this trip, I’m trying out an upgrade to the typical in-ear phones: a pair of HP DV6000 battery Ultimate Ears custom headphones, made by Logitech, that were fitted to my ears a few weeks ago. The primary clientele for this line of high-end earphones is rock musicians, who need to protect their hearing during concerts by blocking out loud noise at the same time that they need to hear themselves accurately.
The buying process for dell 312-0902 Ultimate Ears starts with a visit to an audiologist who takes an impression of the ear canal with a rubber mold. That’s sent off to California, where technicians build the custom earphones so that they fit snugly. The earphones arrive a couple of Dell Inspiron 14Z battery weeks later in a metal clamshell case that, along with colored earpieces, conceals what would otherwise look something like a pair of hearing aides.
My pair of Ultimate Ears sounds terrific, though the Dell N672K ones I’m trying out are reference monitors, designed with a flat response curve to help musicians adjust sound levels. That means the dell 312-0883 sound didn’t pop until I spent some time tinkering with the equalizer settings on my stereo, MP3 player and electric keyboard–all of which sound good through the Ultimate Ears.
On an airplane, the noise-canceling claim is borne out, though a head-to-head comparison with a pair of Bose headphones suggests that the noise-canceling profile is somewhat different than the dell K903K active-reduction type. I find that Ultimate Ears are slightly less effective at cutting out the Dell Inspiron 1750 battery dull background roar of air travel, but much more effective at blocking articulated sounds, like DELL JKVC5 battery crying babies and overworded announcements (“Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we do ask that you do please kindly refrain from moving about the cabin.”)
It takes a bit of practice to insert and remove Ultimate Ears comfortably–they’re made of hard plastic, and since they fit tightly they can take some work to put in before you figure out how to do it. The company sells a lubricating gel that makes it a little easier to put the FPCBP226 earphones in, but after a few more tries I’ve found that I’m able to use them without discomfort.
Ultimate Ears custom earphones start at $400, including the audiologist appointment, and range up to $1,350. They’re a persuasive alternative to bulkier noise-cancelling headphones, the better dell KM769 of which cost about $300, for the same reasons DELL KM742 that I preferred in-ear phones last winter: they’re much smaller and lighter, and they don’t get in the way when I try to find a comfortable airplane sleeping position.
Lenovo ThinkPad X220
An hour into my flight, my laptop Dell PT434 tells me that it’s got 18 hours of battery life remaining. That’s right–I can write product reviews for another three-quarters of a day before I’ll need to plug in my computer. And that’s under active use with the screen set to moderate brightness. Lenovo says that, with all 9 Cell Dell Inspiron 1440 battery possible battery-saving measures taken, the ThinkPad X220 laptop can run for up to 23 hours straight before it needs a charge.
That extended life comes from a detachable sheet battery–an add-on the size of the laptop’s footprint and about an inch thick that extends the standard battery’s 15-hour life into the Methuselan range. The battery clips onto the bottom of the Lenovo 51J0499 battery computer and essentially thickens it by an inch or so. Drop the extra battery, as I’ll do when I bring the laptop into the canyon, to save a little over 1.5 pounds.
The rest of the laptop embodies everything I’ve always liked about ThinkPad computers–first when they were made by IBM, and now continued under Lenovo. The keyboard has just the right Lenovo 57Y6309 battery amount of action in it–a little bit of resistance at first that makes for a satisfying snap when the key goes down. Construction is solid, with a magnesium-alloy top, plastic that has no give to it, and holes in the Lenovo L09S6D21 bottom that drain out any liquid that might spill on the keyboard. And, of course, it’s got the classic ThinkPad styling that says “shut up–I’m an important person working on important things.”
The ThinkPad X220 starts at $850, including the 15-hour battery. Upgrades include the FUJITSU FPCBP119 snap-on ThinkPad 19+ battery; a solid-state hard drive and a premium display (though the regular display in my demo unit is very impressive).
Swarovksi EL 8.5 x 42 binoculars, Leica M9, and MotionX GPS HD app for iPad


The flooded Missouri River just south of Omaha, Neb. Taken with a Nikon Coolpix P7000 camera.
I’m an unstoppable window-gazer on airplanes: only the FPCBP119A battery sharpest of flight attendant rebukes can force me to close my window shade when there’s anything at all to see. My partners in this pastime start with the MotionX GPS HD app for iPad ($2.99): it lets you download basemaps ahead of time so that it will work without an Lenovo 51J0499 battery Internet connection, and once on-board it runs in the background to plot any flight path. This way I can figure out whether it’s Scranton or Allentown that I see out my window, or, once we get farther west, which refreshing-looking mountain range we’re passing over.
Along with knowing where we are comes the Toshiba PA3788U-1BRS thrill of spotting interesting features, and here a good pair of binoculars is essential. Swarovski’s brilliant EL 8.5 x 42 binoculars do the job nicely, making it possible to distinguish between, say, a coal mine and a coal-burning power plant where without them I’d only be 9 Cell SONY VGP-BPL12 able to see a big heap of coal–or to notice that barren-seeming desert mountains are actually covered in toshiba PABAS22 vegetation. As I pointed out in my review, they also focus extremely close–you can look at things under 5 feet away–which makes it easier to see what important work the important guy across the aisle is doing on his ThinkPad.


The sort of picture you'll end up with if you use a Dell XX337 battery 21mm lens through an airplane window. Taken with a Leica M9 digital rangefinder camera and an Elmarit-M 21mm f/2.8 lens.
And why not bring a camera along as well? The one that I’m most excited about Dell XX327 using on this trip is Leica’s incomparable M9 digital rangefinder–an instrument that I took a while to like but that I now think is outstanding. Leica doesn’t make zoom lenses, so any airplane pictures you take with it are likely to be artistic shots of clouds–but the M9 takes the best artistic shots of clouds that I’ve seen. I’m also enjoying the Nikon CoolPix P7000, a point-and-shoot Acer TravelMate 5100 battery camera that has some of the manual features I’m used to.
Now it’s time to drive across the Arizona desert and camp at the rim of the Grand Canyon. More will follow.

What Should I Do When My Laptop Battery Doesn’t Last As Long As It Used To?

Dear Lifehacker,

My laptop battery doesn't last very long anymore. How can I tell what's going on or wrong with it and if it needs replacing?
Thanks,

Need a Battery Boost
Dear Need,

Laptop batteries do indeed get weaker and have limited lifespans (generally under three years but newer laptop batteries are coming out that last much longer). You don't say how old your notebook battery is, but here are a few resources and tips to give it a checkup.

Testing and Monitoring Your Battery: Windows
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Previously mentioned Battery Eater is a free Windows utility that can do a full load test on your Acer Asprie 5050 battery and let you know how long it should last. If there's a discrepancy between what you're seeing from the Acer Asprie 3680 battery program and actual experience, check out ways to extend your battery life (see below).
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Some Lifehacker readers have recommended instead BatteryBar, which comes in a Dell Inspiron 1470 battery free and pro version and lives in your system taskbar. It offers a visual display of your remaining battery life and keeps a Dell Inspiron 14z battery history of your battery charge and discharge times so you can better gauge how long your battery will last.

Testing and Monitoring Your Battery: Mac
If you're using a Mac, we've described a tip before for using the HP CQ42 Battery built-in System Profiler (under Applications > Utilities) and go to "About this Mac" where you'll find information about the battery's health in the Power section.
If you want to use a software program for monitoring your Mac laptop's battery health, we've recommended iStat Menus previously. The application provides detailed battery state info as well as advanced information for other OS X system properties.

What to Look For
If your laptop battery only holds about 50% try conditioning or recalibrating the HP HSTNN-Q61C battery (below). If it's 25% or less, consider buying a new one. Of course, also take age into account—a really old laptop battery will just need replacing.

Recalibrating Your Laptop Battery
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Calibrating or recalibrating your HSTNN-UB69 laptop battery may recondition your KU531AA battery to hold more charge again. We've described the process previously, which involves basically putting your laptop to sleep and fully charging it, then letting the battery fully drain again. Then charge your AT908AA battery up to full again. Apple recommends doing this calibration when you first get your laptop and then every few months thereafter.
Windows users can use a tool called HP WD546AA battery Care, which not only monitors your discharge cycles but can also recommend when to calibrate your 482962-001 battery. For Mac users, Watts ($6.95) is a similar application with a reminder for when to calibrate, Growl notifications, and calibration assistance.

Maximizing Your Battery Life
That's all well and good, you're probably thinking, but after monitoring your HP WD547AA battery life, if you're still having poor running times and your laptop battery looks healthy, there are some things you can do to maximize your battery life: switch to a power saver or balanced power plan, decrease the HP 590544-001 screen brightness, keep your laptop cool, and use hibernate mode. For more detailed descriptions of these suggestions and other tips, see our guide to extending your battery life. Good luck!

How to Make Your Laptop Battery Live Longer

Laptops were built to be mobile. That’s why they come with batteries. Yet more and more employees and business owners rarely travel with their SONY VGP-BPS2 battery laptops at all, instead using them primarily as desktops.
Just one problem: when you leave your SONY VGP-BPL21 laptop plugged in all day every day, the SONY VGP-BPS21A battery never gets a chance to discharge and recharge — which is critical to its long-term health.
In other words, you’re shortening the VGP-BPS21B battery’s effective lifespan, and cheating yourself out of runtime for those occasions when you do need to go mobile.
Fortunately, there’s a simple solution: pull the

TOSHIBA PA3781U-1BRS battery . As long as your laptop is connected to AC power, the battery isn’t necessary; it’ll run without it.
Just remember, of course, to pop the APPLE A1280 battery back in when you head to the conference room, the airport, etc. (Indeed, be sure to give it time to fully charge before you go anywhere.) Laptop batteries are hot-swappable, meaning you can insert 12 Cell SAMSUNG AA-PB2NC6B or remove them even while the system is running.
I realize this represents something of a hassle, but it pains me to see laptop computer batteries dying unnecessarily premature deaths by being chained to AC power. Do yourself a favor: Keep your

samsung AA-PB2NC9B battery fresh by keeping it “unplugged.”
Now, as for improving actual battery life while traveling, see the first link below.

Buy Laptop Batteries At A Bargain

It is possible to buy laptop batteries of different brands at great prices from online wholesale stores.


Laptop batteries are extremely short-lived and therefore many people who are on the move often prefer to carry two. But quite often, they find it difficult to get the

HP 590543-001 battery right type quickly. Ordering it from the company can be time-consuming and very costly. Nowadays, there are SONY VGP-BPS2A battery many online stores to buy Acer UM08A31 laptop batteries and notebook batteries. They offer batteries that can be fitted to different types of computers and that can be used either as spares or replacements.
The Laptop Battery
A laptop battery is fitted into the DELL Latitude D610 battery laptop and needs to be charged from time to time. The life of the battery depends on the power of the cells inside it. Some batteries last for three hours, whereas others for five hours. Modern laptops use batteries that are made from lithium ion. They are lighter than the earlier nickel batteries and better suited for the environment. They also have longer life and come in dell m1210 battery smaller packages. Still, any laptop batteries uk has a life. After a certain amount of recharges, the life of the lenovo x200 battery diminishes. Also, while doing the jobs that require a lot of power, the batter may lose power faster. Due to these reasons many people prefer to have a spare fully charged battery with them, especially when they are travelling or going for an important presentation.
How And Where To Buy Laptop Batteries
It is very important to buy laptop batteries from the right store. This is because there are Acer Aspire One battery many stores that sell duplicate notebook batteries. To avoid being ripped off, check out the stores. Try and learn as much as you can about the battery that is used for the laptop you possess before purchasing. Other than getting the right battery, it is also essential to get hp mini 210 battery at a good price. It is always better to buy the LENOVO 57Y4565 battery batteries made by reputed companies. This is because reputed brands ensure quality. Without quality, there is always the danger of the entire power system of the laptop getting a short. This could render the entire laptop useless.
Wholesale LENOVO 57Y4565 laptop battery stores, both online or offline, provide great rates to customers. Wholesale rates are always lower than retail rates. With Lenovo 57Y4558 battery additional offers at these stores, they make the ideal place to buy laptop batteries. From many of these stores, customers can also buy camera batteries. They too need to be bought product based and from a reputed brand. Once a ThinkPad X100e battery good store is identified and the right battery spotted, it can be bought online. The battery will be shipped to the address within 24 hours.
Now it is possible to buy laptop batteries from other places besides the LENOVO 57Y4559 battery manufacturer of the system. Earlier when they were sold only by the manufacturer, it was more difficult for customers to get spares and replace them. Most often, there would also be a long waiting line. With online stores, their purchase SONY VGP-BPS20 battery has become easier and quicker.
You can Buy laptop batteries at the site www.laptop-computer-batteries.org. Also, good quality notebook batteries are provided for sale for all brands like Acer, Dell, HP and so forth.

When You Don't Want Your Laptop to Go to Sleep

Bharat's laptop is connected to an external monitor. He asked the Laptops forum how to close the lid without putting it into sleep mode.
Windows laptops default to going into sleep mode (standby in XP) when you close the SONY VGP-BPS20/B battery lid. Under most conditions, this makes a lot of sense. You're working in a café, and it's SONY VGP-BPS20/S time to go home. So you close your laptop and stick it into your bag. It goes to sleep, saving battery power and giving it a chance to cool down while you travel.
But obviously that doesn't work if you're using an external monitor.
Luckily, you can change that setting. Not only can you keep the HP BQ350AA battery on when you close the lid, you can also set it to hibernate, shut off, or "Do nothing."
If your laptop runs Windows XP, right-click the HP ProBook 4520s battery desktop and select Properties. Click the Screen Saver tab, then the Power button in the Dell 312-0928 battery lower-right corner. Click the Advanced tab. Select an option from the "When I close the lid of my portable computer" pull-down menu.


With Windows 7 and Vista, you can use HP ProBook 4320s battery different settings for when the laptop is on Dell Z600 Battery or on AC power. That makes a lot of sense. If your PC is connected to a monitor, chances are it's not running on the battery.
To get to these options, click Start. Type power, and select Power Options. Click Choose what closing the lid does, and select your options.

Sony unveils commercial ESSP-2000 industrial battery with 10-year shelf life

Sony has unveiled its new commercial-grade ESSP-2000 industrial Dell 312-0140 battery, which boasts the capability to provide business users with up to at least 10 years of reliable power output without experiencing significant cell deterioration. According to the Japanese electronics giant, the Dell Vostro 1220 battery is designed to meet the energy needs of Lenovo 57Y6440 battery data centres and server farms in unlikely event that a massive power outage takes place. More details after the break.
Sony has unveiled the ESSP-2000, an industrial Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 Battery battery which has been claimed to be capable of providing commercial users with up to at least 10 years of Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 Battery reliable power output. Designed to meet the needs of data centres and server farms, the ESSP-2000 reportedly makes use of lithium-ion iron phosphate cells to achieve its long shelf life and high power output.
According to Sony, the ESSP-2000 can be used in Lenovo L09S8L09 Battery three different modes, namely UPS mode, Discharge Timer mode and Backup mode. UPS mode allows users to charge the battery while it provides electrical power to connected equipment, much like how one would charge a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t Battery notebook or mobile phone while its bundled battery pack is still actively supplying power to the device.
Discharge Timer mode, on the other hand, supposedly allows users to set Lenovo 57Y6450 battery specific times for the ESSP-2000 to charge and discharge itself, while Backup mode is designed so that the ESSP-2000 will automatically trigger itself in the event a power failure takes place. Sony claims that the ESSP-2000 is capable of making the SONY VGP-BPS22 battery switch from main to backup power in a mere 20 miliseconds to SONY VGP-BPS22A battery minimize the likelihood of connected devices unexpectedly shutting down from the sudden power loss.
No mention about the ESSP-2000's pricing has been revealed by dell Inspiron Mini 9 battery at this point of time, although the company has claimed that the dell Inspiron 910 battery device should be made available for sale in Japan come September this year.
Official specifications for the ESSP-2000 industrial battery are as follow:

Apple left default passwords in batteries, making them vulnerable to hacks, explosion

Are our computers too smart for our own good? That's the question I'm asking myself after reading Charlie Miller's "Battery Firmware Hacking" HP DV6000 battery paper. Miller showed how you can write programs to render an expensive notebook battery worthless. You might even be able to blow one up.


How could this be? What design error in the Sony VGP-BPS8 system made it possible? None. Miller wrote programs based on published documentation for chips conforming to a popular standard. But there is one key mistake by Apple that makes the COMPAQ HSTNN-DB42 Battery whole thing a lot worse.
The standard is the Smart Battery Specification. Consumer electronics batteries, especially on complex devices like computers, are complex devices themselves. They interface with the host system to allow for fine control of the HP HSTNN-LB42 Battery power in the system. It turns out that if a program has the correct code to do so, it can query the device for its status and command it, as well as the charger. It can also command it to do things which cause damage to the HP HSTNN-C17C Battery , possibly damaging it, possibly making the battery unusable. In fact, Miller says it's easy to ruin a battery by misprogramming it. But even though the SBS goes to great lengths to preserve safety, a program in control of the system might even be able to overheat the battery and cause a fire.
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Charlie Miller is one of the best-known characters in the vulnerability research business. For years he has been famous as the only person to do serious research on Apple products, especially on ASUS AL31-1005 Battery Macs. He has a shelf full of Pwnie awards to show how good he is at it. @0xcharlie, as he's known on Twitter, will be speaking next week at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, presenting theASUS PL32-1005 Battery paper I read (at which point it will be fully available to the public), but he has no Pwnie nominations this year. He's probably been too busy with his new job as Principal Research Consultant for Accuvant LABS, the security assessment and research division of Accuvant.
Being a Mac guy, Miller worked with ASUS AL32-1005 Battery Macs for this testing, but it's reasonable to presume that the problems might exist on other notebooks as well. SBS is a ASUS A32-F5 Battery popular specification. The attacker would need to do Windows programming -- there are compaq Evo N600C Battery plenty of references on power management in Windows-or it may be necessary to talk directly to the devices through a device driver interface, but it certainly can be done. He doesn't have a compaq Evo N600 Battery complete list of which Macs are vulnerable, but every one he tested was, one going back to 2007.
But it can't necessarily be done on any SBS-compliant system because they didn't necessarily make the mistake that Apple did: They used the default passwords for accessing and programming the battery using the Texas Instruments power management chipset. Out of the Compaq 232633-001 Battery box, batteries in these systems are "sealed" to prevent software from modifying their settings. To unseal them you need to authenticate to them using a password. Apple used the default TI passwords for unsealing the Battery Evo N610C battery and entering "full access mode". Miller was able to look these up in the Texas Instruments docs and use them.
Changing the passwords in an update is dell studio 1458 battery probably futile for Apple because updates can be reverse-engineered. All they can do is to protect new systems from here on. Whether other notebook manufacturers make the same mistake is not clear, but we'll probably find out soon.
In the process of this testing, Miller "bricked" 7 Mac batteries. See the battery graveyard below:

If you want to do so, you can actually reprogram the battery firmware. It's important to point out that an attacker would need to be able dell Vostro 3400 battery to run privileged code on the system, possibly to run it as the dell u597p battery root user. This is hard to do without some other compromise in place and would be very hard, if at all possible, in a "drive-by" fashion as on a web page. But, combined with social engineering to get code on the system and, perhaps, a privilege escalation vulnerability, it could be done.
It's hard enough designing a power management spec that maintains safety under normal specifications. Engineers must be frustrated to have to consider the possibility of malicious power management code, but then dell Vostro 3500 battery here we are. It's possible and it's not too crazy to imagine it being done. And now that it's well-known and documented it's up to the dell Vostro 3700 battery, chipset and computer companies to take reasonable steps to account for it. None of that can help the users of existing vulnerable systems.
This is what happens with complexity. To make our batteries smart and efficient we need to make them Dell 7FJ92 battery complex. When you make them complex you make them more vulnerable to dell 4JK6R Battery attack. When you don't take care to protect these vulnerable systems, users are at risk. Unfortunately, complexity is all around us and growing.

Battery recycling plant to sue Government

Mr Cowpe said his company had invested millions into making sure the Petone smelter was environmentally sound.
"However, we do not have any dell 312-0196 battery to recycle because the Lenovo T61 Battery Government has granted permits to export nearly 100,000 tonnes to developing countries like the Philippines and to Korea since January 1, 2008," he said.
A Wellington-based plans to sue the Government for continuing to ship used lead acid batteries overseas.
Green MP David Clendon raised concerns about whether New Zealand was meeting international convention agreements in dell 312-0186 battery Parliament last week.
Environment Minister Nick Smith Dell N856P battery said his preference was for the waste to be managed in New Zealand, but the Government needed to be satisfied Exide was being run by best Dell N855P battery world practice.
"I will need to be satisfied about the Dell Studio 17 battery environmental standards, given the quite chequered record of the Dell Studio 1745 battery Exide Technologies plant in Petone."
Used batteries have been sent to the Philippines and Korea.
"The Basel convention differentiates between developing and developed countries. Ministry of Economic Development Dell Studio 1749 battery s officials did inspect the Philippines facility. They advised me that the Dell Studio 1747 battery standards there are the same, or better, than those of our own plant in Petone."

"Exide does not want to create a monopoly for Lenovo 57Y6446 battery recycling used lead acid batteries. We also do not want the Government to ban export permits for the batteries. We just want the Government to meet its international and Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 Battery domestic legal obligations."
Exide's lawyers are due to meet the Ministry of Economic Development today to discuss the TOSHIBA PA3784U-1BRS battery litigation and are expected to file proceedings with the High Court this week.
The Exide Smelter in Petone said the Lenovo Ideapad U160 Battery Government was breaching the Basel and Waigani treaties' obligations to limit the SONY VGP-BPL20 Battery international transport of hazardous waste, and to favour New Zealand facilities where batteries could be disposed of or recycled in an environmentally sound way.
"We believe the Government has failed to meet these legal obligations in exercising its discretion to grant export permits," Exide's Australasian managing director John Cowpe said.
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