Bragging rights are a tricky thing. It’s easy to say that you’re the first or best, but backing up that claim is another matter. Take MSI’s brand new WS60 , for example. The company bills the 15-inch laptop as the “world’s thinnest and lightest mobile workstation, ” and it’s definitely on the featherweight side at 0.78 inches thick and 4.36 pounds. There’s only one problem: it’s actually a runner-up. Dell’s Precision M3800 is both slimmer (0.71 inches) and lighter (4.15 pounds), so that’s the machine you want in your bag if sheer portability is the major deciding factor. Thankfully for MSI, there are plenty of reasons why you might pick the WS60 instead. It’s packing a more powerful Quadro K2100M graphics chipset, for one thing. You’ll also get more storage out of the box (a 128GB SSD plus a 1TB hard drive) and a Thunderbolt port for high-speed peripherals. There’s even the gaming-friendly keyboard, networking and speakers from the closely related GS60 , just in case you’re itching to play Titanfall after you’re done with your 3D modelling work. Just be prepared to pony up if MSI’s system is more your style. The base model with a 1080p display and a 2.5GHz Core i7 processor will cost you $2, 300, while opting for a “3K” (2, 880 x 1, 620) screen and an extra SSD ups the price to $2, 600. Filed under: Laptops Comments Source: MSI
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Taco Cowboy (5327) writes After a long 10-year journey spanning some four (4) billion kilometers, Rosetta, an interplanetary space craft from the ESA (European Space Agency), is on its final approach to comet Comet 67P (or comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko). The last in a series of 10 thruster firings over the past few months has slowed Rosetta to the pace of a person walking, about two miles per hour relative to the speed of its target at a distance of about 60 miles. Photographs have already revealed a surprisingly irregular shape for the 2.5-mile-wide comet, possibly an amalgamation of two icy bodies or a result of uneven weathering during previous flybys. From a distance, the blurry blob initially looked somewhat like a rubber duck. As the details came into the focus, it now more resembles a knob of ginger flying through space. Wednesday marks a big moment for space exploration: After a few thruster rockets fire for a little over six minutes, Rosetta will be in position to make the first-ever rendezvous with that comet nickname ‘Rubber Duck.’ ‘This burn, expected to start at 11 a.m. central European time, will tip Rosetta into the first leg of a series of triangular paths around the comet, according to the Paris-based European Space Agency, or ESA, which oversees the mission. Each leg will be about 100 kilometers (62 miles) long, and it will take Rosetta between three to four days to complete each leg. There will be a live streaming webcast of Rosetta’s Aug. 6 orbital arrival starting at 8 a.m. GMT via a transmission from ESA’s spacecraft operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Also at the BBC. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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