Quick Kangaroo Hands On Review, Xbox at E3, WWDC Overview – HGG265

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Jim Collison  https://twitter.com/jcollison and Mike Wieger from http://2980network.com/ are together for show #265 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com community.

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The New Kangaroo PC (Full Review Next Week) – http://amzn.to/1tj36C2

Processor 1.44 GHz Atom x5 Z8300
RAM 2 GB DDR3
Hard Drive 32 GB
Graphics Coprocessor shared
Card Description Integrated
Number of USB 2.0 Ports 2
Number of USB 3.0 Ports 1

Operating System Windows 10 Home 64-bit

The World’s smallest, personal, powerful portable PC. Kangaroo Mobile Desktop Pro builds on the benefits of the Kangaroo PC by building on the modularity and expandability of its design architecture. By introducing the Dock Pro which is a combination HDD bay (2.5″ sized laptop drives up to 9.5mm) and additional ports (VGA, HDMI, audio, Ethernet, 2 x USB 2.0, and 1 x USB 3.0), the Kangaroo Pro now has all the standard PC elements. This Kangaroo Pro works with the already selling Kangaroo Dock so you can continue to build on the option to locate the Dock and Dock Pro in multiple locations (classrooms, libraries, office/meeting spaces, bedroom/living room/den). Ideally suited now as a media center PC connected to your large screen TVs, when you install an HDD or SSD of your choosing (sold separately), you will now have all your video/photo content ready for easy viewing. Connect wirelessly or via Ethernet into your home network for media streaming or Xbox game streaming into any room. The OSLinx app introduced for Kangaroo PC continues to work for the Kangaroo Pro and allows you to use an iPad (connected via a Lightning Cable) to interact fully with the Kangaroo PC desktop. Windows 10 Anywhere on Any Screen

E3

  • Xbox Live – making it easier to find people playing the games you like. Think global matchmaking
  • Xbox One S
    • Smaller, HDR gaming, 4K output for things like Netflix, built in IR blaster (no need for kinect to control your TV. Starts at $299 for 500GB. Available August 2016

     

  • Project Scorpio
    • True 4K gaming, VR gaming, six teraflops of power, available next Fall.

WWDC

2 Million Apps?  Seriously, at what point does that not become a good thing?

  • WatchOS
    • Primarily speed improvements
    • Background app refresh
    • New dock for favorite apps
    • Control center
    • SOS – 911
    • Scribble your response
    • Other things
      • Wheelchair activity
      • breathe

What is the battery life on the watch now?

  • tvOS – nothing exciting at all
    • Sling tv
    • Automatic updates
    • Single sign on

     

  • macOS Sierra
    • Continuity updates – apple watch signs you into your mac
    • Copy and past across all of your devices
    • Storage improvements by utilizing the cloud
    • Touchid – use the phone to authenticate
    • Siri on the Mac

     

  • iOS 10
    • New “Home App” to control all of your homekit capable devices
    • Notification update – widgets
    • Siri – devs have access
    • Messages
      • Rich links
      • Emojis – prediction and turn text into emojis

       

    • Photos
      • Machine learning – creates videos, recognizes faces

       

    • Maps – pretty much just look at Google Maps
    • Music – it does appear easier to find things. I still won’t be using it

 

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