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do you mean it's going to burst?]]>Apr 9th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/!!!KICK SOME A$$ DELL!!! I'm rooting for ya!!!]]>Apr 9th 2008 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpc]]>Apr 9th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
Here comes the fastest selling "Eee killer" ever. I was a couple of weeks from pulling the trigger on the new HP model, but I can definitely hold off until June.]]>Apr 9th 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
I am prepare to drop up to 1k for the

roll cage chassis, trackpoint and spillproof keyboard]]>Apr 9th 2008 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/It's written in Hebrew, he was asked if Dell is planning to offer their version for the Asus Eee Pc and his answer was - Absolutely yes, we are planning to bring interesting products in this area during the following quarters (not the exact quote). Check the video in this links:

http://net.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=548348&sid=127

He also mentioned his affection to Vista and that he was using it since the beta versions and have no plans to downgrade to XP.
Also mentioned that Dell is the most green tech company in the world.

Here are some links:

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/10/ART1/719/609.html

http://www.themarkerit.com/tmit/article/3223
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At least we know Dell will support it with Windows as the standard out of the box.]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
Not true. Linux is as user-friendly and as ugly as WinXP. It is not an exact copy, but it is similar.

You insert a pendrive, it opens a window displaying its contents... you double-click say, a .doc file, it opens the file. There you have a toolbar with bold, italics, underline, left/right/centre/justified alignments, tables...

Done editing your file? Press the toolbar button with a diskette on it. Yeah, that simple. Unmount your pendrive selecting the corresponding option that is displayed by right-clicking the... yeah... pendrive icon in your desktop. Oh my god, I've said 'unmount'! What? Yes, you do the same thing on WinXP.

The only thing linux is not good at is gaming. For the rest, it is just as good as WinXP, only safer and, even easier as it comes with all the goodies you would need to install separately on WinXP. Oh, and keeping your system updated, complete with all the apps is sooooo much easier on Linux. WinXP is just so ugly and unfriendly.

So no freakmarket and Chebwa, you may not like Linux, which is ok, but it is not true that Linux is unfriendlier and/or uglier, 'non-standard' and 'non-integrating', whatever that means.]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
Linux is a niche product and until somebody fixes it, it's going to stay that way. I swear to God if you got just a TINY team of ex MS or Apple employees banging away at Linux, you'd have a monster competitor. But right now it is awful, and nobody but hardcore PC enthusiasts are going to enjoy using it over Windows or OSX.

Tell me how wrong I am now, low rank me, whatever. But at the end of the day, Linux is still not even a real player in the OS game. And I know I have changed exactly 0 Linux-people's minds with this, so, I don't know why I even why I wrote it.]]>Apr 9th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/ The UI looks unfinished (in Kubuntu, even my desktop icons' text wouldn't auto center properly)

lol configuration

You chose that distribution or UI.]]>Apr 9th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
I repeat: Linux is not good for gaming, yet. And the general public not being interested in it won't make your assertion that 'Linux is ugly and unfriendlier' less false. The UI looks ugly... to you perhaps. I could say the same thing of WinXP: 'look Ma, if I want to power down my computer I have to press the START button... how stupid is that?' and in Vista the whole 'power down options' thing is even more stupid... But hey, I don't say Windows is satan's OS because of that.

Things are the way they are not beacuse Windows is better. Just because people use whatever you put in front of them, and once they get used to it, they don't like to try anything else. They don't care what OS runs beneath. They just want things to stay the same, since they are not interested in 'computers' per se. It is just a tool to get things done. That is why Vista is so resisted. It is not really that much uglier. At least not for the 'general public' untrained eyes.

So don't come here telling Linux is 'unfriendly' or 'ugly' just because it doesn't have significant market share. Is it unfinished? So is Windows then. The truth is that Linux is on par or better than windows for many tasks, and, yes, it is definitely safer. Because it is safer by design.

I've installed close to a hundred ubuntu clients (Ubuntu Gnome displays desktop icon names just fine, BTW. But Kubuntu should do the same, of course), made many customers happy and kept viruses and spyware away from them, saved them thousands of US dollars and correspondingly diverted some of those to my pocket.

Users are amazed at how easy is to install new apps, and they just don't believe how easier it is to keep them updated. They love the nicely organized applications menu, and how easy it is to work with usb storage and CDs/DVDs.

I also deployed many many many windows clients, so no, I am not a Linux zealot. When windows is better for a particular task, use windows. But that list of tasks windows is better at keeps getting shorter, fast.

And God forbid any of those 'brilliant' ex-MS employees work on Linux. Windows is mainstream, yes, but it is not a well-designed OS. Linux is not perfect either, but thanks to its unix roots it is a better design.

I know I won't change any windows-people minds either. Windows is fine... keep using it if it suits your needs. Linux suits mine, and other people's needs too. And you will see it slowly but steadily eroding Windows userbase, as it has already been observed, but that won't make Windows any uglier or unfriendlier than it is now.]]>Apr 9th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/
Networking integration with Linux and other o/s's is a nightmare.

I just like my stuff to play well with each other.]]>Apr 9th 2008 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/I hope this is one of the devices they sell with Ubuntu (or would this be an opportunity to get into the Ubuntu-Mobile market?)]]>Apr 9th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/I also wonder what form-factor they're going to go for. Plain boring mini-laptop like the Eee and HP? Or for something interesting, like the Fujitsu Lifebook U810 and U1010 convertible micro-laptop+tablets?

Hopefully the latter.]]>Apr 9th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Asus
Intel
VIA + Everex
HP
MSI
Acer
ECS
and Dell + Compal

With the big boys in the race, the price is going to get lowered with more features.

I'm not so impressed with HP's powerbookwannabe. Of all the companies, Asus and Compal have the best quality.

Come on Sony, release a Picturebook 2 and sell it for 699-900. It'll do well.]]>Apr 9th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/]]>Apr 9th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/Apr 9th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/compal-8-9-inch-dell-laptop-coming-in-june-for-less-than-499/If you look at the MBA's motherboard, it could probably easily fit in a sub-notebook, too. Maybe we can get modbook to make a modbook-mini, using the MBA's motherboard, and a touchscreen, with a Samsung Q1 type format (no physical split-thumb keyboard like the Q1 ultra; instead, have a virtual split-thumb keyboard like the Q1 (non-ultra)). Then have a physical keyboard via the docking/charging connector. A laptop-type keyboard that attaches for mobile use, or a docking station with USB and DVI connectors for acting like a light desktop.

That's what I'd like to see, anyway.

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