http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/ Engadget Comments for USI wastes some plastic on MID-150 and MID-200 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/M]]>Apr 10th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/ view source didn't work]]>Apr 10th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
Change the features thing to one of those carousel things where there are numbers and arrows. LET US MOVE THE CAROSEL if we wish, having it move on it's own is very distracting, especially if the article runs all the way over to the right.

The banner at the top is about the only thing I like about the new layout. Also there is WAY too much white on here. My eyes are gonna burn when I'm doing my late night Engadget reading.

Conclusion: Don't make the layout take up 100% of the screen, squish it in a bit, leave some white space on the edge. The way you have it now makes things hard to read. Stop auto-rotating that carousel, it's annoying as hell!

Btw, where did all the ads go? Either adblock got a lot better (never used to let it block engadget anyway) or you guys forgot to add them when you were putting up that little demon carousel.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
Evidently, it's size 10 Verdana.

I know, I know, it's amazing how I figured it out, but I'm not one to brag about my methods...

Maybe they should try to stick with making a PDA with a bigger touchscreen on it... at least those had a battery life greater than 4 hours...

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Also, boohoo on your late night browsing habits, how about getting some sleep instead so that you're not quite so whingey and susceptible to the page colour that the most websites use.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
BTW Ellianth, did you check out that nifty carousel feature?]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
Where's the big problem with resizing your browser anyway? I only use mine on fullscreen at work on the crappy crt they gave me (it's a startup). At home I run it windowed so I can have im, irc, a terminal *and* a browser all easily visible.]]>Apr 10th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/theme.css]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/"why the HELL does it matter?"
geez...take a chill pill dude...
where u beaten up as a child? or what?

it matters cause I want to use the same font..
looks so clean and easy to read
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http://www.trade2save.com/blog/2008/04/08/a-mountain-of-waste]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
Seriously.]]>Apr 10th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
As I read elsewhere online, there is now a two laptop minimum. One desktop replacement, power notebook with a bigger screen, and one ultra portable. In my case, that's my MacBook and my N800.

Most computers now are just over priced over powered thin clients for the web anyway. The MID is the new laptop. And the laptop is the new desktop.]]>Apr 10th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/I have an N800 and an N810. They're not MIDs. MIDs are a specific definition put forward by Intel, not a general organically evolved market category. Part of that definition includes an intel CPU. The Nokias don't have that.]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
Or, well, I suppose you do, but we don't have to listen.]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
My point was, as has already been mentioned in other comments to this post - "Whatever drives the price down is fine by me". Also, whatever drives innovation up, selection up, options up, manufactoring costs down, customer knowledge up, etc. is fine by me.

Competition always profits the consumer - of which I number myself - currently, brand new models of these MIDs or UMPCs or whateever, start at $500 and go up from there. For $500, I could get a pretty decent new laptop. (I bought by N800 used for less than $200 - but it had already been replaced by the N810.) I think that the more companies that design and sell these things, whatever they are called, the lower the price will go, and the more likely the market for them will expand. I mean, if I could get a N810-like device for $150 - it might stop me from buying a $650 Dell laptop.

Sure, the [INSERT-INTEL-APPROVED-ACRONYM-HERE] might not be as powerful as the laptop, but it's much more mobile, and can do 95% of what I want a laptop to do - email, surf, chat, pictures, casual games, podcasting, blogging, youtube, music, videos, e-books, etc..

Someone on digg wrote that most laptops, and computers in general, have become over priced, over powered thin clients for the Internet - and that's pretty much the case. So, some sort of mobile device that can do the Internet in a full-featured way - not some cell-phone version of the Internet [Oh wait, "Mobile phone" since "Cell phone" refers to a specific "Cellular" technology that no all phones use - excuse me.] but the real, AJAX and Flash powered Web 2.0 Internet that we all know and both love and hate [Much like my non-Intel Nokia N800 does], then *that* device could replace most peoples computers.

What I'd really like to see added to these things is video out - either through some sort of docking station or a built-in port. That's what my N800 is missing. I have the keyboard covered. And with the SD slots, storage is not an issue. I can have as much storage as I can afford. Video out at at-least 1024 x 768 would make this thing indispensable.]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
The other thing I'd like to see: tilt screen.

I really DO like the Express-Card slot though (but, that's not PCI-Express is it? I thought PCI-Express was slightly different?) ... hopefully they'll have double-size-battery accessories like some cell phones ;-)

Are these going to run ubuntu mobile, like the other MIDs?]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/
PCIe allows for some fancy use cases (e.g., third-party docking stations for laptops), but most cards seem to use the USB interface. (Have you noticed that most of the 3G adapters for laptops get released as USB and ExpressCard at the same time? That's why: the manufacturer can produce just one version of the guts, and just put it in two different cases.)]]>Apr 10th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 10th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 18th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/10/usi-wastes-some-plastic-on-mid-150-and-mid-200/Apr 11th 2008 12:52AM