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Official: Google's quest for 700MHz is so on {Engadget}
Nov 30th 2007 12:24PM Walk? Ride a bike? Carpool? Public Transportation? Telecommute?
Craftsman builds Wiimote cabinet, neglects wrist strap {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2007 3:46PM It looks like an outhouse...
Samsung's Q1 UMPC down to $580 {Engadget}
Nov 14th 2007 5:34PM Weird, never seen a post truncated like that before. Anyway I'll just post it again, so forgive me if Engaget finds the remainder of my last post after I repost it again and it ends up as a double post... Maybe it is because I used less-than dollar-sign in my post. I'll leave it out this time.
This is the Asus Eee PC effect on pricing, methinks. If more manufacturers try to hit the under $500 price point in an UMPC then the consumers will enjoy even more options.
Here's my idea, sort of like reverse thinking on Tablet PC... Keep the unit small to where it's still a good touch-type keyboard, and then allow the attachment of whatever size screen you want to lug around. Need a 2 pound laptop? Stick on the 7" screen and go. Want to do some huge spreadsheets in the conference room? Stick on a 15" or 17" screen and haul that thing in there. Sitting at a desk? Hook up the DVI and run it at 1600x1200 on the 20" at the desk. What about those glasses with the built in LCD monitor, now you don't even need carry a screen on it at all...
Samsung's Q1 UMPC down to $580 {Engadget}
Nov 14th 2007 5:31PM This is the Asus Eee PC effect on pricing, methinks. If more manufacturers try to hit the
Wii to drop MP3 support, add AAC in Photo Channel update {Engadget}
Nov 13th 2007 6:45PM This isn't a system update, it's just the Photo Channel. If you need mp3, don't go to the online store and get the new Photo Channel... If you buy a Wii that already has the new Photo Channel installed, well I guess you better like AAC!
Hands-on with Eee PC {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2007 2:35PM "The system presumably will be slightly more or less been castrated to"
When good toys go bad VIII: Scoble attacked by autonomous helicopter {Engadget}
Oct 3rd 2007 5:06PM I'd so much rather read the occasional overlord or blend comments then have to listen to iphone this and apple that and fanboy waaambulances
Microsoft beams out Vista SP1 to beta testers {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2007 7:06PM You have a source on this claim? All I could find was that Microsoft is making it possible for other search engines to function in the same way the built-in one does...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=713
BenQ launches uber-quiet MP622 / MP622c projectors {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2007 11:28AM It looks like the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Patriot 16GB SDHC card hits retail {Engadget}
Sep 20th 2007 11:43AM Any media can fail, of course. Hard drives, Flash, SSHD, optical, tape, paper, stone tablets, all of it. If you aren't backing up everything you don't want to lose, you're going to need a waaambulance. Murphy's Law will educate anyone too smug or naive to follow a competent backup strategy. I've seen laptop hard drives running fine 6 years old, and I've seen shiny new 750Gig Seagate drives fail days after installation. I've had drives fail slowly so you can manage to coax your data off, and I've seen them die instantly and completely with no second breath that even the freezer trick wouldn't work on.
