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Engadget's relaunch giveaways: some Slingboxes {Engadget}
Sep 20th 2006 9:06PM Digging for the Truth
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Warning from Apple: don't put our laptops on your lap {Engadget}
May 19th 2006 4:20PM Quick, Steve, activate the Apple fan boy apologist network and send to Engadget comments immediately!
Toshiba Qosmio G35 with HD DVD to launch this week for $3K {Engadget}
May 9th 2006 9:19AM I have the older model of the Qosmio, it's gorgeous in piano black and it's one the best reviewed laptops on the net. This one is a significant upgrade with double the video card ram, core duo and an increase in hard disk capacity. The screen is far brighter than most 17 inch screens, including Apple's.
Intel behind high UMPC costs? {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2006 11:49AM If the choice came down to a $500 new model video ipod vs. a $700 UMPC, I'd go with the UMPC for numerous reasons. That's the choice we may be facing.
Intel behind high UMPC costs? {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2006 11:41AM As well as price and processor, I'll be looking for user-upgradeable hard disks...
Qosmio G30 coming to Japan in May, with HDMI output {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2006 4:37PM #5-"80's transformer?"....yeah, i can relate to where you are comin from, man, it's like sooooooo black....and soooooo....angled.....i mean its like a 45 degree angle or smontine....and its like, sooooo black 'cept for that round thingee...which is like....sooooo silver
Vista successfully installed on a Mac {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2006 8:07AM Apple is finally admitting reality and it goes far beyond games. There are literally thousands of vertical markets that OSX has not reached, it goes way beyond Visio, Project, CAD and games. Pick up any trade magazine for any industry and you will find ads for Windows software. Heck, my bank requires IE for online banking.
Apple still isn't going to get anywhere with this...for them to gain marketshare presumes an optimal juxtaposition of events including a robust economy where people worldwide will have plenty of disposable income to happily fork over the Apple premium and the cost of an XP/Vista license.
Government, educational institutions and the Enterprise worldwide certainly aren't going to embrace Apple, they have proven that already.
I don't know what marketshare XP and Vista must obtain for Apple users to finally admit that Microsoft hit critical mass years ago.
If OSX is indeed superior, and that is debatable, who cares? Security improvements and new eye candy will be judged "good enough" just as Windows 95 was judged "good enough" back when Apple had 12% marketshare.
Just watch, in a few years, Apple will still have 2.5% marketshare and the fan boys will still be saying "wait until next year".
That's what you get for installing Windows! {Engadget}
Apr 8th 2006 8:02AM The lead line "That's what you get for installing Windows!" is a complete falsehood. Sarcasm or not, I hope someone's (and we know who the someone is) legal department begins taking notice.
It would be interesting if some intrepid investigative reporter from some major newspaper or TV network "follows the money trail" in the operation of these commercial blogs.
That's what you get for installing Windows! {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2006 10:38PM Supposedly, only one Engadget staff member uses Apple, yet, as has been said, they never miss an opportunity to slam XP or Vista or Bill Gates himself. They always seem to have at least one negative or sarcastic comment for every PC reviewed too.
In a Boot Camp thread, they allude to "we've got some partitioning to do"...who is partitioning, the one staff member with the Apple computer?
Something seems fishy about this blog. Certainly it doesn't seem even handed at all, I'm truly beginning to wonder if Apple money is involved somewhere in the operation.
UMPCs to get special Media Extender software {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2006 4:08PM Most of the time, it's best to ignore the sarcastic drivel from the Engadget staff (c'mon...English majors writing about advanced tech???)
The UMPC has great potential...a full blown operating system and IE...you can download movies and watch them on a decent screen size.
You can run iTunes and sync a Nano if you wish. Last generation games should play fine, and in the future graphics performance should improve.
A nice size package...
What else do you want? This could sell very well in Asia and Europe too.
