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Mojave Experiment goes live, doesn't fail to annoy {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2008 1:05PM @fred
"And as you can see they are in full meltdown mode. I've looked at several other sites, and these guys have completely lost it.
Their hate is just that consuming."
Pot, kettle, black... look in a mirror (if you can stand the sight) as from my few visits here reading various threads, you are one of the biggest "full meltdown mode" MS fanbois and Apple basher here.
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Dell's new Studio laptops official, along with new Dell Dock and Dell Video software {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2008 1:20PM Good thing Michael Dell's advice to Apple in the '90s (give the money back to the shareholders and shut down the company) wasn't followed ... who else would he (the company) have copied for many of the recent products?
ie, Apple dissed for paying attention to engineering and design (easy hardware access, use of colour/materials/shape, etc), apparently it's OK now that Dell and other OEMs do it; many built-in laptop features first on Apple (built-in wifi, back-lit keyboard, built-in camera, scroll wheel then trackpad, now OSX Dock-like GUI & Dell trying to rush touch screen laptop to say they were first, etc.) Wonder if they'll also produce an "iPhone killer" copycat like many others?
Dell (and even HP)... the Apple wannabes :-)
(Just waiting... shouldn't be long... )
HP's Voodoo team prepping something "beautiful" for June 10 {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2008 12:47PM @fred... Yes "sigh".
While Apple is introducing new gadgets and technologies, many/most of the other tech firms are merely sitting on their haunches, waiting to see what Apple does next and, if successful, they come out with their "me too" products.
Whether it's the iPod, iPhone, MBAir... whatever. It seems Apple leads, the others are following with their "X-killer"s.
Why is it usually the Apple product that is the target (and model) for these so-called killers?
Do they not have an original, innovative bone in their collective bodies?
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Microsoft lowered Vista requirements to help Intel sell incompatible chipsets {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2008 2:12PM Better download those damning MS e-mails (via pdf) while you can.
After MS settled out of court in the Iowa court case, previously available damning e-mails (as pdfs... Allchin admitting he'd buy a Mac; MS staff oohing and aahing over, and envious of, OS X Tiger as they shared an install disk for them all to load, try out and copy) became hidden behind a password-protected (previously open) .org web site.
Luckily, I downloaded the pdfs before MS buried them :-)
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Dell Latitude XT tablet will have multi-touch, just not for a while {Engadget}
Dec 12th 2007 12:00PM Yes Fred, you are often MS shilling
Apple was the first to introduce multi-touch to the masses (ie, beyond the various touch tech demos) in actual products (iPhone and iPod Touch).
Dell and others are jumping on the "touch" bandwagon hoping to beat Apple with large scale "touch" products (notice how so many products are suddenly "touch" since the iPhone intro?). Problem is, there have been and are single touch products out there but nary a multi-touch to "touch" the iPhone/iPodTouch experience and usage.
Any doubt that Apple will (eventually) move it's (OS X based) multi-touch to some of it's other larger scale products?
Who is it trying to be first with vague announcements of "sometime in the future" while Apple has actually shipped? (no need to respond... a rhetorical question).
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ModBook gets free upgrades for pre-orderers, to ship soon {Engadget}
May 28th 2007 10:19AM To dfdfgdfg & josh...
Nice try but since you apparently can't read or comprehend (which negates this post as well)...
this is not created by or even (as far as I know) officially endorsed by Apple.
This is a 3rd party that has decided to create a "Mac"-based tablet.
Though it could change it's mind, Apple has said in the past it saw little reason (ie, "no market") for such a tablet form factor.
The MS/Windows based ones you boast about are not exactly burning up the sales figures.
But keep throwing out the jealous/envious digs at Apple... one day you might actually hit something substantial.
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Intel's Metro laptop prototype is "world's thinnest" {Engadget}
May 25th 2007 10:00AM Mesonto... you're full of it.
Before slamming Apple supporters for inaccuracies you should get your own "facts" right. The early Apple laptops determined the industrial/ergonomic design of todays laptops.
Apple (1991) was the first to move the keyboard to the back of the unit (which allowed for built-in wrist-rests, now an industry standard design); first with a built-in trackball (while "PC"-based machines started using the IBM "eraser"/pointer if at all) which later became a first with the introduction of a usable track pad; despite M. Dells claim, first with built-in wireless; (I believe) first with backlit keyboard as a option (with auto adjust brightness for keyboard and screen); first with a "large" (17") screen; etc.
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/stats/mac%5Fpowerbook100.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook
(se "Early Powerbooks"... Powerbook 100/140/150/170)
And proof of your delusions... "Apple products are always behind the technology curve." Apple is often first while others follow and if not first, usually shows how to do it right (ie, iPod & iTunes).
Apple laptop have generally been well designed and distinct vs Windows-based units (which, with the exception of Sony, practically all look alike. For the most part, could you tell one from the other without a company logo on it?)
As others have stated, there is more of an Apple influence shown than from your present, typical Windows-based laptop design.
And it's ironic that Windows fanboys (and OEMs) have been so critical of Apple in the past for stressing design (form over function) yet as of late, they're falling over themselves trying to create and push "knock out" designs.
How times and beliefs change.
re Dean... "windows keyboard and running Vista"... possibilities
1. which OS is Intel's biggest "customer"; 2. which computer exec doesn't like his future products revealed; 3. it is just a concept
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Intel's Metro laptop prototype is "world's thinnest" {Engadget}
May 24th 2007 4:39PM re comparisons to Apple laptops...
Since Apple joined the Intel fold, both have supposedly been working together on "insanely great future projects". This design is not typical "Intel" so...
Who's to say this isn't close to a (revised) MacBook(Pro) to come?
Rumour has the Apple portables due for a refresh come June WWDC... we'll have to see :-)
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Microsoft unveils limited edition Simpsons-themed Xbox 360 {Engadget}
May 10th 2007 12:12PM Is that Steve Ballmer peeking out from the bottom :-)
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Canada a hotbed of piracy? {Engadget}
May 2nd 2007 11:06AM Re Karen's comments and the bashers.
Some of the comments may have been overly "conservative" but IMO, it's nothing compared to the brain-dead Canadians who continue to vote back in the Liberals.
Politically, I've always been a little right of centre so do not like the loony left (NDP or worse) or the rabid right (ultra conservative). The Liberals are just opportunists who ride the fence and say whatever will get them re-elected. (*** I agree with some/many social programs (ie, universal health care, social assistance, etc,) but against universal day care, so I'm not a "hard hearted capitalist")
Before the mindless Conservative bashing, remember back to the Trudeau years up to today...
- the Liberals (Trudeau), the "Father" of deficit spending and debt while buying gullible, stupid Canadians off with their own money
- lied to continuously (remember "wage & price" controls and Trudeau's outright lie not to impose; gas tax increase (Clarke Conservatives lost non-confidence vote only to have the Libs, once in, raise it even higher)
- tricked and lied to Canadians re abolishing the death penalty. Got rid of the death penalty but promised "life means life" only to sneak in the faint hope clause (Warren Allmand) that release "lifers" well before the end of that so-called life sentence... which leads to
- the namby-pamby judicial system that's a joke filled with "liberal"-leaning judges (making the Liberals hypocrites for dissing Harper's plan to choose judges... ie, at least has input of law enforcement, not strictly party patronage)
- farce of an immigration system (too many illegals (also gone missing) while legitimates have trouble... many immigrants tend to vote Liberal... hmmm)
- joke of a military due to Liberal mis-management, incompetence and homicidal negligence (ie, dangerous, outdated equipment (deadly Sea Kings)) compounded by Chretien's political cancellation of much needed new helicopters costing taxpayers hundreds of millions (into the billions?) of penalty dollars for canceled contracts
- sponsorship scandal amongst decades of other billion dollar Liberal boondoggles and scandals
So yes, the Conservatives can be criticized for many things but to say the Liberals are better after decades (lots of practice) of sleaze and incompetence is totally specious, disingenuous and delusional.
But a majority of Canadians like to be babied and conned with their own money so expect to see the Liberals (the historical disaster they are) soon back in power.
Supposedly, we learn from our mistakes (not Canadians) and those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it (definitely Canadians).
Heaven help Canada when the Liberals get back in.
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