My .002 is that people who don;t normally carry a projector around with them but can sometimes be benefited with one would love this idea of a projector in their cellphone. If you carry a normal average projector with you, how would you power it if not near an outlet? Take for example a home contractor. Hes out on a job site talking to a home owner. He is trying to explain his idea to the homeowner, but is having a hardtime because the homeowner can't picture what he is talking about. SO the contrcator takes out his cellphone, googles "Bay window" and then displays the picture life size so then the homeowner can see what the contractor is talkign about and what it would look like. All this in real time in the middle of a field of a future building site.
So what?? I do not personally own a digital camera or a video camera. I do not have much use for them, but the occasional once or twice (and then i borrow my sister's) . I was planning on buying a digital camera, but now, why would I if i can just use my cellphone? Think about it. Why have to carry 3 different devices when u can just carry one? Or what about the times when you wish you had brought your camera along but forgot it at home?
lol wow insta fail. Why not just learn to manage the hard drive better? What if the copy of windows you have has a fatal error from which it cannot recover? What happens to all of your 500gb of data then? I'd give harddrive partitions a try my friend. It is a good practice to partition the hard drive so that windows is installed on one partition (C:/) and data on another partition (D:/). That way if one day windows fails, you can do a clean install of windows, say from a recovery disk, and NO data is lost. That said, you can also make a partition to TRY windows 7. This way, no data is lost, on August 2009 you can delete partition with windows 7 and go back to the regular windows you have on another partition. This is known as a multi-boot configuration.
ps. Windows Vista lets you manage hard drive configurations from within the OS, so no special software needed. Start, right click on "Computer" then select "Manage". On the panel, select "Disk Management". You should now see what the current hard drive configuration is. Right click on a partition, and you should see some options. Shrink Volume is to make a current partition smaller, (takes away free space) and extend volume makes partition bigger (by using unallocated space made by shrinking). Unallocated space can also be made into a volume. Google for more help.
Just because MBs are the only laptops you like or know doesn't mean they are the only ones. Backlit keyboards? You know how many laptops have that feature? If fact, correct me otherwise but I recall Alienware laptops to have backlit keyboards before Macs. If fact, now Alienware laptops can change the color of the light at the click of a button from software on the laptop. Other laptops also have edge to edge glass. Such as HP, Gateway...
You only think this Dell looks like a Mac because of the color, ya right like Apple Copyrighted the color.
Crysis can be played on a netbook. The only difference between systems is the frame rate you want. Obviously a higher end system will handle Crysis better than a lower end one. I for one primarily use a laptop for my gaming needs of COD4, COD5 and Crysis. All on high settings, and I don't even have Sli. Have you been living under a rock?
And how is a gaming console better than a gaming computer system? I find it hard to justify someone buying a laptop for their email and internet use, then a console for gaming. Then you buy cds that you end up loosing or scratching. Talk about money down the drain. I would much rather spend a little more at once but have a much better system that I can use for more than one thing, that will last longer, can be upgraded and much more. Oh, and to me a PS3 is just a handicapped computer. You said it yourself, a FIXED display resolution and a homogeneous hardware. Every new console and so forth is getting closer to a computer, by adding internet, web browsing and so on. I know people who spent $700 to get a PS3 when they came out. Then a new console comes out, and then what? My computer is pretty good now. A new game comes out I buy it. Eventually I will have to overclock my gpu and cpu. Then I will pop a new cpu in. then it will be so old it would have paid for itself (in school work, work, and gaming).
I say for video encoding/decoding you HAVE to get RAID 0 configuration... aka. dual HHDs. With this in mind I recommend taking a look at the new Asus G50 line-up. They are branded as gaming machines, but for under 2k, these can be the answer you may need.
I personally own the Asus G50VM- A1, but you can get different things still for under 2k. Centrino2 processor, basically the newest processor and intel platform available. Intel T9400, 4gb ram, a Geforce 9800m GT, 500gb (250gb 7200rpm western digital dual hard drives,), even bluetooth for around $1700. Plus it is EXTREMELY easy to upgrade the processor if need be in the future. It is the newest motherboard/processor platform out, so when you get extra cash you can stick and intel extreme inside and are ready to go!
"I've found myself using my PC for a lot of conversations lately, and I'm also considering recording a podcast to share with anyone who will listen. There are tons of USB headset / microphones out there, and I'm hoping someone has some solid recommendations based on experience. I'll consider both headsets and standalone mics, by the way, but I'd like to keep the bill under $100 if possible. Help!"
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