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Redesign giveaway: HTC's new Shift UMPC {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2008 7:36PM sweet UMPC action, give here!
ASUS' 9-inch Eee PC 900 hits the FCC with full teardown, gets multi-finger gesture support {Engadget}
Mar 27th 2008 11:46PM ... But then we'd have nothing to make fun of.
Apple making a sensible, low-priced, super low-end ultraportable? pssssh.
(That being said, I own a regular macbook and an eee, do find myself using the macbook less and less, and do wish Apple had made a lighter / smaller screen laptop that I could afford. The eee actually fits in coach-class airline seats even when the person in front of me has reclined all the way back , and doesn't require me elbowing the person next to me to type.)
Super Talent ships "world's thinnest" 256GB SSD, still too thick for us {Engadget}
Mar 26th 2008 3:10PM @Obsidian: That's not the difference between Megabits and Megabytes. Megabytes are 8 Megabits, so if the flash on the wii was really 512mbit, it would be only 64MB, not 486MB.
The 486MB vs 512MB is due to formatting and possibly due to system reserved space.
Keepin' it real fake, part CXIV: the N95 FM radio... from Asaki {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2008 10:58PM Usually given away as gimmicks, at stuff like trade shows (I have one I got free courtesy of Bloomberg) these small radios due to cost only have one potentiometer for controlling volume/poweroff, and one single button which changes the station. Due to the lack of a display, pressing the button just scans till the next station it can find.
The board inside is tiny, about the size of your thumb, and my unit's casing was not much more than two fingers wide. Works fine as a simple radio, but I found no use for it, as I don't listen to radio much; and the button cell battery in there eventually died and a replacement cost more than I was willing to pay. I'm pretty sure this thing is just one of those same generic boards stuffed into a bigger case.
"Dreambook" mod gives the Cloudbook GPS, flash storage {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2008 11:08AM Usually laptops have extra USB controller pins somewhere on the motherboard that aren't wired to actual ports, this is due to space or design constraints. The eeePC for example has extra pins where the miniPCI-e slot is. At worst case, if such extra pins don't exist, one can just tap off an existing external USB port, thus disabling that USB port.
Asus Nova P22 hits the States in all its spendy, miniature glory {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2008 11:07AM My Mac mini runs linux and freevo just fine. And it has optical out.
NASA's wiring guide -- only the most demanding geeks need apply {Engadget}
Feb 9th 2008 7:38PM Page 50 of the PDF ( http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/87394.pdf ) made me chuckle:
Note: Do not use spiral wrap sleeving on spacecraft or launch vehicles.
Mustek readies 9.5-inch digiframe with integrated NXT flat-panel speaker {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 2:00PM You could buy an eeePC, hang it, and install voip software also. It has speakers and a mic jack. No hacking, and it turns out to be a pretty nifty laptop on top of that.
