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CompUSA rises from dead, attacks Florida {Engadget}
Apr 25th 2008 6:05AM Another Floridian with an on-the-ground report here. I checked them out a week or so ago; major differences include an expanded components section (maybe 2 aisles before, now at least 4 aisles), significantly lower variety of merchandise overall (there were practically whole aisles devoted to the same boring product, in an evident attempt to not look half-empty), generally shittier products (I couldn't find a single SD, CF, or thumbdrive with more than 2 GB), and no Apple section whatsoever. On the plus side, their prices weren't all bad; they had 500 GB SATA internal hard drives for around $100, which is the going price on NewEgg.
Video: Blaser tournament unwisely fits Japanese robots with lasers -- PEW PEW {Engadget}
Apr 24th 2008 1:41AM I, for one, frankly didn't expect our robot overlords to be this directly created by us.
Kwikset's SmartKey gives lock bumpers a whole new challenge {Engadget}
Mar 11th 2008 9:15PM If you want an unpickable lock, you go with Medeco. Seriously, those guys have thought at least three steps beyond the average lock-picker.
Everex gets official with $499 gPC mini desktop {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 9:05PM Never mind the scroll wheel, what about the right mouse button?
Everex gets official with $499 gPC mini desktop {Engadget}
Feb 26th 2008 6:35PM I'm a Linux/ThinkPad fanboi, and I'd still buy the Mac Mini before I bought this thing. Of course, I'd build a bargain-basement microATX box before I'd do either, but if you want small and stylish, you go with Apple.
Lenovo X300 gets benchmarked, shown off on video {Engadget}
Feb 22nd 2008 11:12PM At least in Linux, you can set it so that tapping with two fingers at once is a right-click, and three fingers at once is a middle-click. Not sure about Windows, though.
Mossberg: "I can recommend the X300 for road warriors without hesitation" {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 9:06AM Greg: And this is Steve Job's fault, not Lenovo's. Yet somehow we're always hearing how they suck because they can't run OS X.
Video proof of the renegade satellite's destruction {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 9:04AM You do know that the things they're videoing are kind of far away, right? Like, hundreds of miles above the earth? No amount of HD is really going to help with that.
And as for the video of the launch, they probably were more worried about the thing going where it needed to than setting up cameras; that's probably their standard missile-hasn't-blown-up-on-the-pad check camera. Why should they have added a fancier one?
Mossberg: "I can recommend the X300 for road warriors without hesitation" {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 7:03AM Well, the MBA lacks the functions of DVD, ethernet, VGA, WiMAX, 3xUSB, mic port, GPS, wireless USB, and easily removable battery. (Yes, I have screwdrivers; no, I don't have screwdrivers on an airplane.) No amount of installing Windows or Linux is going to fix that. I'll agree that saying "Windows/Linux laptops are bad because they don't run OS X" is a stupid complaint -- if you people really want to run OS X, either pay Jobs his Apple tax (which in this case costs you features, not money) or try a pirated copy. If you're never going to consider buying a non-Apple laptop, why are you reading about something made by Lenovo?
Mossberg: "I can recommend the X300 for road warriors without hesitation" {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 4:55AM To be fair, I've tried to set up a ThinkPad with hackint0sh/OSx86, and the network cards just don't work. So it's not true to say you could comfortably run OS X on the X300; unless something has radically changed, I'd bet you can't. Of course, since I have a ThinkPad to test this stuff on, you can probably guess where I fall on the Apple vs. IBM/Lenovo battle. The New York Museum of Modern Art agrees with me that black and square can be sexy, too.
