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Dell Adamo XPS specs leak out: ULV processors, integrated graphics {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 1:27PM What run-around are you talking about? A product launch date?
And yes, amazingly, it won't turn on or work w/o power. Nice catch there.
Dell's 15.4-inch Vostro 1520 gets AT&T 3G option {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 1:36PM @Tom: Understood, and it's not surprising to me. My company has a bunch of Dell 1500s (which I configured and support), and all have awesome keyboards. That's what makes this so weird... all the 1520s keyboards suck. :/ Maybe it's bad luck, but 3 (out of 3) keyboards that are loud, flexible, and mushy to type on doesn't bode well.
Dell's 15.4-inch Vostro 1520 gets AT&T 3G option {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 11:15PM Oh, and sorry for the double-post, the Dell SMB version of this has no crapware at all on it (w/ the notable exception of Norton, which made it about 4 seconds before being uninstalled).
Dell's 15.4-inch Vostro 1520 gets AT&T 3G option {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 11:14PM Good douche-nozzle post, iKurt X.
I've got (literally) three of these computers on my desk right now. They're nice with two exceptions:
- the keyboard sucks - it's bouncy, rattles, and is generally loud and mushy to type on
- the lid is a fingerprint magnet
Beyond that, it's pretty well specced, quiet, and if the 1500 is any indication, solid hardware. (I have worked w/ lots of the 1500s, and not a single problem yet.)
Maemo 6 UI concept revealed to include portrait mode, capacitive multitouch {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2009 3:40PM No, what's disappointing is the lack of support for newer versions of Maemo on older devices. Correct me if I'm wrong please, Nokia, but isn't one point of a Linux platform (i.e. Maemo) support for legacy hardware? So, how can I have Apache running on a 286 but you can't get your "new" version of the same thing running on a 400MHz processor?
Nokia's take: "what happened in 2008 stays in 2008."
My take: "Buy Nokia "smartphone" or "featurephone" hardware at your own risk. It'll be obsoleted / unsupported before you can charge it up again."
HP Mini 311 reviewed with earnest, ION-enhanced affection {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2009 11:55PM I have to say, glensky, your math doesn't take into account the Euro / US exchange rate. He's hitting in at .68 Euros to the Dollar (hailing from Portugal, as his name suggests), meaning his points ... wait, 68% of total fail still spells "FAIL", even in Portuguese. Nevermind.
HP Mini 311 with ION benchmarked: it goes very fast {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2009 9:55PM I've gotta say: the referenced post is why I can't stand the Mac ethos...
- Mac user: what does it -look- like and how fast is it?
- Win / Linux user: how fast is it and how much does it cost?
Sure, all things equal, I'd pass over a beige / charcoal gray brick for a nice, shiny laptop, but I refuse to pay literally 3+ times the price for the same thing. "Shiny" is not quite that valuable to an intelligent person.
It has USB ports that are accessible, a removable battery, but only allows external drives, and, as far as I can tell, has only one DIMM slot (not positive though). The latter is the only real concern I have about it, but... $400 is a mighty compelling reason to overlook it, especially w/ web programming as its primary duty. I think I might pick me up a couple.
HP Envy 13 review {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2009 4:12PM Sexy? OK... so I'll give Apple the credit it deserves here: this laptop is a blatant ripoff. HP must be a fan of irony, naming a rip-off product the "Envy".
That said, I'm sick of people using the term "luxury" when relating to computer equipment, especially when it relates to a product whose design was entirely done by another company. It's pretty pathetic that Apple's rather spartan demeanor is what passes for "design" these days, and even more so, as a design worth ripping off. The only thing HP brings to the table w/ a $1700 price tag is the slice battery (which, admittedly, gives me nerd-wood).
Palm WebOS 1.2.1 now available, 'fixes' iTunes media sync {Engadget}
Oct 3rd 2009 10:18AM This sounds like The Adventures of MS in Europe: a company with a compelling product is doing all they can to thwart other folks from developing for it and thus gaining and advantage. In a couple years, mark my words, Apple will be getting sued for monopolistic practices, as they relate to music management.
And as to folks saying Palm is "illegally" doing this... any legal folks around here that could shine some light on that argument? Is there anything illegal about this? (Say nothing of "tacky"...)
Microsoft unveils Barrelfish multi-core optimized OS {Engadget}
Sep 29th 2009 8:29PM Quote: i sure have(n't ??) noticed any "performance decreases" on my mac pro jumping from the original to my new nehalem. *shrug* must be a windows thing.
First thing (inability to put together a cogent sentence aside): it's not a surprise when you go from slow processor to faster processor and things... speed up. Second thing: when techno-bloggers simplify things so average people (aka "you", microdot) can understand them, people get all snippy, saying it "must be a windows thing" or "a mac thing". Before opening your trap to spew fanboy crap, why not read and learn?
Teslanaut was right: Grand Central is Apple's attempt at solving the same problem that MS is trying to solve w/ this ... so-called Barrelfish. It's not that two 2GHz CPUs are slower than one 2GHz CPU, but rather that the two CPUs are less than twice as fast as the single CPU. Increasing the core count further decreases the advantage. Hence parallelism, concurrency, multi-threading, etc, and attempts to make operating systems that thrive with multiple CPUs. If MS's attempts work, great. It does nothing but push the envelope further.
