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Hey, Google: failing to spellcheck Android 2.0 can have 'undesireable consequences' {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2009 10:11PM "Grammar"
NVIDIA tablet mystery solved: an ODM Tegra prototype {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2009 2:18PM I'm gonna open a can of whoopass on Intel. And this time I'm gonna follow the directions and aim away from self.
NVIDIA Fermi GT300 GPU delayed until 2010? {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2009 3:30AM @kojo
No. You've already wasted too much money on computer games.
Leaked Walmart ad reveals Xbox 360 Arcade with $100 gift card, $300 HP G60 laptop {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 3:34AM Man, I'd drive the 200km down if the lines at the border weren't completely ridiculous. Wish Canada would get deals like that. Also, you don't really need the HDD to have a fully functioning 360. I have an arcade with 512MB memory card and it works fine - I stream media off my PCs and it's more than enough for game saves and the occasional map download.
Pavegen taps pedestrians for power in East London (video) {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 9:24PM The ignorance of the average person never ceases to amaze me.
A Watt is a measure of energy per time.
A Joule is a measure of energy.
Unless you're measuring how fast the amount of energy it generates per a unit of time change, Watt/hr is meaningless.
Intel pulls SSD Toolbox for killing drives under Windows 7 {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 4:15PM Except that it's an issue with Intel's firmware as opposed to with Windows. Good try though.
Next-gen Atom N470 to relax netbook spec restrictions slightly further {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 3:40PM Then put Home Premium/Professional on it. No one's stopping you.
And Engadget: there was never any licensing restriction saying you couldn't put Home Premium/Professional/Business/Pro/whatever other oversion you wanted to on your netbooks; you absolutely could assuming you or your OEM were willing to pay the additional costs, which most OEMs weren't.
What you couldn't and still can't do is put Vista Home Basic/7 Starter on proper laptops/PCs (although I don't see why you'd want to).
Nokia patent app reveals dreams of pressure-sensitive multitouch interface {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2009 11:24PM The blackberry storm has one.
Acer fulfills prophecy, overtakes Dell as number two PC maker worldwide (update) {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 10:10PM Agreed. Although this is anecdotal evidence, in my experience Acer build quality is horrible as are their repairs. Of the 3 Acer laptops that I am the de facto tech support for, 2 have had to be sent back due to HDD failure, 1 has had to be sent back twice due to power cord failure, all come preloaded with tons of crapware and seem to BSOD a lot (one has an especially weird habit of occasionally not being able to find hal.dll across multiple formats). Finally the only one with an 8xxx series Geforce had to be sent back, although I don't blame this on Acer.
Of the 5 Dell Studio laptops, 3 have had media key issues, but aside from that have been problem free. Two of the two XPS's have had to be sent back due to 8xxx series Geforce issues, but once again this is nVidia's fault rather than Dell's. Surprisingly enough none of the 3 Minis ever seem to have issues.
Both of the Compaq Presarios (HP) seem to have weird USB losing connection issues, but aside from that seem to be fine. The imprinted HP Pavilion is perfectly fine and the other two Pavilions have minor issues such as the occasional heat-induced poweroff and mediocre connection issues (bad sound output and flaky VGA output) but seem to be fine aside from that.
In my experience all of the manufacturers have their own issues, however HP's and Dell's are more annoyances than serious problems, while Acer has serious functional quality control issues.
Michael Dell curiously talks down netbooks, slyly bad-mouths Vista {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 7:09PM @brandon_commando
Not after that you don't. It's "spiel" and it comes from Yiddish. The word "schpeel" doesn't exist.
