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Ask Engadget: Best PMP for long flights? {Engadget}
Aug 7th 2008 9:51PM If I may make a suggestion: any PMP that can be charged by USB, plus one of those 1 pound external battery packs. Those will *start* you off at 8 hours, easily. Bonus: you can use it with your laptop, too.
Dear Auntie TUAW: Is My 2.0 iPhone Slow and Buggy? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 30th 2008 4:46PM Honestly? Not Microsoft's fault but rather HTC's (ODM of the Wing and probably your O2 device). It's as much as their fault as if you tried to run Vista on a 600 Mhz Pentium III. I'm running a Treo 800w with 128 MB RAM and I would call that the minimum for a smooth multi-tasking experience.
In any case, all I'm saying is that if my 800w running multiple programs while rendering pages in Opera Mobile 9.5 pretty close to what they look like on the desktop and STILL let me navigate smoothly, then the iPhone should be able to handle it with twice the processing power.
You can't even blame the third-party apps for this crashing. People are reporting instability without opening programs from the App Store. Even back with the original iPhone, Safari crashed on me all the time if I were to so much as listen to music.
I really wanted come back to Apple and purchase an iPod Touch (since third-party software lets me turn the Treo into an EVDO router), I really did. But with this state of affairs, count me out.
Dear Auntie TUAW: Is My 2.0 iPhone Slow and Buggy? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 30th 2008 3:46PM Wait, what? I'm *not* supposed to go to graphically intense sites when using 3G on my iPhone? And here I thought the entire point of 3G was so that I could access "the full internet experience". No? Okay, guess I'll go back to browsing text-laden mobile sites then. Sheesh. It's a legitimate complaint if I'm promised a certain experience (stable, fast, smooth) and it isn't delivered.
And when was the last time you used Windows Mobile? WM 2003?
Dell's Latitude XT tablet goes multi-touch with a free upgrade, offers 128GB SSD for $649 {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 12:23AM @ Sarig
That's not saying much... I can get Half-Life 2 running pretty smoothly on a tc1100 =D
Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 is 0.8-inches thick, actually affordable {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 12:19AM Gizmodo was nice enough to include the spec sheet for the x200 in their article. Guess what? It has all the components of the Centrino 2 bundle (or at least the wireless is available as an option). So for all intents and purposes, it *is* a Montevina.
Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 is 0.8-inches thick, actually affordable {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 12:12AM Two of the three parts of Montevina/Centrino 2 bundle are already out: x4500 (out since last month) and Penryn C2D/Q (I doubt that it *wouldn't* have one of these). The only addition is a WIFI + WiMAX combo, and seeing how we're not exactly swimming in WiMAX right now...
The 25-year-old BSD bug {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 13th 2008 11:42AM The thing is, the Samba guys (networking, not dance) already pointed the bug out to the folks working on BSD a while ago. At the time the BSD guys were pretty much, "Yeah, sure, whatever," so the Samba team already had a workaround for it. So, -1 for the BSD folks, +1 for the Samba folks, and +1 for Marc Balmer.
AT&T offers free WiFi for iPhone users {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 1st 2008 3:13PM No need for AT&T plan folks; as part of the evil, unwashed T-Mobile subscriber base, I can personally confirm that you can plug in a T-Mobile phone number and it will let the iPhone access the wi-fi. Now that I've given them my phone number, I just need to wait for the AT&T black ops folk to take me away for re-education...
Found Footage: Leopard on an OQO {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 29th 2008 12:07PM Why do people tinker with things in their garage? Why do people take weekend pottery lessons? Why do people sew their own clothing? Because it's fun, because it's an interesting challenge, because it's there. Some people spend the weekend watching The Game. Other people get OS X installed on things that were never intended to run it. trf isn't harming you, or anyone else (well, if there's a significant other, they might be a little annoyed at the time spent on this project). While I have no desire to run OS X on an OQO, more power to him/her.
As for what it can be used for: plenty of things. It could be installed in a car to run video, or act as a controller to a media server. It has a larger, higher-resolution screen than the iPhone/iPod touch. If the digitizer works, handwriting recognition is a possibility. There are probably other things, too. I'm not saying that it will do these things *well*, or that it's the best tool for the job. But it'll do them.
What I don't get is, trf *wants* to use OS X. Why are you objecting to it?
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 3) {Engadget}
Mar 25th 2008 7:31PM zooooooooooooooom!
