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Drobo (second-gen) mini-review {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 11:09AM No, firewire has it too. eSata does not.
Drobo (second-gen) mini-review {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 11:08AM because eSata wasn't standardized until after the Mac Pro was developed?
Drobo (second-gen) mini-review {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 11:06AM "...whereas a regular RAID device you can recreate the array with any RAID controller."
You sure are naive.
MacBook Air SSD option gets slightly more affordable {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2008 11:55PM Actually, people have only theorized that. The tests were not designed to prevent that possibility but no data was presented that showed that the SSD tests actually ran more times. Furthermore, other tests have shown that SSDs are NOT currently faster than hard drives and certainly not faster than the 7200 rpm drive tested. Repeating the same, tired factless argument that you have, wizzle, is worse than what Tom's has done.
We do know that the MBA with SSD has failed to show improved battery life or overall disk performance over the 1.8" HDD version in other tests.
Samsung announces crazy fast 256GB SSD, our knees buckle {Engadget}
May 26th 2008 5:38PM "Unlike traditional hard drives, SSD memory is a destructive technology and has a limited number of writes."
How is that unlike hard drives? Bearings don't last forever, you know. Hard drives wear out whenever they're powered up so they're even worse.
ASUS wants you to know that women and children are strong enough for an Eee PC {Engadget}
May 20th 2008 2:03PM Is there anything wrong with that, Tim? Not everyone needs to hide those pics to avoid dirty urges.
Apple looks to OTA downloads for 3G iPhone, record labels look for cash {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 6:19PM Brad, give the tired argument over copyright versus stealing a rest. It's important in the courtroom but meaningless otherwise. When you download a song, you are taking something that doesn't belong to you. Those of us who speak English call that theft even if the legal system calls it something else. Law doesn't define the language we speak.
Don't think, either, that by committing copyright infringement you haven't deprived the owner of property. The owner of the work possesses the right to control duplication and distribution and that is his "property". By duplicating without permission, you've taken that from him.
Regardless of your petty objections to words, a crime is a crime and arguing senselessly what the name of the crime is doesn't make it any less so. Don't think for an instant that copyright infringement is of any less consequence than theft.
Fujitsu showcases pricey Atom-based U2010 UMPC {Engadget}
May 16th 2008 10:42AM "This literally does fit in your pocket though."
Perhaps your pockets, but this doesn't "literally" fit in any pocket I have. Perhaps you ought to look a little more closely at the size of this thing, Ypocaramel.
Large cellphones are about all that will fit in a pocket. Anything larger needs to go in a bag. Unless it REALLY fits in a pocket, it will not have the ubiquity of a smartphone, it will be limited like a notebook.
"It's another category of laptops,not directly comparable."
We don't need yet another category differentiated arbitrarily by size but not by function. New category or not, this machine IS directly comparable to UMPCs.
HTC Touch Diamond soft keyboard comes to other WinMo phones {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 10:22AM "Capacitive is great because it requires only a very light touch compared to resistive, and resistive has clarity issues."
Do you have references for this?
"Because of the light touches necessary, capacitive is considered more ergonomic."
Who considers capacitive "more ergonomic"? References please.
"You can get a stylus for a capacitive screen, so I'm not sure what the big deal is here."
Where is an example of a capacitive touchscreen with a stylus?
HTC Touch Diamond soft keyboard comes to other WinMo phones {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 10:17AM "...now that WinMobile has it, suddenly touchscreen keyboards are much better than the iPhone's keyboard. Mmmm."
Really? Who is saying that, Steffen?
FYI, Windows Mobile has had soft keyboards far longer than the iPhone has existed. The entire iPhone form factor existed as a Windows Mobile device first.
"Let's try to be more forgiving of those that are not blind but still cannot see."
Only if you'll try harder to open your eyes.
"Of course, we could just ignore them and maybe they'll go away."
You haven't yet, Steffen.
