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PSP testing tool surfaces on eBay {Engadget}
Mar 12th 2009 10:29PM Devkit'll probably include this unit, an SDK and a UMD burner
Apple iMac murdered, reborn as all-in-one DreamCast mod {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2009 10:29AM I doubt it'd be a matter of splicing a VGA cable, you'd have to open up the radiation shields and risk zapping yourself on the CRT tube.
Apple iMac murdered, reborn as all-in-one DreamCast mod {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2009 10:26AM Finally, a Mac that plays games :P! But seriously, beloved iMac? A machine with a G3 processor and a really shitty DDR controller that only takes very specifically timed RAM is beloved? It couldn't even run OS 9 well IIRC, and it came with that horrible puck mouse. Not one of Apple's brightest ideas, though the later iMacs were/are pretty good.
2Wire's MediaPoint HD streamer box is special, just like everybody else {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2008 8:14AM 2wire's products are actually pretty good looking, and from what I've seen from their modems they're also pretty stable. Only problem is they're locked down tight, no sshing into any of their products as far as I can tell.
Ask Engadget: What's the best Tablet PC? {Engadget}
Jun 6th 2008 1:10AM The Lenovo X61 is pretty good from what I've heard, failing that I use an Acer TravelMate C213 and it's met any task I've thrown at it. Whatever you do, don't get a Modbook, it's a waste of money. OS X is good, but it's not a good Tablet PC OS and won't be until Apple jumps on the Tablet PC bandwagon, which might not even happen. Get a computer running Vista (much better tablet support and you'll be able to run the 64-bit version, but you need one of the higher versions. Shell out the extra for Ultimate, you'll regret it later if you don't) with Onenote 2007. Onenote 2003 was absolutely indispensable, especially for schoolwork, and Onenote 2007 is even better thanks to built-in ink/image/audio search and integrated clipping tools. Plus, if you have a Windows Mobile PDA it comes with Onenote Mobile, which is good for taking notes on the run.
Also, use Firefox with Firegestures, Grab and Drag and GeckoTip as your browser, gestures work brilliantly with a pen and Grab and Drag is awesome.
aTV Flash goes commercial: plug-and-play hacks for your Apple TV {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 2:47AM "Tell me, when you install Windows, is it ready for the road? Good to go? Complete? Useful out of the box?
Not really, no."
I would tend to disagree. Immediately after installation, Windows let's you go online and download what you need. Just like OSX, just like Linux. If you buy it with Office, you get a word processor, spreadsheet program, and all kinds of other stuff. Office is sorta like the iLife package IMO, just targeted to a different audience (just like Windows is targeted to a different audience to Mac OS X. How many workstations have you seen running OSX?)
"You pay for anti viruses when an good OS doesn't get them in the first place."
After spending all of a year without an anti-virus scanner, then installing one and running it, I must say this: With auto-update enabled, a decent spam-filter and a router with builtin firewall (such as, well, pretty much every ADSL router out there), Windows just doesn't get viruses. If you run with no firewall, no updates, and no protection of any kind, of course you're screwed. Luckily, MS wised up a long time ago and started including internet security inside the OS, so anti-virus has become almost redundant for most people.
"You likely, if you're like me, download and install a bunch of things to make it full featured."
Same with any OS. Linux doesn't come with everything I want preinstalled, nor does OSX. I couldn't stand running *any* operating system out of the box for a long period of time.
"OSX comes with a decent browser. It comes with a webcam utility. It doesn't get viruses. ..stuff like that-- while windows does not."
Internet Explorer 6 wasn't that bad after SP2, and IE7 on Vista is much more awesome. That said, all the stock browsers from Apple and MS suck IMO, Firefox and Opera FTW.
"It's not 'Only Apple'."
I agree, but targetting windows based on old arguments is silly.
In space no one can hear you scream... but they can "hear you now" {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2008 1:56AM I bet walkie-talkies can keep a perfect signal over millions of kilometers of nothing but electromagnetic interference too >.>
The Xbox 360 Elite laptop: Ben Heck strikes again {Engadget}
Feb 4th 2008 2:25AM Actually, yes, it does run Doom 3 for Xbox.
Opera files EU antitrust suit against Microsoft for bundling IE {Engadget}
Dec 13th 2007 8:45AM Well, I don't like it, but the way I see it is that IE is a part of the operating system (The actual IE application is (to my knowledge) simply a wrapper around the mshtml engine, used by a multitude of other Windows components such as Explorer, the help system and pretty much all the dialog boxes that pop up on first boot). Sure, it can be removed, but you can then say that Explorer has a monopoly on shells because most people use it instead of alternatives such as Desktop X, that the bootloader has a monopoly because most people use it instead of GRUB or LILO... You get the picture.
Fact is, a monopoly is defined as (and I quote): "Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service". Microsoft doesn't stop you using alternative software and never will. Wingeing to the courts because your product isn't as popular as the one supplied as an integral part of the operating system is a waste of time and money better spent advertising your product to the end user. I myself have never seen a single ad for Opera (note: I live in Australia, so I don't know if they do much advertising in Europe or the US), nor have I even seen anyone actually using it IRL.
Ben Heck's PS360: SIXAXIS-stuffed Xbox controller {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2007 7:22PM *Throws bible at McGinley* Start at song 41 and don't stop until I tell you.
The power of Christ compels you!
The power of Christ compels you!
