@rcjones

Finally, comment win. Someone who does USE laptops besides taking them to Starbucks, act hip and try to flash some shiny fruit logo all around.

The MBP is a great notebook, but the compromises that come with the 15 incher - screen estate, compute and graphics power and expandability for the list price, all makes a package that I downright refuse to accept along with the 17' (13' MBP seems awesome though due to the price as a net-ish notebook)

The Envy, as a "work" laptop for basically everything else I do- Adobe apps, image capture, acquisition and DI, stuff that needs 8-12GBs of RAM (for cheap unlike other laptops), SSD+HDD, a proper non-lame GPU, is basically a dream come true - 4+hrs with the extended slice is somehow perfect.

Funny that people always try to take the most well-rounded (and branded) option without trying to think for themselves whether an acceptable compromise benefits them all.

@(Unverified)

It's actually pretty good value for the money.

Setting aside the risk factor, a 2.4Ghz multiprocessor capable 6-core Xeon should be costing you about 700-1500USD, depending on how aggressive Intel wants to sell these.

The cheaper single-socket Core i_(9) chips should not even start selling at this frequency, and I guess will debut at ~3Ghz at 500USD.

@cherryboom

You might need your brains checked at some institute.

@pika2000 Yeeeeah, like that never happens with iPhone versioning, when they all look the same *eyeroll*


Stop playing dumb please. If you want to troll just do it direct, if you actually want to participate in a conversation read up the facts or STFU.

@(Unverified) That's Javascript performance, has *nothing* to do with GPU accel. The IE9 guys with a few weeks of work already got the JS engine up to Chrome 2.0 or such while the browser will at least have a few months more development.

GPU accel speeds up redraw rates, one of the chief reasons why I hate using Firefox and end up using Chrome/IE8 x64 (because they draw pages just that bit faster, immensely less annoying)

Good to see progress underway here.

@Joshua Topolsky Which is ironic because IMO the Engadget redesign is pretty much ruthlessly disregarding most of core UX rules, making for one of the most haphazard, Wired-wannabe sites I've ever seen that is a sore to use in non-desktop browsers, and you guys try to act like you have utmost credence when talking about UI.

Just being *honest*, sorry.

Have you -used- the HD2 per se in a perspective stripped of everything else instead of treating it like that godawful Gizmodo review where it's so obvious that the reviewer went back to his iPhone after 3 hours?

I have a HTC Magic running the [Hero] Sense UI now and I'll say it out loud: I miss Winmo. The Touch Diamond might have required me to have a long thumb nail (eeks) but you know what it COULD do? Proper Xvid playback of TV series. Opens basically any file extension. Extremely easy contact sync and backup. There are so many limitations in the platforms you dub "polished" - there aren't "apps" for such things, and God bless RIM/Palm at this stage.

I love Android's Gmail client and web browser, but you know what? In the future WM7 is more probably than not, going to make the Android OS look like all work, no play thanks to the consortium's inability to lock hardware specs down to a decent spec per OS release.

I wonder when did tech bloggers become that pragmatic, skeptical and Jobs-humpy. You seem to be hellbent optimistic on the droid platform when fragmentation is horrible and you will eventually see the same thing happen to what is happening to the current WM5/6 devices.

Again. just being *honest* here.

Oh poor you, only having ONE console to play on. Rah rah.

Well the term nVidiot is certainly almost coined up in a day.

http://www.destructoid.com/fact-ps3-fanboys-are-the-worst-149259.phtml

Oh wait, Apple leading an implementation on DRM. Are the Appletards on Ars Technica gonna kill themselves now after whining so much on how Windows handles Blu-ray now?