Have you even played with a DS? How much more intuitive could a touchscreen get? "Um, lessee... I have to actually TOUCH this part of the screen to do this? Oh... my... God... I just don't get it." I mean, is that you? And by the word "gimmicky" do you mean like Pocket PC phones are gimmicky or Palm Pilots are gimmicky or like tablet computers are gimmicky or what? Holy crap, do you fanboys even think before you type?
And sweet lord, how is the DS a "90's handheld?" What decade did YOU grow up in? Lemme tell you, as an old fart who actually grew up in the 90's, back then, the Game Boy Color was one of the hottest things around. I was stuck with a Game Gear, which, by my estimation, weighed about three times as much as a DS Lite, needed 6 AA's, and had exactly 2 buttons. Having brilliant 32 bit graphics, a touchscreen, a microphone built in, wireless Internet ("Dude, you totally need to get 56k, it's totally faster"), and pocketability would have given any Nirvana-listening teenager the vapors. "90's handheld." As if.
I've never played a PSP myself, so I can't vouch for its playability. I have to say the graphics look pretty sweet. But honest to God, after having used a touchscreen for so long on my Ipaq, not being able to touch the pretty pictures would be a flipping chore. Paying out the nose for something which gives you essentially the same things as a DS Lite-- with a less intuitive interface-- seems silly to me. A price drop would seem to be in order, especially a year after introduction.
I went carbon neutral, and I feel good about it. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Not sure what gives with the hostility, but maybe you need to punch a wall or something.
Anyway, this Dell initiative is beyond retarded. They would get the same effect by placing a popup ad in the customer checkout page with a link to a carbon offsets site. In fact, come to think of it, this is pretty much all this is. I'm not sure why Engadget would even glorify it with a post, except to make fun of it (which, thankfully, y'all did).
My Toshiba satellite does the same exact thing with its fan. It just randomly starts up, blares as loud as it can for a couple seconds, then dies off. It wouldn't be so bad, really, if it were actually effective in its job, but then it kicks in again only a thirty seconds later, which is just long enough to be both noticeable AND annoying as all hell.
And the battery life sucks. Perhaps not altogether surprising, but this is a Celeron M with shared video memory we're talking about here. Not exactly a gamer's paradise. And Vista? Forget about it-- it can barely handle ObjectDesktop. I can't complain too much since I did get the thing for $250 on Black Friday, but my next laptop is gonna be an MBP, by golly.
I guess I'm game. Favorite song? Guess it depends on my mood.
Might have to say "Weak and Powerless" by A Perfect Circle. Yes, it's been that kind of day; take pity on me.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I want a 13-incher. I need something with a great keyboard for typing, as this will mostly be used for note taking in class. I am absolutely smitten with the XPS 13, but I'm afraid that with its age Dell is going to give it an update soon. Any advice for someone in my shoes?"
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And sweet lord, how is the DS a "90's handheld?" What decade did YOU grow up in? Lemme tell you, as an old fart who actually grew up in the 90's, back then, the Game Boy Color was one of the hottest things around. I was stuck with a Game Gear, which, by my estimation, weighed about three times as much as a DS Lite, needed 6 AA's, and had exactly 2 buttons. Having brilliant 32 bit graphics, a touchscreen, a microphone built in, wireless Internet ("Dude, you totally need to get 56k, it's totally faster"), and pocketability would have given any Nirvana-listening teenager the vapors. "90's handheld." As if.
I've never played a PSP myself, so I can't vouch for its playability. I have to say the graphics look pretty sweet. But honest to God, after having used a touchscreen for so long on my Ipaq, not being able to touch the pretty pictures would be a flipping chore. Paying out the nose for something which gives you essentially the same things as a DS Lite-- with a less intuitive interface-- seems silly to me. A price drop would seem to be in order, especially a year after introduction.