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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 goes live {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 9:42PM Updating mine right now, been quite happy with the PP1 beta's.
I went with the cheapest HP single drive unit, bought 4 drives, and replaced the HP drive and added the three extra.
Much cheaper than trying to get it larger from HP and much cheaper than trying to build it yourself and still have swap trays, low power use, easy recovery/rebuild from scratch and the small headless form factor.
I'm happy I went with it over something like the ReadyNAS linux based NAS systems. For a windows user, it is much more powerful and versatile.
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 goes live {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 9:41PM Updating mine right now, been quite happy with the PP1 beta's.
I went with the cheapest HP single drive unit, bought 4 drives, and replaced the HP drive and added the three extra.
Much cheaper than trying to get it larger from HP and much cheaper than trying to build it yourself and still have swap trays, low power use, easy recovery/rebuild from scratch and the small headless form factor.
I'm happy I went with it over something like the ReadyNAS linux based NAS systems. For a windows user, it is much more powerful and versatile.
Origami Experience 2.0 finally coming to a UMPC near you {Engadget}
Jun 14th 2008 6:29PM Full of Awesome Sauce™ on my Latitude XT Tablet.
So, are you gonna get an iPhone 3G? {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 8:05PM No.
1. Bluetooth voice dialing. Hello, it's 2008, we have had voice dialing on crappy free phones for YEARS. We will need it for laws regarding handsfree use as well.
2. A2DP Stereo Bluetooth. Your MP3 player is not an MP3 player without stereo bluetooth. Screw FM radio, I want stereo bluetooth for linking to car headunits, portable headphones, a pc at home hooked to speakers etc.
3. MMS, need to be able to receive and send proper MMS messages. WinMo can do it just fine, and not everyone has email phones.
4. swappable battery. Great, your phone is a tiny bit thinner without this, but it's also a complete doorstop when you run out of battery, forget to charge it one night, whatever.
I don't think any of those requests are unreasonable like FM radio, 6mp camera, hd resolution screen, etc and I see no reason why the iphone 3g does not have them other than for apple to next year sell a Iphone 3.5G or whatever.
Ask Engadget: What's the best Tablet PC? {Engadget}
Jun 5th 2008 10:21PM I just picked up a refurbished Latitude XT for 50% off retail price from dell's outlet.
It's quite good, and the screen tech is just awesome. (will flash to multitouch in a month or so)
It's quite usable in vista, almost speedy.
1.33 C2D ULV
3GB 667 DDR2
64GB SSD
12.1" DLV LCD (400 nits!)
feels very solid, dripping with thinkpad design cues.
I agree that it's overpriced at retail price, but it's by no means junk, and one of the better tablet pc's out there.
NVIDIA continues to hate on Intel, promises sub-$45 integrated chipset {Engadget}
Apr 11th 2008 1:19PM Joke's on them if they go with VIA.
Intel's new G35 series of integrated graphics is still poo for gaming, but it is DX10 and does HDDVD/BluRay just fine.
I have a little asus board with HDMI and intel integrated and a Core 2 E8200 and it's outstanding for everything but gaming.
PS3 firmware v2.30 walkthrough: DTS-HD MA support / new PS Store included {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2008 12:58PM Looks like someone from sony finally bought an xbox and figured out that their PS Store was an abomination compared to marketplace.
Also Mike, the PS3 has no multichannel analog out so you won't be able to use the PS3 to decode DTS-MA to analog.
It may be possible for it to decode DTS-MA and wrap it back up in DTS or AC3 for your receiver, but what would be the point.
2ch users will be able to get DTS-MA decoding on the 2ch analog out though.
Then again, the PS3's audio dac is decent, but not exactly high end, son.
HP 2133 shows up on Amazon as the Mini-Note PC {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 11:29PM C7 = super fail, even at 1ghz it'll be like a 500mhz Pentium III mobile
HP sends server customers virus-infected USB keys {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 8:08PM Wow, that is really pretty bad, considering as an IT guy, I would be setting up a brand new server on a firewalled off section of network and discover that I needed a floppy to update the firmware on some scsi disks or something, and then grab their key to install said driver.
Except I would not expect to need AV software installed at this point and would likely not have done so.
Generally we get the systems drivers all installed and up to date and software patched, THEN move the system to the production network and push the AV software to it.
NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GTX officially launched, officially fast {Engadget}
Apr 1st 2008 1:12PM I hope it's just april fools that all the reviews are showing it's barely faster than the 8800gtx...
