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MacBook Pros with 7200RPM HDDs getting a touch too noisy? {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2009 11:52PM @saint too bad people don't get sarcasm here, only reason you could be low ranked.
Everyone knows that temperatures rise in the summer and people keep their Xboxes in closed cabinets and play on them on the long hot summer days all day long so a small percentage of them experiences thermal issues. Nothing to worry about.
:P
Google CEO Schmidt avoids the dog food, captures memories with BlackBerry {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 9:46PM Maybe Google is about to buy out Blackberry....
OPPO's long-awaited BDP-83 universal Blu-ray player now shipping {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 11:34AM This is all fine and well but where's the $99 BD player?
Acer's 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline 1810T: a netbook we can finally embrace? {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 11:28AM Don't get hung up on names - there are notebooks from $300 - $3000, some are small, some are cheap, some are large, who cares if it's a netbook or a subnotebook, it has a certain size, weight, processor speed, and price.
The name netbook was good when cheap subnotebooks were a total novelty - they were cheaper than any other notebooks, and smaller too. But that's no longer the case, you can get a heavy 15" notebook for $400 and a light netbook for $600. The category has been absorbed into the general notebook category.
Acer's 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline 1810T: a netbook we can finally embrace? {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 11:24AM Yah.. has a tiny bezel. Looks nice. Might be tempting for a Hackintosh...
Those Timelines are interesting. Cheap, well made, last forever on battery, look nice, great LCDs (LED, HD). The only drawback seems to be the ULV processor at 1.4GHz but I wonder if it really makes that much difference for things that most people do with their computers.
Sugar Labs' "Sugar on a Stick" OS available for any and all {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2009 4:16AM It's meant for kids.
Since everyone knows that kids are way better than adults in figuring out how computers work, they had the liberty to make the icons a colorful soup of meaningless symbols. And they did!
One thing I am sure the kids love though is how adults can't figure out what the hell they are doing with those things.
Switched On: iPhone 3GS is fine, young, but not a cannibal {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2009 11:41PM Some of you people are truly hopeless. The iPhone isn't about features. It's about features that are actually being used day to day.
There is one thing that I am 100% sure about: No-one, not a SINGLE PERSON owning and using an iPhone would say that other phones had these features for years. You'd only say that if you never had an iPhone and you compared the features list with some other phone.
HP ProBook 4310s serves up a cornucopia of options for the configuration junkie within {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 5:03AM @radarskiy: For old people with bad eyesight. No, really.
Entelligence: Netbooks, R.I.P. {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2009 9:23PM I think there's many more niche applications for netbooks that are just like yours. But before netbooks came around, nobody knew about them.
I see travelers with netbooks all the time. It's perfect, you just stick that cheapo little machine in your pocket, use free wifi wherever you go, and do your websurfing and email from it. And it's cheap enough so you don't need to be paranoid about theft. I'd say that 50% of travelers passing through now have laptops or netbooks, more than half of that netbooks.
Entelligence: Netbooks, R.I.P. {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2009 9:18PM I am with Chris. Some of us do stuff on our computers, and we want the best.
Price is very relative. I don't want to wait for my computer either, so maybe I opt for a better machine.
I work on an hourly basis so I could tell you exactly how the waiting vs more expensive computer comparison works out. Time is money. The MacBook Pro has pretty much paid for itself by the time I am done setting it up - that's because setup takes 2 hours (for all my 200GB+ of data to be transferred, all my settings, all my apps), and I know from past experience that on Windows it takes at least 2 days before I am ready to go back to work again. It's kind of magical - you take the brand new machine out of the box, start the migration assistant, and boom, 2 hours later you are back at your desktop, ready to work. And you don't need to be there - you can wander off do something else while it's copying.
Even if that wasn't so the MBP would pay for itself in a very short period of time. To those of us who generate money from their computers, it's an absolute no-brainer.
