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Brandon Paddock
Member Since Mar 7th, 2007

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Sony announces VAIO X ultraportable

Sep 2nd 2009 2:21PM on Engadget

Weird, I've had a Z520N for a year now and I love it. Very solid machine (feels as sturdy or more than my old black Macbook, which set a high bar).

Windows 7 licensing situation a "disaster" for businesses?

Jun 18th 2009 2:46PM on Engadget

Umm, this *rumor* was proven false before Engadget even echoed it.

Old news is old. False rumor is false.

http://bit.ly/FkzeF

Virtualized Windows XP coming to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users

Apr 25th 2009 4:33PM on Engadget

What do you mean "where the resources are?"

Again I think you're not understanding what COM is.

COM gives you a solid and straightforward refcounting mechanism and interface-based extensibility model. And the frameworks built on it like ATL are really handy. Plus you get the flexibility of handling both in-proc and out-of-proc objects with the COM runtime handling most of the heavy lifting re: marshalling, server / process lifetime, caching, etc.

Oh, and lets not forget managed interop or scriptability / automation (IDispatch, etc).

Virtualized Windows XP coming to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users

Apr 24th 2009 8:56PM on Engadget

Why god why would you get rid of COM?

COM is great! Not everybody wants to write managed code. Most people who disparage COM have no idea what it is or how to use it.

Windows 7 bug fixes to include multitouch zoom for Explorer

Mar 13th 2009 5:03PM on Engadget

As Steven said, the Beta is the only build officially released by Microsoft. If anyone has 'rumored' that 7057 is the RC, they're lying. The RC has not been released.

Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass

Feb 3rd 2009 6:39PM on Engadget

Why not point at the official Press Release - which makes it very clear there are TWO editions.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/feb09/02-03Win7SKU-QA.mspx

There is Home Premium and there is Professional.

Anything else is for a special channel or market and won't be presented to consumers...

Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass

Feb 3rd 2009 2:35PM on Engadget

Engadget is wrong.

Go read Paul Thurrott's article...

Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass

Feb 3rd 2009 2:31PM on Engadget

Engadget is wrong, this article is crap.

There are TWO editions. Home Premium and Professional. Everything that's in Home Premium is also in Professional, making it very easy to decide which one you want.

Go read Paul Thurrott's article...

Microsoft confirms 256MB internal storage in Xbox 360 Arcade units

Dec 3rd 2008 2:56PM on Joystiq Xbox

There are advantages though...

You no longer have to use half of your memory card to store the NXE (the new Xbox OS). That is the main reason the internal memory makes a lot of sense to me. Without it or a hard drive, you basically need one memory card that you *can't* remove.

Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5

Apr 7th 2008 3:14PM on Download Squad

Constantine - you can continue to use the Deskbar shortcuts on WDS 3 and WS4.

Or on Vista, you can use Start++ which offers the same functionality and much more.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I'm looking for a wireless trackpad to use with my older (2.5 or so years old) C2D MacBook that's perpetually docked to my home theater. Something sleek, thin, not too small, made of high quality materials. Ideally, it would natively support all of (Snow) Leopard's multitouch inputs, and even more ideally, it would have a charging dock / base. The only problem is that I'm not sure that such a thing even exists. Think you can throw me a bone?"

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