Recent Comments:
Fanswag: Wario Land: Shake It! {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Oct 7th 2008 11:49AM I'd say Mario Kart Wii for me!
AT&T gets official with U-verse Total Home DVR {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2008 12:30PM That interface is Microsoft-built. Everything from the fonts to the red dots signifying recording look exactly like Vista Media Center.
Win a Lexmark X7675 wireless printer and two cartridges {Engadget}
Sep 2nd 2008 1:24PM I'd like one please.
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's gadgets {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 9:47AM I'd keep it all. It all looks good!
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's video games {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 9:46AM I'm after the Wii games, though the 360 games would allow me to argue to my wife that we need one of those too!
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's swag {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 9:45AM I need the backpacks!!! The rest goes to the little girls next door.
The editor-in-chief giveaway: Win Ryan Block's gadgets {Engadget}
Aug 23rd 2008 2:04AM I hope to keep about 50%, but am not entirely sure. I'd have to see what I can do with it all. Perhaps some oddball super gadget monster!!!
MSI Winds said to be shipping without Synaptic touchpads {Engadget}
Aug 15th 2008 4:43PM Nuts. It was starting to look like MSI was going to set the bar for Netbooks. Now it looks like Sony's fears may come true. The netbook craze will turn from a high-function, portability race, to a race to the bottom. This is much like the issue recently discussed with regard to the iPhone's use of relatively untested chipsets just to slightly increase margins on the product.
When will companies learn that cost cutting is an understandable goal, but there are limits? I suppose we have to wait for "market forces" to kick in (i.e. people stop adopting iPhone 3G phones until the chipset issue is resolved, sales of the MSI Wind fade until a real touchpad is incorporated into the product).
The sad thing is that these days many consumer electronics purchasers (not all, Engadget readers) do not know the difference between chipset A and chipset B or touchpad A and touchpad B. The net result is that they do not curttail their purchases of crippled or "weakened" devices and the manufacturer never gets the messages and the shenanigans continue.
For a while Apple seemed to be in the "they'll pay more so we can charge more so we don't have to go with generic, inferior components" mindset. That's seeming to change. Now they're cashing in on the cachet of their goods and racing with everyone to the bottom.
Optimus Maximus survives coffee spill test... or does it? {Engadget}
Aug 1st 2008 4:15PM Actually, it doesn't look like his keyboard is damaged in the slightest. Sure, you can see a stain from the coffee, but Optimus keyboards are supposed to allow for easy removal of the individual keys. He probably just took them off surrounding the spill so he could clean the keyboard back up. When he's done, he'll snap them back in and the keyboard'll be back, good as new (sans warranty).
iTab project continues the DIY Mac tablet tradition {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2008 3:24PM The lesson to be learned from this post: don't waste your money upgrading that carpet...you'll never be able to afford the effort to turn your Mac laptop into a tablet!
