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HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?
Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the HTC Shift, the newest contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook Air. "As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class. I'm one of the few folks that have been using an early version of the HTC Shift , a smaller screened ultra light tablet with a keyboard and a touch screen which is superior to both offerings in some ways and just released on Amazon.com for $1500 (someone screwed up, this wasn't supposed to happen until next week). This got me thinking: The perfect next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products."
Shouldn't that be "lightweights?"
My perfect laptop includes the following.
15-17" monitor
5" attachable monitor
webcam and mic on the front panel
as big as a keyboard as possible in relation to the monitor
swappable battery, dvdrw and >4 usb ports
and wifi
it's a toy. Don't buy it because it's too expensive. Tom's hardware is a joke in the meantime.
In my mind, if you want a laptop, there are two rifts. Either one that will serve alongside a desktop sibling which will be vastly more powerful, or a desktop replacement.
So either an EeePC or a MacBook Pro/IBM notebook. The HTC is EeePC at nearly the MBP price. Yuck.
Yr doin' it wrong.
Purple Monkey Dishwasher? "Hey I know, instead of thinking of a coherent thought for the title I'll just throw in product names randomly, no one will notice!"
I know this is Slashdot and the above statement is probably true but come on, at least pretend like you can speak in complete sentences.
This bit was written by the ever adorable Rob Enderle?
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I'm surprised it even made it to the
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800x480?! Why not just give us four handy red 7 segment displays to interact with.
Sure, I understand that small computers have small screens, but my aging ipac has a 640x480 screen the size of a baseball card and fits in my pocket. I take it that people who want small light computers are also blind? A screen that size could be 1400x900 and still be very usable.
Sheldon
No, it's: "Confusing headline this is."
has a small 800 x 480 pixel 7" touchscreen
For the same price I can get an ultraportable (3lbs) Sony VAIO with ~10" screen, real keyboard (only slightly scrunched), 1280x768 screen, and real everything else including optical drive and WAN radio. Heck, I've had two models over 5 years, wishing only for a stronger case and boot-from-USB; I carry it everywhere.
I'm not sure where the author thinks this toy is usable for anything but an overblown cellphone without the phone.
Next...
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
This slashdot. verb no good here!
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Do you mean 'promotions' as in 'getting a different job title'? Like moving from IS Engineer to IS Manager? Because I sure don't want that. I'm a short, fat guy with questionable fashion sense and minimal personal hygiene. And yet I get better reviews and make more money than most of the managers in the company. So I guess how I look was a big factor in me not getting promoted - but it wasn't a factor in making advancement.
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You really should take a look at the nokia n810 (or even n800).
They have a similar form factor, run Maemo Linux and are great to use.
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Maybe you and the young female executive with the Air could do one of those "I'm a Mac...And I'm a PC" commercials.
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The thing most of you people are not realizing is that the shift has tablet functionality which neither the eee pc, x300, or airbook have. Not only that, but it runs windows mobile as well as vista. I also believe it is GSM quad band/HSDPA (or at least it was supposed to when I read about it 5 months ago), so essentially it can replace your phone, PDA, and travel laptop. If I had 1.5k sitting around I'd definitely get one.
no, think about it for a second -- put your fingers on home row. where is your thumb? a thumb pad always belongs in the middle, whether you're left-handed or right.
>>In the history of Macs, from 1984 forward, there has never been a single successful remote attack on the OS.
>>No other operating system on the planet can state that as a medal of honor.
Ah yes, the mind control broadcast towers are working as planned...
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HTC Shift ThinkPad X300 MacBook Air Perfect Notebook?
What the heck does this mean, anyway? And no, I don't want to read the article.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
there has never been a single successful remote attack on the OS.
Put it this way: a really successful remote attack is one which nobody ever learns about, so it's ridiculous to claim that any given operating system has never been exploited. I guarantee that Macs have been cracked at some point in their history. I think it doesn't happen more often because Mac owners don't have anything on them that anyone would want.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Ergo, it's not on the market yet (until some kind of weird unfolding tech comes out, or people use projectors, or something like that).
... I've seen them on Stargate SG-1!
Think holojectors, dude. Three-dimensional holojectors, that's the ticket. Toss that puppy onto a table in front of you and see a beautiful 3-D desktop floating in midair. I know they can do it if they want to
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
... and do 900 squazillion miles on one gallon. Of water. I've patented it, just on the off chance that some sucker actually makes one. [evil cackle]
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Fuck HTC.
I bought an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II Rebrand) and it came with the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset that's supposed (and was advertized) to have ATi hardware 3D rendering and hardware video assist. It seems, however, that even though these features were advertised, HTC users weren't given them. Some amateur research says that it's because of a Broadcomm patent lawsuit against Qualcomm with a judgement preventing them from making drivers (but they were allowed to sell what processors were already being made under other contractual obligation).
See this Firehose article. The videos on htcclassaction.org demonstrate the issue very well.
No, the writer is Rob Enderle, the guy who defended SCO against the evil Linux copycats (and praised the VROOM-VROOM start-up sound on his Acer Ferrari). I doubt he wants to use a 'free software scam' like the Eee for anything.
Which raises the question of why a fluff piece by this idiot should be posted to Slashdot (or to Tom's Hardware in the first place).
That is a brilliant formation of an argument! Completely a priori, so it stands on its own without any experiential proof.
Of course, it also could be used to argue that aliens are inhabiting our bodies without our knowledge, because a really successful alien attack would happen without anyone knowing about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument
That is a brilliant formation of an argument! Completely a priori, so it stands on its own without any experiential proof.
Yep. Just about as reasonable as the original claim that Macs have never been cracked, huh.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.