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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?"
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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I got far more than 2.5 hours out of the air at a conference, running compiles and mysql database work enough that the fan was on 100%.
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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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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.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
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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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.
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).