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Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development
An anonymous reader writes "The community at www.MicroPCTalk.com have spent the last few years devising all sorts of mods and tweaks for the Sony VAIO UX-series UMPC. Now they've thrown nearly all of their major breakthroughs into one machine. Using the latest UX model (UX490) as the base, the original SSD has been swapped for a speedy 128GB SSD, the CPU has been unsoldered from the mobo and replaced with a Core 2 Duo U7700 (making this probably the smallest computer to use said CPU). The original EDGE module has been removed, and carefully put in its place is an E169 Huawei terminal which provides up to 7.2mbps 3G (HSDPA), voice and texting. On top of this, the unit quad-boots Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (and the Huawei terminal works under Mac OS X as well)."
you're a nigger.
...just buy a computer, that has the features that you want in the first place! ^^
I mean it’s all nice, and “because I can”y, but I stopped getting the point at a certain level of modding.
It’s like: Hey, let’s not buy a Ferrari, but a Tata Nano, and then replace all the Tata parts one by one by Ferrari parts, until it’s basically a Ferrari with Tata looks, that can’t beat a real Ferrari but costed more. ^^ :)
I mean, the reason why you wanted to do this aside (as I understand the “the journey is the reward” and “because I can” well), but wouldn’t it be smarter and cheaper to buy a Ferrari and then wrap it in a Tata body and interior?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
A: Because DNS-and-BIND is a dumb fuck faggot nigger jew. :)