They might be tough, but I've always thought that IBM/Lenovo laptops are ugly. Putting aesthetics aside more ports for the same weight is great. Apple might be the innovator of the Air-type, but the Lenovo and others won't be the last we'll see. I actually think the Sony Sub-notebook is a better machine and buy.
Sure there are good things, bad things and the ugly about the OLPC XO but I don't know a single effort that has brought more competition and choices to the market than this project. The intention is a good one, and it has decent hardware/software and OS for kids. I on the other hand would pull my hair out just waiting for the system to boot. It seems to take forever.
The ability to hack the OLPC or Eee PC is pretty much the drive for us to buy one of these ultra portables. The price is right,the portability is definitely there, and both based on Linux. Here's a photo of how small the OLPC XO is next to a Dell D620
We all know that if we had a configurable keyboard that was an exact replica of the old clickity-clack IBM version that it'd sell out in days. Those keyboards were awesome - you knew exactly when and if you hit the key and the buttons were like molded to your fingers. At least that how I feel. That old-school IBM keyboard was THE BEST. I'd say the old Sun Sparc keyboards are next.
Here's photos of the Optimus Maximus that I took at CES 2008 last week. OLED = sweet, but the value is no way near the $1500 price-tag.
Don't you mean 256GB? I mean we do know our SSD here right?
Smart Talent was demoing 256GB at the show last week, and I just didn't get a photo of the demo system running it. But in saying that it'll be mainstream in X months or whatever is just a gamble. If we have another earthquake in Taiwan or one in Korea, RAM prices are going through the roof as all the factories are in Taiwan, and Samsung owns the flash memory market right now.
Aside from that, here are 145 photos from CES of stuff that I thought was worth shooting with my camera at the show:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/
No, I'd say that it can't be! Everything there is on the technological bleeding edge and made of micro neurons, right?
Come-on - there's always crap and semi-crap at the show. There's vaporware by the load too. But most of the show was very cool, exciting, and stuff you can use today.
Here are 145 cool things I found at CES that I took a photo of. Great show - I hope I get to go again next year:
Below is a link to my Flickr stream that has a photo of an OLPC XO next to a Dell D610 for size comparison. They're pretty small, yet I'm sure with my fat fingers that I could still use it.
Intel has no reason to join if their not going to use their chips. I know Intel makes more than processors, but Intel now has Asus Eee PC using their stuff, as well as their own project. No big deal not joining in, I think.
I took pics of a lot of cool stuff at CES here: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/
There are some pretty cool things there this year, but I think web-cam hand gesture recognition is overrated.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't get a free phone and sign a contract for 1-2 years?
I've always like http://www.wirefly.com/
Matter of fact, I got money back ($50) for signing up for my phone and plan.
The iPod being a billion-dollar business for Apple now, I'd have to answer, YES the iPod is their specialty. It's an important piece of their business that Apple created/imitated/improved upon and did NOT BUY from someone else. Go buy some Apple stock, hold it for 7 years and then tell us you wish they'd buy AMD. They don't need them, nor do they have to play with them to be successful.
I hate it when people think Apple should be everything to everybody. Buying AMD would be the worst thing they could do - to concentrate on something outside of their specialty, wasting valuable time and money on resurrecting AMD's profit margin. As soon as they buy them and report another negative earnings, Apples stock would fall like a brick.
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Some SSD love from Toshiba from CES 2008: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2179248913/in/set-72157603667187312/
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2459053420/
SiCortex was at Supercomputing this last year and they also have a desktop supercomputer.
In my opinion, it also looks a heck of a lot better than the cylone: http://sicortex.com/
At CES they had an EeePC next to a Dell 1330 and so I snapped a few photos.
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093376/
Keyboard felt OK - something that I could get use to, but I'm waiting for the 9" screen to be released.
like 3 years ago. Trouble will be getting people to use you "new" internets
Not necessary, but here's a slideshow from CES this year of photos that I took:
http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=maximus&w=91852742%40N00
This thing way too damn expensive. That's for sure.
Good luck w/ that
They might be tough, but I've always thought that IBM/Lenovo laptops are ugly. Putting aesthetics aside more ports for the same weight is great. Apple might be the innovator of the Air-type, but the Lenovo and others won't be the last we'll see. I actually think the Sony Sub-notebook is a better machine and buy.
My brother-in-law got a MBA for Valentines Day, so I've had some hands-on time w/it: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/
Sure there are good things, bad things and the ugly about the OLPC XO but I don't know a single effort that has brought more competition and choices to the market than this project. The intention is a good one, and it has decent hardware/software and OS for kids. I on the other hand would pull my hair out just waiting for the system to boot. It seems to take forever.
Here is the XO next to a Dell D620 for comparison sake. I took this at LinuxWorld 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/
The ability to hack the OLPC or Eee PC is pretty much the drive for us to buy one of these ultra portables. The price is right,the portability is definitely there, and both based on Linux. Here's a photo of how small the OLPC XO is next to a Dell D620
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/
Here's photos of the Optimus Maximus that I took at CES 2008 last week. OLED = sweet, but the value is no way near the $1500 price-tag.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2179127072/in/photostream/
(scroll through to the next photo on the right-hand side)
Smart Talent was demoing 256GB at the show last week, and I just didn't get a photo of the demo system running it. But in saying that it'll be mainstream in X months or whatever is just a gamble. If we have another earthquake in Taiwan or one in Korea, RAM prices are going through the roof as all the factories are in Taiwan, and Samsung owns the flash memory market right now.
Aside from that, here are 145 photos from CES of stuff that I thought was worth shooting with my camera at the show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/
Come-on - there's always crap and semi-crap at the show. There's vaporware by the load too. But most of the show was very cool, exciting, and stuff you can use today.
Here are 145 cool things I found at CES that I took a photo of. Great show - I hope I get to go again next year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/
Here are some photos of the OLPC next to a Dell D610 at LinuxWorld last year. Very small! http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/
Here are some photos of the Asus Eee PC next to a Dell XPS M1330 from CES last week: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093088/
I took pics of a lot of cool stuff at CES here: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/ There are some pretty cool things there this year, but I think web-cam hand gesture recognition is overrated.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't get a free phone and sign a contract for 1-2 years? I've always like http://www.wirefly.com/ Matter of fact, I got money back ($50) for signing up for my phone and plan.
Go into beekeeping. You can sell the honey and wax as products. Maybe get about 100 hives to start with.
The iPod being a billion-dollar business for Apple now, I'd have to answer, YES the iPod is their specialty. It's an important piece of their business that Apple created/imitated/improved upon and did NOT BUY from someone else. Go buy some Apple stock, hold it for 7 years and then tell us you wish they'd buy AMD. They don't need them, nor do they have to play with them to be successful.
Agree 100%
I hate it when people think Apple should be everything to everybody. Buying AMD would be the worst thing they could do - to concentrate on something outside of their specialty, wasting valuable time and money on resurrecting AMD's profit margin. As soon as they buy them and report another negative earnings, Apples stock would fall like a brick.