I'm perfectly aware me what I'm complaining about, and I still believe I'm in the right to do so...
The message itself is fine, but Twitter just seems so... juvenile. Just the fact that it's actually a social networking platform is enough to make it vastly inappropriate for things like this.
"Good luck getting another motherboard that will fit in your netbook."
Pull it out, look at the part number on the damned sticker. Look online. I'm still finding motherboards for old 75mhz Toshiba Satellite C210 laptops.
Swing and a miss... he was talking about finding a motherboard that supports a significantly faster and/or more modern CPU than the original motherboard. Sure, you'll be able to find replacement motherboards, but only in rare cases will they support a CPU that's much faster than what was originally in the machine. One of those rare exceptions is the Thinkpad T60, where a certain motherboard revision added Core2Duo support as opposed to only CoreDuo support...
Also, it's still common practice to solder CPUs to motherboards in some laptops (usually subnotebooks).
Now imagine having to work from somewhere other than your desk. Imagine you're a student who needs to do research for a paper at a library. Imagine you need to work together with other people, and you're meeting them somewhere that isn't at your desk...
That's where the laptop comes in. Sure, you could use a desktop at home and a laptop on the go, but most people don't need the power of a desktop enough to justify the additional hassle and cost of two complete systems.
Actually, 1920x1200 is/was readily available on 15.4" and up 16:10 laptop screens, and is unfortunately slowly being replaced by 1080p on 15.6" and up.
Now as for 2560x1600 30" monitors - you might have a harder time replacing those with a laptop screen... but you can always hook one of those up as a secondary (or just go ahead and use two in conjunction with the laptop, leaving the laptop's screen off when you're at your desk).
If you want a screen that's far bigger than any device that you would be comfortable carrying, why would you even consider a portable computer? Don't you think that's just a little too obvious?
The comparison doesn't really work - of course a desktop is going to be better in pretty much each and every way for stationary use. I don't really understand why you'd bother comparing a desktop and a laptop unless you actually needed or wanted the mobility.
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Navigation block? As in page up/page down/end/home/delete? Have you ever seen a Thinkpad up close?:P
Okay, so they killed the Insert key, but that's no big loss, IMO...
Actually, I bought a feature-incomplete phone figuring, "Hey, it's 2010, I'll be getting the newest software via OTA updates just as soon as Google can push 'em out the door!".
Obviously I was mistaken, and it's my own fault for being so naive, but that doesn't mean the situation isn't downright crappy...
The main problem with all the fragmentation, as I see it, is the uncertainty. Waiting for an update when your carrier/manufacturer etc. is unwilling to give any information as to when, or whether at all, an update is coming, is pretty crappy.
Will I be able to run the latest update to, say, Adobe Reader (which is already limited to 2.1) in half a year?
Will I be getting USB and WiFi tethering?
Will I be getting the JIT Dalvik compiler?
How about future upgrades, like browser support for coming technologies (Smokescreen, updates to HTML5 etc.), or other things I'm hoping for, like native network share support, reverse tethering (internet access through a PC's USB connection a la MS ActiveSync), USB OTG support (hardware is built right in)...
There are custom ROMs, of course, but not all devices have that option, due to some jackasses deciding to lock up the bootloader.
If the developers/engineers are forced to "eat their own dogfood", we'll probably just end up with a ChromeOS that's just as bloated as Ubuntu or Windows...
+1. This is exactly what I want... a way to cut down on weight on my tablet PC (currently an old IBM X41), so that I can carry it around in addition to a subnotebook. Lately I've noticed that I need two screens as well as a keyboard in addition to the digitizer - all at the same time.
The setup I've been using at home is a dual 24" + the tablet, with Synergy for keyboard and mouse use (which is close to perfect for my needs), and I'm thinking a keyboardless tablet with a 12-13" laptop should do it for when I'm not at home...
The ability to use the device as a second screen is sort of a given with Windows (or Linux, AFAIK). Synergy gives me all the options I need in that regard, personally... there are also Windows applications for making the second machine behave more like a traditional second screen...
God I hope you're wrong. The iPad is in desperate need of a decent competitor - otherwise people are going to start thinking that a giant iPod Touch is the only way to go when it comes to tablets.
I for one would welcome a 10-12" Windows 7 tablet with 10 hours of battery life... oh, and no capacitive screen - Wacom stylus please!
I would LOVE a 10-inch Android tablet with a Wacom digitizer... that would make my Thinkpad tablet obsolete, meaning I could upgrade to an X201s for the gobs of battery life.
However, I get the feeling we'll never see hardware that expensive for Android. And if we do, it'll be, well, expensive:P
Web space seems to be getting very cheap, to the point that people have no problems sharing 50MB PDF files and 200 page Word documents with tons of embedded images.
When you're in a rush to get out of the house and need access to that document on the train ride to work/school (which is, in my case, mainly covered only by EDGE if not GPRS), being able to download the same file in 25 seconds instead of 5 minutes is a godsend.
Sure, you won't need something like this for day-to-day web browsing, but there _are_ some time-critical applications. Even when I'm just downloading PDFs or programs like Serenade/Packet Tracer/MSDNAA-stuff off of my Uni's servers, I'm incredibly glad to have a relatively fast DSL line, because it allows me to save a lot of time.
Also, a larger upload pipe usually goes hand-in-hand with the higher downstream - I've got 16Mbps (about 1.8MByte/sec effective... depending on the server, obviously) downstream, which is just fine, but my upload is only 1Mbps. For VPN and other purposes, that's just too slow...
What really astounds me isn't the lack of broadband in the states (which, to be honest, sounds greatly exaggerated - there are still a lot of places here in Germany where you can only get lowest ADSL speeds because the people who maintain the lines can't be bothered to extend their network properly, and still Germany is ranked pretty well), but rather the reports of incredibly spotty wireless data connections.
What's this about AT&T dropping calls and giving "No connection available" errors when you try to load up a page in the middle of a city (IIRC San Francisco was mentioned, and NYC)... what's the deal? I've had that happen to me too, but only on train rides through the countryside... if you're in a city here in Germany you're pretty much guaranteed a fast connection (not counting E-Plus network).
So what's the deal? Is the actual coverage spotty? Is the network just that overloaded (how could they not have fixed that by now? These complaints have been circling the interwebs since the first iPhone)? Or are Americans just extremely wasteful when it comes to bandwidth?
As for broadband... meh. You've got cable nearly everywhere, and usually DSL as a fallback. The situation doesn't seem to be that bad from an outsider's point of view.
It's not only manufacturers whose ROMs are customized heavily... Motorola takes quite a long time to push out updates for the Milestone, for instance, and that's pretty much a plain Vanilla Android version. Hopefully they'll be proving me wrong in the next few weeks, but I'm not expecting Android 2.2 on my device for quite a while...
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I'm perfectly aware me what I'm complaining about, and I still believe I'm in the right to do so...
The message itself is fine, but Twitter just seems so... juvenile. Just the fact that it's actually a social networking platform is enough to make it vastly inappropriate for things like this.
How on Earth is this a good thing?
Tweeting something like this puts it on the same level as the idiot twittering "I just took a huge crap LOL WTF!!111oneone!"... it's NOT appropriate.
Same here, except I went with Thinkpads. On-Site repair service is a godsend...
"Good luck getting another motherboard that will fit in your netbook."
Pull it out, look at the part number on the damned sticker. Look online. I'm still finding motherboards for old 75mhz Toshiba Satellite C210 laptops.
Swing and a miss... he was talking about finding a motherboard that supports a significantly faster and/or more modern CPU than the original motherboard. Sure, you'll be able to find replacement motherboards, but only in rare cases will they support a CPU that's much faster than what was originally in the machine. One of those rare exceptions is the Thinkpad T60, where a certain motherboard revision added Core2Duo support as opposed to only CoreDuo support...
Also, it's still common practice to solder CPUs to motherboards in some laptops (usually subnotebooks).
Now imagine having to work from somewhere other than your desk. Imagine you're a student who needs to do research for a paper at a library. Imagine you need to work together with other people, and you're meeting them somewhere that isn't at your desk...
That's where the laptop comes in. Sure, you could use a desktop at home and a laptop on the go, but most people don't need the power of a desktop enough to justify the additional hassle and cost of two complete systems.
Actually, 1920x1200 is/was readily available on 15.4" and up 16:10 laptop screens, and is unfortunately slowly being replaced by 1080p on 15.6" and up.
Now as for 2560x1600 30" monitors - you might have a harder time replacing those with a laptop screen... but you can always hook one of those up as a secondary (or just go ahead and use two in conjunction with the laptop, leaving the laptop's screen off when you're at your desk).
If you want a screen that's far bigger than any device that you would be comfortable carrying, why would you even consider a portable computer? Don't you think that's just a little too obvious?
The comparison doesn't really work - of course a desktop is going to be better in pretty much each and every way for stationary use. I don't really understand why you'd bother comparing a desktop and a laptop unless you actually needed or wanted the mobility.
Navigation block? As in page up/page down/end/home/delete? Have you ever seen a Thinkpad up close? :P
Okay, so they killed the Insert key, but that's no big loss, IMO...
Who cares? That game was extremely fun nonetheless...
I'm soooo using this on my girlfriend on Saturday. Do you have a similar idea for eggs? :P
Actually, I bought a feature-incomplete phone figuring, "Hey, it's 2010, I'll be getting the newest software via OTA updates just as soon as Google can push 'em out the door!".
Obviously I was mistaken, and it's my own fault for being so naive, but that doesn't mean the situation isn't downright crappy...
If Android were anywhere near feature-complete, you would be perfectly right.
The main problem with all the fragmentation, as I see it, is the uncertainty. Waiting for an update when your carrier/manufacturer etc. is unwilling to give any information as to when, or whether at all, an update is coming, is pretty crappy.
Will I be able to run the latest update to, say, Adobe Reader (which is already limited to 2.1) in half a year?
Will I be getting USB and WiFi tethering?
Will I be getting the JIT Dalvik compiler?
How about future upgrades, like browser support for coming technologies (Smokescreen, updates to HTML5 etc.), or other things I'm hoping for, like native network share support, reverse tethering (internet access through a PC's USB connection a la MS ActiveSync), USB OTG support (hardware is built right in)...
There are custom ROMs, of course, but not all devices have that option, due to some jackasses deciding to lock up the bootloader.
Works fine in Firefox on a 5 year old laptop over here (Pentium M). Probably a configuration issue...
Really? Even on the 1.5GHz Pentium M (!!!) I'm typing from right now, that ran fine in Firefox. A lot smoother than scrolling Slashdot... :(
If the developers/engineers are forced to "eat their own dogfood", we'll probably just end up with a ChromeOS that's just as bloated as Ubuntu or Windows...
Put it face-down and use concave-bottomed cups. iPod/iPad/iPhone users should be used to working around the system...
+1. This is exactly what I want... a way to cut down on weight on my tablet PC (currently an old IBM X41), so that I can carry it around in addition to a subnotebook. Lately I've noticed that I need two screens as well as a keyboard in addition to the digitizer - all at the same time.
The setup I've been using at home is a dual 24" + the tablet, with Synergy for keyboard and mouse use (which is close to perfect for my needs), and I'm thinking a keyboardless tablet with a 12-13" laptop should do it for when I'm not at home...
The ability to use the device as a second screen is sort of a given with Windows (or Linux, AFAIK). Synergy gives me all the options I need in that regard, personally... there are also Windows applications for making the second machine behave more like a traditional second screen...
God I hope you're wrong. The iPad is in desperate need of a decent competitor - otherwise people are going to start thinking that a giant iPod Touch is the only way to go when it comes to tablets.
I for one would welcome a 10-12" Windows 7 tablet with 10 hours of battery life... oh, and no capacitive screen - Wacom stylus please!
Arseload?
I would LOVE a 10-inch Android tablet with a Wacom digitizer... that would make my Thinkpad tablet obsolete, meaning I could upgrade to an X201s for the gobs of battery life.
However, I get the feeling we'll never see hardware that expensive for Android. And if we do, it'll be, well, expensive :P
Web space seems to be getting very cheap, to the point that people have no problems sharing 50MB PDF files and 200 page Word documents with tons of embedded images.
When you're in a rush to get out of the house and need access to that document on the train ride to work/school (which is, in my case, mainly covered only by EDGE if not GPRS), being able to download the same file in 25 seconds instead of 5 minutes is a godsend.
Sure, you won't need something like this for day-to-day web browsing, but there _are_ some time-critical applications. Even when I'm just downloading PDFs or programs like Serenade/Packet Tracer/MSDNAA-stuff off of my Uni's servers, I'm incredibly glad to have a relatively fast DSL line, because it allows me to save a lot of time.
Also, a larger upload pipe usually goes hand-in-hand with the higher downstream - I've got 16Mbps (about 1.8MByte/sec effective... depending on the server, obviously) downstream, which is just fine, but my upload is only 1Mbps. For VPN and other purposes, that's just too slow...
What really astounds me isn't the lack of broadband in the states (which, to be honest, sounds greatly exaggerated - there are still a lot of places here in Germany where you can only get lowest ADSL speeds because the people who maintain the lines can't be bothered to extend their network properly, and still Germany is ranked pretty well), but rather the reports of incredibly spotty wireless data connections.
What's this about AT&T dropping calls and giving "No connection available" errors when you try to load up a page in the middle of a city (IIRC San Francisco was mentioned, and NYC)... what's the deal? I've had that happen to me too, but only on train rides through the countryside... if you're in a city here in Germany you're pretty much guaranteed a fast connection (not counting E-Plus network).
So what's the deal? Is the actual coverage spotty? Is the network just that overloaded (how could they not have fixed that by now? These complaints have been circling the interwebs since the first iPhone)? Or are Americans just extremely wasteful when it comes to bandwidth?
As for broadband... meh. You've got cable nearly everywhere, and usually DSL as a fallback. The situation doesn't seem to be that bad from an outsider's point of view.
Tell me about it... Milestone owners are mostly pretty pissed off about the signed bootloader :(
It's not only manufacturers whose ROMs are customized heavily... Motorola takes quite a long time to push out updates for the Milestone, for instance, and that's pretty much a plain Vanilla Android version. Hopefully they'll be proving me wrong in the next few weeks, but I'm not expecting Android 2.2 on my device for quite a while...