And a capacitive touchscreen that's (in)accurate to about 5 millimeters in each direction instead of a mouse... I'll stick with a trackpoint or my MX510, thank you very much.
I think I'm a few years out of date here, but wasn't that because Remote Desktop sends mostly just window hooks, and VNC sends entire images of the remote screen?
I had an iPhone before, so I'm already glad buildings and other straight lines aren't wavy. And to be honest, I've never seen a flash that doesn't completely spoil the picture. I've got a digital compact camera that makes excellent photos outside, but indoor I can choose between excessively grainy (much worse than an iPhone or Milestone), or completely completely dead because of the stupid flash. A direct flash just above the lens has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever.
That's the trade-off... but if you've got the choice of a dead, lifeless picture instead of a grainy one, it should at least be less grainy:D
I would gladly dedicate another 5mm to a decent keyboard:(
As for the camera: The thing with the autofocus (not focusing until you push the camera button halfway down) is normal - this allows you to pick the spot you'd like to focus on;)
However, saying the camera takes decent pictures borders on a crime against geek-humanity...:P. They're grainy and noisy, and the flash is completely useless unless you like red eyes:(
But at the same time, of course you customize it: you don't want to be a commodity vendor.
After all, whats the difference between Dell and HP? Not much. HTC doesn't want to be the same as motorola, so in order to preserve a competitive advantage, you try to make your GUI better AND don't feedback your gui changes back to your competition.
Then why don't they just compete by trying to make better hardware than their competitors? Android in its native form is perfectly fine, IMO, but the hardware on all the handsets is seriously lacking in quality.
OLED screens that only have a perceived 3xx*2xx resolution instead of the 800x480 they should have and can't be read properly in the sun... creaking, flimsy, cheap feeling keyboards and D-Pads (I'm looking at you, Droid!), CRAPPY CRAPPY CRAPPY cameras, horribly inaccurate capacitive touchscreens (and that actually includes the iPhone!)...
I'm more or less satisfied with my Milestone, but I'd really love a working camera (the one in there right now takes blurry color combinations rather than photos) and a keyboard that doesn't feel like you're pressing on a cracker. Far more important than a few little UI tweaks, IMO...
They already have a perfectly good OS - now the hardware just needs to catch up.
I mean, seriously, I've seen HP keyboards where the left-shift key was the size of a penny with a completely redundant "\" + "|" key to the right of it when there was already one of those in the usual place above the "enter". What the hell??
There really needs to be a law about making up new keyboards layouts for no good &*^%*(*&*%# reason.
You are aware that most countries/languages have their own keyboard layouts, right? What you're describing can be found on the German keyboard layout... and not just on HP keyboards, but on pretty much every keyboard manufacturer's...
Satisfied customers tell their friends. Fanboys not only tell their friends, but also try to convert the whole Internet to their way of thinking and tell anyone with a different opinion that they're too dumb to recognize that the product/company they're a fanboy of is incredibly, incredibly awesome...
It's true - my sticking to Android is more out of principle than because the actual experience is better...
In my experience (limited to the Milestone...), Android is:
-Less stable -Glitchier -Slower -UI lags
These things don't really bother me, and not having to own anything made by Apple (as well as having a resolution far higher than the iPhone's measly 480x320) is a pretty good reason to stick to Android... however, I can definitely see why prettty much everyone else prefers the iPhone.
Is this really the reason most "normal" people want higher resolution displays? I always thought it was about more room...
Even looking at the 12" XGA TFT I'm typing on right now, I can't say it looks bad (even though I can see the single pixels and the fonts are stair-stepped) - I just want a higher resolution (anyone know a 1400x1050 drop-in replacement screen with digitizer for an X41T?) so that I can open more stuff side by side. Or is this more for design/image based stuff and less for the usual coding/browsing/porn?:P
If the fonts are too small, I just move closer to the screen... same thing with mobile phones. Right now I've got a Milestone, which has pretty much the highest resolution screen available at the time for a smartphone, and I still want more, because the screen still doesn't have enough pixels to display web sites at the size I want it to (really really really small)... Wake me when we hit WXGA on phones...:)
You're aware that you can fit 3 or 4 windows side by side on 2560x1600, right? You can even tile 6 of 'em and still have an area of ~800x800 for each window... So instead of the quadruplehead 1280x1024 setup some people used to have, they can now use a dual 2560x1600 setup.
I've been working this way at home for ages (albeit only on WSXGA+ and FullHD screens - my home/hobby budget doesn't cut it for a pair of 30-inchers), and it's increased my productivity immensely. Even now, as I'm typing this on a 12" XGA TFT, I've got Firefox taking up 2/3 of the screen, and Pidgin has the last 1/3. It's just nicer to have more information at a glance...
Or maybe they just put their heads down so they wouldn't be seen on the photo some jackass photographer was taking for some magazine that doesn't interest them the slightest bit?
Those things drain under 10W if you're careful with your settings and how you use it, and with an 85Wh battery that works out to more than 8 hours of runtime...
Or are you running with 100% screen brightness, WWAN on and the original 6-cell battery from when you first got the machine half a decade ago?:P
Let me guesss... T61 with discrete graphics? That would explain the two hour battery life, although you should be getting at least 3 or 4 with a 9cell.
Try a T61 with Intel graphics and you'll be looking at runtimes closer to 6 or 7 hours:)
With a T400 you sould be able to hit 9 hours without problems...
Take a look at machines that compete with MacBook(Pro)s price-wise... they're getting the same battery life with removable batteries. Take the Thinkpad X200/201 or T400, for instance - get one of those configured with an LED backlight and an SSD, and you're looking at idle/office power consumptions of under 7W (even lower on X2xxs models).
With the 85+Wh (the newest ones are 94Wh) batteries available, that translates to 10+ hours of battery life, and 7-10 hours of browsing and light processor loads... AND you have the option of carrying an additional battery, doubling your effective runtime. Not bad if you're on a 10+ hour flight and were planning on playing some games or watching HD video...
IIRC HP and FSC have machines that'll do these runtimes as well.. you just have to spend a little more and actually know how to configure them. For everyone else, there's Macs...:)
Exactly. I don't see why you would invest in a BDXL burner and 100GB discs when you could probably buy 10 2TB SATA hard drives and an eSATA/USB/Firewire dock for the same amount...
Now if the discs came in capacities beyond or close to the maximum available hard drive capacities, and the price per TB was less than 15% of that of hard drives, I'd be a bit more interested. Until then, I'll just keep buying hard drives with the biggest capacity available and swapping them out.
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Many GPS's exist in the form of 3G Modem/GPS combo cards/chips. The Ericsson F3507g in my Thinkpad is a good example...
Just remember... not everyone is as big a fan of touch interaction as you seem to be.
Capacitive touchscreens may be YOUR ideal input method, but that doesn't mean they're good for everyone.
Me? I prefer to leave my hands on a keyboard, moving my index finger and thumbs to trackpoint buttons when I need to, and am able to fly all over my 2xWUXGA mixing setup with minimal effort. With an accurate trackpoint and decently set up keyboard shortcuts, no other method stands a chance.
You seem to prefer pinching, swiping and multitouch-rotating your way across everything, which is fine with me. Notice how I haven't called you dense once;)
As for your hate on keyboard shortcuts: How many "real" pieces of gear can do what Cubase/Logic does? How many have THAT much functionality? In order to access all of that, you're looking at either context menus, buttons everywhere (most DAWs do this, and because there are so many of them, they're usually tiny) or keyboard shortcuts.
Take away the keyboard shortcuts, and every time you want to open the inserts/EQ/sends for channel so-and-so you'll have to do your zoom-pinch-drag-scroll-rotate thing:P
As for the bluetooth keyboard... might as well go with the touchscreen for the DAW, then;)
Put a 40", 2560x1600 touchscreen in front of me and it might be usable (mostly for the mixer... tracking, well, can't really imagine using touch for that). 10" XGA iPad screen, no keyboard shortcuts? Meh...
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Well, good luck using regular PC apps via VNC/RDP with a capacitive touchscreen... or have they added mouse support on the iPad?
I can see where the idea would appeal to certain people, but I'm also pretty sure that it isn't something you'd be able to use for actual work.
How about "Flash sucks, but it's better than seeing little blue icons instead of videos..."
And a capacitive touchscreen that's (in)accurate to about 5 millimeters in each direction instead of a mouse... I'll stick with a trackpoint or my MX510, thank you very much.
I think I'm a few years out of date here, but wasn't that because Remote Desktop sends mostly just window hooks, and VNC sends entire images of the remote screen?
RMClock does CPU-Throttling. That may be what you're after...
I had an iPhone before, so I'm already glad buildings and other straight lines aren't wavy. And to be honest, I've never seen a flash that doesn't completely spoil the picture. I've got a digital compact camera that makes excellent photos outside, but indoor I can choose between excessively grainy (much worse than an iPhone or Milestone), or completely completely dead because of the stupid flash. A direct flash just above the lens has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever.
That's the trade-off... but if you've got the choice of a dead, lifeless picture instead of a grainy one, it should at least be less grainy :D
I would gladly dedicate another 5mm to a decent keyboard :(
As for the camera: The thing with the autofocus (not focusing until you push the camera button halfway down) is normal - this allows you to pick the spot you'd like to focus on ;)
However, saying the camera takes decent pictures borders on a crime against geek-humanity... :P. They're grainy and noisy, and the flash is completely useless unless you like red eyes :(
But at the same time, of course you customize it: you don't want to be a commodity vendor.
After all, whats the difference between Dell and HP? Not much. HTC doesn't want to be the same as motorola, so in order to preserve a competitive advantage, you try to make your GUI better AND don't feedback your gui changes back to your competition.
Then why don't they just compete by trying to make better hardware than their competitors? Android in its native form is perfectly fine, IMO, but the hardware on all the handsets is seriously lacking in quality.
OLED screens that only have a perceived 3xx*2xx resolution instead of the 800x480 they should have and can't be read properly in the sun... creaking, flimsy, cheap feeling keyboards and D-Pads (I'm looking at you, Droid!), CRAPPY CRAPPY CRAPPY cameras, horribly inaccurate capacitive touchscreens (and that actually includes the iPhone!)...
I'm more or less satisfied with my Milestone, but I'd really love a working camera (the one in there right now takes blurry color combinations rather than photos) and a keyboard that doesn't feel like you're pressing on a cracker. Far more important than a few little UI tweaks, IMO...
They already have a perfectly good OS - now the hardware just needs to catch up.
Javascript is built into the browser, yet we have no problems turning that off, do we? :)
I just use Remote Desktop... resizes windows for smaller-than-host screens automatically.
Now on a Mac, no idea...
Satisfied customers tell their friends. Fanboys not only tell their friends, but also try to convert the whole Internet to their way of thinking and tell anyone with a different opinion that they're too dumb to recognize that the product/company they're a fanboy of is incredibly, incredibly awesome...
They ARE choosing your morals for you. Smoking is allowed, tits aren't...
It's true - my sticking to Android is more out of principle than because the actual experience is better...
In my experience (limited to the Milestone...), Android is:
-Less stable
-Glitchier
-Slower
-UI lags
These things don't really bother me, and not having to own anything made by Apple (as well as having a resolution far higher than the iPhone's measly 480x320) is a pretty good reason to stick to Android... however, I can definitely see why prettty much everyone else prefers the iPhone.
Is this really the reason most "normal" people want higher resolution displays? I always thought it was about more room...
Even looking at the 12" XGA TFT I'm typing on right now, I can't say it looks bad (even though I can see the single pixels and the fonts are stair-stepped) - I just want a higher resolution (anyone know a 1400x1050 drop-in replacement screen with digitizer for an X41T?) so that I can open more stuff side by side. Or is this more for design/image based stuff and less for the usual coding/browsing/porn? :P
If the fonts are too small, I just move closer to the screen... same thing with mobile phones. Right now I've got a Milestone, which has pretty much the highest resolution screen available at the time for a smartphone, and I still want more, because the screen still doesn't have enough pixels to display web sites at the size I want it to (really really really small)... Wake me when we hit WXGA on phones... :)
PLEASE tell me where to find a setting on Windows 7 that allows me to set the DPI to _LESS_ than 100%. Please, please, please!
You're aware that you can fit 3 or 4 windows side by side on 2560x1600, right? You can even tile 6 of 'em and still have an area of ~800x800 for each window... So instead of the quadruplehead 1280x1024 setup some people used to have, they can now use a dual 2560x1600 setup.
I've been working this way at home for ages (albeit only on WSXGA+ and FullHD screens - my home/hobby budget doesn't cut it for a pair of 30-inchers), and it's increased my productivity immensely. Even now, as I'm typing this on a 12" XGA TFT, I've got Firefox taking up 2/3 of the screen, and Pidgin has the last 1/3. It's just nicer to have more information at a glance...
Or maybe they just put their heads down so they wouldn't be seen on the photo some jackass photographer was taking for some magazine that doesn't interest them the slightest bit?
Srsly? :O
Those things drain under 10W if you're careful with your settings and how you use it, and with an 85Wh battery that works out to more than 8 hours of runtime...
Or are you running with 100% screen brightness, WWAN on and the original 6-cell battery from when you first got the machine half a decade ago? :P
Let me guesss... T61 with discrete graphics? That would explain the two hour battery life, although you should be getting at least 3 or 4 with a 9cell.
Try a T61 with Intel graphics and you'll be looking at runtimes closer to 6 or 7 hours :)
With a T400 you sould be able to hit 9 hours without problems...
Take a look at machines that compete with MacBook(Pro)s price-wise... they're getting the same battery life with removable batteries. Take the Thinkpad X200/201 or T400, for instance - get one of those configured with an LED backlight and an SSD, and you're looking at idle/office power consumptions of under 7W (even lower on X2xxs models).
With the 85+Wh (the newest ones are 94Wh) batteries available, that translates to 10+ hours of battery life, and 7-10 hours of browsing and light processor loads... AND you have the option of carrying an additional battery, doubling your effective runtime. Not bad if you're on a 10+ hour flight and were planning on playing some games or watching HD video...
IIRC HP and FSC have machines that'll do these runtimes as well.. you just have to spend a little more and actually know how to configure them. For everyone else, there's Macs... :)
Exactly. I don't see why you would invest in a BDXL burner and 100GB discs when you could probably buy 10 2TB SATA hard drives and an eSATA/USB/Firewire dock for the same amount...
Now if the discs came in capacities beyond or close to the maximum available hard drive capacities, and the price per TB was less than 15% of that of hard drives, I'd be a bit more interested. Until then, I'll just keep buying hard drives with the biggest capacity available and swapping them out.
Many GPS's exist in the form of 3G Modem/GPS combo cards/chips. The Ericsson F3507g in my Thinkpad is a good example...
Just remember... not everyone is as big a fan of touch interaction as you seem to be.
Capacitive touchscreens may be YOUR ideal input method, but that doesn't mean they're good for everyone.
Me? I prefer to leave my hands on a keyboard, moving my index finger and thumbs to trackpoint buttons when I need to, and am able to fly all over my 2xWUXGA mixing setup with minimal effort. With an accurate trackpoint and decently set up keyboard shortcuts, no other method stands a chance.
You seem to prefer pinching, swiping and multitouch-rotating your way across everything, which is fine with me. Notice how I haven't called you dense once ;)
As for your hate on keyboard shortcuts: How many "real" pieces of gear can do what Cubase/Logic does? How many have THAT much functionality? In order to access all of that, you're looking at either context menus, buttons everywhere (most DAWs do this, and because there are so many of them, they're usually tiny) or keyboard shortcuts.
Take away the keyboard shortcuts, and every time you want to open the inserts/EQ/sends for channel so-and-so you'll have to do your zoom-pinch-drag-scroll-rotate thing :P
As for the bluetooth keyboard... might as well go with the touchscreen for the DAW, then ;)
Put a 40", 2560x1600 touchscreen in front of me and it might be usable (mostly for the mixer... tracking, well, can't really imagine using touch for that). 10" XGA iPad screen, no keyboard shortcuts? Meh...
I know, but 1. it's proprietary and 2. it was very late to the game...