I clearly stated that I was talking about the 12" Powerbook, I don't see how you could have missed it. Go over to cnet.com and check out the thin-and-light or ultraportable notebook pages and you will find that many if not most of those machines are thinner than 1.18".
Apple bashing? The story goes into panegyrics over how Apple squeezed so much into the 12" case, despite the fact that the 12" Powerbook is much thicker than many equivalent Windows notebooks. If anything Apple is getting a free ride around here.
You may be right, but I don't envision the AMD chips "trouncing" the P4 in 32-bit mode. The Opterons don't seem to be doing it, so why would the Athlon64? Really, I think most of these predictions are nothing more than wishful thinking.
I do have a point, the Itanium2 has superior performance. I hope AMD's new chips are successful, that will force Intel to lower prices and that's good for all of us.
Intel is charging a premium for the Itanium2 now because the people who need it REALLY need it and have the money to spend. If the AMD chips start making inroads I'm sure Intel will lower prices on the lower-end Itaniums, just like they always have with the Pentium lines.
Intel has a better chip, they don't need FUD. Do a little research over at www.specbench.org and you'll see that the Itanium2 is blowing away anything else out there.
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I have a Centrino-based Acer and it rarely gets even noticeably warm. Intel may have screwed some things up but they got the Pentium-M right.
There seem to be a lot of lemon 7135's around. The first one I got was like yours, it reset all the time and the battery life sucked. I forced Verizon to give me a new one, and although it took them awhile to do so I'm glad I did it. The new one works great, only a couple of resets over a month or so (and no "hard" ones that wipe the memory), and the battery life is much better. Send it back to Kyocera and have them fix it for you, that's not the way it should be working.
Well, to be fair we don't yet know what kind of discounts will be available from the cell providers. They usually give you quite a bit off the phone price when you start up a new service plan.
Also, the N-Gage is "scarred for life" just because you wrote something bad about it on your weblog? Now THAT's funny.
It never fails. Whenever someone points out a feature that you can't get in free software, the response is inevitably "Only an idiot would want that anyway". How tiresome.
Now that anti-aliased fonts and sub-pixel rendering are pretty much standard equipment I don't think decreasing the screen resolution is a very good magnifier. The letters just look like blobs if you blow them up too much. It would be nicer if the magnifier was smart enough to redraw the text it contained at the same resolution but at larger sizes. I don't know if the Windows one does that or not since I am lucky enough to not need this feature (yet).
That's just what I was thinking, the kid probably feels like he'll never be able to go out in public ever again without people pointing and laughing. Hopefully he can keep in mind that Internet fame is a fleeting thing and soon enough everyone will forget all about it, just ask Mahir Cagri if you don't believe me.:-)
Because in the Windows version at least, Thunderbird will actually open links in your default browser instead of always using Mozilla like the old unified Mail component did. I was so glad to finally have that since I always thought Mozilla Mail was the best IMAP client for Windows, but it drove me crazy having to cut-and-paste links instead of being able to just click them.
If they're running Windows they could set up Internet Connection Sharing. That's what I do when I visit my parents. My dad's PC connects to his ISP using the modem, and I bought a cheapo wireless adapter and have his computer share the connection through that to my laptop. It's really easy to set up and works pretty well. That way I can use my laptop at the kitchen table without having to run phone cords all over the place.
Hey, I bet Bill Gates has some money in a Wilshire 6000 index fund. OH MY GOD! That means he now controls IBM, Sun, Red Hat, Intel, ATI, nVidia, etc, etc, etc...
I don't know about other Centrino machines, but on mine the wireless is on a mini-PCI card that's easily accessible. Presumably you could replace it when something faster rolls around, but right now everyplace I go only has 802.11b so that's all I need.
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I clearly stated that I was talking about the 12" Powerbook, I don't see how you could have missed it. Go over to cnet.com and check out the thin-and-light or ultraportable notebook pages and you will find that many if not most of those machines are thinner than 1.18".
How would flying to St. Louis help anything?
Apple bashing? The story goes into panegyrics over how Apple squeezed so much into the 12" case, despite the fact that the 12" Powerbook is much thicker than many equivalent Windows notebooks. If anything Apple is getting a free ride around here.
I was thinking it was for Bostonians, but I like yours bettah!
You may be right, but I don't envision the AMD chips "trouncing" the P4 in 32-bit mode. The Opterons don't seem to be doing it, so why would the Athlon64? Really, I think most of these predictions are nothing more than wishful thinking.
I do have a point, the Itanium2 has superior performance. I hope AMD's new chips are successful, that will force Intel to lower prices and that's good for all of us.
Intel is charging a premium for the Itanium2 now because the people who need it REALLY need it and have the money to spend. If the AMD chips start making inroads I'm sure Intel will lower prices on the lower-end Itaniums, just like they always have with the Pentium lines.
Intel has a better chip, they don't need FUD. Do a little research over at www.specbench.org and you'll see that the Itanium2 is blowing away anything else out there.
I have a Centrino-based Acer and it rarely gets even noticeably warm. Intel may have screwed some things up but they got the Pentium-M right.
I think what used to be called just Flash is now Shockwave Flash, and what used to be called Shockwave is now Shockwave Director. Confusing, isn't it?
There seem to be a lot of lemon 7135's around. The first one I got was like yours, it reset all the time and the battery life sucked. I forced Verizon to give me a new one, and although it took them awhile to do so I'm glad I did it. The new one works great, only a couple of resets over a month or so (and no "hard" ones that wipe the memory), and the battery life is much better. Send it back to Kyocera and have them fix it for you, that's not the way it should be working.
I guess that's why portable CD players never caught on, huh? You never see those around anywhere.
Well, to be fair we don't yet know what kind of discounts will be available from the cell providers. They usually give you quite a bit off the phone price when you start up a new service plan.
Also, the N-Gage is "scarred for life" just because you wrote something bad about it on your weblog? Now THAT's funny.
Excuse me? The sentence you quoted says exactly the same thing as the post to which you replied, so I don't see how you can say it was wrong.
Does this mean that BSD now stands for "Beleaguered Software Distribution"?
It never fails. Whenever someone points out a feature that you can't get in free software, the response is inevitably "Only an idiot would want that anyway". How tiresome.
Now that anti-aliased fonts and sub-pixel rendering are pretty much standard equipment I don't think decreasing the screen resolution is a very good magnifier. The letters just look like blobs if you blow them up too much. It would be nicer if the magnifier was smart enough to redraw the text it contained at the same resolution but at larger sizes. I don't know if the Windows one does that or not since I am lucky enough to not need this feature (yet).
That's just what I was thinking, the kid probably feels like he'll never be able to go out in public ever again without people pointing and laughing. Hopefully he can keep in mind that Internet fame is a fleeting thing and soon enough everyone will forget all about it, just ask Mahir Cagri if you don't believe me. :-)
Because in the Windows version at least, Thunderbird will actually open links in your default browser instead of always using Mozilla like the old unified Mail component did. I was so glad to finally have that since I always thought Mozilla Mail was the best IMAP client for Windows, but it drove me crazy having to cut-and-paste links instead of being able to just click them.
I guess this explains why they all seem to be so bitter and angry all the time. :-)
If they're running Windows they could set up Internet Connection Sharing. That's what I do when I visit my parents. My dad's PC connects to his ISP using the modem, and I bought a cheapo wireless adapter and have his computer share the connection through that to my laptop. It's really easy to set up and works pretty well. That way I can use my laptop at the kitchen table without having to run phone cords all over the place.
I think they posted it to give the Gentoo users an outlet for their pent-up zealotry. Somebody's got to look out for them, you know... :-)
Oh yeah? And why should we believe you, huh? Tell me that!
Hey, I bet Bill Gates has some money in a Wilshire 6000 index fund. OH MY GOD! That means he now controls IBM, Sun, Red Hat, Intel, ATI, nVidia, etc, etc, etc...
I don't know about other Centrino machines, but on mine the wireless is on a mini-PCI card that's easily accessible. Presumably you could replace it when something faster rolls around, but right now everyplace I go only has 802.11b so that's all I need.