I like AMD’s definition of the netbook better than Intel’s.
- 4 GB of RAM
- Powerful CPU
- 768 vertical lines of resolution
- RADEON 4225
But their price ($509) is out to lunch. An i3 Based 14″ notebook is just a few bucks more.
Notebookcheck: Acer Aspire 1551 product page up on sites
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iPhone 4 Fails Drop Test? – Fudzilla
13 06 2010Doing a drop test on an empty case does not simulate how a phone will react to a drop. The internals absorb energy. Also, the glass weighs next to nothing. Its hard to imagine it cracking like this after a 3.5 foot drop.
My 3G fell down a flight of stairs more than once – it has no visible cracks.
I call BS on this one. They have a great story, but in a day and age when everyone and their dog owns a device capable of recording video – why didn’t they film the tests? It looks like they crushed it with a bowling ball or stepped on it. But they are probably seeing lots of traffic to their website!
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Pocket-lint: iPad arcade cabinet closer to reality – Pocket-lint
13 06 2010Where do I get one? Seems like a pretty good business idea if you ask me. It would sell like crazy IMO. I’d buy an iPad just for retro gaming!
Apple need to create a DirectPlay-like API for iOS (maybe it already exists?)
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Acer announces the Aspire One 533 – Pocket-lint
13 06 2010People still buy these? How is this model better/different than last year’s model? The Atom CPU is slow, and unless you shop carefully for a 6-cell battery model, it will deliver crappy battery life.
Still slow, still low resolution, still expensive for what you get.
Less expensive ARM based solutions, or more expensive CULV solutions are better options in my opinion.
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TechSpot: Asus Eee PC 1201K spotted, uses AMD Geode processor
13 06 2010AMD still makes the Geode? Wow. Talk about flying under the radar.
Asus Eee PC 1201K spotted, uses AMD Geode processor – TechSpot News.
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BSN: Apple Increasingly Preaching to the Choir
13 06 2010I can’t argue with this article. Even an iPhone lover like me sees no reason to upgrade to the iPhone 4. I grabbed a slightly used 3Gs to upgrade my 3G instead – it cost me half as much to make the upgrade and it immediately fixed my biggest issue with the 3G, its pokey speed.
Of the iPhone 4′s updates, the high ISO sensitivity camera is probably the biggest feature that I can see value in. But $800 is a big price to pay for a camera phone upgrade. You can get a decent dSLR for that much.
The faster CPU is nice too. But using the 3Gs, I don’t find myself waiting for apps. It is very snappy.
I don’t care about multitasking – I have not missed it in three years of iPhone use. Windows Phone 7 omits multitasking, Microsoft have gone from a duplicating the desktop on a phone mentality to designing a feature set that makes sense on a phone. Like Microsoft, I think Apple’s original judgement on this feature was correct.
Facetime is unfinished if it can’t use 3G for video calls. My iMac and MacBook Pro both have webcams. I don’t travel without my notebook.
The high resolution display is nice, but I found the old one just fine for reading. Retina Display makes a great bullet point for a spec sheet in the increasingly competitive smartphone market.
iPhone 4: Apple Increasingly Preaching to the Choir – Bright Side Of News.
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iPhone 4 – What Doesn’t It Do?
8 06 2010Did I hear you ask what Apple’s latest wonder phone can’t do? Here are a few answers that matter to me:
- Tie into an online ecosystem to extend a user’s session/data into the cloud. If these devices are the future, we need a way to store and access our media in the cloud. I would be fine paying for MobileMe if it had online media storage for iTMS purchased audio and video. Right now, I get most of what MobileMe offers from Google (free) and Flickr ($25).
- Double capacity from the previous model – we are stuck at 32 GB for now. Maybe those new high capacity DRAM chips are still too scarce. I was really looking forward to this.
- Allow videocalls – the kind that have been popular throughout the world for at least five years now. Videocalling was already old news when the film ‘Lost in Translation’ came out in 2003 and featured Japanese teens making video calls. They’ll get it right eventually, but not every network is as spotty as AT&T.
- Flash… LOL. Who cares about Flash? Not me.
This refresh makes it pretty easy for me to skip until the next revision, and I’ll get the new iOS 4 either way. Sure, iPhone 4 has a lot of neat features too:
- Nicer form factor – thinner, better materials.
- Better screen – officially retina pleasing.
- Better battery – I’ll take an extra hour of talk time.
- Faster CPU – is it as big a jump as the leap from 3G to 3Gs?
- Way better camera – back illuminated CMOS and flash = win.
- Gyroscope – will get put to good use by developers (games).
But at $800 without a contract, those new features address problems that I personally did not have with the old design.
I love my iPhone. After three years on iPhone there is little chance I’ll switch to Android. But I won’t run out to get the iPhone 4 either. It is pretty though…
Apple Canada – iPhone 4 – Video calls, multitasking, HD video, and more.
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Definitely Not a Netbook
7 06 2010You could make the case that the first gen Alienware M11x was a netbook with a big powerful GPU but not so the second gen. According to Engadget new M11x notebooks are inbound tomorrow equipped with your choice of iCore processors up to and including the mighty i7.
That’s a lot of grunt for an 11″ notebook.
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Fidgit: 11 ways Alpha Protocol is better than Mass Effect 2 | Fidgit
7 06 2010I am not the only person that really likes Alpha Protocol. How it ranks compared to Mass Effect 2 is irrelevant in my opinion, they both stand tall on their own merits.
It also runs great on a notebook! In my case the notebook in question is a 2.8 Ghz C2D with a Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT.
11 ways Alpha Protocol is better than Mass Effect 2 | Fidgit.
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Bethesda’s Spankological Protocol: Towards a Bigger and Better Obsidian RPG?
6 06 2010After playing the first 10 minutes of Sega published, Obsidian developed Alpha Protocol I shut down the game, and booted back into OSX. I prefer to spend as little time as possible in Windows – only anticipated games lure me in. Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol is such a game. The first impression it gave me was a bad one.
- Clunky graphics (faces are good though)
- Too many mini games
- Really dumb enemies
- Extremely poor loot drops
But after a few days I returned to it and discovered its better points.
- Excellent voice acting
- Superb writing
- A big compelling story with lots of branches
- A variety of ways to play the game (stealth, melee, small arms, explosives)
- An optimized engine that runs super smooth on a 9600m GT (shocking!)
- Very good soundtrack
- Proper RPG character and inventory management
Obsidian are also handling the Fallout 3 expansion/sequel, New Vegas. My hope is that Bethesda can save Obsidian from themselves. Yes, Obsidian counts among its staff many of the great contributors to the Fallout series.
While they have made some interesting RPGs (Knights of the Old Republic 2, Neverwinter Knights 2, Alpha Protocol), they also demonstrate a singular ability to bite off way more than they can chew. This leaves them with hard choices as deadlines near often leaving their most ambitious ideas largely unimplemented or unfinished and buggy.
Bethesda is a good chaperone – in my opinion a better one than Sega, who lacks a clear understanding of what makes a great western RPG. If Alpha Protocol – a very good game – is what a Sega/Obsidian partnership brings us, then I have no doubt that New Vegas will be great.
DailyTech – Fallout: New Vegas Collectors Edition, Gameplay, and Launch Date Revealed.
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