Yes, I’ve done it. I bought a Mac. A Mac Mini to be precise. I have thought about buying one for quite a while, more than a year. The reasons for buying one before were that they are small, quiet and Unix compliant but now I also realized I want to develop applications for IPhone and for doing that I need two things: Read Post ›
I have talked a bit about netbooks and I will in posts to come so I thought it could be a good idea to explain what a netbook is in case it’s unclear to anyone and to be sure we’re talking about the same thing.
Today I tested a Packard Bell Easy Note BG45-U-300. After the smaller models in the Panasonic Toughbook series this is the only other laptop I know of that has a touchpad in the shape of a circle.
What are they thinking???!!!
The wait for Dell Latitude E4200 is over. I’ve been reloading this page a couple of times per day lately to see if the price has comes up, and now it has. The prices start at £899 ex VAT and shipping for the simplest configuration, that is £1,113.90 with VAT paid and delivery.
I am very curious to what the price will be. ChrunchGear has heard $1300 which in that case probably means £1300 in the UK. Pretty expensive. The spec though, is exactly what I am looking for in a laptop if I was to buy one today.
- 12.1″ Widescreen WXGA 1280×800, same resolution as I have on my Sony Vaio. I think this is a good resolution for this size(my Vaio is 13.3″)
- Intel Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage(ULV) Processor.
- 1 GB Dual Channel DD3 Memory, 800MHz, more can of course be added.
- UltraPerfomrance Solid State Drive up to 64GB or Solid State Drive up to 128 GB
- Loads of connectivity options (I don’t mean optional)
- Weight 2.2 lbs/1.0 kg. Perfect!
- Battery life up to 19 hours
hen I was in a UK Vodafone shop querying about their mobile broadband and said I would use it for Linux, the shop assistant said that it might work but it would in that case require some effort. Vodafone officially support Windows and Mac OS but I knew that the Huawei E169 works with Linux so I couldn’t think of a reason why the Huawei E170 or Huawei E172 from Vodafone wouldn’t.
I got myself the package and the thing is, it works brilliantly and is really easy to set up!
My Creative Zen Stone Plus which I was quite happy with is starting to fail on me. There seem to be a glitch in the headphone jack which is a bit odd since I haven’t been careless with it. While browsing for a new one I stumbled upon an article from a Norwegian website that writes about a new mp3 player that was shown by DTT Docomo at the Wireless Japan Expo i Tokyo. This mp3 player is controlled by eye movement.
It clearly has not reach production state yet.
Read more on NTT DOCOMO’s website.
(Via anythingbutipod)
I’ve had my Eee for a few days now and just tried to run Eclipse on it. For fun as an experiment, to see if it works. I will probably never do any Java developement on this tiny machine but it does work, without problems although I haven’t tried any project of size. Anyway, here’s what it looks like. I kept some common views open so you can see how that looks like but hid the toolbar, with the toolbar it got a bit too cramped. In the second screenshot the appearance is set to the excellent Extended VS Presentation plugin.
Check out the specs of this little nugget, the Asus Eee PC 701:
- 7″ screen
- 0.92kg
- built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g
- 4 GB solid-state disk
- 512 MB RAM
- ~ £ 200
Now that’s a neat kit! It’s not a power house but well sufficient for web surfing and text editing. Needless to say, I want one! Unfortunately it’s doesn’t seem available in the UK yet but it’s possible to pre-order in some places, like Clove for example.
You’ll find the full spec and details here.
For a really nice video review, go to Unwired.
