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Video: Tegra-based Mobinnova élan running Windows CE rocks our world {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2009 4:03AM here's what I do with my eeePC 1000HD:
* Browse the web
* Use MSN
* Run CLI network tests
I'm fairly confident a Tegra-based Smartbook can do that just as well, if not better than an x86 machine. Bring them on, I say!
Engadget's recession antidote: win an Incase goodie bag! {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2009 12:26PM I think it sucks that you have an 'australian office' but never any competitions for us Aussies :(
Lenovo MRT800 touchscreen PMP unveiled, pities no fool {Engadget}
Apr 5th 2009 10:03PM MRT800?
Quick, somebody needs to photoshop an image of a cross between Mr T and Arnie! :D
Video: The Shimano Di2 electric bike shifter for the paradoxically lazy {Engadget}
Mar 17th 2009 9:44AM correction: Shimano don't make top-notch gear. As with Microsoft, Shimano are in the position they are now because of ubiquity. Nobody new to bikes would know that Crank Bros does a better clipless pedal design than Shimano, but after seeing Shimano on every new bike in the store, they'd just assume it.
Shimano do a wide range of cycling gear. Some of it is really crap, and some of it is really good. If you want the top-notch stuff though, you have to pay through the nose for it. For the same quality, you can get those parts for cheaper (or better at the same price). For example, I got a new track chainring custom made with a custom design and anodising for about a third of the price of a Shimano ring. For half the price of their midrange clipless pedals, I got vastly superior Crank Bros ones.
Their top-of-the-range track cogs all wear way too fast for anybody that spends real time on their bike.
I'm not trying to take anything away from them though - I'm a huge fan of biopace chainrings and indexed "trigger" gear shifting.
Hydraulic drive trains though? Why bother with all that fuss when the chain drive achieves over 98% efficiency?
Putin to Dell: "We don't need help. We are not invalids." {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2009 5:45PM Putin is awesome. I doubt many other world leaders could hand your arse to you three seconds before you started contemplating taking them out.
Atom-powered MSI WindBOX nearly ready to ride your LCD {Engadget}
Jan 26th 2009 11:32AM and what about if I'm already using my VESA mount for an appropriate VESA mounting device? :(
Crapgadget CES, round 6: New Generation Video Game System {Engadget}
Jan 12th 2009 12:09AM 6 Axes? Quick, somebody tell Jack Thompson!
Windows 7 Beta goes public {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2009 8:49PM Vista is as responsible for you not being able to download this as terrorists are for the rising price of your child's education.
(that's not at all)
There's a problem with the download server because everybody in the whole world wanted the file at once. That's all.
Windows 7 Beta goes public {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2009 8:46PM Don't worry - Windows 7 is based on the Windows Vista kernel. In fact, underneath the hood, it's really not all that different - just *better*
Windows 7 Beta goes public {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2009 8:43PM sigh...
Your "excellent and useful programs" that were broken on Vista will almost certainly not work in Win7. This is because these "excellent" programs were hard coded to a kernel version number. When Microsoft bumped from kernel 5.x to 6.x, such programs automatically broke. This is because the people that coded these programs were very silly and did not think ahead to a time when Microsoft would choose to update their Windows Kernel.
Or perhaps they did, and were banking on producing a new version of this software for you to purchase when the afore-mentioned version bump occured. Either way, it's not Vista's fault that your favourite program was poorly coded.
I remember being pretty upset when all my DOS software stopped working when XP came out. You know what I did? I got over it and moved on to the newer, better softwares that were out.
Now, I'm obviously not new to computers, seeing as I remember the bad old days of Win9x, and I definitely use my computer for a lot more than just playing games - composing music in notation form, sequencing music in sequencing programs (Reason, Fruityloops, etc), recording live music/audio, 'photoshopping' and of course, the associated officey type stuff that one finds oneself saddled with no matter how hard we try not to be.
I guess that makes me a Microsoft employee by default, right?
