Remember the Acer Ferrari laptop that debuted last year and looked more like something Fisher Price might produce, and with Ferrari stickers all over it? And the competing Asus Lamborghini which was essentially the same thing, but in yellow? Well, it turns out that Acer is still at this game,...
The big swath of plastic below the keyboard (you know, the palmrest area) on my Thinkpad R61e now squeaks when I put my right hand on it, making the whole thing feel filmsy and cheap. This is bothersome. Legendary Thinkpad (IBM/Lenovo/whatever) engineering appears to have gone the way of the...
Hey hey, it's time for another laptop review! This time around it's the Lenovo Thinkpad R61e, the Chevrolet Cavalier of Thinkpads. Actually, it's not a terrible piece of equipment. In fact, the case is fantastic and the keyboard has excellent tactility. The rest of the componentry (and design) borders somewhere...
So tonight I'm using Layla's Samsung Q1. I'm reminded how awesome this form factor is. But, you'll also notice how short this post is. Save me, HTC Shift. Or Q1 Ultra. Whatever. Anything with a keyboard....
I've been using the Alienware Aurora m9700 for practically a year now and I've come to the conclusion that it's just too damned big. I admit—this was pretty obvious when I first got the machine. But I figured I'd give it a shot for a few months and would try...
So, I've had this Alienware Aurora m9700 now for just over two months—and for the most part, the damned thing has been useless. Here's why. It's got an aboslutely brilliant screen on it. WUXGA: 1920x1200, and it's clear and bright and everything you'd like in a nice display. The only...
Doesn't that open tooltip make you want to move your mouse over the icon and make the damned thing go away?...
That big. The machine on the right is the Fujitsu T4010D I've been borrowing. The monstrosity on the left is the Alienware. The picture doesn't even make the size too obvious. I really wish I had a picture that could show just how ginormous this thing is. I almost torched...
Fourth in the series of laptops provided by my office (provided I exercise them thoroughly and file lots of bugs) is the Alienware Aurora m9700. Unlike the trim portables I've had in the past, the m9700 is a beast of a machine, and actually isn't really supposed to be terribly...
Last night I posted about all the assfaced spam being posted to my journal1. The picture I posted was of spam oozing out of a ThinkPad's optical drive...which was funny. What was funnier (or not) was that when I got to work today, I found that my laptop bag smelled...
This video of a kitten playing with Apple's Frontrow is officially too cute not to post. For the record, Media Center blows Frontrow out of the water—but it's no competition for the feline....
Some of you may have been following that I get tablets from the office on which to test Vista. The first of these was the Motion LE1600 and after that, I had the HP tc4200. Most recently, I've been using the Fujitsu T4010D tablet. The T4000 series is Fujitsu's mid-level...
I snapped the image at right earlier tonight while at the Bellevue Square "Holy Crap, The Mall Has a Website!" Mall. Every damn time I've walked past this sign I've immediately thought it was advertising a room for charging batteries—the image looks like a battery, and the text looks like,...
In the same vein as nearly every other technology purchase I consider, I'm going to talk a bit today about some cool new piece of hardware, elicit comments and suggestions, and then sit on the idea for a while. The subject, in this case, is the Fujitsu P1500D convertible tablet....
Last you may have heard, I've been borrowing a Motion Computing LE1600 slate tablet. Well, my six-week trial period was over last Friday and I gave the unit up. But since I was such a good reviewer, the team that loans these out decided to give me another—in this case,...
As I mentioned earlier, I'm borrowing a Motion Computing LE1600 slate tablet. It's a damned cool device, and my only gripe so far has been that the keyboard/stand thing (pictured at right) doesn't really work too well on a lap...which, oddly, is exactly how I'm using the machine right now....
As part of my job, I'm forced to live with pieces of harware like the Motion Computing LE1600 slate portable PC. Oh yes, it's difficult work. Somebody has to do it. Just so there's absolutely no confusion whatsoever: this thing is damned cool. Wow. The one I've got comes completely...
