Games On The iPad: Here’s A Thought
Yesterday, Apple revealed a much hyped tablet PC, which apparently runs all current iPhone apps right out of the box. With a pixel doubler, if you want it, even.
Unimpressive as that may sound, this holds the potential to alleviate pixel shaders to great effect. Think 3D iPad games which run in hi-res, full detail [...]
Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons.
There are four buttons1:
Back
Context menu
Home
Search
While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. When in the browser, “back” goes [...]
LG X110 Netbook Mini-Review
I recently acquired an LG X110 netbook. It’s basically a 10” mini notebook with everything1 that entails; full keyboard, trackpad, the lot. Because of the small form factor, the price is as low as it gets for a full-featured portable.
At 10” we’re really talking a small computer. If you cover it in a fine film, [...]
Through The Looking Glass, Or How My Great Macbook Adventure Was All Too Brief
I had heard of it before. I had even seen the wonder for myself. The 15” unibody Macbook Pro. Cut from a single piece of aluminum, ornamented with unicorn horn and cooled only by dodo tears. It was a one of a kind machine, and no other laptop in the world could compare. If I [...]
Unibody Macbook Pro 15 Mini-Review
Peeps who follow me on Twitter may have picked up the fact that my 6 month laptop hunt ended with me purchasing a 15 inch Macbook Pro. Sure, it’s the price of two used Toyotas duct-taped together, but it’s also carved from a single piece of aluminum, and the keyboard is chiseled from unicorn horn.
The [...]
The Quest For A Sturdy Laptop
A coworker and myself are looking for laptops in the “desktop replacement” class. That means fairly fast computers sporting plenty of RAM and dedicated graphics cards. That means prices in the 1500 ranges. These are all Fisherprice plastic concoctions, however, and therein lies the problem. Can it really be true, that only Apple makes truly [...]
Synology DS 107+ (Network Attached Storage) Mini-Review
A network attached storage, or NAS, is a micro-computer that sits somewhere you’re not. You access it as you would any other network drive, and as such, it’s simply a storage solution. Plug it into your wireless router, and you have wireless access.
I bought myself a 107+ and a 1TB SATA drive. Connection of the [...]