Like just about every other computer maker, Toshibahas a netbook on the way. But its new premium ultraportable Portégé R600, announced this week, is the real lightweight. Read my first look at Tom's Hardware - with a photo of the truly tiny motherboard. This is the successor to the tiny R500 that Steve Ballmer taunted Guy Kawasaki with at MIX this year. With the SSD and without the 75g DVD drive...
The Blackberry Storm is RIM’s first touch-screen device, and it is designed to appeal to a consumer market that’s crazy about the iPhone. It has the largest screen of any Blackberry to date, and to make...long-term readers will remember my long-text posts from my New Zealand trip (when I had to take the typing on a BlackBerry disclaimer off when people complained there were no spelling mistakes!)
...from Las Vegas, and kitted out with a mix of digital home entertainment and home automation gear. HP’s Brian Burch showed me around what he calls “the home of now, not the future”. Read the rest at Tom's Guide Speaking personally, the big difference between our house and this one is that everything is plugged in and working, and that the place is tidy - and indeed all the walls are painted. I do...
...think you'll prefer something cooler, or with a thousand cores, or maybe a petabyte of storage... I wasn't sure if the Tom's Hardware readership was interested in high-end data centres, but I got a lot of comments on the HP story (and only one of them was 'will it blend?'). http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/servers-hp-ibm,1937.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hp-server-web,1943.html
... The Via C7-M isn't a powerhouse. But on a system this size, how much performance are you going to need? Short of free, it's always easy to say the price is a little high but compare it to the OQO with the same processor to see how quickly the price for a really portable machine is going down. And if you want to know exactly why I like the keyboard so much, see my preview over at Tom's Hardware...
...I picked the interesting (foodhacking, Violet Blue on constructing online sexuality) over the professionally interesting (understanding debugging, open source hardware). There's a big writeup over on Tom's Hardware of what we did see... From nanoscale processing to measuring and simulating crowds, from phone calls inside your browser with Adobe’s Flash-based Pacifica service to Google on your phone...
...Spider Solitaire with a finger rather than a pen and decide that for £600-odd it's far more my kind ofmachine than the Eee. Check out the details of why I say it's more than just a sub-notebook on Tom's Hardware . BT has the XP version with a Geode preocessor for £590 , or bundled with a mouse and USB TV stick for £630,, though it's £800 for the 800MHz Vista version I tested . US pricing is better...
Between CES and MacWorld I got to see lots of neat things last month... My CES top ten for Tom's Guide including the Casio EXILIM Pro EX-F1, a camera that does more with being digital than replicating film The MacBook Air is shiny in both senses but there was something smaller at MacWorld I liked more
My review of this is up at Tom's Hardware. The latest ultramobile PC from OQO really is ultramobile rather than just ultraportable. Not only does it pack a decent processor, 1GB of memory, an 80 or 120GB hard drive and a 5” screen into a 1 pound form factor, the OQO model e2 also has built-in HSDPA connectivity as well as 802.11a, b and g versions of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Differences in HSDPA - and...
...and calculating a route on a powerful server should be faster than doing it on your phone. That's the theory: on our last US trip we checked out Ask GPS and Nokia Maps in practice. My review on Tom's Hardware reminds me of sunny days in Las Vegas and driving through the Cascades looking for espresso huts, taxi drivers in New York and Cincinatti who didn't know where they were going - and how...
