I’m doing some dev work on an ASUS Zenbook running Ubuntu that I am carrying around. I have a Macbook Pro that I carry around for productivity and photography apps.…
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I need to be able to do some Linux-based dev work while mobile. I’ve limped along using OSX and also using VirtualBox, but neither of them are really optimal, notably…
Read the “RPIforum”:http://elinux.org/RPi_Software outline carefully. No boot rom, no boot loader. Instead: The boards do not include NAND or NOR storage – everything is on the SD card, which has…
“Rich”:www.tongfamily.com asked me what setup I am using — here is what I have so far * Zotac IONITX-S motherboard with Intel Atom D525 proc Nivida ION 512MB GPU. You…
“Microsoft’s biggest miss”:http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss is a nice discussion of another issue for the company, the slippage in relevance of Office. I can’t speak to the whole market, but my document composition…
In the late 80s, IBM attempted to reassert control over the PC hardware platform with the introduction of the PS/2 and its proprietary “MicroChannel”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture architecture. The cloners fought back, customers…
Time for our biennial system build exercise. We built two systems over the last two weeks. While I still use my MacBook Pro for 95% of my productivity work, the…
My Macbook had a motherboard failure two weeks ago. Both USB ports on left side blown, wifi chipset blown. (Blame Tekkcharge but that is another discussion). Discovered this at about…
“They seem to have built the PS3 of netbooks” via Platformonomics – Sony and the Joy of Overpriced Netbooks.
Amazon.com: Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home) Blue: Computers & PC Hardware. — supposed to have great battery…
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Details. Pretty interesting price point. If i was starting a company, why wouldn’t I equip everyone with these and ask them to use google docs and…
Clever Uses: Magnets Kill the Cell Phone Speaker Buzz — an old but effective idea