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HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?
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ScuttleMonkey
on Fri Mar 21, 2008 02:49 PM
from the pipe-dreams dept.
from the pipe-dreams dept.
Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the HTC Shift, the newest contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook Air. "As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class. I'm one of the few folks that have been using an early version of the HTC Shift , a smaller screened ultra light tablet with a keyboard and a touch screen which is superior to both offerings in some ways and just released on Amazon.com for $1500 (someone screwed up, this wasn't supposed to happen until next week). This got me thinking: The perfect next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products."
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Heavyweights? (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't that be "lightweights?"
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Perfect? For whom? (Score:2, Insightful)
15-17" monitor
5" attachable monitor
webcam and mic on the front panel
as big as a keyboard as possible in relation to the monitor
swappable battery, dvdrw and >4 usb ports
and wifi
I used one (Score:3, Insightful)
In my mind, if you want a laptop, there are two rifts. Either one that will serve alongside a desktop sibling which will be vastly more powerful, or a desktop replacement.
So either an EeePC or a MacBook Pro/IBM notebook. The HTC is EeePC at nearly the MBP price. Yuck.
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Headline punctuation... (Score:5, Funny)
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Submitter is the one at fault here.
HTC Shift ThinkPad X300 MacBook Air Perfect..... (Score:5, Funny)
I know this is Slashdot and the above statement is probably true but come on, at least pretend like you can speak in complete sentences.
Re:HTC Shift ThinkPad X300 MacBook Air Perfect.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Did no one notice? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm surprised it even made it to the
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Macbook air is FAR more than 2.5 hours... (Score:4, Interesting)
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However, if you seriously don't care about the operating system and can run linux or (worse) windows just as well, then you're stupid if you buy a macbook ai
Re:Macbook air is FAR more than 2.5 hours... (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess what I'm trying to say is: they compare because they think Apple can do better (or offer more choice) in this category. Another thing some Mac users complain about: no Mac desktop that's not a huge dual-processor workstation and doesn't have a built-in display.
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Sigh (Score:2, Offtopic)
A lesson I wish I had learned when I was 20 instead of thinking what I produces would do me any good.
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You don't know that. you could be making more money at a bigger firm if you fit 'the mold'.
I'm not defending it, and certianly what you produce should be the number one issue. I've just been an observer of these kinds of behaviors for a long time.
And by promotion I mean moving up the org chart. People going for C*O positions. Golden parachutes, fat bonus, and having mil+ by 29.
There are people who make more then uppe
Re:Sigh (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe you and the young female executive with the Air could do one of those "I'm a Mac...And I'm a PC" commercials.
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Ugh (Score:2)
toilet paper tube... (Score:4, Informative)
Sure, I understand that small computers have small screens, but my aging ipac has a 640x480 screen the size of a baseball card and fits in my pocket. I take it that people who want small light computers are also blind? A screen that size could be 1400x900 and still be very usable.
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Riiiiight.... (Score:5, Informative)
For the same price I can get an ultraportable (3lbs) Sony VAIO with ~10" screen, real keyboard (only slightly scrunched), 1280x768 screen, and real everything else including optical drive and WAN radio. Heck, I've had two models over 5 years, wishing only for a stronger case and boot-from-USB; I carry it everywhere.
I'm not sure where the author thinks this toy is usable for anything but an overblown cellphone without the phone.
Next...
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I prefer just regular old thinkpads myself.
what i want to see is (Score:2)
Not an Eee PC, it's a tablet (Score:3, Informative)
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"I'll do a quick summery..." (Score:2)
WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
What the heck does this mean, anyway? And no, I don't want to read the article.
Is it really the same class? (Score:2)
I can't think of a single application other than email that can be used efficiently at this resolution. Web browsing is pretty pointless with sites wanting 1024 or more these days. How in the world could you edit photos and videos on something like that? What about playing any games? Word and Excel might work fine, but man, could you imagine having to fight with only being able to see only a couple rows at a time?
What a nightmare. It really sounds more like a con
Fuck HTC (Score:3, Informative)
I bought an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II Rebrand) and it came with the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset that's supposed (and was advertized) to have ATi hardware 3D rendering and hardware video assist. It seems, however, that even though these features were advertised, HTC users weren't given them. Some amateur research says that it's because of a Broadcomm patent lawsuit against Qualcomm with a judgement preventing them from making drivers (but they were allowed to sell what processors were already being made under other contractual obligation).
See this Firehose article. [slashdot.org] The videos on htcclassaction.org demonstrate the issue very well.
this battery thing (Score:2)
Well let me tell you, if you're going to load yourself down with extra batteries (and one supposes, a power supply), an optical drive then it's not that portable anymore either. Maybe you'd be happier with a T61 Thinkpad or a full blown MacBook? Swiss Army Knife isn't the intended purpo
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I'll tell you... it's next to impossible to use one of those "ergonomic" mice with your left hand. As I fall in the 5% category, I just go with the majority however.
Re:He really wants a EEE PC. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:He really wants a EEE PC. (Score:4, Insightful)
Which raises the question of why a fluff piece by this idiot should be posted to Slashdot (or to Tom's Hardware in the first place).
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They have a similar form factor, run Maemo Linux and are great to use.
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Disclaimer: I used to work for that company.
Re:Only machine with a real secure OS (Score:5, Funny)
>>No other operating system on the planet can state that as a medal of honor.
Ah yes, the mind control broadcast towers are working as planned...
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Re:Only machine with a real secure OS (Score:5, Funny)
Put it this way: a really successful remote attack is one which nobody ever learns about, so it's ridiculous to claim that any given operating system has never been exploited. I guarantee that Macs have been cracked at some point in their history. I think it doesn't happen more often because Mac owners don't have anything on them that anyone would want.
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Re:Ontological Argument for the Existence of Explo (Score:3, Insightful)
Yep. Just about as reasonable as the original claim that Macs have never been cracked, huh.
Re:None of these are the "perfect" notebook (Score:4, Funny)
Think holojectors, dude. Three-dimensional holojectors, that's the ticket. Toss that puppy onto a table in front of you and see a beautiful 3-D desktop floating in midair. I know they can do it if they want to
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