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HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?
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ScuttleMonkey
on Friday March 21, @03:49PM
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?"
Re:Heavyweights? (Score:4, Insightful)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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.
Sheldon
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...
Not an Eee PC, it's a tablet (Score:3, Informative)
WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
What the heck does this mean, anyway? And no, I don't want to read the article.
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.
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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.
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).
Re:He really wants a EEE PC. (Score:4, Insightful)
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...
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.
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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