Laptops
You’ll never guess where I’m calling from
Thursday, April 19th, 2007So here I sit, writing a blog post in a most interesting fashion. I’m typing these words into a browser displayed on a NatureTech Note-170, a device that closely resembles a laptop, but isn’t — there’s no hard drive, RAM, or CD/DVD drive. The Note-170 is a Sun Ray client.
Sun’s Sun Ray thin-client platform has […]
Nerd News Today; 4/6
Friday, April 6th, 2007IRS has ‘tracking tech’ on its notebooks. Maybe. Love it when they try and manipulate the press. Some budding journalist spills a story a day or so ago showing that the IRS has lost about 500 notebooks to loss or theft over the last 3.5 years. So today, there are stories based on hurriedly-produced IRS […]
REVIEW: Gateway ‘Workstation Notebook’ M685-E
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Another link back to a new SMB IT review on the Gateway M685-E. I really like Gateway’s M255-E as a business traveling workhorse. That’s a 15-inch Core 2 Duo jobbie with a great price. The M685-E is a 17-inch number with a great look and loads of hardware muscle, but with a feature set and […]
Preview of the FlipStart micro PC
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Just banged this out for InfoWorld; a preview of Vulcan’s FlipStart mini-PC. The idea is to be as portable as a phone but as useful as a notebook. Soon as something gets smaller it suddenly scores huge cool points, but as I’m holding the thing, I must say: I have serious doubts.
This thing is the […]