Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 5:18 am. 0 comments
I’m beginning to think there’s a Tablet PC fairy smiling down on me. I previously posted that if you want my attention right now you’ll post about the touchscreen-enabled portables, and lo and behold people do. The object of my lusts remains Lenovo’s X60t, despite the apparent lack of customisation options on their UK site, and so it’s good to see TabletPC2’s Review Tzar Linda Epstein award the MultiTouch version of it her coveted “Editors Choice”; Marc Orchant’s first-impressions are similarly stellar, and lest you think it’s only the pen-faithful who are enchanted along come I4U to say:
“Without any stretch of the imagination, the X60 could easily be a favourite of many large IT departments and tablet PC enthusiasts” I4U Review
No surprise, then, that I’ve already been on to Lenovo’s PR people and am on the waiting list for a review unit.
The other piece of tabletty-goodness is that my good bud Ewdi (who got married yesterday - congratulations Mr Ewdi and Mrs Ewdi!) sent me over a Samsung Q1 UMPC to use while my tc1100 continues to suffer. It’s the first time I’ve had my hands on one, and while passive touchscreens take some getting used to when you’re more familiar with active ones it’s nonetheless an awesome little gadget. Having read Steve’s ultra-handy guide to setting up a streaming multi-room audio system I’ve now got another thing on my to-do list. Perhaps I’ll couple that up with trying out Windows Home Server, since I got accepted onto the beta test for it.
Of course, no blog entry would be complete without my traditional hat-tip to Mike Cane, who I’m coming to consider as my spiritual creepy-cousin. He’s been playing with a Q1 too, and I’m glad to hear that he’s suitably impressed. Given Mike’s general attitude toward, well, life, that’s high praise indeed.
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 11:57 am. 5 comments
It’s funny what catches people’s attention these days. There’s been a lot written about information overload and how we process the ever-increasing amounts of data thrust before us, but who would’ve thought that in the space of just a few days we’d have two examples of how best to grab bloggers’ attention.
First off is Robert Scoble, now firmly ensconced in his new role as “Sir Mix-a-lot” of the blogosphere. For all his high-falutin talk of best-new-site this and that, turns out all you need to do to get into his link blog is post a picture of a cute cat. Meanwhile everybody’s favourite crotchety uncle, Mike Cane, reveals himself to be a quivering, paranoid wreck with a curious “I will screw him in the ass” obsession, apparently.
Reminds me of a piece of spam-filter navigating prose so beautiful that I kept it myself:
“Dude, this is also unenviable, because you might be facing a girl who has all sorts of baggage and she needs to unload it somehow. The project is a collaboration to create an original anime and participants will share in the profits. If you do like it, look at what you found out. All I could think of was the round, firm globes of her megaboobsand ass, and my thoughts were totally scrambled as she licked her glossy lips. Destroy target creature. Do not strap the ‘Groupware’ albatross around your neck! Pantheon High”If I only had super powers. Die nun auftauchenden Karten finde ich unter dem Blickwinkel auch nicht schlecht”
Reasonable advice not to strap that pesky ‘Groupware’ albatross around your neck, though I’d go one stage further and say you shouldn’t attach large birds to any part of your body. Just a safety precaution.
Right now, if you want my attention you’ll post about Tablet PCs. My trusty tc1100 appears to be giving up the ghost, or more specifically the graphics card has decided that on most reboots I’m more interested in seeing red blotches than my desktop. So it’s time to invest in a new PC, and what better than a rinky-dink convertible tablet. The Lenovo X60t is a stunner; shame the UK site doesn’t let you customise. That’s a deal-breaker.
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 12:08 pm. 2 comments
This poor blog has been neglected recently, what with Bulldog Broadband being tardy with my connection, but I’m back online now and raring to go. It looks like while I’ve been missing in action other people have been getting new toys, as my good friend Judie over at Gear Diary has just posted some photos of her Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC, ordered in the final, gasping throws of 2006 and now in her hopefully-not-too-sweaty little hands.
It’s all hitting a tad too close-to-home, I’m afraid, as my trusty tc1100 is showing signs of vaguely imminent hardware failure (of the graphics card, fact-felchers) and I’m a little anxious that all of a sudden it’ll be time to go computer shopping with nary a pound, dollar or yen to my name.
And why am I currently broke? Well, it has a lot to do with the new contents of my garage: a Smart ForFour Brabus.
177bhp of turbocharged loveliness, oh yes! Expect a review sometime soon, once I’ve managed to get this crazed grin off my face