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Loading ...So who do you find to be the most annoying fanboys and why?
Right so we were so right about every detail of the Mini Insprion. We said nothing about it coming with a WWAN / 3G modem but we were wrong it does come with 3G. A lot of people seem to have been disappointed with the price of the Mini Inspiron as the base model was expected to cost $299 but actually costs $399. Here is what you get a various price points;
Dell Mini Inspiron Standard Edition
$349
Dell Mini Inspiron Social Edition
$399
Dell Mini Inspiron XP Edition
$449
Of course their is news that this netbook will be subsidised if you go with a contract fromVodafone. So will we see hip youngsters carrying this machine, no but Geeks and nerds maybe. This machine is up on dells websites now if you are interested. Thanks to Bill who E-Mailed us this story.
Well The new advert that Microsoft is doing as an answer to the mac v pc adverts is out and it is rather an odd advert. At the moment at least, it does not make much sense to me. The way I see it is that most people have no choice but to use Microsoft Windows and those that have a choice, either use windows anyway or choose something else. If they use something else they have a good reason for it and if they use windows they have a good reason for it, maybe for gaming, work or whatever. So my question is why does Microsoft need to advertise given that those using other operating systems are unlikely to change to windows and the rest are already using windows anyway for one reason or another?
Now I don’t use windows myself but from where I’m standing It looks to me that windows is suffering on the Netbook platforms, they should be looking to do something in that market and with the Chinese coming out with new processor architectures for these machines which only support Linux, microsoft should be slightly worried. Who’s going to buy a microsoft netbook for $300 when they can get a linux one with firefox and openoffice for $50? X86 processors aren’t looking to have a great future on low cost Netbooks but dragon processors which are much cheaper might just have a chance. Anyway without further ado here is the advert;
Reports are appearing all over the web about the functionality of the new Google Chrome Browser and it’s been getting very good reviews, many people have said that the browser is fast and low on memory usage. Some people have had some problems with it though, problems such as vertical scrolling on laptops and the browsers in ability to execute Java (a client Side scripting language). These Issue will of course be solved with time but the biggest issue for now seems to be the inability to scroll back up web pages, Still I recommend that you give it a go;
http://google.com/chrome
What are your experiences?
It seems that Microsoft has had a lot of trouble convincing people to make the switch to Vista. I’m a Linux man myself but I gave Vista a short go (before I nuked it and installed Linux), when I got a new desktop and must say that I was surprised to find that all of the rumours about it reducing speedy hardware to a snails pace were true. I think that Windows XP still remains the most stable version of Windows that has ever existed, what do you think? Have you made the change? Do you think Microsoft will pull a rabbit out of a their hat and sort this mess out?