Posts by SockRolid

Originally Posted by SolipsismX  I believe the greater good would be to donate openly and encourage others follow suit either in money and/or time. Just by their actions celebrities can get others to react but when you're...

Feeble attempt at yet more Verizon lock-in. My Verizon-using friends say that Verizon has always been the King of Lock-In. First by storing all your contact info on their servers back in the dumb-phone days. Making it much harder to...

Originally Posted by AppleInsider  ... Intel chief Rani Borkar said that the chipmaker had designed the line with notebooks and tablets in mind ...   Oh now Intel gets it.  Laptop computers have been around...

Originally Posted by AppleInsider  Microsoft spent two years reworking its failed Windows Slate PC efforts in order to more effectively compete with Apple's iPad, which has been eating its way into both consumer and...

Interesting concept. Seems like a perfect technology for iWatch.

Originally Posted by rgmenke  Hopefully Microsoft has learned and will build better hardware. Xbox's to date have been POS's. Previous versions were loud and croaked because they ran so hot.    Ah yes....

Looks like NT to me.  As in "Nice Try." Typical Microsoft mash-up-features-into-a-product approach.   Microsoft: "The early bird gets the worm."   Apple: "The second mouse gets the cheese."

Originally Posted by jfc1138  Yes, were it to get an IGZO display that sips power they could back off on the available power if the goal was to lighten it up along the lines of the iPad mini and the iPhone...

Originally Posted by pedromartins  Put the thing (iPad) run OSX 10.9 when docked to the thunderbolt display, for example. Bang, the hybrids from Google and Microsoft are dead.   They're already dead.  No use...

Yahoo!: "Here's a check for $1.1 billion.  Take it or leave it."   Tumblr: "Awe. Some.  Where do we sign?"   Microsoft: "Wait!  We'll give you $10 billion.  Are we too...