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mini: The Stupidest Review Yet

February 2nd, 2005 Greg Smith 8 comments

This Mac mini review, I can’t figure out if it’s a serious review or a joke.

…its sleek look comes at the expense of the parallel port, serial ports, the PS/2 ports and the drive bays… did I forget to mention that the Mini has no PCI slots either? And no floppy disk drive? Well, no wonder they got the unit to be so small… or I could grab an equally stylish, full-featured eMachine at the gas station with a bag of chips for less than half the Mini’s price, with the added benefit of being able to run Windows XP. Decisions, decisions… The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds

I admit to being an Apple Fan Boy, so my opinion might be a little biased. But it’s so close to completely missing the point, it must be a joke.

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The Sony Clie NR70V Dies

November 30th, 2003 Greg Smith 1 comment

After over a year of loyal service, my Clie NR70V no longer functions properly. I noticed this weekend that the screen was cracked near the bottom corner. Not sure how this happened as I don’t recall dropping it recently, although I have dropped it many times. I could live with it becasue it’s not very noticable but the digitizer no longer works.

The NR70V came out May 31st 2002. I bought one locally as soon as a store had one. It was my 5th PDA. My 1st was a orginal Palm Pilot. I bought it on eBay (my first eBay purchase that I paid way to much for) and I dropped it on a metal floor after 1 week. My 2nd was a Palm II, 3rd a Palm IIIxe. I may have broken the screen on one of them and the other one had problems from dropping it. In either case I was just looking for an excuse to replace them. My 4th PDA was a Handspring Color Visor. Nothing was wrong with it except it was big and clunky compared to the newest handhelds. I think I covered them all.

Sony has been the most innovative for years now. The NR70V was a great machine and although I had been dying to replace it with a Palm OS 5 machine I just haven’t seen anything worth it. The UX50 is nice but I never use the keyboard and would rather have the tablet form factor. Since I had to replace it I went with the Palm Tungsten T3.

The only problem with it is it doesn’t have WiFi. It does however have bluetooth and a tablet mode (virtual graffiti). I already have a bluetooth cell phone and mouse. The Sony’s have some cool stuff but there not worth the extra coupla of hundred dollars. 

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