Oh, life is sweet when a gadget freak like me finds out about a device as cool as this. Take a look at the video I posted to YouTube and it tells you a lot about Fujitsu’s new super mega ultra proto portable, the U810. Its almost identical to the U1010 with one major exception; Core 2 Duo. Yes. Using an Ultra Low Power version of their new chip, the A110, the new U810 has actual battery life and guts! Prices have also come down. Look to pay US$999-1099 for one. The cost difference can mostly be attributed to OS version.
I strongly suggest getting it with XP and not Vista. STRONGLY.
Okay, so not quite back yet. I have some wrangling to do with the domain, but for all intents and purposes, I’m reopening the venerable mobile gear site. The original site ran from 2000 to 2006 and at its greatest peak drew nearly 250,000 monthly readers from around the world. Right now, MoboDojo yields around 1,100 and my love of mobile technology is so strong I just can’t ignore it. I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to let me know if I’m doing things right.
Though I acquired the 701c before I got the Mac Classic, I had stars in my eyes from the miniscule Macintosh. I’m going to rectify that now via this piece. For those of you who don’t know, the IBM ThinkPad 701c is not a new machine, and, true to my nature, its a laptop. Its a special laptop, though, as it is unique among lappys. What makes it unique is its “Butterfly” keyboard. You see, the keyboard is wider than the laptop is, and thats not magic.
It performs its trick via some very clever mechanical machinations. As you lift the lid of the lappy it actuates a gear which causes the two halves of the keyboard to move outward and join together. It works because the engineers at IBM were very, very cool. To see it in action, check out this YouTube video.
I guess, now that a week has passed, that I should mention something about Apple’s Super Jumbo iPod Show. Sure, they replaced the iPod Nano with a fat baby version of the iPod Video and they bumped the iPod up to 80GB and 160GB versions and renamed it iPod Classic, but is the real news the iPod Touch?
Sure, its an iPhone without the phone or email parts, but all Apple could come up with was an 8GB and 16GB solid state models? They made the ultrathick iPod Classic 160GB! They can’t stick a slim 30-60GB hard drive into an iPod Touch case and make it a little thicker? Maybe its because they’re charging too much. At $300-400 each, its almost as much as an iPhone.
Oh, but wait! At the end of the Greatest Show On Earth, Jobs announced that he was killing the anemic iPhone 4GB model and cutting the 8GB model’s price by $200 to make it $399. So now the choice is either n 8GB iPod Touch or an 8GB iPhone. This certainly pissed off a lot of early adopters, though. Stock prices dropped on the announcement of the price adjustment.
Apple blew the computer industry wide open with the Macintosh in 1984 by delivering an all-in-one system that was compact and easy to use. Six years later they introduced the Mac Classic, a 68k based system running at 8MHz and packed with 1MB of RAM and a spacious 40MB hard drive. This system, the Mac Classic, is the one that I just picked up.
Not only did I get the computer, but also the original box! The only thing I don’t have is that cute little square one-button mouse. It came with System 7.0.1 already installed and has a selection of applications installed, including Microsoft Word! By any modern scale, this thing is slow, but I so love old gear, I don’t care.
Now all I need is some SCSI gear to get it upgraded
I’m super pissed. I’ve generally loved Palm since day one back in the 90’s. I’ve had scores of Palm devices from a Palm IIvx to the T|X I use now and I have always preferred them over any other handheld device platform. Imagine my joy, then, when Palm announced their Foleo mobile companion. Imagine how crushed I am now that Ed Colligan, President, CEO, and biggest imbecile on Earth at the moment, has announced the cancellation of the project. This just a mere week after it was announced that Foleo would be on time (okay, two days before the end of Summer, but still within the time frame they set). Now all we have to look forward to is the Centro and an uncertain future for Palm. Sad, Ed. Very sad.
Wer're in the holiday season now and 2008 is rapidly coming to a close. Will electronic sales go limp or get happy? Can Apple keep the fervor for the iPhone 3G in motion or will it, indeed, call for fewer of the hot handsets to be made? Only time will tell, and of course, The Dojo!
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