Posts tagged as:

MacBook

Faceoff: Apple Macbook v. Lenovo ThinkPad T400 v. Dell Precision M2400

April 22, 2009

My old ThinkPad T43 is dead and I have been shopping for a new laptop. I value three things above all: portability, durability, and performance. I take my laptops everywhere, so they need to be thin and light. That means they also take a lot of abuse. And I like to keep my laptops for [...]

Read the full article →

Death of a ThinkPad

April 17, 2009

I am sad to report that my ThinkPad has died. Or rather it is in the midst of its dying throes at the moment. The hard drive is crunching away like a pepper grinder while I attempt to nuke the remaining data before recycling it.
I am hard on my laptops. I took my ThinkPad everywhere, [...]

Read the full article →

Macs are awfully tempting

July 3, 2008

We bought my wife a Macbook a couple of weeks ago after she finally agreed that her broken-screened, dead-USB, no-battery laptop was nearly unusable. (Most of those conditions were my fault, albeit by accident.) So we picked up a $1,099 white Macbook.
My wife is not a technophobe, but she is no geek, either. She was [...]

Read the full article →

iPhone 3G . . . blah blah blah

June 12, 2008

The internet is abuzz with news of the iPhone 3G, the most powerful feature of which seems to be a price tag that finally brings the iPhone into direct competition with other smartphones. I am not giving up my BlackBerry Pearl any time soon, though.
What I want to know is when is Apple going to [...]

Read the full article →