Posts by N13L5 624 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Apr 2011
why should everybody else suffer just cause you like to wear clothes with small pockets?
Samsung's 5" Galaxy Note passed my pocket test without trouble.
But no, here we go again with people telling others that their personal preference is what everybody should adopt...
silly people.
4.6" isn't even close to 5"...
that was a lame way to try to grab more readers...
Well, I know the 4.3" screen on the Galaxy SII doesn't bother me one bit, it causes neither problems in my pockets, nor in my hands.
But aside from the diagonal measurement, the aspect ratio of the screen makes a huge difference. And here, Apple has been the odd man out with their weird display not conforming to the quite-sensible-for-phones 16x9 ratio.
But with the iPhones little screens, it was merely annoying to watch videos on so far. If this 4.6" screen sticks to Apple's usual aspect ratio, it'll be ridiculously wide and clumsy to handle.
The looks seem nice.
Would be nice if an App-of-the-Week review contained just a little bit of detail on the software beyond looks:
Does it use its own media scanning subsystem, playback subsystem, EQ subsystem etc, or does it rely on android's and solely focuses on fancy graphics?
Will it support M4A coverart, or be a total fail like PowerAmp in that regard?
BTW, there was a guy who posted a small android utility, that does its own media scan, and then enters cover art links into android's database, which the android media scan fails to do.
This works to some degree, but you have to manually run it every time you add new M4A format music.
Note: there are a few players who take care of this, by using their own subsystem instead of Android's default library. So, if it works on your phone, does not mean the problem doesn't exist.
I own PowerAmp, and I boycott it, because the forum is "moderated" and out of 3 perfectly polite posts requesting a statement on M4A cover art support, NONE ever made it onto the forum.
One unrelated Post took 2 weeks before it finally was deigned to be allowed to show up on this so-called support forum. I will not deal with a company that treats their customers like this.
The forum is kept clean of any problems they don't have a good answer to, to avoid people from seeing any weak points.
PowerAmp still doesn't support cover art for iTunes M4A format properly, which is obviously better sound quality than MP3's, so for all its talking about high quality playback and using its own subsystems, rather than relying on Android, it needs to support M4A cover art. Matter of fact, there hasn't been a PowerAmp update in ages, its like they stopped working on it.
Android (up to version 2.3.x) does not support M4A cover art, even though it claims to have support for iTunes music.
On Android's bug tracker, this isn't even regarded a bug fix, but more like a feature request. Partly because a lot of people who failed to understand the problem posted ridiculous "workarounds" like "just convert your files to MP3" and other ideas that completely missed the (simple) point.
My old phone lasted over a week on a charge.
But the people that put the eye on the dollar don't want us to have devices that let us be off grid for more than one day, it would jeopardize their plan for total control.
Smartphones and tablets were not designed to make us more efficient, but designed to be electronic dog leashes, to have us passive and docile engaging in retarded 'social games' like FarmVille etc, keeping us from noticing or thinking about whats really going on around us.
So, there is an unwritten rule that any battery advance must always be countered by one or more power hogging components, like screens with way more pixels than anybody's eyes could ever make out.
Since the 80's, Apple has always been an unreliable and mostly downright nasty business partner to work with...
Just ask American retailers, distributors and licensees.
So no surprise they'd make their suppliers look bad for strategic intrigue or kicks.
What else would you expect from a company owned by a total crook and conniver, who ripped off his best friend and business partner for 90% of his share on their first deal, refused to acknowledge or support his own daughter, never gave anything to charity in his whole life, was a an unstable liar according to CIA records...
What can you really expect?
Of course, some will say: He's rich, while you're still pumping gas at the corner. I guess that's all we look up to now, money is the big golden calf to dance around. Having a spine or maybe honesty or kindness, who cares about that...? He made shiny baubles all his life - woopdidoo
hahaha WP7...?? people are making some, mostly because of M$ giving them a break on their patent trolling as long as they make WP7 stuff... only, nobody buys that shit. <2% market share last time I checked. Good riddance Microsoft...
As for Samsung, at least they actually make stuff, unlike Apple, and they are world leaders in a good number of technologies. I don't much like their support, but I can respect their Chaebol power...
And they rightfully won the Smartphone of the year award with the Galaxy SII, my iPhone sits in a drawer since I got that.
I think Tim Cook is a more reasonable and practical man than Jobs ever was, so we might see all this ridiculous and tiresome litigation recede in favor of more negotiation.
The future still looks questionable, with Apple filing new ridiculously silly patents daily. Prior art and obviousness seems to be lost on the patent office when it comes to software.
Don't see how silly patents on in-app payment buttons, special finger motions and parental spending control should be able to go up against real science stuff like display technology, that actually costs money to research.
We've come to expect so-so hardware from Panasonic on its ruggedized machines ...to the point of annoyance..
Apparently, they continue on that track:
The hard drive is pathetic, but can at least be swapped easily.
Much worse is the exceedingly poor resolution for a 14" screen. Try viewing a full document page on that, which would work great if the resolution was better.
Even on 13" screens most manufacturers have at least the option to get something better.
Missing webcam and cooky keyboard layout will make most people think they are better off buying another laptop and a Peli case to go with it.
Its been exactly the kind of sabotage you'd expect from an M$ placed Trojan Horse.
And they do it so obviously, so in the open, nobody can even believe that its really so.
There are only 2 options, he's either a Trojan or he's the most retarded executive ever.
It looks like Nokia will politely leave all tollbooth's to M$, and be reduced to being Microsoft's version of Foxconn, accepting minimal profit, so M$ can rake it in big.
Just waiting to hear about waves of employee suicides at Nokia too, the way things are going.
If I was Elop, I wouldn't dare walk the streets in Finland for fear of finding myself in a ditch riddled by bullets...
So the elderly you know are just clamoring to be stuck with the same lousy battery life that keeps us permanently hunting for power outlets?
I think this phone would work much better as a feature phone without Android.
I'm saying this even though I'm a happy SGSII user, but really, for my mum, the presence of Android on a phone could not be more irrelevant.
Far better to use up the space in this not-so-small phone for wireless charging just by placing it on her bedside table.
meaning the windows version I already own, not some new app crap I have to pay for a second time... so it would need to be equipped with an intel chip - for windows application compatibility.
Small children are the perfect candidates for fondle slab use, as they aren't ready to use a mouse or keyboard yet, but perfectly able to point directly at things, they can use slabs 100% better than other devices.
My 1 and a half year old uses her mom's android phone to scroll through the lists of music and videos and play back what she likes. Sometimes she drops it, but its a Motorola Defy, which has survived her so far...
Hence I would buy this Toshiba tablet as long as it is backwards compatible, which apparently MS only guarantees on Intel CPU's
People get bamboozled by all the obvious and prior art crap Apple keeps shamelessly patenting, and start to think Apple invented everything... Surprise: there were touch input phones with rounded corners before the iPhone came out. Only they didn't sell well, cause the UI wasn't done well. So, the greatest part of the science about it was to make buttons big enough for your thumbs, and prevent text rendering at less than a certain size.
But Jobs, ever the great showman convinced just about everyone that he invented everything, when really, Apple was more like Blizzard bringing out WoW, they didn't invent much, just polished the user experience of older products much better, made it easier to use, by limiting functionality to what non-geeks can use.
If the iPhone had been round, car manufacturers would have been in serious trouble...
Anyway, welcome Tim Cook and Apple, to maybe, after many decades of ruthless conduct to become a reasonable corporate citizen and more responsible business partner too.
Ask some past or present retailers and licensees what a crappy company Apple has always been to deal with on a day to day basis. Capricious, self serving and unreliable.
There's a little 4 core chip that actually has 5 cores.
One really weak, low power core just to take care of basic operation.
One or more of the powerful cores only get turned on / clocked up if your software needs the extra power.
Further power savings come from these being made on a smaller nanometer scale than last year's chips.
This will take a lot less power than last year's single and dual core chips
And your "Cores are the new Megapixels" is ridiculously far from the truth
Sony is taking too much of the Apple route, without expandable memory, or swappable battery.
The CPU is also last year's chip.. at least the top of the line should have something equivalent to a Tegra 3.
That camera had better be really unbelievably good, cause I see no other possible reason to buy this over a Galaxy SIII or even last year's Galaxy SII.
I refuse to buy an iPhone, because of the battery issue, with my batteries always giving out after one year, and I also like to carry spares when I travel. A spare battery is such a cheap way to make your phone that much more useful.
I agree with other posters who said they hadn't forgiven Sony for its conniving treatment of customers - which isn't limited to that rootkit scandal either, but I still dislike Apple more than Sony :P
But while essentially useful, dual SIMs isn't really that big of a trick to implement.
So I don't see why the only way to get dual SIMs should be in these obviously ho-hum, underspecced, somewhat clunky phones...
Whats the deal, Viewsonic? even Chinese el-cheapo outfits do equal or better than this.
Picked the wrong designs and the wrong manufacturing, or just hoping to make a mint from saving tons of cash on the cheesy hardware spec, while cramming it down the throats of those desperate for the 2 SIM function?
Samsung, can you please build us a decent phone with 2 SIMs, so we don't have to resort to this?
a so-called invention should not receive a patent if its completely obvious...
Airplane Toilet doors had slide to unlock first?
Or was it suitcases?
If you just emulate existing real world features in software, you should receive a warm handshake for being able to recognize the obvious, and then be sent home by your friendly patent officer who'se eyes didn't actually glaze over while he was looking at your patent application.
Patent officers granting software patents should be required to have a minimum of 2 years programming experience, so they can at least recognize humorous applications for what they are: a corporate patent lawyer on a fishing trip...
I think this camera's concept is good, I guess they looked at what people are saying about Sony's Nex 7, and decided to offer a cheaper alternative.
Of course, an M4/3 sensor is not really an alternative to an APC sensor, and I can't tell if the overall package ends up being any smaller than Sony's Nex 7 package, but its certainly cheaper.
Just why did they wanna make this look like an old clunker from granpa's attic?
As far as retro goes, the only useful part of that are manual controls... the rest is kinda ...retarded? Are there really that many people who want a camera that looks like 1987? Does this help against theft, cause it looks like its a worthless old 35mm antique? Do they want to coax 80 year olds into buying a digital camera that will confuse the hell out of them?
Granted, we won't know if the claim holds true till we see samples from dpreview , but its about time somebody tried to improve the state of things for people who find even the NEX cameras with their big lenses too big / valuable for some places they travel to.
Also, Sony has some credibility in that area now, with the NEX5 N outdoing a Nikon D7100 for low light image quality, while Nikon went the other way, releasing those clunky and expensive daylight-only Nikon-1 series snappers...
With all the Apple hype, people seem to have forgotten all about Sony having made pretty cool stuff over many years...
Not disaggreeing that capitalism is a cancer, though second to the cancer of the fiat money system.
But what makes these necessary is the often insufficient or overly loud cooling systems in laptops.
If every laptop was cooled like an Asus G74, I agree, we would not need these pads.
But a load of laptops come with under specified or just poorly designed cooling systems that are desparate for some help.
If you happen to live in a hot climate, you'll end up with your laptop frequently shutting down or simply crashing from over heat. In addition, you'll have the tiny internal fan scream away at max RPM, making it unpleasant to work with, even if its just barely not overheating.
Since I picked up a cheap plastic version of whats shown here, I could work in near silence, cause my laptop's cooling didn't have to struggle anymore.
Its annoying enough to require something thats about the same size of the laptop itself, just to work normally, but I guess that's where the faster-slimmer design doctrine has gotten us.
So, it would be right to complain about the 'make-it-thinner' design trend, rather than a fairly decent solution to the problems.
That is the reason why we seem to almost be asking to be treated like cattle.
Nobody remembers anything, in part, because there's some subconscious faculty in the mind that seems to know the information we are fed is all wrong to begin with, so why store it...
Gaddafi was great to do business with for 30 odd years... then suddenly, he had to go because of things everybody knew he was doing all along. Right... Sure... Mind telling us the real reason? No, sorry, if we told you, we'd have to kill you too.
Delusional would be a good way to put it...
But its also proof of concept that you can get anything repeated in the hall of mirrors that is modern media, if you have enough cash.
A lot of people don't think about method and means of propaganda anymore. Since WWII, the subject seems to be dead, as if propaganda had gone away with the nazis... but its evolved into a greater monster and the lies haven't become any less blatant.
There's really only one news aggregator left, since AP bought Reuters. Find out for yourself who owns that. And guess how easy it is to manipulate the news from that single bottleneck.
But everybody who even comes close to realizing there's something wrong quickly takes the blue pill, hoping to forget by the morning.
lcd screens that size are cheap and would really make this useful.
I guess Wacom didn't want to compete with its own, big and ridiculously priced lcd clunker.
Someone's hopefully going to come in and eat their lunch with a reasonably priced ~$300 tablet thats based on a 10" lcd screen, so your work is more direct.
"That said, it's clear from DisplaySearch's figures that netbook unit shipments will now fall each year through 2017, down to about 9m units that year."
...The falling figures from DisplaySearch are all projections, the actual figures only show growth.
So, well... we know how statistics are always funny, and we know how statistical projections are mostly hilarious. Didn't your parents tell you not to trust any statistic you didn't skew yourself?
yes, for one thing, the title is misleading.
For another, the weird selection makes for a completely skewed comparison. To compare Sony's cheapo camera with Nikon's and Leica's much more expensive cameras is just wrong. For about 100 quid more, the Sony Nex 5N blows them all out of the water. The same goes for taking the cheapest M4/3 model on the market to compare with the Nikon, and then saying "the Nikon's small sensor isn't really an issue, unless you wanna shoot in low light..."
Cause good low light quality beats every crappy little flash you can stick on any of these cameras.
Sure, a truck full of lighting equipment you set up at your dinner or party will almost eliminate the Nikon's issue. Even then a larger sensor is preferrable. If at least, they managed to make the Nikon smaller, but they didn't; even the lenses are clunky.
The bottom line is, the Nikon would be a good deal at 300, but its like twice that. Thats like trying to charge a thousand for a Nikon 5100.
Lastly, I think the whole CSC idea is more of a boon to vendors than to customers. They like it, cause it gives them many more chances to sell extra glass to people who would not normally carry any and don't really need to. There was some Olympus model with an absolutely great, bright lens built in, that beat every single CSC kit lens I've seen. Most people would never need to swap that, and it folded down pretty well too. Forgot the model number though, but its on DPreview.
Funny the Article says Apple and Google have this kill switch too, but thats not nearly the same thing:
Windows 8 is your computer, not your phone. Most people would take exception to M$ removing or adding anything to or from their systems, hence, it will be mere weeks before someone disables this functionality - and makes Windows 8 safe against unauthorized meddling.
Would have liked to know how many USB ports there are, cause unless there's at least 3 of them, you'd be forced to disconnect your mouse to connect most portable optical drives.
I'm also a bit puzzled why your benchmark tests are comparing this i7 model with a bunch of i5 and i3 models.... no surprise its getting the highest performance...
I'll definitely pass out a demerit for the lack of a back-lit for the keyboard, that also doesn't come close to using the width of the case, but I guess they just used the same keyboard in the 13.3 version as they do in the 11 inch.
It is fairly nice to get a 13" 1600x900 screen. A much better working resolution for documents, excel sheets, DAW software and image editing.
For a glorified point+shoot camera that costs way too much, has poor lenses, a small sensor, mediocre workmanship and materials. This thing is not even small... the lenses are clunky, given how small glass and sensor is. There's some Olympus without exchangeable lenses, but the lens it has puts Nikon's entire "1" collection to shame, and it has a bigger sensor behind it to boot.
For less money you can buy a truly great Sony Nex5N or an M4/3 with that excellent new tiny kit zoom
Does anybody realize that Nikon's whole marketing campaign aims straight at people who know nothing about photography or cameras, trying to pull a big chunk of money out of their pocket based on nothing but the Nikon name and a gimmick?
You wanna take pictures at your house with indoor lighting? this camera is not it. Might as well buy an $300 Canon or Lumix and just be happy. If you just wanna take daylight pictures when its nice and bright out, this camera will be fine, but so are 50 other snapper models that cost half as much and sometimes less.
Don't end up with wool over your eyes in photography... The less some company can (or wants to) compete, the more wool they will bring out.
All they are known for is ripping off patients and the government, and make you more sick than you were before. They look at everything to see if they can't classify additional things as deseases, so you can eat more pills, for things that could be taken care off with the right nutrition.
Remember how Coca Cola offered to help fund schools, so long as the planned classes on proper nutrition would be dropped? And so it was done...
ok, where can I sign up to malign my android phone that's never given me any trouble?
Cause I need a smart phone for my 1 year old, she loves her mom's and will not always let her have it, cause she thinks its hers...
And Windphone 7 seems just right with the giant colorful icons... the only major question is if ToddlerLock is available on Windphone 7 yet
sensitive politics for MS...
Can't piss off Intel too much
Can't piss off customers too much either
They might figure some 3rd party outfit will take care of native app compatibility pretty soon, and then Intel can't be mad at them.
My only uses for tablets are extremely limited... so if my kid can't run the old PC version of Rosetta Stone on a windows 8 tablet, I just won't be buying one. I won't be buying into a shiny new app store where I'm supposed to pay for everything again and end up with less functionality in the trade. Its going to the freaking McDonalds of software, following right in Apple's tracks.
I'll also hold off on Windows 8, till someone made a utility to get rid of the Metro UI and give a windows 7 interface option, since I'm pretty happy with that.
I don't know where Synofski gets his usage statistics from, but I think they're leading him astray.
Rarely used functions may only be rarely used because of the high percentage of computer users that use one or two applications and otherwise couldn't find a file on their computer if they wanted to.
For all I know, they should stuff Synofski and Elop in the same pinata sack
A lot of notebook manufacturers rightfully loose trust in their own ability to design something decent, cause what you see on the shelves is mostly crap from an industrial design standpoint.
The funny thing is, while Apple's interpretation of the old Braun design philosophy mainly lives off getting rid of the unnecessary, which is a very very good trait, it doesn't mean in any way that their designs are so good that they couldn't be improved upon.
I really hope laptop manufacturers will start hiring better designers, cause there's no need to be so pathetic to copy Apple.
Samsung did hire Georgio Armani to come up with a great phone design, but then they used his design for the original Galaxy S, which was about to expire, rather than the new model.
This whole deal looks like what Hollywood does: someone's sword and sandal movie does well in the cinema, suddenly everybody wants to make sword and sandal movies.
well, putting windoze on mac books would theoretically be a nice idea, but Apple's hardware support for WIndoze is the pits. Their laptops run louder, hotter and slower under windows than under OSX, and they run slower than anything with the same specs from the Windows competition.
Among other things, connect an external hard drive under windows and the whole thing crashes.
So its not really an option. At least Sony still makes their own design, and they have a notebook that weighs the same as the MacBook air, but has a real GPU 1600x900 resolution and even an optical drive. Of course its not as thin, but I couldn't care less about thin, I want functionality at low weight, and Sony packs that in a nice casing made from magnesium alloy and aluminum.
This will run windows properly, and not half arsed like bootcamp does. Bootcamp is full of (probably intended) fail. Lots of hardware things are not supported right, and any MB runs hotter and noisier under Bootcamp. To add insult to injury, given the specific level of hardware installed, it will run more slowly than on other manufacturer's systems with identical components.
So, anyone who runs windows is better off with these "knockoffs" cause at least they work properly with it.
Looks like the Swiss do not wish to turn into a police state, and criminalize everything just to make large international cartels happy.
Reminds me of Obama weighing in, saying he was fully behind the media mogul getting $230,000 per song from the parents of a 14 year old girl who shared ~24 songs a bunch of years ago.
Lets see, maybe if they sell their house, that will pay for one song. for the other 23 songs, the family will be wiped out financially for the rest of their collective lives. Given that this was a full 2 CD's worth, it sounds overly lenient, I think the girl is lucky they didn't cut of her hands as a warning.
Let me think what happens if a 14 year old actually steals 2 physical audio CD's at a store: 10 hours community service and a talking to by the local judge? Fines or fees: none.
Microsoft is paying off anybody and everybody who will sell or say something favorable, including first and foremost the Telcos. I know all the sales people in the shops around here got special training and incentives to sell windphone7 over other options.
And you can't seriously believe Microsoft wouldn't use its bankroll to pay people on the internet to get a favorable word out everywhere they can. This will include bloggers, journalists and the usual nameless forum posters that get hired through online ghost-writer portals at 0.2 cents per word. So you can consider a bunch of the posts here coming from MS instructed ghost writers.
If you recognize how badly Microsoft wants to rebuild the position it had in this space, you'll know they are using all the methods I described and then some.
Of course that won't really sway me, since Ballmer left windows mobile customers out to dry for the better part of a decade, just because he figured he had the market sewn up.
Add to that Nokia, who's known for knee fall after knee fall for Telco's interests and going against customer's interests, like sabotaging skype mobile software release for years.
I'm really in no particular mood to support them. Of course I'm not in much of a mood to support Apple or Google either. Do I think Apple and Google are paying for opinion writers too? No...
Apple doesn't need to, there are hordes of logo enlightened sheep that will write about Apple day and night - for free...
Google is too arrogant to even consider it, they wouldn't even if they needed to, I think.
I'll do one thing, I'll avoid the insane thing I saw some people here say they do, which is basically upgrading their phone to some new 'supposedly, hopefully better' phone after only half a year or one year... That's just wasting money on something where the differences are not nearly enough... that's just either extreme boredom, or some strange kind of addiction.
And while you won't find me buying any Windphone7, I will pick up a Windows 8 tablet, just cause I can run Rosetta Stone on it for my kids, and other regular windows applications. And I think its pretty well guaranteed that someone will produce software that removes those silly tiles and makes it look like Windows 7.
First, Microsoft failed for a decade to make small, needed changes, and now, suddenly they caught a bad case of redesigneritis.
Its a good article.
The majority of Tablets are purely used for consumption. People who actually use them for work exist, but most businesses that benefit from a tablet have had their own rugged, purpose designed tablets, shippers like FedEx, UPS, Warehousing companies and others.
Consumer styled tablets will become free subsidized content selling gizmos pretty soon.
Even the most massive hype doesn't last indefinitely, thankfully.
Right now, we're getting served the early adopter models... you know... early adopters... those guys with the arrows sticking out of their backs.
Some of these Ultrabooks (thinking of a recent Samsung model) have a worse, smaller screen and are basically like skinny netbooks with faster CPUs, and at the same time they are heavier than a Sony VAIO VPC SA model at 1.6kg, which has 1600x900 resolution, optical drive, i7, powerful HD6630M GPU, 3G module and backlit keyboard, and costs less.
Do we really care that much how many millimeters thick they are? I mean sure, I'll always be happy to take a lighter, thinner computer, but not at the cost of essentials.
And when the super skinny units are heavier than a slightly thicker one with more features, I stop caring at all...
But everybody just has to follow Apple, its a mass hysteria like we haven't seen since the crusades?
For one thing, Apple themselves are just copying a Braun designer from last century..
Either way, the design is better than a lot of ugly, amateur-designed, over-styled laptops are. And since Apple machines don't run windows all that well (not optimized, so they run slow and heat up more), I'm glad HP saw fit to put out a laptop with slot-loaded optical drive and a simple, (relatively) clean soap bar shape.
But: are they less noisy now? And did they put better displays back on them again?
I remember the whole sham: First, they put great displays on them, building a reputation, and then they cut cost by starting to install cheap crappy displays a short time later. That was poor. Did they really think a pair of beats headphones was going to make up for the loss of really good screens??
When I really hate something, its all these scumbag manufacturers trying to play little shell-game tricks on their customers.
I'm flattered - since I'm mainly addicted to TheReg because most things here are written with at least a dash of remarkably silly humor :D
And of course, the fact that you guys are large enough to not delete every post you don't like; a quality I find highly admirable and essential. With that same idea of fairness and openness, I don't mind that you can't keep those pro-microsofters on your staff under control ;-)
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to call that article M$ funded hogwash...
"Microsoft makes Nokia competitive"
the N9 could have done at least as badly as windphone7 is still doing in sales, if it hadn't been declared dead on release by Eslob.
There's one argument for Microshuft I'll agree to: we could use the old monopoly mongers to add some competition to the 2 and a half horse race in smartphone operating systems.
Am I going to make a sacrifice for the team and buy one though? Err no.... sorry....
Few people would officially admit to liking Paypal, but after having tried Moneybookers/Skrill recently, I've found out how much worse you can do... I've grown a lot more fond of Paypal since...
I'm wondering with this tenner borrowing business, does that come out of a balance of cash you earlier stored up in your phone or does it get pulled from your bank account?
On another tangent, I've heard a conspiracy theory that the powers that be - err, namely that ominous banking cartel that runs 'everything', want to prepare us for a world with no physical money, so they can much better control us all... If you offend the wrong people somewhere, they can just turn off your access electronically and you're out of commission...
This would look like another step forward on their grand masterplan :P
This is still the spirit of Jobs, take all, give nothing.
Its so hilariously backwards:
1) we won't license our stuff to you, we don't need the money, we want you to get out of the market.
2) we don't want to license your stuff, cause then we might have to cross license with you, so we'd rather just hide.
3) it was our greed that undermined us in the fight against wintel, and we'd prefer to do it like that once more, rather than learn anything.
When you sell your soul to the devil, hell starts creeping in and as soon as the promised success comes, he already comes to get you.
But ultrabooks right now look like skinny netbooks to me, bad resolution, no GPU, limited connectivity.
There are sub-notebooks weighing less with much better features. Ok, so they're not quite as skinny... why should I care about that???
I've never had a problem fitting a sub-notebook in my bag.
If these "ultrabooks" pull even on prices and features, I might think, "ok, its very thin, fine, as long as it doesn't break in half...",
But thinness will never be the reason I buy something... these are computers, not women :P
Apple buyers value style over substance, ease of use over broad functionality, so Air flies off the shelves cause you can impress somebody with it.
Everyone else wants functionality first in a PC. So as long "ultrabooks" offer much less functionality than say a Sony VAIO SA sub-notebook model, yet cost the same or more money, they're won't be moving fast enough to save anybody's balance sheet.
Like that Samsung Ultrabook, Not even a 13.3" screen, bad resolution, no DVD, no GPU, yet it costs 1500 euros. I really don't care that its made out of Duralium, whatever that is, if it looks to me like a super slim netbook with an overblown processor for an amount of money I can invest much more effectively elsewhere.
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