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Huh. How about that?
What does the 4 Meg flash drive in the Nano portend for the future of Apple's low-end computers (Mini and iBook)?
Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think
Back to the harddrive vs flash debate. I fully expect the low end of Apple’s products to become flash based in the near future. I also expect Intel’s new, low power mobile chips (code named Yonah I believe) to arrive in the same time frame. And in two years I have a feeling that Jobs will announce an Intel-flash iBook that will be the thinest laptop ever made boasting the best battery life of any current machine. And when that happens expect the industry to scramble just like it is doing now after the release of the nano.
Ooh, let's hope so. Can the flash iBook be black, like my Nano?
eta: re: the Nano - Apple has yet to reveal sales numbers, but
“Customers are basically doing back flips over this thing,” Gene Munster, senior research analyst with Piper Jaffray, told MacCentral. “People see the ads and they see it on the Web, but until they actually have one in there hand they just don’t get it.”
Munster contacted 20 Apple retail locations and found that all stores were sold out of the 4GB black iPod nano, some stores were sold out of the 4GB white models and none of the stores were sold out of the 2GB models.
FTR - I "got it" before I held a Nano. In fact, I didn't even see a Nano up close until I opened up my Nano box. OTOH, I have yet to do a backflip.
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I can't do a backflip. Can I still have a Nano?
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There hand. There castle.
Ok, let's start with, can I actually post?
Great. Next question: Does anyone else have problems with Panther (both Safari and Firefox) and LiveJournal? Every few days LJ pages change sizes, such that I have to scroll horizontally in order to read each line. Last time, Daniel fixed it by, I think, View Maximize Screen. Today, that trick sure worked for the horizontal problem. But then it would not allow me to scroll all the way to the bottom of an entry to post a comment.
Is this an LJ thing, or is it more likely that someone is screwing with my computer when I am not looking?
Computer desk for the lazy: [link]
Allows you to use a desktop computer while sitting in bed.
Allows you to use a desktop computer while sitting in bed.
Me likee space-saving aspects of that design. Would be useful in many situations.
See, but that's for sitting up in bed. When I saw your link, I was picturing a monitor suspended above my head so I could lie down in bed and type up. Heh.
A friend gave me a Sony SVR-2000 Tivo box. I have no wish to actually purchase the tivo service (nor do I have a landline to utilize). I can't seem to figure out how to bypass the phone set-up to be able to use the machine as a plain digital recorder. Google isn't giving me any help on that either. Anyone here have a suggestion?
