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Here's a powerful, lightweight laptop that's not a Mac: Slim, Fast ThinkPad Proves Big Things Come in Small Packages
Too pricey (eta: $1300) for Vortex, though.
Ultralights aren’t for everyone, but with the ThinkPad X220, Lenovo sure is doing its best to make the case that they can be.
This latest version of its super-slim executive standby is ThinkPad doing everything it does best. Still impossibly portable — at 3.3 pounds despite the bumped-up 12.1-inch, 1366 x 768-pixel display — Lenovo packs in everything a traveling professional (or just about anyone else) is likely to need.
The centerpiece is a new Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor, which upends the middling performance we usually expect from an ultralight. Benchmarks trounce just about everything we’ve tested of late — save for a few recent-vintage high-end machines — and they completely blow historical ultralight benchmarks out of the water, beating most machines with the last-generation chip by 30 to 40 percent.
Okay, so now I have an iTouch. I have a few questions which are probably pretty basic.
Can I synch to my Google contacts? I've set up the Gmail account, and the calendar is synched, but I don't see where I can get contacts.
Also, it says iPod in the top left corner. Can I make it not do that? I don't want it to do that. I know it's an iPod.
It's primarily for media consumption, but I downloaded Words With Friends, just because. Any other apps (that aren't Angry Birds or Plants and Zombies, just because, you know) that are nifty? I'm still leaning on my Android phone as my main pocket computing, but if I have the space and the price is right, why not?
ita, there's one called iBattery that I love because it tells me exactly how much battery I have left, instead of just trying to guess what the teeny battery icon in the top right corner is showing me. IIRC, it's a free app.
Honestly, the one I currently use far too much is Bejeweled ($2.99). Also the 99-cent skee-ball.
But I pretty much use mine for TV at the gym (and in the car; really, it's soothing to put on an episode of a show I've seen a million times before and let it play through the radio -- I don't need to see the video to enjoy it when it's something I've seen a million times before) and music in the car (and internet in bed).
Oh my god, iTunes has an Adult Swim app: [link] I will never be productive again.
ita,
join the club: Pocket Frogs!
yes, you can sync google contacts:
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I have a LOT of apps.
But start here:
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I have some but not a ton of the ones le nubian links to. The others are...more random. Like a calorie and weight tracking one. Or the Couch-to-5K app. Or the "nextbus" app to find out when the bus is coming. Etc. Mint. Sunrise/Sunset (just because I'm curious), okcupid. Seattle Public Library.
iBattery looks nifty.
That's just a weird place to put the Google contact synching. Why would you separate it from the other Google settings? And put it on the computer not the iDevice?
Thanks for the heads up.
And thanks for the list, LeN. I am majorly jealous that I can't run Netflix on my Android. Damn, that would be nifty. But iPod is good.
Is there any digital reader or digital reader software that turns pages automatically. Yes, I am lazy. Please come feed grapes to me while I recline, reading.
Ideally, I could set the page turn frequency by having it calibrate based off of my past page turns in that book. Kinda like a tap function on a drum machine.
If I had automatic page turning, I could knit and read at the same time.
