On this week’s installment of the Digital City podcast, we discuss New York’s bankrupt unemployment system, Circuit City’s liquidation sales, playing around with Windows 7, Apple’s iPhone vs. iPod Touch, and Joey gets some hate mail for his PS3 fanboyism.
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At the risk of beating a dead horse, we dropped by our local Circuit City store this weekend to see if the oft-derided liquidation sales had picked up any stream. Hopefully, a couple of weeks into the CC death spiral, the discounts would ratchet up and we’d finally see …
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Dell's upcoming Mini 10 Netbook.
When 9-inch Netbooks started to replace the original 7-inch models, we got firmly behind that trend. When 10-inch Netbooks started to appear, we declared that we liked them better than the 9-inch versions, but many PC makers didn’t immediately follow suit.
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On this week’s installment of the Digital City podcast, we discuss Steve Jobs’ health problems, CES highlights, airplanes with Wi-Fi, and which video game console is selling the best. Plus, a special remembrance of The Prisoner.
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Everyone has a wire box — that container you toss random wires, plugs and other tech junk into. It’s generally all the useless stuff that you just can’t bring yourself to get rid of just yet. Being in “the biz,” my wire box is actually a set of …
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Still semi-jetlagged from Las Vegas, one of the very first items on our to-do list was to install the now widely available Windows 7 beta on a Netbook.
From off-the-record conversations with PC makers during CES, we heard that Windows 7 played well with systems powered by Intel’s Atom …
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The Prisoner was a 1960's take on surveillance societies, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
We’re saddened to learn that actor/writer/director Patrick McGoohan has died at age 80. His cult favorite TV series, The Prisoner (1967-68), was startlingly forward-thinking in its imaginative use of technology, presaging …
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Mmmm, delicious frozen steaks…
We’re only a couple of weeks into the new year, but we’ve already run into what will likely be one of the top 10 weird swag boxes we’ll see in all of 2009.
The fine folks at EA, in an effort to promote the upcoming skateboarding game Skate 2, sent journalists a Styrofoam freezer box with some frozen Omaha steaks in it, along with a press release and an asset CD (wisely sealed in a ziplock bag).
The tie-in? Well, the words “skate” and “steak” contain the same letters, and the game apparently has a mode called the Hall of Meat in it, so it’s not as random as it seems.
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On this week’s installment of the Digital City podcast, we discuss the big CES show, what high-tech gifts we got for the holidays, and some controversial new and upcoming video games.
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We managed to be among the very first to snag a coveted Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC, so here are a couple of in-the-wild photos, plus some first hands-on impressions.
Despite the small overall size, we found the keyboard fairly eay to use. At first, the lack of a touchpad worried us, but the trackpoint was fast and responsive, and after 15 minutes or so, we got used to navigating with it — a very light tap on the pointing stick will give you a left mouse click.
The 1,600×768 screen has a higher resolution than many 15-inch laptops. Some initial attempts at online video streaming played fine, and the built-in Verizon-powered mobile broadband worked as advertised.
Even with Vista as the operating system, the Vaio seemed to run about as well as any Intel Atom system with XP we’ve used (2GB of RAM and an SSD hard drive help). With Windows 7, purportedly excellent for Netbooks, it would probably fly (relatively speaking).
It’s hard to convey just how small this thing actually is. In the photos below, you’ll see it positively dwarfed by an HP Mini 1000.
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