Dell has an awesome deal on LG‘s 20.1″ wide LCD monitor: W2042TQ-BF. The price at Dell is $129.99 but with the coupon code (1Z829VM32T983V) you can bring that down to just $117. With free shipping. Nice! (more…)
Joshua over at Engadget has gotten his hands on a real Meizu M8. The stuff he likes about the M8:
Build quality is “actually pretty decent” even though it’s mostly plastic. That’s a good start. I’m guessing it’ll be lighter than the iPhone.
Removable battery is “quite large”. Very nice. The battery is removable so you won’t have to be worrying whether you brought the power adapter (even though it’s tiny) and where you can find a power socket.
Impressive Software “Quite snappy” software with style and function that is “really kind of impressive”. Well if Meizu copied the aesthetics of iPhone’s OS without all the solid underpinnings I would think it could run pretty quickly. I would wait to see if the OS is reliable though.
The M8 is an iPhone rip: hardware and software. It’s a very good rip. Let’s see how Apple responds. It’ll be interesting. There are many more pictures over at Engadget.
Apple‘s iPhone can be had without a contract. Just walk into an Apple Store, fork over $599 and you’ll be set with an 8GB iPhone. Too easy? Then walk into an AT&T store. You’ll need to be an existing AT&T customer. You’re also limited to just one.
What does this mean? Are you on T-Mobile or travel abroad frequently and want to use an iPhone? You still have to unlock it since it is technically locked to AT&T’s service. I’m guessing Apple will give you that unlock code. After unlocking the iPhone you can stick your SIM card of choice and use the iPhone anywhere there’s a GSM network. Finally.
“Want to be real? Get a PC.” That’s the message (paraphrased of course) Microsoft wants you to get. Microsoft’s latest ad stars a “real person” named Lauren. She’s on a budget: $1000. And she wants a 17″ notebook PC, speed and a comfortable keyboard. Lauren gets to keep it if she finds it.
She goes into an Apple Store and finds out that the only notebook that’s under $1000 is a 13.3″. Little does she know it’s last-generation, not aluminum, and quite underpowered too. To get the 17″ MacBook Pro she’ll need to double her budget. “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.”
She gets a HP Pavilion something for just $699.99. She got just what she wanted. If you want style, if you want a notebook made of a single aluminum block, if you want Apple, you’ll need to spend a lot more. About three times more. But people that buy Macs would say the same thing: “I got just what I wanted.” We all want different things. You just need the money to pay for it.
Check out the video. It’s a clever way of saying: “Macs are expensive. Want to be real? Get a PC.” Check out Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunters” site for more information.
CPU: Intel Atom N280
HDD: 120GB
Availability: April 2009
Price: NT$18,000 – 20,000 (around US$530 – $600)
ASUS has decided to add an optical drive to its netbook and call it the Eee PC E1004DN. An updated Intel Atom N280 powers the unit, which comes with a 120GB HDD around mid-April 2009. Price? Mid-$500. It’s interesting to see Billy Joel on the screen. Lawyers will probably be calling ASUS real soon.
