Apple launched the iPad and it was pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting. Depending on what model you buy it’s either a giant iPod touch or a giant iPhone, and I agree with Fraser Speirs – it’s the future of general-purpose computing devices. And that makes me so sad. I touched on the reason [...]
A couple of progress updates on things I’ve written about previously. First up, my ‘MacBook Mini’ is coming along excellently. I’ve been using it at work and to write some short stories, the battery life is brilliant and the keyboard is nearly as good as the one I use with my iMac. I’ve got speaker/headphone [...]
I really, really hoped that Apple would announce a ‘MacBook Mini’ – a Mac OS X netbook – at the MacWorld conference this month. They didn’t, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I already own the first-generation netbook, Asus’ Eee PC 701, which I installed Ubuntu on before I’d even got [...]
Prior to my current day job I spent just over a year working at one of Nokia’s outsourced call centres, first doing general support (how to use the phone and explaining that only the network can get it unlocked) and then technical support (mostly supporting Nokia PC sync software, and some other horrors). I’m interested [...]
Somewhat late, here’s the run-down on what went wrong with our big upgrade. The executive summary is: very little. Saturday’s hardware upgrades went reasonably well, although we did discover that the hardware just doesn’t like 2GB DIMMs, and caused a minor panic by forgetting to activate the second disk in the BIOS. The RAM issue [...]
I’m on the train to London now, using the internet thanks to National Express including it for free on their trains. I’d be online anyway, since I can always use my phone as a modem (as an aside, that, plus 3G support, are all that’s stopping me from getting an iPhone when my T-Mobile contract [...]
Sometimes, this industry confuses me. For example, HP’s DL140, which is a perfectly nice 1u rack server, costs just over £600 (including VAT – we’re not VAT registered) here at Insight. On that same page you can see the cost of adding in a second matching processor. Just under £600. By their logic, the entire [...]
