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HP rolls out Mini 5103 business netbook with optional touchscreen, SSD (Engadget)

Aug 5th 2010 5:12PM Did anyone else notice that they offer FreeDOS as an option?

That made my day.

webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks (video) (Engadget)

May 17th 2010 9:35AM Dude, learn to read.

They used the image that comes with the SDK, *not* the one that is for the phone, the SDK image has always been x86 because it's meant to run on a virtualizer (VirtualBox), not on an ARM emulator. What they did was take it out of the virtual drive and hack it into a real hard drive.

Audiophilleo 1 USB audio to S/PDIF converter is really high-end, really expensive (Engadget)

Apr 30th 2010 1:59AM @pgruebele

Yes it does, but not at all in digital-to-digital conversion, only in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog.

No hard feelings though, you're like some kind of natural selection for rich uneducated people, and as such I think I even like you :-)

Poseidon floating power plant features wind turbines, location for Waterworld II (Engadget)

Apr 29th 2010 9:42PM "should hopefully stay right-side-up even in the most perfect of storms"

Isn't it the unperfect storms what cause problems?

Sony produces 7.4-inch OLED display for professionals, prices it accordingly (Engadget)

Apr 13th 2010 3:11PM @BenThereDidThat "However, I do find issue with parts being made in Mexico."

As a Mexican industrial engineer, I do find issue with this "issue you found".

WarGames 'Shall we play a game?' computer for sale; credit cards at DEFCON 1 (video) (Engadget)

Apr 13th 2010 1:09PM @Captain Caveman "War games 2 was a horrible horrible movie."

RLY? I loved War Games 2.
See it as a movie on it's own, not as the 2nd part of War Games.

Mitsubishi's upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine (Engadget)

Feb 19th 2010 11:23PM @ColinMcGraw

I call BS on those scientific studies. I used to think that 720p was enough on my humble 40" LCD, but I had never bothered to actually see the pixels (I had seen pixelation in games and grainy blockiness in HD channels, but I dismissed them as AA errors and low bandwidth respectively). Not too long ago, I actually loaded an all-black image with one white pixel through the VGA connection at the panel's native resolution, and man, those pixels are HUGE, I can see their square shape from 3 meters away. They're responsible for pretty much every artifact I've seen on that TV!

So yes, we need higher resolutions. Perhaps we do need better dynamic ranges and higher color depths before resolution, but we still need more resolution.

Sungworld's Android MID fights the future (Engadget)

Jan 24th 2010 3:49AM @CJisohsocool Why internal storage?

Internal storage sucks hard, what they need to put in all portable devices are SDXC slots, or for low-end things like this even SDHC would do.
This is too low-end anyway, ARM9? Seriously?

Steve Ballmer's shocking autograph of MacBook Pro caught on video (Engadget)

Jan 23rd 2010 4:57AM @Simon Seize
Not every Greek Mythology course has hot chicks in it... :-(

Wilson Electronics Sleek signal booster reviewed: surprise, it works! (Engadget)

Jan 23rd 2010 4:52AM But you can get one without the "1". It just won't work.

Guts that actually work cost money to manufacture, you know?