No, it’s got nothing to do with the recent controversy involving Brad “frogboy” Wardell, CEO of Stardock. If you’re here for more of such gossip, then there’s nothing to read. There’s a (semi-) happy ending by the way.
Nope. This is my own screw-up involving Elemental.
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There’s really nothing I can add here besides the all the great things touted by the big name blogs and the people over at notebookreview forums. So go read those first.
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My head has gone crazy with the idea of putting an internal WWAN card in my recently acquired Alienware M11x the minute I noticed the SIM slot on top of the SD card slot and the fact that on the BIOS screen, there is an option to enable or disable the “Internal WWAN”. So the best place to search for such stuff would be Google notebookreview.com forums. It is definitely the prime place to search and ask for help regarding all notebook matters. There are specific sections dedicated for each notebook manufacturer. There’s even a specific place for the M11x.
I’ve nailed it down to a few things:
Well, it wasn’t easy, but I managed to get it all working!
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I love my MacBook but OSX isn’t the life-changing operating system that I seem to hear everyone extoll. After the shine and gloss has been marred by wear-and-tear, it feels just like any other. As OS is only as good as it’s applications after all, as remarkably exemplified by the newly rebranded iOS. Of course, it was a marked improvement over Windows XP, which I’m still using on my workstation and has to freaking DIE. However, Windows 7 brought about many changes that puts its usability on par or sometimes better than OSX. If only there were some way to mash these 2 OSes together..
Anyway, one of the things I mainly do on my machine is playing games, right after surfing and videos. Most of my games are not compiled for OSX, especially the more hyped, AAA games. The ones that are mostly requires a re-purchase, which I am definitely not willing to do. I mean I’ll pay for porting, but I won’t pay for the whole development twice. I bought Parallels and bootcamp-ed my MacBook in order to run these games, and ended up bootcamp-ing more. Once it’s on Windows, I don’t want to reboot just to get back to OSX to play my games. I’ll just stay there. But the problem is that the power management on Windows isn’t as good as the ones on OSX. I found that I want a laptop that is powerful enough for me to run my games (so no Intel integrated BS), yet has the 7-hour rated battery life of my MacBook when doing everything else.
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I can afford to, but I won’t. I’ll be missing the world’s premier football event, but I have to take a stand. In order to make my voice heard, I have to him them in a language they understand.
I have always maintained my belief that the most evil companies are telcos. Exorbitant rates for roaming, data and especially SMS have fueled this belief. Oh, don’t get me started on data roaming. You wanna throw away money fast? You don’t gamble, you go to a foreign land and start using 3G data roaming. Your rate of expenditure will be faster that way.
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Look TUAW. I do like your blog. I subscribe to you in my Google Reader and read (almost) every article. It’s one of the few places where I can get great news on Apple hardware, software and basically anything that’s pertaining to the fruit company.
However, when you post articles like this, it just reeks too much of ignorance.
Let me go through the steps Steven Sande has done and try to provide him with some advice.
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For getting this trashy talentless pop starlet’s song in my head.
“Don’t stop, make it pop, DJ blow my speakers up…”
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I was looking into how I could further shrink my play-and-work area. I had a 19″ monitor for my desktop PC and a 32″ LCD TV attached to my PS3 and Wii. The easy answer would be to attach my PC to the LCD TV, since it had a VGA port at the back. But I didn’t quite like that. A VGA port? Am I gaming in 2000 or 2010? And the resolution of the LCD TV was a paltry 1366×768 for a total of 1,049,088 pixels. Even my 19″ LCD monitor had a better resolution of 1280×1024 (1,310,720 pixels). Combine that with a 32″ diagonal-length screen, it was definitely an eye-strain to use, unless I’m sitting about 3 to 5 metres away. I typically sit 30 to 50 centimetres away from my LCD monitor, which is normal (but probably unhealthy) eye-distance for using a desktop PC or laptop on a typical computer desk.
So the LCD TV is definitely unfeasible. One thing I had to combine was my PC, PS3 and Wii to one monitor, with each having its own audio and video input requirements.
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Google. The number that became a company, that became a search engine, that became the best search engine on the internet, that became the definition of search, that is in the business of knowing you. And it’s putting every effort in getting to know you and your habits.
