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The missing piece of the iPad puzzle

March 25, 2010
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Ian Fogg on why “Cloud” is the Missing Ingredient for a “Third Device” iPad Strategy: “For iPad to really fly, preferences, usernames, passwords, and content should transfer automatically across the different devices that Apple intends consumers to use together: PC, phone, and iPad. Apple should use a consumer cloud to do it. Consumers should not [...]

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There’s these great cut-down computers, right…

November 21, 2009

Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle: “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary computer — is liberating. That’s the opportunity, and that’s the idea [...]

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Is this the end of the road for Hackintosh netbooks?

November 1, 2009

Oh dear. According to OS X Daily Apple is effectively killing off support for Intel’s Atom processor in OS X 10.6.2. The biggest consequence of this is, obviously, that anyone who wants to roll their own netbook running OS X is going to have to stick to either 10.5 or 10.6.1 – or, for the [...]

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Microsoft drops European Windows plan, so where next for upgrades?

August 2, 2009

PC Advisor: “It’s unclear how Microsoft will deal with customers who have already pre-ordered Windows 7E and paid the upgrade price but were told they would receive a full-package edition. Ironically, the users who may be most affected by the return of two-tier pricing are those who use Macs, but want to run Windows in [...]

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Ballmer predicts Windows PC 2010 = Macintosh 2008

July 31, 2009

More from the analyst’s meeting with Steve Ballmer: “Ballmer told analysts there would be a new class of “ultra-thin” PCs” — or high-end netbooks –coming this year that would combine the light weight of netbooks with high-power and high-performance of traditional PCs. ‘When I talk to many of our customers, they say ‘I love the [...]

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Chrome OS is not a threat to Windows « GartenBlog

July 8, 2009

“Launching a new PC OS is not easy even if your target is a cloud. Targeting netbooks in 2010 isn’t the answer either. As I’ve pointed out, netbook are laptops with a pivotal axis of price. We’re seeing netbooks with 12″ screens, full sized keyboards and 300gb of storage. Does anyone think that netbooks aren’t [...]

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