Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Laptops Laptops take great leap forward "Notebooks had long accounted for less than 20 percent of the worldwide PC sales mix. But notebooks broke the 20 percent mark last year and over the last several quarters have crept up to nearly 24 percent, according to IDC." Sounds to me like good news for Apple. Incidentally my wife just received a Gateway PC laptop through work. It's a decent machine and the price was right (free as long as she works there), but it's no iBook. My upgraded PowerBook is still going strong although I'm probably going to use MacOS X 10.1's upcoming arrival as a good excuse to overhaul my machine's hard drive set up. Things could definitely be a little better organized. That, and I'd still like to max out the RAM. 9:54:00 AM     Extreme IT Stories Linux plus recycled hardware equals serious savings Managed to forget my work keys this morning so I had to turn around as soon as I got here and run home to get them. That was moderately annoying and sure enough, my keys were right where I always leave them. I also discovered this morning that I had somehow managed to hose a bunch of my MacOS X system preferences (probably something to do with a timed out restart initiated by my installation of Dialpad) and had to redo those as well. Helped one of the PC users in the building set up TrueSync for his StarTac mobile phone with built in digital organizer. That definitely seems like the wave of the future to me. Why have a phone and a PDA when you can have one that is both. 9:40:00 AM

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