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Laptop reliability survey: ASUS and Toshiba win, HP fails {Engadget}
Nov 17th 2009 12:43PM I'm pretty glad I just bought a Toshiba :) That said, I concur with the experience I've had with HP - bought my mom one a few years ago and despite barely being used (and gently when used) the screen has suffered that nasty, intermittent blanking problem so well documented for certain HP models.
I'll continue to steer clear of them 'til they prove they can do better.
TiVo's AN0100 802.11n WiFi adapter hits the FCC, stirs up imaginations {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 1:36PM I'm never able to get much better than 10-12Mibps on a clean, low-use 100Mibps switched LAN. My PC is clearly able to do higher rates (to my UNIX box) so that's not the bottleneck. Mike-engadget mentions hard-drive bottlenecks, but even a 5400 RPM IDE drive can beat those rates and they don't vary significantly between zero, one or 2 simultaneous recordings. TiVo to TiVo is about the same as TiVo-PC so my money's on the Network interface or more importantly, the CPU's ability to stuff/clear the buffers.
Hopefully, this is ultimately a driver issue and TiVo just haven't bothered tweaking the driver/kernel 'cos the transfer rate *is* good enough to keep you ahead of ad breaks etc as described, but it sure is a pain when transferring to my PC in order to xcode to a portable device as the xfer time is by far the long tail. My xcode spreads neatly across all 4 cores and really pins them, so a 2hr show only takes about 20min to xcode, but pretty much 90 minutes to xfer.
Nissan and AIST partner up to make foot-sized Segway shoes, enable first tracks all year {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 12:58PM Almost stolen straight from the drawing! Ah, what memories this brings back!
Lenovo's all-business ThinkPad SL510 gets reviewed {Engadget}
Oct 25th 2009 11:55AM OK, which joker came up with the 1024 (2^10) price tag :)
BlackBerry Bold 9700 gets handled, appreciated for its nuances {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 3:28PM I'm still not sure why they refuse to change the colour of the digits on the keypad; it makes dialling numbers quite a bit more tricky.
Engadget's back to school giveaway part 2: win an Xbox 360 prize pack! {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2009 8:22PM 360 reasons why I want it:
1) OK, that's enough :)
Logitec makes routers fashionable again with ultraslim LAN-W300N/R {Engadget}
Aug 10th 2009 3:54PM Why? Mine sits in the dark in a 19" rack in my basement....
Acer's Aspire Predator gaming rig gets even faster, stays just as orange {Engadget}
Aug 1st 2009 4:43PM Looks like an Espresso machine
Engadget's recession antidote: win a NZXT Cryo LX laptop cooler! {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2009 2:35PM Hot Stuff - it's going to be 100F in Seattle today.
Engadget HD's recession antidote: win a ZVOX 325 soundbar {Engadget HD}
Jul 28th 2009 2:47PM Sound off!
