Tyler the Tech Guy » laptops http://www.tylerthetechguy.com Tyler Kearn's Take on Technology Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:19:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Apple Just Introduced a New MacBook Air. . . http://www.tylerthetechguy.com/apple-just-introduced-a-new-macbook-air/ http://www.tylerthetechguy.com/apple-just-introduced-a-new-macbook-air/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:22:17 +0000 Tyler http://www.tylerthetechguy.com/?p=756

…and yet I feel my thoughts about the product from back in February 2008 still hold true.

You’re giving up processing power, hard drive space, a disc drive, and battery life just so you can get a computer that is only smaller in one dimension (thinness). True, the new 11.6 inch model is a little smaller in depth as well, but then you’re giving up more battery life and also screen real estate. My gut reaction is that these products still don’t make much sense for most people (and it may be difficult for people to reconcile the price with similarly sized netbooks.) And for some reason… I still want one.

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I was recently asked to write a short piece on “My Favorite Gadgets of All Time”. I decided to take that topic and write about

the gadgets that have most influenced me and the way I use technology. Here’s the piece I penned:

For me, the original iPhone was a revelation. It wasn’t that it had a touchscreen — I’d seen a lot of stylus driven Pocket PCs and Treos. It wasn’t that it had a completely integrated iPod — many phones had mp3 capabilities and some, like the Walkman series, were even more than decent at it. It wasn’t even about the UI — it was intuitive, fresh, and new, but very simplified (especially the original 1.0 release). It was all about the web browser.

Mobile Safari showed me that it was possible to have a true, desktop-like internet experience on a mobile device. I could carry around the internet – and it was the true internet, as I was used to experiencing it — in my pocket! This blew my mind, and opened up new worlds of possibilities of what I could do and where I could do it. Plus, I could consistently get “woah!” reactions from people who’d never seen it by whipping out my iPhone and navigating to their favorite site.

Another of my favorite gadgets was the first crop of netbooks — the original Asus EEE PC and the competitors that came shortly thereafter. Whether running Linux or Windows XP, all of these machines were new in that they were computers small enough to take practically anywhere and cheap enough so people could actually afford to buy them (as opposed to UMPCs). Like the iPhone, they allowed me to have real computing power wherever I was, whenever I needed it (I personally had an original Acer Aspire One). Now, the current netbooks are even less expensive and get phenomenal battery life, and have been largely responsible for pushing down the prices of laptops overall.

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I have finally gotten around to fleshing out the My Gear section of the website, and to start with I’ve written about the laptops that I own and use on a daily basis.  I talk about the laptops themselves and their specs, how I use them and what I use them for, and my thoughts on them in general. They’re not full reviews, but they should give you an impression of how these machines can be used, and what their strengths and limitations are.

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