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• Addicted to EVDO

  If you listen to Mobile Tech Roundup , you'll know I picked up EVDO a few weeks back. (And if you don't listen to MoTR, well, why aren't you?). I am addicted to EVDO. It might not sound like such a big deal, but it's incredible when you no longer have to think about having a high-speed connection. It's a life-changing event the first time you sit in the doctor's office and you're online. Suddenly, the wait isn't such a big deal. I take the bus instead of the subway now because it's no longer "lost time" - I can sit there the entire time checking e-mail, etc. As much as I hate the idea of carrier lock-in with my laptop, it's making me think long and hard about a lot of the notebooks released recently with embedded WWAN support. The ThinkPad T60 and X60 are both available with embedded EVDO receivers (there is a slight bulge though). If the new ThinkPad tablet has EVDO, I might be willing to overlook the lower resolution screen. Of course, an always-on EVDO connection is a great complement... Posted Apr 10 2006, 04:36 AM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Technology, Rants, Gadgets, Productivity, Tablet PC

• Death of a Tablet, Part Deux

  And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust. Not a good week for Toshibas. Rory is not the only one who has lost a lost a tablet recently, as mine decided to stop working earlier in the week. (Sorry, in light of this post , I just had to throw in the deux!) Actually, I should clarify. My laptop is not dead, but the hard drive did come to a screeching, 7,200 RPM death. Luckily I was able to resuscitate the laptop with an old 20 GB, 4,400 RPM drive I was able to scrounge up. ( Thanks, Willie... ). More on my repair & customer service experiences in a later post. So anyways, I'm not totally sans Tablet, which is good considering I couldn't really get through class without it. That in and of itself is interesting to me, considering I went to 4 years of undergradutate (in Computer Science, no less) without a laptop and all those years of elementary and secondary education before that . Sadly, it was still under warranty and so I won't be sporting a new M400 just yet... Posted Feb 02 2006, 10:44 AM by Tim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Rants, Gadgets, Tablet PC