My experiment with my wife and kids using the HP Mini 1000 Mi (or Mini Mi as it is frequently referred to) didn’t turn out quite well. After our visit to HawkQuest, my wife turned on the Mini Mi to begin importing some pictures, only to be met with a blinking cursor. We attempted several [...]
Our family is off to Denver today to visit a wild bird sanctuary. We’ve got the Mini 1000 Mi tucked away neatly for anyone that wants to play some games on the way, and for importing pictures we take on our trip.
Our LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features $75 off Dell’s popular Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook / mini-notebook – total $329. Details below: Save $75 instantly on a fully-loaded Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook. Range starts at $404 – $25 off instantly – $50 stackable coupon (expires 2/11) = $329 with FREE 2nd Business day shipping. [...]
It has been a while since we’ve had a Weekend Discussion. I’m curious as to what the weekend holds in store for the mobile warrior readers of GottaBeMobile.com? My plans include giving the HP Mini 1000 Mi to my kids and wife to use, and see what they think of this “consumer focused” netbook. Will [...]
Looking for the HP Mini 1000 Mi image creator / installation files? Head over to HP’s download support site and grab it now! Lot’s of folks who own the Mini 1000 Mi have been looking for these files in order to restore over their existing system. There is a version for installing the recovery tool [...]
Wow – it looks like Dell has been doing some major behind-the-scenes work with their Latitude XT Tablet PC. After hearing from me, as well as bunch of other users, they have finally announced some fixes that were being caused by iTunes, as well as some video card updates: You may have seen reports from [...]
Looks like all you Linux-loving Brits might be out of luck. Apparently, HP’s UK folks have decided not to make the Mini 1000 Mi Edition or a Linux based 2140 Mini-Note available in the UK. I’ll try to dig up more on this later today. Until then, head over to RegHardware.co.uk. Update: I asked HP [...]
So, I’m headed out to Starbucks to do some heads-down programming, and I thought I’d take the HP Mini 1000 Mi along, too. I thought it would be fun to download a few tunes since the Mini Mi has a nicely integrated music player, and since I’m mobile, I should probably do what some teenagers [...]
Leave it to those MIT geniuses to wow you – with just $350 in phones, pico projector, a web cam, and some wiz-bang programming, a digital sixth-sense is becoming closer to reality, turning every surface into a display screen. The brains behind this setup is MIT student Pranav Mistry. This sure does give a whole [...]
Channel 9 is beginning a new series, going back in time and taking a look at the history of Microsoft. The first episode goes all the way back to 1975 and takes a look at BASIC, and the inside story of Bill Gates and Paul Allen getting it to run on an Altair.
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features $150 off + 15% stackable coupon for HP’s 13″ widescreen dv3z. Here are the details: $150 off plus 15% Stackable Coupon for the NEW HP Pavilion dv3 (dv3z) ultraportable featuring 13.3-inch LED widescreen BrightView display based on the Turion Ultra X2 platform, ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, slot-loading [...]
Evernote and Eye-Fi have teamed up to offer a limited time offer on Eye-Fi cards at $30 – $40 off. Head over for all the details. via MediaBistro
Several months ago, I had the pleasure of testing out a Ford Escape Hybrid equipped with SYNC. A study was just released showing that Ford SYNC actually helped reduced driver distractions,. reducing eyes-off-the-road from 25 seconds down to 2 seconds. I can totally see this, especially once the driver becomes comfortable with the voice [...]
Well, it appears the Windows 7 chiefs are listening and have posted an update to their UAC article from earlier today. In their latest communication, Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan say: With this feedback and a lot more we are going to deliver two changes to the Release Candidate that we’ll all see. First, [...]
Love is in the air, so what could be better than winning a pair of his / her Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB drives just in times for Valentines Day? What about having three chances to win?
Once again, I called on my lovely wife Thomasin to help us out with a first look at a Netbook. If you recall she was involved when we first got our hands on the HP Mini 2133 and it is only fitting that she check out its successor, the HP Mini 2140. I’m glad we [...]
It looks like Lenovo is shaking some things up in the midst of a $97 millon loss third-quarter loss. CEO William Amelio has stepped down, and is being replaced by Chairman Yang Yuanqing. More from Bloomberg: Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s fourth- largest personal-computer maker, posted its first quarterly loss in almost three years and [...]
Almost everyone I know is getting in to Facebook. My wife is on it all the time chatting with friends, throwing snowballs, and more. It has become quite the hit with the folks we run around with. If Facebook is your thing, too, then you might want to check out Motion Computing’s Fan Page. You [...]
In the past several days, we’ve posted up four InkShows for your viewing delight. Check them out below: GBM InkShow: The Athena ArtPC GBM InkShow: First Look at Asus N10 and Instant On GBM InkShow: Thomasin is Addicted to the HP Mini 1000 GBM Inkshow: Fujitsu LifeBook U820 All InkShows are sponsored by TechSmith.com
Much has been written about Long Zheng’s and Raphael Riviera’s reporting on UAC “vulnerabilities”. Up until today, Microsoft has not said much on the subject. On the Engineering Windows 7, Microsoft’s Jon DeVann takes the issue head in a very lengthy post – well worth reading….more below.
It is raining Netbooks in the Crocker/Savaiano household, and who better to check them out than my lovely wife, Thomasin. She does have an affinity for these small devices. She also seems to really like the idea behind Athena’s ArtPC. Athena has developed a process of embedding a design into the cover for their Netbooks [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features a 15% off stackable coupon + $376 off the Lenovo X200 portable notebook. Here are the details. Coupon expires 2/6. 15% stackable eCoupon on top of $376 instant discount for the new Lenovo ThinkPad X200 12.1-inch ultra-portable Laptop for the lowest price we’ve seen. Base model 7454CTO starts [...]
Thanks to the folks at Asus, I’ve got a week to play around with the Asus N10J, a netbook targeted towards business and corporate users. Like typical netbooks, this model features the Intel Atom N270, 1 GB RAM, and a 160 GB HDD. What sets it apart is a biometric fingerprint reader, HDMI [...]
Back in the hay day of Tablet PCs, I had exchanged quite a few emails with Michael Hyatt, the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. He was quite taken with the promise and potential productivity benefits of digital ink. In addition, Michael played a key role in my getting the New King James Version text for [...]
I’ve been spending more time with HP’s Mini 1000 Mi Edition since yesterday and will offer up some video in the next day or so to go over the Mi Edition and explain in more detail some of the issues I’m experiencing. Until then, here are some initial impressions:
Looks like the next Acer Netbook might be just around the corner. Ubergizmo noticed that the new D150 has been approved by the FCC. This usually means that a release is soon to follow! Will it be as popular as the Aspire One? Only time will tell as there are SOO many choices now!
I knew when I won the HP Mini 1000 at CntrStg at CES 2009 that I was never really going to get to use it, once I returned home. I also knew that when my wife Thomasin picked it up the first time that my situation was hopeless. After a grueling few weeks of work [...]
For those on the lookout for Green solutions to their technology needs this might (stress might) be something to check out. How about a printer that uses the dregs from your coffee maker for Ink? We all know printer ink is one of those large scams and costs a bundle (a barrell of ink I [...]
We fell in love with Intel’s Classmate Convertible Tablet PC during CES ( see our video of CTL’s 2GoPC here). With only XP Home shipping on them, though, some good handwriting recognition software is needed on those little guys. That is where VisionObjects comes in to save the day. Their press releases announces that their [...]
Several nights ago while I was watching CNN night gloat over all their inauguration coverage, I saw this image of an HP TC11100 Tablet PC. CNN certainly knows how to communicate mobility and cool… In addition to the TC1100, over the past month or so, I’ve also seen the Dell Latitude XT2 tablet pc [...]
Today’s LogicBuy.com Deal of the Day features our community favorite, the tx2z multi-touch tablet pc with a $500 off coupon, as well as host of other notebooks. There are only a set number of redemptions for this coupon and it could expire at any time. $500 off coupon code on select HP Pavilion Laptops: HDX16t, [...]
The other day we posted about the unveiling of a $10 laptop from India that was about to be unveiled. Well it was. It doesn’t cost $10 and it isn’t a laptop. It is essentially a storage device for what they call e-content that can hook up to a laptop and will cost about $30. [...]
I have the pleasure of testing out HP’s new Mini 1000 Mi Edition (Mobile Internet Experience) over the coming weeks. I’m a total Linux newbie, so this should fun. HP’s goal of the MIE is that it shouldn’t really matter if you are a Linux newbie. The experience should be all about the internet, and [...]
The HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition may have something just for you. HP is choosing a lucky winner for a Vivienne Tam Edition! The contest rules are posted on the Facebook page for the Vivienne Tam Edition (yes, it has a Facebook page!), but it’s pretty simple to enter. You could have one of these [...]
Microsoft just released one of their PressPass Q&A “interviews” with Brad Brooks, vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, where the focus is on Netbooks and Windows 7. Brooks also touches on Windows Live, the cloud, and netbooks role there. It’s a typical PR read, but good none the less. PressPass: How is Microsoft [...]
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